Reader comments: Obama maintains lead over McCain

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SP | 9:29 a.m. Sept. 3, 2008
Count me in the unfavorable column for Palin. Obama's lead will hopefully keep growing. Go Obama!
November poll's will count more | 10:04 a.m. Sept. 3, 2008
I will watch the Obamacon and his phony sidekick veep as well as the other O'bots a little longer because my doctor told me I needed to laugh more and laughing will lower my blood pressure. As for you Obamacon young O'bots if you really want a change, turn off the computer, go to the telephone, call up your mom to come home, and, change your diaper, than you'll have your true change you are really seeking in life.

Go McCain you'll have our real vote at the polls this November.
Another for Obama | 10:11 a.m. Sept. 3, 2008
I agree. There is something completely sketchy about Palin. I don't want her any where near the White House. What a disaster. Obama is our only hope to recover as a nation. The Republicans need to go back and regroup and finds themselves
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To November poll | 11:43 a.m. Sept. 3, 2008
I've been reading about your blood pressure for several days now. Please spare us any more of it and your caca jokes about Obama. If a mind like yours opposes Obama, he's got to be good.
Steve - Re: Another for Obama | 12:19 p.m. Sept. 3, 2008
I share your sentiments, I don't want Palin so close to being President and it's because of her politics not her personal life. I'm a Republican by the way.

I just read McCain canceled his appearance on "Larry King Live" this week. Apparently he's angry about how a certain CNN anchor handled one of his people on Monday night.

The anchor woman strongly pressed the McCain rep for examples of Gov. Palin's experience, repeatedly trying to get him to cite just one example of how she lead/used the National Guard in Alaska. The McCain rep danced around the question and never answered it each time she asked it, when he finally did give an answer the CNN anchor pointed out that it was the job of the Pentagon and not within the/a governor's authority.

What McCain is really doing is running away from possible tough cross examination. To me he's clearly trying to avoid the issue, he doesn't want to have his choice of a VP closely scrutinized. It's all part of him trying to gloss over the fact she has little true experience, the very thing he's been preaching about Obama as a "negative" point.
Murray Dad | 12:57 p.m. Sept. 3, 2008
RE: November poll
Nice cut and paste job on your posts -
If you don't have a coherent thought on different letters, don't regurgitate the same response. And other than your better subject verb sentence structure, I'd swear you were Bro. Chuck Schroeder.
As for "you young O'bots" knowingly or not, you've touched upon a key demographic - 18 to 25 year olds;
the group that was texting and IMing in Denver and was conspicuously absent at St. Paul. They will most likely decide who wins in November.
Brother Chuck Schroeder | 1:30 p.m. Sept. 3, 2008
Who the heck really cares that Barack H Obama II held on to his post-convention lead over John McCain, as Republicans gathered for the second day of their national convention in St. Paul, Minn, it's at the polls this November that'll count. The next Commander-in-Chief of The United States Of America, and will have his tail on a chair in The White House will be OUR NEW President McCain. NOW as for you Bushie basher's and also as for you Obamacon young O'bots if you really want a change, turn off the computer, go to the telephone, call up your single mommie to come home and, change your diaper, than you'll have your true change you are really seeking in life. We know you socialist utopians always want something for nothing and for free, so with your food stamps buy some government (wic card) cheese to go along with your whines. We are tired of listing to you anyway. Shame on you politicaly correct liberal Murray Dad.
Murray Dad | 3:13 p.m. Sept. 3, 2008
Well, was I correct, Brother Chuck Schroeder?
We've heard this all before | 3:54 p.m. Sept. 3, 2008
We were hearing the same polls and the same rhetoric in the media before and look what happend. The media told us Al Gore was ahead with the same polls in 2000 (he lost). John Kerry was ahead in the polls in 2004 (he lost badly).

Democrats make strategic decisions based on polls and focus groups (they always have) but the election isn't over till it's over. As the campaign progresses and the Democrats become more shrill and start offending more main-stream Americans to please their base supporters, more of us start to look deeper inside and some end up changing their minds. When Democrats start to realise this they may start winning elections again.
Clint A. @ Murry Dad | 4:26 p.m. Sept. 3, 2008
Boy you sure nailed Brother Chuck Schroeder.

You can always tell when jr. high is out.

Bro Schroeder, yes, we sure want more of the Bush years. Whats wrong with you?
Only 6 points | 11:36 p.m. Sept. 3, 2008
According to Gallup tracking it is only at 6 points today. I thought Obama was supposed to be ahead by double digits after his convention. I don''t put much faith into polls and it is still a long time till November. The next few weeks will be interesting to see if Palin helps or hurts McCain. Biden didn't really help Obama, at least in the polls.

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