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Dave Matrix
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Obama's Trip Backfires; McCain Surges to 4-Point Lead in USA Today/Gallup Poll

Monday, July 28, 2008 9:35 PM

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A surprising poll released Monday confirms Sen. Barack Obama's worst nightmare: he actually lost ground to Sen. John McCain after a global trip meant to buck up his sagging credentials in foreign and military policy.


The USA Today/Gallup poll has McCain leading Obama by four points, 49 percent to Obama's 45 percent, among likely voters.


Just last month, the same poll had McCain trailing by six points to the neophyte U.S. senator.


Among registered voters, McCain was just three points behind Obama -- a statistical dead heat.


The USA Today/Gallup poll is consistent with the Rasmussen tracking poll, which also shows Obama ahead by just three percentage points -- again a statistical tie.


The polls suggest that Obama's efforts to act like a president abroad -- even though he has yet to be elected -- may have backfired among American voters.


In Berlin, Obama spoke to 200,000 cheering Germans. The Democratic candidate used the foreign platform to express the view that he was a "fellow citizen of the world" and apologized for America's imperfections.


Later, he decided not to visit wounded American soldiers at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in southern Germany. When the Pentagon informed Obama's campaign that the hospital would be closed to the press and campaign staff -- only the senator and his official staff would be allowed in -- Obama decided to cancel the event.


McCain has been quick to seize on Obama's ill-advised decision to cancel the humanitarian visit to the hospital.


A McCain television commercial released on the Internet this past weekend chided Obama for his callous act.


"And now, he made time to go to the gym, but canceled a visit with wounded troops,” the ad says. “Seems the Pentagon wouldn’t allow him to bring cameras. John McCain is always there for our troops.”



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Newsmax is a Conservative, right-wing, pro-Christian news service. I get e-mailed news from them everyday in the droves.

This is erroneous news.


Newsmax does not like Obama!
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Obama will rebounce. Interesting when Obama leads by three points, it is a tie, but when McCain leads by three, it is not..
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Obama is leading all the time...dem polls trying fe move people in a certain way...it's all bull...Obama is dominating every news in the world right now. partybanana
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McCain the real juice 4% more filling. Wink
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quote:
Originally posted by Communicator:
Newsmax is a Conservative, right-wing, pro-Christian news service. I get e-mailed news from them everyday in the droves.

This is erroneous news.

Anyway you slice it, he should have been over 50% points and he is still struggling. As Hillary said Americans are seeing through this media package and hype known as Backtrack Borat Obama.


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Originally posted by Dave Matrix:
Obama's Trip Backfires; McCain Surges to 4-Point Lead in USA Today/Gallup Poll

Monday, July 28, 2008 9:35 PM

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A surprising poll released Monday confirms Sen. Barack Obama's worst nightmare: he actually lost ground to Sen. John McCain after a global trip meant to buck up his sagging credentials in foreign and military policy.


The USA Today/Gallup poll has McCain leading Obama by four points, 49 percent to Obama's 45 percent, among likely voters.


Just last month, the same poll had McCain trailing by six points to the neophyte U.S. senator.


Among registered voters, McCain was just three points behind Obama -- a statistical dead heat.


The USA Today/Gallup poll is consistent with the Rasmussen tracking poll, which also shows Obama ahead by just three percentage points -- again a statistical tie.


The polls suggest that Obama's efforts to act like a president abroad -- even though he has yet to be elected -- may have backfired among American voters.


In Berlin, Obama spoke to 200,000 cheering Germans. The Democratic candidate used the foreign platform to express the view that he was a "fellow citizen of the world" and apologized for America's imperfections.


Later, he decided not to visit wounded American soldiers at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in southern Germany. When the Pentagon informed Obama's campaign that the hospital would be closed to the press and campaign staff -- only the senator and his official staff would be allowed in -- Obama decided to cancel the event.


McCain has been quick to seize on Obama's ill-advised decision to cancel the humanitarian visit to the hospital.


A McCain television commercial released on the Internet this past weekend chided Obama for his callous act.


"And now, he made time to go to the gym, but canceled a visit with wounded troops,” the ad says. “Seems the Pentagon wouldn’t allow him to bring cameras. John McCain is always there for our troops.”



© 2008 Newsmax. All rights reserved.


Dave,

One source also reported that the supposedly 200,000 who attended Obama's speech in Berlin, were really concert goers, attending a concert nearby and a hugh fair was going in the vicinity. They were just curious.

Their "attendance" was nothing of substance. So we should not pay too much attention to this 200,000.
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