Wednesday, July 02, 2008
McCain’s Greatest Hope Was Also Bush’s
Remarkably, there are voters who Barack McGovern Obama isn’t far enough Left for.
Via CNN:
CNN polling director Keating Holland notes that Tuesday’s survey confirms what a string of national polls released this month have shown: Obama holds a slight advantage over McCain, though not a big enough one to constitute a statistical lead.
“Every standard telephone poll taken in June has shown Obama ahead of McCain, with nearly all of them showing Obama’s margin somewhere between 3 and 6 points,” Holland said. “In most of them, that margin is not enough to give him a lead in a statistical sense, but it appears that June has been a good month for Obama.”
But the new CNN/ORC poll shows that the race gets even tighter when the two most prominent third-party presidential candidates are considered.
In a four-way matchup that includes independent candidate Ralph Nader and Libertarian candidate Bob Barr, Obama’s lead over McCain dwindles to 3 percentage points, 46 percent to 43 percent. (Nader registers 6 percent, and Barr gets 3 percent.)
Frankly, I am stunned by the notion that 6% of voters do not think that Obama’s plans for pacifism, wealth redistribution, and expansion of government services go far enough. Similarly, Barr’s polling at 3% shows that he has not even been successful in gathering up those wonderful Ron Paul supporters (oh, how I will miss them and their spammed polls, blog trolling, poetry, and truly inspiring YouTube videos). This may have something to do with Barr telling the white nationalists to get bent, but who can say?
We have heard a lot about how fractured conservatives are nowadays, but Barr is not making much headway; this is surpising considering the antipathy they have towards McCain.
I’ll make a prediction here: just as in 2000 when Nader was accused of handing the White House to Bush, you will hear implications from liberals that Nader is somehow a racist for trying to prevent a (semi) black guy from getting elected. Does anybody think I am off-base here? Given the derangement we have seen on the Left, first presented as blind hatred of Bush and then transformed into blind worship of Obama, I would not rule it out.