Comments on: Tuesday polls: Obama ahead in PA, stable in NC; GOP leading in MI-07, NM-01

By: Eli

Eli — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 22:06:09 +0000

Pat McCory is a moderate in money matters, but he has proven he is a far right conservative on social issues. Very anti-black and anti-gay.
He is possibly the closest thing to Jesse Helms since Jesse left office. Maybe he is trying to mimick Helms?

People see this and even if they don’t care for Perdue, she will win by at least 15 points or more.

My parents are far right republicans and won’t vote for McCain or McCory - they said that they are voting for Obama, Perdue, and Hagen.

They were tired of the Republicans and Bush group.

Who would have thought?

I am voting the same…. democrat down the line.

By: Nick in Wilmington

Nick in Wilmington — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 22:01:16 +0000

I am hoping that Hagen will put some stress on Dole. I haven’t seen any commercial for Hagen.

Dole is the one who took dirty money from Senator Ted Stevens and from Jack Abramhoff. It wasn’t until very recently that she decided it was bad to take money from them and returned it. She took the money long ago.

Dole has some dark side to pull into the spotlight and I can only hope that the true E. Dole is put out there.

Hagen can NOT play like Kerry and sit with her fingers crossed…she will lose. She has to get out and fight to win. This is a golden opportunity, with Obama pulling democrats to the polls, Perdue pulling democrats to the polls…. what is Hagen assisting with?

Was Jim Neal a better candidate and choice?

Come on Kay, we are waiting for you to do something.

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 15:43:14 +0000

I am surprised Purdue to doing so well since McCory is a moderate Republican and Purdue supports free community college tuition for illegal immigrants - something that certainly doesn’t play well in NC (and I am a liberal!).

By: Jim W

Jim W — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 15:10:50 +0000

I believe Kay Hagen will move up once more people are exposed to her. She’s not as well known in NC as Bev Perdue or Obama.

I will say this–Kay Hagen should have just as big a chance to win NC as either Perdue or Obama. She’s got a lot of good ideas that should resonate with the NC electorate.

By: Guy

Guy — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 11:50:23 +0000

I am surprised that Dole is ahead by so much since the other races in NC this year 9Presidental and gubernatorial) are very close. Obama has moved from 41 to 44% in the latest NC poll so he is already at the level Kerry and Gore got in 2004/2000. With 86% if the black vote there is also some scope for improvement.

Regarding the general bounce - Obama is still higher in Gallup than he was earlier in July. Of course he will have gone down a little from the max he achieved at 9% but 6% is still respectable and his PA polling is very encouraging since it was a real battleground in 2004. Getting 49% pretty much means you win the state since Libertarian/Green and Nader will all take 1-2% in most states.

By: Joe from NC

Joe from NC — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 04:34:01 +0000

I am a bit surprised that Obama has consistantly done well in Pennsylvania and has not done as well in neighboring Ohio. The two states are very similar demographically and politically with PA being a little further left due to the cosmopolitan east coast culture coming from Philadelphia. Still, for Obama to be so far ahead in a Republican poll, he must be doing reasonably well in Allentown, Scranton and the other industrial cities.

As for the congressional polls, I don’t trust any of them, but the NM poll surprises me, assuming it’s accurate of course.