Post-Osama Polls Encouraging

[GreenPoet64]

Kerry camp encouraged by post-Osama polls

http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/#osamapolls


We're getting the first hints -- and they're really just hints -- of the effect the Osama bin Laden tape may have on the presidential race. On a conference call with reporters Saturday afternoon, Democratic pollster Stanley Greenberg said that polling conducted Friday night and Saturday morning put John Kerry up over George Bush, 48-47.

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The latest Fox News tracking poll also puts a damper on the theory that the bin Laden tape could yield a Bush bounce. Although Bush is up by two among likely voters, 47 percent to 45 percent, and tied with Kerry among registered voters, his support has actually dropped among likelies in Fox's poll. Bush was up by five in a poll conducted Wednesday and Thursday night. In the poll released today about half of the voters were interviewed on Friday night, after they had the chance to see reports about the re-emergence of bin Laden.

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"It's striking if you go state by state by state in these battleground states and see how much trouble is having getting over 45 percent," Kerry spokesman Joe Lockhart said.

[Catfight]

1. Osma is a reminder that the REAL killer is still at large. Now that

everyone in the world accepts and acknowledges Saddam was not connected to 9/11, there wasn't a US threat, and our soldiers are dying every day, (except for Cheney and Bush), it just pisses people off MORE that OBL shows his face on our local TV sets. Time to catch the REAL killer, Bush failed, Bush did not secure Iraq, and now the insurgents have more ammunition to kill more US soldiers. How could that possibly be a good thing for Bush? Even 'morans' hate OBL!

[Longhorn]

2. I'd say the "Rove Magic" is gone, if it's true that he had anything

to do with the timing of this Bin Laden tape, as Walter Cronkite suggested. Another backfire!

[funky_bug]

3. And that is why the GOP is trying so hard to define this video

They can easily see what the post-OBL videos mean for Bush, so they go a-spinnin' and saying that this is a good thing, a "gift" for the President.

Look GOP... you tried to say Bush won the debates, but the polls showed different. You try to say that OBL is good for the Prez, but the polls show different.

Stop trying to tell the public what we think. We aren't as stupid and gullible as *, and it won't work. We also don't have an ear piece for you to whisper your lies into, so you're wasting your breath.

[GreenPoet64]

4. I wish the media would list the results of ALL the polls . . .

can't wait for the day when the media is restored to a level of sane reporting. The abuse & misuse of statistics is incredible in this election.