Obama Wins Mashup Candidate Poll

Yahoo News:

Illinois Sen. Barack Obama gives an interview to Yahoo News correspondent Kevin Sites regarding his win in the Huffington Post, Slate, Yahoo Candidate Mashup.

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[Grannysue]

I wish the media would simply report the news instead of attempting to sway elections. They have all but cantonized Clinton for Prez. Yes, if she's the candiate I will vote for her, I'm an independent, but I will never vote for another Repbulican unless they are proven to be sane, can walk and talk and tell the truth, well that let's out most candiates right there.
But Obama is a very intelligent forward thinking individual who I believe will move us out of the Bush/Clinton era and into a new government that governs for the people, ALL THE PEOPLE.

[genmalia]

The media tout Clinton because it will be guaranteed political dirt to report on for at least 4 years is Clinton is elected! Even in the run up to the election, we all know that the Republican smear machine will come out in full force with a verocity we haven't ever seen! The media is practically drooling over the juicy coverage...

[Chocolate2008]

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[WellbornBroad]

I mean the Clinton polls. Who are they polling?

[WellbornBroad]

As I mentioned before my daughter has a PHD in Political Science. She taught me long ago that you can get any poll to give the results you want. It is simply the wording of the poll or the element being polled. I will also
mention again that I have never been polled. I would love to know just who is being polled.

[genmalia]

Thanks for that! Anyone who has every taken a social science course that required research knows that the way you frame your question affects the answer.

And I have never been polled because I use a cell phone for everything!

[MakeChessNotWar]

Since Gore wasn't an option, the mashup will be viewed as irrelevant once he enters the race. It is sad that HuffPo behaves just like the corporate media when it comes to Gore, and ignores all the work done by AmericaforGore.org and the DraftGore movement. Al Gore has in no way discouraged the efforts of these groups, and is clearly open to the idea of running. I hope you'll at least cover his Nobel Prize on October 12, after which he'll make his decision.

[OhPlease2007]

Correct me if I am wrong, but this 'mashup candidate poll' fails to cite just how many people were polled, which makes this 'poll' VERY suspect.

It's great that Obama won this 'poll', but unless the 'actual numbers' are cited of how many people bothered to vote, this 'poll' absolutely cannot, be taken seriously; Huffington Post knows this, but because Obama is their guy, they are lending any support they can to prop up Obama's sinking poll numbers.

[SeanGardner]

"Obama's sinking poll numbers"

In the National Polls yes (because of the Democrats polled nationally), but in the more relevant polls in Iowa and New Hampshire, Obama is in a virtual three way tie with Hillary and Edwards.

[Giordano Bruno]

Daily Kos yesterday shows that among those of us who are most liberal, John Edwards remains in the lead. If you measure the AB(H)C vote, it suggests that the majority of democrats do not favor Mrs. Clinton as their first choice.

I will support Mr. Obama if nominated, but will wish that we had nominated Mr. Edwards instead. However if the Dems nominate Mr. Bush's favorite candidate, Mrs. Clinton, I will vote third party, probably libertarian.

Giordano

[BrotherCurmudgeon]

Obama is many things, BUT a phony he is not. If my vote would assure his election he can begin tochoose his cabinet members immediately.

[ctalbot4]

If he's not a phony then why doesn't "stinky man" hide his cigarette smoking, never lights up around a camera. Maybe because it will lose votes, so it's wise to make people believe you are addiction free. PHONY??

[ctalbot4]

Well, I'm shocked! Shocked, I tell you! OBAMA won on the Huffington Post!!! Which moron out there didn't see this one comming? Sorry Ariana but your about to find out that HuffPo will not give you that fearsome political clout you have been so desperately searching for LO these many years. Pitiful.

[ctalbot4]

If he's not a phont then why doesn't "stinky man" hide his cigarette smoking, never lights up around a camera. Maybe because it will lose votes, so it's wise to make people believe you are addiction free. PHONY??

[SeanGardner]

You need to get your head examined.

Its one thing to say that you KNOW he's still smoking, but another to float the notion that he is still smoking, and without any concrete proof!

But the entries by Obama's HUFFPO haters are easy to deconstruct. For instance:

When Huffpo blogger SensibleAmerican can't derail Obama from drawing huge crowds in red and blue states alike, he calls him "Barack Hussein" in a feeble-minded attempt to whip up hatred against Americans with "arabic names".

When Huffpo blogger Juno912 can't stop Obama from raking up signicant endorsements from Democratic politicians and strategists in Iowa, he constantly refers to Obama as "A-Bomb", and then on July 19th refers to the Obamas as "opportunistic phonies", and then on July 21st lies when he writes that Obama has a "virtually non-existent record" and then on May 22nd commented that he was tired of Michelle Obama's "promiscuous disclosures". All of these fabricated and mean-spirited comments from "Juno912", who logon names sounds hilariously extraterrestial.

, when you can't stop Obama from raising arm loads of cash, you float a story that you have no way of confirming. But if you say it and write enough times, then it must be true, right?

Who is the phony now young padawan?

[MENTAL]

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."

The Repugs will have an EASY job of sliming this
highly slime-able junior senator.

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

[drkazmd65]

Even with what you type against Obama (not all quite accurate btw) - he is still better than any of the 'annointed' candidates running in either party.

