Obama Donors: We Showed You The Money, Now Show Us Good Poll Numbers

Washington Post:

While the candidates for the White House will spend the next week furiously raising money in advance of their next financial reporting deadline, the man who has raised the most is facing a different challenge: turning that money into a lead in the polls.

Like his fellow contenders, Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.), who led all candidates in both parties by pulling in $58.5 million over the first six months of the year, will be holding a string of fundraisers this week, before the latest quarterly fundraising deadline of Sept. 30.

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[ImpeachmentNOW]

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Here's the "case" for O-BOMBA:

1. He is the most ignorant, inexperienced and lest-capable Dem politician running for president.

2. He is a total hypocrite on lobbyists. His efforts in support of Illinois lobbyists have cost US taxpayers $12 million (so far). (Documented by Brian Ross on July 16 - see ABC NEWS website) Michael Bauer, part of BO's National LGBT Leadership Council, is registered as a lobbyist with ResPubica Group, a Chicago based firm that serves corporate and noncorporate clients.

3. His shady real-estate dealings with his partner-in-crime Rezko stink!

4. Bomb Pakistan, a current US ally.

5. Note carefully this exchange to understand how dangerous it would be to have such an IGNORAMUS in change of nuclear weapons:

2007-08-02 19:00:39 -

WASHINGTON (AP) - Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama said Thursday he would not use nuclear weapons «in any circumstance.
«I think it would be a profound mistake for us to use nuclear weapons in any circumstance,» Obama said, with a pause, «involving civilians.­» Then he quickly added, «Let me scratch that. There's been no discussion of nuclear weapons. That's not on the table."

America can, and MUST, do better than O-BOMBA.
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[steamboat]

The Rezko needs explaining. But Hillary also has had dealings with Rezko.

[mrcontinental]

Polls are a complete joke. They lie about those just as they lie about everything else in the media nowadays. Spin is in.

[MagisterLudi]

O-bum-a by any other name is still O-bum-a.

[kmccaskill]

new poll numbers are out showing obama closing clinton gap

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/daily_presidential_tracking_poll__1

[MagisterLudi]

O Skill,
Nice cut-and-paste swift-boating job, idiot!!!

Thank you for making me decide to vote for Clinton

[WigWamWag]

Marketing rule 1:
Money can put a glossy polished reflection on any apple, no matter how sour it may be.
Marketing rule 2:
Attaction works better than promotion.
Marketing rule 3:
Refer to classic quotes from P.T. Barnum.

I'm not buying O-Bomb-a.

[VSamuels]

All candidate do this, yet this idiot assumes Obama is special.

One observation based on reading posts here at HuffPo is that those who routinely disparge Obama, rarely seem to be rational or possess any argument beyond juvenile emotional gibberish.

[prolifeprogressive]

obama and edwards may well have to join forces before the primaries to pull this off.

There are negatives like both of them being relative newbies.

Bu the negatives of all the other leading contenders are worse.

[WigWamWag]

An Edwards /O-Bomb-a ticket will not fly.

Any ticket with O-Bomb-a on it is a loser because it is too weak and Middle America will never buy into it. He is far too weak and inexperienced.

A Hillary / Edwards ticket will not work, it has no real guts or integrity, just PR spin, an hype. It lacks any real credibility and that does not build confidence in any leadership abilities that either might have cultivated. It is a hard sell. It is a real shame these Bozos are the "front leaders."

[VSamuels]

Blame Obama, yet ignore Middle America racists ways. The only candidate with presidential experience is Dick Cheney and he has decided not to run. There are two candidates who aren't elected officials (John Edwards & Fred Thompson) and one is a mayor (America has never elected a mayor, yet Rudy is said to be the front runner) and Obama is inexperienced?

Running for the presidency is a beauty contest as well as it symbolizes for many whites the emotional, social and political epic-center of who they believe themselves to [be]. In other words, today we still have a large number of whites who simply can not stomach having their represention of 'cultural' whiteness be a black or any other minority.

Regardless if this was Charlie Rangel, the same bunch of Middle America would rachet up execuses to hid their intent while blaming him for not being up to speed. While it is refreshing to see many whites be open to supporting Obama, they are unfortunately a minority of voices in their community.

It remains far easier to shout everyone is equal in society, when one resists ever changing the cloths of those who have been in power for 300 years.

[steamboat]

It'll probably be Hillary/Richardson or Hillary/Clark. And maybe Bayh's been promised because I see he endorsed her today.

[GoodDay]

The Bush and Cheney families as well as other Big Oil interests have such a commitment to the war in Iraq that there is no way they will allow the United States occupation of Iraq to end in the coming decade. Thus they will do everything necessary to make sure that the next American president will not end the occupation. The Republican candidates know that. That is why they are trying to out-fascist each other in order to impress these influential families. These powerful interests want a President who is at least as undemocratic and fascist as the George W. Bush administration has been.

