Obama, McCain and The Pollsters – Does It Really Mean anything?
July 31st, 2008 by Leonard Birdsong
As usual, Birdsong is sitting on the sidelines of this year’s political race for President reading commentary and looking at the polls by various organizations. Over the past weekend, the last weekend of July, 2008, the Gallup poll had 49% of polled Americans saying they would vote for Obama for president, 41 % would vote for McCain. A New York Post poll had it dead even, 41% for Obama and 41 % for McCain. Polling by the Rasmussen organization revealed 45% for Obama and 41% for McCain.
The commentator Robert Novak opines that since “Obama is the most spectacular campaigner of his generation…it is a mystery that he lingers below the 50% mark of polled Americans who would vote for him.”
No mystery to Birdsong.
