Capital Commerce

What McCain's Polls Are Telling Him

By James Pethokoukis

Posted: October 29, 2008

Here is the short version coming from inside Team McCain: 1) McCain is surging and is now essentially tied across the battleground states—including Pennsylvania; 2) the so-called Hillary Clinton voters—rural, noncollege—are flocking to McCain; 3) more and more voters perceive Obama as "liberal"—more so than Gore or Kerry or really any other Democratic nominee in a generation. The "spread the wealth" comment is hurting him big-time. Let me also add that I am now hearing more and more about McCain winning the electoral vote and Obama winning the popular vote. Let the litigation begin!

Who Decides for Us Which Facts are True

I admit, this is a new one, from "Truthsayer" (interesting choice of name, as well -- so you are the one to tell us all what to think), that the post is "not supported by TRUE facts."

I've got to look that one up.

Are "true" facts those that you like? So, "not true" facts are facts that you don't like?

Why not just call them "facts that I don't like" rather than "untrue facts" which is simply nonsensical.

But that's fine. If none of the "fats I don't like" are real facts, what are you so agitated about? It's in the bag for the Shadow Man and you should be relaxing, puffing on a Red Auerbach victory cigar.

But, what I really don't understand is how someone who's so lost in the Obama rapture has access to internal McCain/Palin data? I mean, that's the only way you'd be able to pass on to us, the under-informed, your judgment that they don't exist or, if they do, they're just made up from "untrue facts."

Okay, gotta run. Gotta go waste some more of my time on this race, which isn't even close really. I still feel like wasting my time, trying to elect somebody who's actually done something rather than talk about it.

IndieDogg of CA @ Oct 30, 2008 15:15:51 PM

Reply to "So..."

Get a clue. There's a big difference between sharing the profits from natural wealth of oil and gas resources with the citizens of the state and taking money from workers and giving it to non-working, non-producers.

McCain/Palin will win.

pipedream of @ Oct 30, 2008 15:11:51 PM

Internal Polls

Truthsayer: there is a world of difference between media-sponsored "horse-race" polls and a political campaign's internal polls. You won't find any of the numbers McCain's referring to reported on any media site, unless the campaign leaks them for some reason. But I assure you they exist and are far more real than the toilet-paper scenario you propose.

This is not to say that the McCain campaign's internal polls are necessarily *accurate* -- just that it is not surprising to find that they tell a story that is *different* from the polls reported in the media.

Curmudgette: the context of that Palin quote is sufficient to demonstrate the vast gulf between her version of wealth spreading and Obama's. As she said, Alaska was long ago set up such that its mineral resources are collectively owned by the state to the benefit of its residents. That's a far cry from raising taxes on one end of society, not to pay for public works or invest in infrastructure, but to write welfare checks in the guise of tax "refunds" to the other end. ("Refund" is in quotes because, of course, it's impossible to give a "refund" of money that you never had and parted with in the first place.)

Sutherland of VA @ Oct 30, 2008 13:19:34 PM

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