Gallup: Obama Beats McCain On Character

This article was posted by Steve Gilbert on Friday, June 27th, 2008 at 10:44 am. You can leave a response.

19 Responses to “Gallup: Obama Beats McCain On Character”

1. Trialdog
   June 27th, 2008 at 1:18 pm

   I don’t find myself around people who are polled or people who would answer so highly favorable for Obama. (One exception - a recent graduate) If I assume the poll an accurate depiction of electorate thought, then our country is lost.

2. oki2
   June 27th, 2008 at 1:33 pm

   Here’s what I don’t get. If I wanted to make SURE that none of my opponents’ supporters would go and vote, I would publicize loudly and often that my opponent was far better than I was and report that nearly 75% of people are voting for my opponent —AND— rally as loudly as I could with my own people that they need to vote to make sure we defeat the eeevil opponent.

   Thus, my voters turn out in strength because they are fighting the oppresive opponent and the opponent’s voters tend to stay home because their candidate is “a lock” at 75% of the voters.

   Or won’t that work?

3. platypus
   June 27th, 2008 at 2:53 pm

   The photo is priceless!

4. Dave2882
   June 27th, 2008 at 3:02 pm

   Obama has better character than McCain?

   Obama keeps spreading disinformation about the progress U.S. troops, the Iraqi army, and Maliki’s government are making in Iraq. Obama simply refuses to face the facts. A year ago, Obama’s strategy of cutting our losses might have been supportable — at least to the extent that a position can be supportable when it’s made as a political ploy to the far-left base he wanted to attract during primary season. However, now the reality in Iraq is proving Obama wrong. What kind of person wants to give up and throw years’ worth of effort away just when things are looking up?

   Obama bet against his country and he lost. And now he’s lying about the situation in Iraq, harming the U.S. and helping the enemy. That’s character?

   Of course, if McCain doesn’t call Obama on his lies, McCain really doesn’t deserve to be President, does he?

5. Arctain
   June 27th, 2008 at 4:02 pm

   A clear message blasting Obama for proposing rasing taxes (during this economic ’slowdown’), pulling our troops from a war we are winning, inexperience, far-left leanings and cronyism in Chicago politics would be a good move right now for McCain.

   I can only hope that McCain is waiting until later in the season to start highlighting what a economic, diplomatic, domestic, and military disaster an Obama presidency would be for the US. The only thing that gives me pause is he seems to be running the same ‘wait-and-blast’ campaign approach that George Bush, Sr. attempted to do in ‘92. It didn’t work then. It won’t work now either.

   McCain’s overall strategy is to show what a Big-Tent Republican he is. That only works if you can show your opponent is a far-left Liberal Democrat - and you can only do that if you call him on every tax-and-spend proposal, every diplomatic faux-pas, every international naivety, every crony that gets indicted, and every “let Government solve your problems” statement that comes out of Obama’s mouth. However, this is a defensive strategy - McCain is left responding to Obama’s claims. Obama will still be the candidate on offense. McCain cannot afford for Obama to be able to effectively shift his position towards center. McCain owns that ground, and any encroachment into the center is a loss for McCain.

   It’s not much use for the Republicans to complain about the MSM in this campaign. Through a pre-emptive strike, the MSM declared that they are infatuated with the “Maverick”. The question to the McCain camp then becomes - “How do you take advantage of that media infatuation?” The McCain camp has not been able to turn the supposed infatuation into positive momentum. Tucker Bounds may make daily or hourly press releases from the McCain website, but the simple fact is: The spokesman’s words do not garner the attention that a meeting between Obama and Clinton does.

   McCain needs to go on offense - NOT Tucker Bounds. Bounds’ job is to play that defensive role - ask questions of Obama, highlight the differences, highlight Obama’s lack of experience, his naivety, his cronyism, his far-left views. McCain needs to balance that defensive role with an strategy on offense.

   McCain’s energy proposal is a case-in-point. McCain needs to stay with it - keep hammering his point that both long-term and short-term solutions are imperative to America’s economic future. That short-sightedness, which is what Obama proposes, is tantamount to disaster and is exactly why we got into this mess in the first place. Bringing up the point - time and time again - that real, fire-hardened experience trumps generic, ephereal change every time is the message that needs to be coming out of the McCain camp.

