Really People?

[hsifeng]

http://www.presidentpolls2008.com/

Look, Obama isn't my first (second or third) choice....but McCAIN people? Really? How is this suddenly a 'break even' poll?

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[docryder.livejournal.com]

Not sudden, not universal. Each day he shows results from a couple of news outlets and a couple of states. The news outlets are showing Obama leading by a small margin, and the numbers haven't changed significantly in all the days he has listed.

A lot of people are still of the opinion that Americans are so disgusted with Bush that they'll vote for anyone else. Thing is, many voters have been convinced that McCain will be significantly different from Bush, and thus will vote for him.

McCain is using the GOP Think Tank machine to manipulate how he is perceived by the public How example, the use of the word "elite." This is a lot of the "Ignore the man behind the curtain!" kind of obfuscation, but Dubya used it successfully four years ago, as did his father and Reagan. Can't speak to 2000, as the voters did not decide that election, but it seems that ths kind of manipulation succeeded that time, too.

[sstormwatch.livejournal.com]

I wish I knew, but we've also seen how polls can be badly skewed by the time it comes to actually vote.

[shadowd1.livejournal.com]

you look at polls?

[sstormwatch.livejournal.com]

Ok, gave it some thought after watching last night's convention coverage of Michelle Obama, and Sen. Kennedy.

Barack Obama is literally the face of change, and it scares the conservatives to their very core. As this nifty garden book I just got from the library basically stated (and what I learned many times in various business classes), people are scared of change, because it might be a bad thing, so they would rather just do what they think is working, even if it doesn't work very well. Or as I said to Rob last night, "better the devil you know...", and so they would rather have McCain, the devil they believe they know, even if he does continue the Bush legacy, because at least they know that "works" (even badly).

Obama promises a change, and the future actually might be a better world. But that is a scary thing to contemplate for half the population.

Sad, huh?