<p>Here are the new Ramussen tracking poll numbers from polling on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday – after the *Celeb *and *The One *attack ads and the dealing of the race card from the bottom of the deck by the Democrats.</p>
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<p>Looking closer at the numbers, the change is most pronounced among unaffiliated, independent voters:</p>
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<p>The favorables have shifted, again most prominently among independents:</p>
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<p>The good news: The One still maintains his substantial lead in Germany.</p>
<p>The One drops to under 50% in Massachusetts. Lead cut in half, down to single digits in Dukakis’ home state.</p>
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<p>Poor “Liveshot” Kerry. This can’t be comforting news with a challenger in the Democratic primary. It’s been a long time since he’s seen Massachusetts in the summertime outside of Nantucket Island.</p>
<p>No. The poll was not middle class, it was low wage working class (defined as workers working 30hrs or more a week but earn $27,000). The poll was conducted by WaPo. </p>
<p>The second part is me slamming WaPo. They have 3 right-wingers, 50 socialists, 45 communists, and 1000 left-wingers masquerading as journalist. No wonder they are loosing so much money, how many left-wingers, communists, and socialists can afford to buy the paper?</p>
<p>In other news, attack ads work. I expect ads attacking McCain’s age, asymmetric face, horrible piloting record, and skin cancer to be popping up all over the place.</p>
<p>Attacking McCain’s age is a very weak argument/strategy imo. Over half the Supreme Court is over 70, and only a couple are considering stepping down, and one of them is over 80. Not exactly an indictment of old age and being able to be a figure of authority. Having sound judgement is another argument I guess.</p>
<p>epistrophy–I don’t for a minute believe Idad ever supported Hillary Clinton. Not for a minute. Clinton and THE ONE are very much on the same page, politically. … Of course, issues don’t matter so someone who sees THE ONE as all things evil. Never mind that Hillary Clinton was a called a “murderess” by fringe whackos a few years back. Personally, I’m not 100% thrilled with THE ONE every day and in every way, but since there hasn’t been a perfect human being since Christ walked the earth, I’ll cut him some slack. As I do with McCain as well.</p>
<p>As far as these trivial, airhead ads convincing the American voter to move over to McCain in recent polling, it really indicates that he thinks they are dumb. These voters deserve McCain as POTUS.</p>
<p>Comments from last Sunday’s Meet the Press and This Week at Huffington Post by David Gergen, Republican columnist and Mike Murphy, McCains 2000 campaign manager really sums it up:</p>
<p>“There has been a very intentional effort to paint him as somebody outside the mainstream, other, ‘he’s not one of us,’” said Gergen. “I think the McCain campaign has been scrupulous about not directly saying it, but it’s the subtext of this campaign. Everybody knows that. There are certain kinds of signals. As a native of the south, I can tell you, when you see this Charlton Heston ad, ‘The One,’ that’s code for, ‘he’s uppity, he ought to stay in his place.’ Everybody gets that who is from a southern background. We all understand that. When McCain comes out and starts talking about affirmative action, ‘I’m against quotas,’ we get what that’s about.”</p>
<p>Mike Murphy decribes ad comparing Obama to Britney Spears and Paris Hilton as “clumsy, juvenile, and a mistake.”</p>
<p>“I think it was a dumb ad,” said Murphy, during an appearance on Meet The Press. “Not because it asked the question, ‘is Barack Obama ready for the job?’ That’s a very legitimate criticism,…And when if you get off into the small juvenile stuff about Britney Spears, I think you distract from that.”</p>
<p>Of course they’re politicians, Madville! Saying one thing and doing another is par for the course. But to answer your question: Yes, I am naive. :)</p>
<p>Well, I’m quite deeply enmeshed in Southern Culture, and I have absolutely no idea what Gergen is talking about here. What in the world does Charlton Heston have to do w/ implying that Obama is “uppity”??</p>
<p>I really really resent an attempt to portray anyone who supports McCain as a racist. It’s some kind of “entrapment” like supporting Obama is the only way to prove you aren’t a racist. </p>
<p>And to suggest that the tongue-in-cheek ads released by the McCain campaign contain some kind of subliminal messages is just such a complete stretch that it would be laughable if it were not so pathetic.</p>
<p>How does one prove the negative “I’m not a racist” or “These ads do not have racist undertones”? In spite of the fact (as I’ve resently asserted) the vast majority of people in America have moved beyond race, AfAms continue to call “racism” at times when it absolutely doesn’t exist. That undermines their claims of racism when it DOES exist.</p>
<p>Apparently the crack editing team at the Post failed to fact check the front page article the Obama campaign e-mailed over to their “writers”.</p>
<p>Curious that there is no front page story about the two Palesitinian brothers in the Gaza Strip listed as donors on Obama’s campaign finance reports. Or the connections between Rezko, Auchi, and Obama.</p>
<p>^^ If you read the article, be sure to note the corrections. Some of the named donors didn’t even donate to McCain - they donated to Clinton & Giuliani!!</p>
Personally, I’m not 100% thrilled with THE ONE every day and in every way, but since there hasn’t been a perfect human being since Christ walked the earth, I’ll cut him some slack. As I do with McCain as well.</p>