   Obviously, it’s just June - it’s early. However, the foundation of McCain’s message needs to be laid now. And, honestly, I’m just not seeing it.

6. Draconian_Clown
   June 27th, 2008 at 7:00 pm

   We’ll see more of this nonsense as the election nears. These fabricated polls will convince people that a vote for McCain would be a waste of time because NoBama is simply unbeatable. This is our media’s finest hour!

7. Gil
   June 27th, 2008 at 7:46 pm

   Gallup: All tied at 45
   June 25, 2008
   by Ed Morrissey

   Gallup’s daily presidential tracking poll has had Barack Obama and John McCain in a statistical dead heat for the last two weeks. Now it has them in an actual dead heat. The difference appears to be rising support for McCain, although the changes are quite narrow:

   The latest Gallup Poll Daily tracking update on the presidential election finds John McCain and Barack Obama exactly tied at 45% among registered voters nationwide.

   Voter preferences had been fairly evenly divided for the past week, with Obama generally holding a slight advantage of two or three percentage points. This is the first time since Gallup’s May 31-June 4 rolling average that Obama does not have at least a slim advantage over McCain. Obama’s largest lead to date has been seven points.

   ==end quote==

   Even better news: the sample is significantly larger than any used by the news media in recent polling (2600 respondents). It also uses registered voters, which normally would favor Democrats.

   Yesterday, Stacy McCain (no relation) explained the polling vagaries:

   Given the fact that huge numbers of eligible voters don’t vote, a pollster — if his poll results are to be useful or credible — must try to screen for “likely voters.” This is a doggone difficult thing to do, but it must be attempted, because voters and non-voters differ significantly in their preferences. Non-voters are more likely to support liberal policies and Democratic candidates (a source of endless frustration to liberal Democrats). So a poll that doesn’t properly screen for “likely voters” will always skew leftward (as was true of the Newsweek poll that surveyed “registered voters” rather than “likely voters”).

   This is probably why early polls have historically overstated support for Democratic presidential candidates. The closer you get to Election Day, the easier it becomes to determine who the “likely voters” are. Thus, the samples in early polls contain lots of liberal-leaning eligible voters who, in the end, won’t actually bother to vote.

   ==end quote==

   This is why sampling is so important in these polls, and why Newsweek, the LA Times, and CBS traditionally provide outliers rather than predictive results.

   http://hotair.com/archives/200.....ied-at-45/

8. Gil
   June 27th, 2008 at 7:51 pm

   Time poll: Virtual dead heat
   June 27, 2008
   by Ed Morrissey

   Those Newsweek and LA Times polls look more and more like outliers or worse. With both Gallup and Rasmussen showing either outright or virtual ties in their presidential tracking polls, Time offers even more evidence that Barack Obama has failed to pull away from John McCain after clinching the nomination. Even more troubling, McCain holds his own among a sample of registered voters as opposed to likely voters, a sample that should favor Obama,
   QUOTE:

   When undecided voters leaning towards Obama and McCain are accounted for, the race narrows to a mere 4 percentage points, barely above the poll’s 3.5% margin of error. Thirty percent of those who remain undecided said they lean towards McCain, 20% said they were leaning toward Obama with 46% citing no preference. Overall, 28% said they could still change their minds in the four months left before the November election. (end quote)

   The results should raise eyebrows. Obama has actually lost ground since February, which dovetails with his collapse in the final months of the Democratic primary. This tends to underscore the shakiness of the Obama phenomenon; it hasn’t translated into general-election enthusiasm, and the trends are going in the wrong direction. Among the wider and less-predictive sample of registered voters, that has to cause a great deal of concern among Democrats who thought Obama would sail to victory on the puffery of “hope and change”.

   That’s not the only bad news here for Obama either, although Time tries to minimize it, quote: “McCain, a highly decorated Vietnam veteran, edged out Obama on national security issues. When asked who “would best protect the U.S. against terrorism,” 53% of respondents chose McCain to just 33% for Obama.” (end quote)

   So McCain “edged out” Obama — by twenty points? Voters trust McCain more than Obama on Iraq by ten points, which shows that the momentum of the Left on Iraq has ebbed significantly since the surge began showing results. It helps when McCain had it right and Obama’s defeatism has been proven wrong, and as the news continues to improve, that gap will widen further.

