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Thursday, April 17, 2008


The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Wednesday shows John McCain leading Barack Obama, 47% to 43%. The presumptive Republican nominee also leads Hillary Clinton 49% to 41%.

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zappaisgod said:
  I'm not worried.  According to the polls, Bush lost both elections.

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supernovasky said:


I think this might be the easiest election that democrats have ever had

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It should Have been.

Damn i hope you're still around in November.

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supernovasky said:
And your poll is from 4/13.

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supernovasky said:
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/bush_vs_kerry_sbys.html

Wrong again, Zappa, polls had Bush at +2.1 in Ohio in 2004.

Keep trying though.

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Scott noted this morning that the New York Times has responded to our inquiries by correcting the egregious error that I pointed out here. The paper's correction withdraws the false claim that John McCain made the "embarrassing mistake" of saying that Iran was training al Qaeda terrorists in Iraq. Instead, the Times now says that McCain "briefly referred to Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia as a Shiite group, rather than a Sunni group."

The Times's new claim would make sense if McCain had said "al Qaeda is a Shiite group," but in fact, he said the opposite: "[al Qaeda is] [c]ertainly not an obscure sect of the Shiites overall...or Sunnis or anybody else." It's odd for a newspaper to accuse a politician of making an "error" when what he said was indisputably correct. You can watch the video clip here. There is no stumble by McCain. What you don't see in the clip is what came before the question about al Qaeda. McCain had just asked General Petraeus and Ambassador Crocker a series of five questions about the Sadrists in Basra who had just been attacked by Iraqi troops. The exchange above is a transition into a series of questions about al Qaeda, and McCain notes that al Qaeda is not an "obscure sect of the Shiites," i.e., like the Sadrists, or, for that matter, an obscure sect of Sunnis, either. So I don't think there was any kind of "error" on McCain's part.

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