09.06.08
Obama Winning in Polls; Palin Not Helping McCain
Latest poll I saw on CNN.com says Obama leading McCain.
Obama: 45%
McCain 42%
Unsure 13%
A big percentage of unknowns…
I guess McCain didn’t get the bump he hoped for by choosing Palin.
Apparently most voters don’t believe she is qualified enough to be VP. While Republicans seem to like her a lot, Democrats & Independents have a high disapproval rate. The Independents’ perspectives are what is telling.
I saw Palin’s speech yesterday. She is feisty to be sure, but I was disappointed by 2 things:
1) She made the case for John McCain by talking about his POW experience. God bless him for that, but that is not what makes someone a good President.
2) She took Obama’s comments about the surge out of context. She made it sound like Obama admitted the surge was the best thing to happen since the parting of the Red Sea. Which is not true - I saw what he said on the O’Reilly Factor, and what he really said was that, yes, the violence was down but the underlying issues about the war are still unsolved. And that is why the surge was and is not the be-all, end-all solution that John McCain pretends it is.