   Some will say that the voters haven’t paid much attention to the race, and that Obama has plenty of time to put distance between himself and McCain. However, that ignores the attention Obama has received all throughout this campaign, especially in 2008. He has graced magazine covers across a wide spectrum of interests and the significance of his candidacy has been widely discussed for months, while McCain has had relatively little time in the spotlight. Obama will receive more scrutiny and less celebration in the coming four months, while McCain’s profile will rise rapidly. Obama needed to have a big lead before then, a head start to ride out the coming storm.

   The more people see of Obama, the less they seem to like him.

   http://hotair.com/archives/200.....dead-heat/

9. pagar
   June 27th, 2008 at 9:13 pm

   When it comes to housing bailouts, it’s not just Countrywide that has benefited from Obama’s help. Here is what housing policy looked like in Chicago with Obama’s help.

   Link

   I recommend that Gallup poll the residences of these slums. Their rents were funding Obama’s campaigns, through campaign donations from the most despicable slumlords.

   “As a state senator, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee coauthored an Illinois law creating a new pool of tax credits for developers. As a US senator, he pressed for increased federal subsidies. And as a presidential candidate, he has campaigned on a promise to create an Affordable Housing Trust Fund that could give developers an estimated $500 million a year.

   But a Globe review found that thousands of apartments across Chicago that had been built with local, state, and federal subsidies - including several hundred in Obama’s former district - deteriorated so completely that they were no longer habitable.”

   “Among those tied to Obama politically, personally, or professionally are:

   Valerie Jarrett, a senior adviser to Obama’s presidential campaign and a member of his finance committee. Jarrett is the chief executive of Habitat Co., which managed Grove Parc Plaza from 2001 until this winter and co-managed an even larger subsidized complex in Chicago that was seized by the federal government in 2006, after city inspectors found widespread problems.”

   “No one should have to live like this, and no one did anything about it,” said Cynthia Ashley, who has lived at Grove Parc since 1994.”

   Obama has no character, IMO.

10. jake57
    June 27th, 2008 at 10:59 pm

    There has to be a hell of a lot of giggling” Lil’ Red Riding Hoods” wondering mindlessly to the “Call of The Wild”

    http://www.oldielyrics.com/lyr....._hood.html
    SAM THE SHAM AND THE PHARAOHS lyrics - Lil’ Red Riding Hood

11. retire05
    June 27th, 2008 at 11:33 pm

    Is there a slight chink in the Obama armor? Is the media beginning to take a [real] look at this change artist? Perhaps so.

    The Boston Globe, which cannot be considered a conservative publication by any one’s standards, except perhaps those over at DailyKos, has published a 9 page article today about Obama, Chicago slum lords, the millions of state and federal dollars given to the slum lords, the deteriation of the public/low income housing run by those like Tony Rezko and Senator Obama’s connection to all of them, some who are currently working for his campaign or are in jail. It is an interesting read, and a little surprising coming from a publication that was so far in the tank for John Kerry that you expected it to be covered in [Heinz] ketsup.

    Standard to the Obama policy of not knowing what was going on (this is not the Rev. Wright, William Ayers, Tony Rezko, Fr. Pfleger I have known for 20 years mantra) Obama states that he was unaware of the progressing blight and progressing plight of the tenants of the buildings in his own district.

    It is worth the read.

    http://www.boston.com/news/nat.....ing_policy

12. pagar
    June 28th, 2008 at 6:51 am

    ” Obama states that he was unaware of the progressing blight and progressing plight of the tenants of the buildings in his own district.”

    The Democrats are still complaining that Pres Bush wasn’t on top of the Hurricane Katrina
    situation, and ignore Obama’s unawareness of his political allies ripping off the tenants of his district.

13. Media_man
    June 28th, 2008 at 8:07 am

    It looks like Obama is a lock for POTUS. Given McCain’s unattractiveness to GOP Conservatives (he actually believes in global warming & won’t drill in ANWR), Obama seems likely to win by landslide proportions.

    People get the leadership they deserve, & sometimes better. I think Adlai Stevenson (a Democrat) said that, after getting trounced by Ike. I’m not sure what kind of President Ike was. A middle of the road type I guess.