[Chocolate2008]

Hmm, do I trust a poll of old people in different states ? Or do I trust 4,000 Iowans ?

I'll go with the Iowans

http://www.democrats.org/page/community/post/deeannaroberts/CQlQ

[kay]

There is a huge disparity between Mitt Romney's fundraising and his poll numbers, but it's never mentioned.
Mitt Romney polls even with Newt Gingrich, yet he raised 25 million dollars.
The media theme is the inevitablity of Clinton.
As we know, once they latch onto a theme, all news is fit into that filter.
Who is sending all that money to Romney might be a more productive line of inquiry. Obama's fundraising at least approximates his polled support.
But, that's not consistent with the theme.

[kmccaskill]

This illusion that you get more presidential experience from the Senate is sheer nonsense. How many Senators have become President of America? Does Laura Bush have the experience to be President? Sitting in the front seat beside the driver for 8 years will never make you an experienced driver.

John Edwards spent six years in the Senate and had only 1 sponsored bill passed. Hillary has 2 insignificant bills passed in all her 9 years, while Obama has had 2 bills with his name passed in just over 2 years. And very important legislation he co-sponsored with Republican colleagues.
GovTrack describes Hillary’s sponsorship as “VERY POOR” and Obama’s as “AVERAGE”

In the State legislature he also passed significant healthcare, ethics reform, crime and poverty bills. Take a look at Senator Obama's bills in the State legislature:

http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2007/07/29/us/politics/20070730_OBAMA_GRAPHIC.html

Compare that with Hillary's record on her website. Even her ads make no reference to any tangible accomplishments of hers. Hiding behind Bill Clinton will not make her an experienced candidate. Only fools are deceived by her campaign's marketing skills.

[nanderson65]

Yeah!

Check ouy Kucinich's record of saving jobs, infrastructure, hospitals, power plants, steel mills...

He has a record you can be proud of!

He has my vote!

Kucinich/Gore

[steamboat]

Alot of 'do-nothings' aren't they (LOL)?

[sammy333]

The existing system has nothing to do with democracy anyway. The nominees are like those CNN/Fox blonds who read the lines from a teleprompter, while the likes of Bill Schneider put words in their overworked mouths and give them time slots. Just relax and watch the show (if you like horror).

[AJH]

There is quite likely an invisible unpolled vote. Not just from landlines but from unlikely voters being motivated to vote. I suspect an analysis of the funding say a random sample of several hundred under 1k donators to both hillary and obama might well be able to start quantifying it's presence.

On the other hand some of the polls are misleading. The September PPIC poll in California dropped gore from the list. He had 19% in the June version. Leaving the question did hillary jump 6% to 41 or did removing gore cause 6% to jump to the next most recognized name.

It's early yet poll's are close where voters are being campaigned and the candidate with the biggest name is in the lead where people aren't yet being campaigned hard.

I doubt the error is in the youth they rarely show up it's more likely the mid-30 generation that is just starting to vote regularly but is unpolled by virtue of previously not voting. Likewise independent registrations which have climbed in the past 2 decades are a confounding factor depending on where they are allowed to vote in party primaries and always in the general.

In a change election do we really want a washington establishment candidate? I think Hillary goes down in Iowa and NH. Maybe thats more hope because I don't see how a washington insider wins in 08. To much washington hate.

[slc20]

The polls are taken of people who are sitting at home next to their LAND LINE PHONES, who are dumb enough to pick up the phone after seeing a toll free or private # on their caller ID. What else does anyone expect from these old dullards whom are being polled?

Obama will surprise all the pollsters and pundits when he wins the nomination as a result of all the first time voters, and young folks he has inspired.

[Zennie]

AWESOME! Someone else's making this point, too!

[EinChicago]

And then he will fly over the rainbow in a magic chariot pulled by candy cane horses and wave his magic wand and make everyone love each other and magically wash away the ingrained prejudicies aof 60% of the population who would never vote for him.

[naijaman]

Hmm...appa­rently we never learn from our history. Howard Dean was leading in the polls by 28 points before the Iowa primaries.­..and he came in 3rd.

The media keeps polling 400 people and telling us to accept that as a proper representation of what America feels. I remember so clearly how NBC polls kept showing George Allen winning in Virginia..­.heck...Ji­m Webb was trailing in the "polls" by 12 points, and where is George Allen now?

Wake up people...p­olls do not reflect reality.

[BUSHsurvivor]

The polls aren't everything.

I'm not impressed with Obama yet, but I do remember all of the polls saying Kerry will win in 2004 and we know how that turned out.

We won't know anything until the last votes are counted.

[JasonInOakland]

But Kerry was a buffoon that neither Hillary nor Obama are.