McCain campaign whining about Obama's significant lead in the polls

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McCain Campaign: Poll Showing Obama With Big Lead Is Bogus

By Eric Kleefeld - September 24, 2008, 11:14AM

In a sign of alarm in the McCain camp, McCain aides are aggressively working to discredit the new ABC/Washington Post poll finding that Barack Obama is ahead of McCain nationally by 52%-43%.

The McCain camp rolled out their top pollster Bill McInturff, who argued on a conference call with reporters moments ago that the poll is an outlier whose results are skewed by lopsided party identification numbers, which showed the Democrats with a 16-point advantage over the GOP after leaners were pushed.

"It's appropriate to say politely that this one poll is an unusual outlier that does not represent where this campaign is or where it's heading as we go into the first presidential debate," McInturfff said.

McInturff noted that the self-identification margins have not been greater than five points in any of the presidential elections since Ronald Reagan was re-elected in 1984. "We don't know what it's going to be in 2008. And I wish I had the revealed wisdom of God to know what it would be," McInturff said -- but he's confident it won't be minus-16 for the GOP.

That said, McInturff did concede that party I.D. numbers were unpredictable for this fall, because voter turnout is shaping up to be higher than it's ever been in modern memory: "Historic voting models don't project to 125 million-plus people."

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[BlooInBloo]

1. (shrug) It's ok - there's an NPR one showing McLiar ahead.

[gratefultobelib]

3. What?? Where??

[Abacus]

5. Seconded [Edit: nevermind]

"What?? Where??"

[BlooInBloo]

6. (sends gratefultobelib on a quest for irrelevance)...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x7163336

[gratefultobelib]

9. You're ornery! I remember a post from you long ago in answer to a

thread from someone asking how many books DUers read per week, or something like that. You responded (paraphrase)--Oooh, is this a self stroke thread? I read 10,000 books a day!! :hi:

[otohara]

2. If That ABC Poll Had McCain up By 9

they wouldn't be saying this, would they?

[holiday]

4. I'm surprised at how much the McCain camp has whined

about everything in this race.

[Overseas]

7. We put up with tons of Right Wing Owned polls and carry on

but when the pampered lobbyist millionaires running Johnny's campaign drop some points they have a little tantrum !!


No fair !! Country Club First !!

[thereismore]

8. Bill McInturff - I don't know, my friends, but that is a comical name. nt