    What kind of damage will Obama do? With a critical mass majority of Dems in Congress, God only knows.

14. pagar
    June 28th, 2008 at 9:54 am

    IMO, the only thing Obama has a lock on is President of the Communist Party of America.

15. wardmama4
    June 28th, 2008 at 10:08 am

    Neither one of these candidates have enough character to be POTUS - We The People are being sold cheap imitations of the real thing - and buying them simply because We continue to believe D and R are the only game in town and we must vote R or D or the other guy will win.

    I can not vote for McAmnesty for conscience reasons - he has not/is not/ does not show he is conservative in many (if any areas) at all. So therein lies the dilema for me - hold my conscience and vote R - even though the candidate is not an R in any sense of the word or vote D for the most liberal Senator and is a candidate who lacks intelligence, character and sees the entire World (and all his memories and interactions) in terms of race. . .The media, RNC and DNC have chosen and like sheeple we are being lead astray and once again, buying it.

    I can’t do it - I can not tell the RNC that it is ok to nominate a R who is not only not a conservative but not an R in the majority of his positions. Yes, he is ’strong’ on OIF - however he has proven to turn on the military (with Kerry on the Senate committee to abandon and declare dead all POWs/MIAs to nomalize relations with Vietnam) - that isn’t a good sign. He embraces GW and it’s associated taxes and restrictions - that isn’t a good sign. He is against drilling in ANWAR, he struck at the 1st Amendment with McCain-Feingold, and so on. . . And a vote for him will guarantee that we continue to get liberal Rs as nominees in the future - remember the creedo for Government - once voted - there is no going back. Because a vote is the indication that the people accept, approve and want whatever it is.

    I can’t vote for Obamanation - there is nothing, absolutely nothing positive I can bring forth to write about him - I don’t even like to hear him speak - it is not stirring, it is not uplifiting - I find it offensive and demeaning. I fear exactly what will happen to America if he is elected, in so many areas - most important being safety, freedom, and taxes.

    There are other Parties - but the media, RNC and DNC have effectively made them the bastard step children of politics rather than encouraging and supporting the true definitions of democracy, republic, freedom of speech and rights of the voter.

    And so We The People buy into it all - we have to vote R or D (or our vote is wasted - I am not sure how voting one’s conscience is a waste ever - or the ever popular, it will just insure the other guy gets elected), we can not impose term limits on Congress critters ever (who says - oh yeah Congress), we can not stop government nor cut it back. As long as we continue voting along party lines, believing the lies, buying the cheap imitations, not giving the boot to the Congress critters - we are (as mentioned here) going to get the government and politicians we deserve.

    I can’t do it - maybe in the short term, my vote might be a waste - but I do not believe when it comes to my vote, my beliefs and what I desire for America - voting my conscience will ever be a waste. I no longer will vote again down party lines -
    I did not leave the Republican Party, it left me.

16. retire05
    June 28th, 2008 at 10:55 am

    wardmama4, I fully understand what you are saying. For the first time in years, I have not paid my TxGOP annual dues. Nor have I attended a GOP meeting in months. The party left me, not the other way around.

    While I will not vote FOR McCain, I will vote AGAINST his opponent. I did not vote McCain in the primary as I said I would not.

    For me, the one most important thing in this election is the war against the terrorist thugs that would love nothing more than a repeat of 9-11. To think that they are not sitting on their dirt floors in some third world hut plotting and planning that, is to have your head in the sand, literally.

    No, I do not like the media provided GOP candidate. But let me tell this much: I know what McCain will be like. He will try to bring to life his Shamnesty Plan again, but again, the American people will rise up and be heard. He will balk at drilling in ANWAR, but the reality of gas prices will force him to accept that if he continues down that path, his approval rating will be a single digit and dash any hopes for another Republican to take over in 2012.

    When the Congress/Senate tried to shove the Shamnesty Bill down our throats, we rose up in numbers. For the first time in history, Americans shut down the Congressional switchboard. We were on top of the bill as it was posted everywhere on the net for Americans to read. That proved that we, the people, still have some say in our government.

    Will we have to stay on top of McCain and what he does? Yeah, for four long years. But the alternative is much worse. Do you really want a POTUS who subscribed to a religion (Black Liberation Theology) that was basically Marxism with a few Biblical passages thrown in for good measure? Do you really want a POTUS whose every friend seems to be anti-American, Marxist in belief and socialist in structure? Do you really want a POTUS that will force our children into servitude (community service) with the lure of a college education?

