Gallup tracking for 2/20: Obama 47-Hillary 42

[thesubstanceofdreams]

Seems like yesterday (Hillary within one point of Obama) was statistical noise or an outlier. Most interviews conducted before the results of WI were known.

http://www.gallup.com/poll/104473/Gallup-Daily-Tracking-Election-2008.aspx

[thesubstanceofdreams]

1. Obama leading by 4.2 in the RCP national average

His biggest lead so far.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2008/president/us/democratic_presidential_nomination-191.html

[jackson_dem]

4. 4 points and Obamites are demanding she quit?

[thesubstanceofdreams]

6. It's all about the trend

From -15 to +5 in a couple of weeks.
By the way I haven't demanded that she quit.

[THUNDER HANDS]

7. 4 points 22 states, 10 consecutive, 36 million in january

and a partridge in a pare tree.

[jackson_dem]

10. Impressive. So the game is over because someone took a slight lead?

He's up by something like 3% in the delegate count, assuming Florida and Michigan are successfully disenfranchised by Obama.

[thesubstanceofdreams]

11. You got your facts wrong

Florida and Michigan were not disenfranchised by Obama.
Hillary herself said that Florida shouldn't count (when she still believed that she would win by Super Tuesday regardless).
Honestly, I just posted some poll results - no point in starting all the same arguments here.

[jackson_dem]

12. Who is arguing they should be disenfranchised at the convention? Obama

If he succeeds they will be disenfranchised.

[thesubstanceofdreams]

13. Who's arguing for breaking the rules?

Voters were disenfranchised by their state authorities and the DNC.
Obama has nothing to do it and claiming otherwise is disingenuous. Especially when Hillary was on the same side as Obama, until she realized she couldn't win the nomination without breaking the rules.

[jackson_dem]

14. Obama has 1,300 delegates already. He has "nothing to do" with what the decision will be?

Both are trying to change the rules. Obama on superdelegates, Hillary on Florida and Michigan.

[thesubstanceofdreams]

15. Your facts are wrong again

Obama is not trying to change the rules on superdelegates, he's just making the point to SDs that they should decide based on the will of the voters.

[jackson_dem]

17. So he won't formally change the rules but is essentially pressuring them to adhere to a new rule

[cali]

9. Most Obama supporters are NOT demanding she quit

and I'm just enjoying her slide in the polls.

[GumboYaYa]

2. What Hillary needs is more negative attacks......

We saw how well that worked in WI.

[Redbear]

3. Thanks for posting that

So, yesterday wasnt a trend.

[NightWatcher]

5. I hope Hillary keeps up the negative ads. I want Obama to win Ohio, not come close

People are seeing through these desperate attack methods.

[nickn777]

8. Obama +7 in todays Rasmussen , +14 in todays Reuters/Zogby <>

[Arugula Latte]

16. So much for the Plagiarism Plunge. nt