Barack Obama: High reviews for speech even after GOP VP named!

[Breeze54]

Barack Obama: High reviews for speech

http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2008/08/barack_obama_high_reviews_for.html

Posted August 30, 2008 2:15 PM

Barack Obama also holds an 8-point advantage over John McCain.



The Swamp

by Mark Silva

ST. PAUL, Minn. - Barack Obama is getting high ratings for his acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention, with 58 percent of those surveyed giving it a positive review and 43 percent saying it could make
them more likely to vote for the junior senator from Illinois seeking the White House.

Obama also has maintained an eight-point advantage over rival John McCain in Gallup's daily tracking poll, which includes the last two days of the convention and the day afterward - the day that McCain named his running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. The Democrat leads the Republican by 49-41 percent in the daily track, a measure of Obama's "convention "bounce,'' Gallup says.

"The Friday interviewing was conducted in an unusual political environment -- the first conducted fully after Obama's well-regarded acceptance speech,'' Gallup notes.

Fifty-eight percent of Americans give Obama's speech a positive review, including 35 percent calling it "excellent."

Both ratings surpass those for the 2000 and 2004 presidential candidates - with Obama's
excellent rating "higher than any other other recent candidate has received.,'' Gallup reports.

:applause: :applause:

[eshfemme]

1. Obama just can't help being someone who shatters records. :)

He's not overly competitive the way McCain is (anyone else think McCain's bitching about Obama being a celebrity is because he's out of sorts that he's not the celebrity?) but he can't help but do his best at everything and in doing so, KICK MAJOR FUCKING ASS!

[Breeze54]

2. I think he is competitive! McDim's a chump loser!

;)

[Pab Sungenis]

3. So he outbounced McCain's VP-bounce.

Nice. We're going to go into the general ahead finally.