    Stop and think of the alternative.

    Don’t throw your vote away on someone with no chance to win. Vote AGAINST Barack Hussein Obama and make up your mind that you will have to become more vocal, more politically active than you have ever been in your life for it is up to the chickens to guard the hen house against the foxes and sound the alarm when danger presents itself.

17. realist
    June 28th, 2008 at 11:55 am

    I had hoped that only the people in my small town were that ignorant and misinformed. It’s a treat when I find someone who knows who the Secretary of State is, or who can name more than three Constitutional rights. But few of my acquaintances think Obama is more than an empty suit with a slick tongue. Does that mean that my homies are smarter than the population in general? Whoo! Now that’s scary.

18. Gil
    June 28th, 2008 at 12:20 pm

    This struck me as being what many of you are saying on this thread:
    http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=gx1st6vi

    I most agree with retire05’s comments:

    While I will not vote FOR McCain, I will vote AGAINST his opponent…
    For me, the one most important thing in this election is the war against the terrorist thugs..

    NOT voting (or voting for Obama or someone else) simply GIVES the election to Obama.. and the terrorists.

19. wardmama4
    June 28th, 2008 at 3:22 pm

    So what will be the difference when in 2012 or 16 the RNC puts forth an even more liberal of R candidate, since we all voted against Obamanation and voted in McCain (which as I said, tells them it is acceptable or at least allows them to believe it)? We will be in even more trouble then.

    I’ve gotten involved - been to CPAC, DC, town hall meetings, write, email and call, vote worked for the election board, - so many there are days where I felt I was the only one speaking up - but Shamnesty showed me that we can do it and do it in a short amount of time. . .

    And still they cross the lines, blurr the lines and push, push, push. What I’m saying is that these two losers candidates are the time to push back - there haven’t even been conventions yet - and yet the DNC, RNC and msm have ‘decided’ who the presumptive candidates were long before even the primaries were over and even before the conventions have been held. So much for what the voters really felt - and that isn’t right in America.

    Here is food for thought - McAmnesty made it to the top of the heap from states that allow crossover voting - those ‘voters’ are not going to be at the convention - and I’m sure some of the delegates are conservatives and won’t want to vote for him. The same goes to some of Obamanations wins - therefore the conventions are not even a sure thing (although with their super delegates the DNC is more of a lock - although they do have the ‘re-create ‘68′ rabble rousers planning to ‘upset’ the convention) - so what if the conventions do what the voters want rather than what the DNC, RNC and msm want?

    We The People have the time to make a real change to save America - riding the ‘least worst’ candidate for his entire Presidency, being just as much a sheeple as those voting for Obamanation because ____ (fill in the blank - he black, he speaks well, he’s young, he’s good looking etc), to vote R just to not vote D, to vote against the D, voting on one issue only - are all just symptoms of the same problem. And believe me the RNC is not going to get your nuanced against Obama, not for McCain - they don’t care or they would have never pushed forward McCain.

    It’s all the same. It is deluting the process, allowing the msm, RNC and DNC to do what they want, put forth whomever they want, jeopardizing America and contributing even more to the problem that has allowed us to reach this point of being supposedly forced to choose between the lesser of two evils. I simply believe that in America there is always FREEDOM and We The People need to take it back, rather than going along as it’s always been done to get screwed in the end - it will just be slower with McAmnesty than with Obamanation.

    And as a Christian I must vote my conscience - even though it may lead to the other side winning - since everyone else seems to believe that R and D is the only game in town and that we have no other choice, no other voice - I still have to live with myself and my conscience. And character is doing what is right - even when it’s hard and even when no one is looking.

    I just find it sad that America has come to this - chosing the lesser of two evils - both candidates being cheap imitations of what the voters really want - talk about special interests controlling the vote. And everyone seems to think that there is nothing that can be done about it. All I’m saying is that there is a way or at least should be a way - and it should be done before we get to Nov and perpetuate, continue and exacerbate the destruction of the American way of life.

    I see voting for McCain as a destruction of the RNC - and how is that going to help America any more than voting for Obamanation?

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