McCain wins General Election Straw Poll

[Fox McCloud]

This is a bit of a surprise to me--yes, I know that it's just a straw poll and that we have 5 months to go before the general election, but these are indeed, interesting results:

Note From AOL: Our weekly survey was restarted again on Friday, June 13 at 11AM ET. The first week of the general election AOL Straw Poll had nearly 500,000 votes. John McCain came out ahead of Barack Obama, 56%-44%. We will be launching a new version of this poll shortly that includes third-party presidential candidates.

http://news.aol.com/political-machine/straw-poll

Could this possibly be a sign of things to come?

In some ways, I think it would be better if Obama won this round, that way it takes heat off the Republicans a while, and make them more likely to get elected later on (and hopefully, during that time, the Republican nominee would be like Ron Paul....or WOULD be Ron Paul).

 

[Kludge]

Put in the third party candidates already!

 

[Fox McCloud]

Put in the third party candidates already!

yes, I know--I thought they'd have that up by now, now that the first round has ended.

 

[acptulsa]

They will avoid throwing the third party candidates in for as long as possible.

As for these polls, consider who the most likely McCain supporters are. More concerned with security than freedom. Likely to be older. All this makes it more likely that they are racist. "Team players" loathe to break the mold.

Now, consider who is most likely to still have land line in this day and age. Remember, pollsters try to stick to land lines...

 

[Kludge]

This is an online poll

 

[LibertiORDeth]

Poll 4/14 "What is the Bilderberg Group really"?

Elitist New World Order Cabal 31%
Old guys who run things 20%
Anti democratic skulduggery 14%
If you knew, they'd kill you 35%
I pity those who don't know...

 

[acptulsa]

This is an online poll

Oh. In that case, I'm mystified.

 

[Maverick]

56%-44? 12 percentage points? That seems way too skewed. 3-4 points, I'd believe that...but 12 is just not feasible.

 

[Uncle Emanuel Watkins]

Change for the sake of change is no better than no change whatsoever.

This is a bit of a surprise to me--yes, I know that it's just a straw poll and that we have 5 months to go before the general election, but these are indeed, interesting results:



http://news.aol.com/political-machine/straw-poll

Could this possibly be a sign of things to come?

In some ways, I think it would be better if Obama won this round, that way it takes heat off the Republicans a while, and make them more likely to get elected later on (and hopefully, during that time, the Republican nominee would be like Ron Paul....or WOULD be Ron Paul).

Obama's rock star status isn't going to work for him against McCain as it did against Hillary. One has to admit that while McCain has established himself as the 100 year asshole militant, he is at least a serious 100 year asshole militant while Obama's amateurist change for the sake of change theory is only going to float that boat so far.
What we are basically left with here is an old, albeit dumbass white man against a naive but nifty black man.
Arguments that Obama hits the ball in the hole like Tiger Woods couldn't be way off the mark, however. If Obama was indeed the Tiger Wood's of politics he would be talking not just about change -- farts are change after all -- but about the founding fathers and the U.S. Constitution. As an American, I want to see in Obama evidence that he feels the American government offers a superior culture of living to the lessor types of cultures that produce paganism, voodoo, refried beans and strings of beads.
I just don't see Obama feeling that the U.S. Constitution is lightning in a bottle so he is not the Tiger Woods of politics. So, I'm not voting for him.

 

[Fox McCloud]

I wouldn't vote McCain either, Watkins...but you are bringing up some good points....there's a large block of union voters who have already vowed to vote for McCain if Obama got the nomination (and obviously, he did), and there's a number of Hillary supporters that are saying the same thing.....also, the race issue has to be factored in....not to mention I believe McCain will pick up a few Democrats as well.

After all, if you take away the war issue, McCain is very easily a Democrat...he's simply pro-war, that's all.

It'll be a close race, that's for sure.