July 23, 2008
PEOPLE DON'T VOTE FOR THE GUY WHO DOESN'T SHARE THEIR VALUES:
WSJ/NBC Poll: Obama Maintains Lead Over McCain (Susan Davis, 7/24/08, WSJ: Washington Wire)
Barack Obama remains ahead of rival John McCain in the latest Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll with a six-point advantage, 47%-41%. Obama’s lead is exactly the same as it was a month ago in the June WSJ/NBC poll. [...]However, the Arizona Republican senator has an 11-percentage-point advantage over Obama when voters were asked which candidate’s background and set of values they identify with more—58% said that candidate was McCain, while 47% said Obama. In contrast, 34% said McCain does not represent their values, while 43% said Obama does not.
It's been funny to listen to the commentariat hail as a successful foreign trip one on which Senator Obama is going around conceding that W and Maverick were right on all the major issues. It's certainly understandable that the campaign felt they had to get this over with while everyone is on vacation, but hard to see why pundits think it's helpful. Posted by Orrin Judd at July 23, 2008 7:23 PM
The Messiah is a weak and otherwise unelectable candidate, but anyone with a D behind his or her name will win in November. That's the inevitable result of 8 years of relentless media campaigning against W.
Posted by: Peter at July 24, 2008 1:31 AMYup, just ask President Dukakis.
Posted by: oj at July 24, 2008 7:11 AM
The other interesting thing is that even with Obama completing hogging the headlines and the endless parade of end-of-the-world predictions on oil and mortgage markets, Obama could not increase his "lead".
Methinks the junior senator from Illinois is already circling the drain.
Posted by: Dreadnought at July 24, 2008 1:05 AM