[SeanGardner]

Let's look at 3 dubious points MENTAL made above:

(Point #1) "He is the most ignorant, inexperienced and lest-capable Dem politician running for president." - Funny how you make such a statement without any substantive argument to back it up. "Inexperienced"? Did you see this article here back in January of this year: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x3132998) . You probably didn't. And MENTAL, you know what GQ wrote in the current issue right? They wrote:

"Even on the much hyped question of experience, Clinton, Edwards, and Obama are roughly equal, each having no more than a decade of legislative experience and no executive experience. Given the historic opportunity of an electorate desperate for change and disinclined to elect another Republican president, the Democratic contest is really about who will be the most transformational president. Obama's case is that to change anything in America, we have to begin by changing our politics, and he offers the kind of campaign he is running as evidence that he means it."

So you're wrong MENTAL.

(Point #2) "Bomb Pakistan, a current US ally." - Since when is Pakistan an ally? Because Bush says so? And when did Obama say he would "bomb" the country? I recall him saying that if intelligence verified Bin Laden's position, he would order a strike to take him out.

(Point #3) "His shady real-estate dealings with his partner-in-crime Rezko stink!" - What was "shady" about his dealings? His purchase of some land from Rezko showed a lapse in judgment, but tell me how it reaises to the level of "shady"?

Obama is better than any candidates (Democrat or Republican) running president right now.

[otispfudpucker]

Obama will do well at the polls as long as people get their heads out of their asses and stop believing the MSM and their garbage that Killary is the front runner.
The MSM wants every one to think that she is the ordained candidate and that the fixed polls that are run by her people say so.
I'm not falling for the bullshit and I do hope that others won't either.....
I'm not a sheeple, are You?

[GreatFutureForAll]

I wish I could say I'm surprised by this result. I'm not at all.

Barack Obama remains, in my mind, the only candidate capable of moving this country ahead in the 21st century. His willingness to sit down and negotiate with the leaders of Iran and Syria (which he was greatly criticized for by virtually all of the other presidential candidates) provides America with the hope of calming the inflamed tensions throughout the Middle East.

His willingness to target Al Qaeda; to refocus our efforts and go after this real enemy of democracy, is precisely what we should have been doing all along.

Finally, in lieu of the problems that handicap Jena, Louisiana as well as other parts of the country, it's difficult to imagine a better arbiter of justice than Obama.

He's been right on point in criticizing the entire local government and judicial process of Jena while also criticizing the young men for taking the law into their own hands.

If elected President, he will move our country forward and continue to rid America of it's racial divide.

Simply put, he's the right person at the right time.

[eaglecapri]

GreatFutureForAll,

I'm not suprised either.

In the interview, Obama says, 'We always do well among people who are well informed and listen to the debates.' He hit it right on the head. There are millions of us who can't be fed bullsh*t and we see through all of the tactics: Bubba for first husband; the Hillary Machine; vote for me because hey, I'm a white male...and ain't I handsome...and can I seduce you with my southern gentleman's drawl; etc.

It's unfortunate I have to bring race into the equation - notice race not sex - but if Obama was 100% white he would be the front-runner. There would absolutely be no contest.

And, I love it how the candidates take his ideas and strategies and later turn his words into their own words and incorporate them into their own strategies.

In his speeches regarding the war, Obama says "...we've got to be careful getting out as we were careless getting in."

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=11921037

Then, all of a sudden the other candidates jump on the bandwagon with those buzz words.....

Here is another one:

'there are bad options and there are worse options'

http://weblogs.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/blog/2007/03/obama_bad_options_worse_in_ira.html

And, again, all the rest of the candidates put their spin on these words and incorporate them into their 'so-called' strategy which is clearly becoming the Obama strategy. It's very annoying, but I am well aware that it is happening. Hopefully, America will wake up!

[RusStyles]

Well put! I'm surprised the haters have not put a negative twist on this...But yea, there's no question that Obama has the superior judgement, temperance and people-skills to get our country back on track economically, diplomatically, environmentally and socially, to name a few.

[MEM71]

I have to agree but i think we are going to end up with Hillary.

[drkazmd65]

Ain't that the sad (likely) truth MEM71.

If the primary in my state (MD) were to be held today I would still be voting for Kucinich. However, Obama is a close (and getting closer) 2nd in my book.

I will refuse to vote for Hillary in the primaries - period. However, if she carries the Dem nomination I will be holding my nose, but will vote for her against any Republican.

I'm still hoping for a Kucinich ticket, but I wonder how America would feel about Obama/Kucinich in '08?

[gvincent]

Well...your loss that you didn't vote for Biden then...
http://www.crookedinc.com

[BlueBoomer]

Isn't it the TRUTH, tho'...

And interesting that Arianna's candidate came in first.

I was frankly kind of disappointed in the Mash-Up. I'm not sure I could pinpoint why, exactly, but I was.

What I do think it supports, tho', is that young voters are the ones supporting Obama, partly because they have grown up in a more multi-cultural society, but, to our peril, also because they don't have a historical memory of what happens when an un(der) qualified candidate is elected after a disasterous administration.

I'm referring to the ONE-TERM Jimmy Carter presidency that followed the NIXON(Ford) administration...IT WAS A DISASTER that culminated in the IRAN HOSTAGE CRISIS.

I'm not sure if those young, probably first-time voters really understand about the "electibility" issue that is (should be) a concern about Obama and Hillary as well...A lot of people will publically say they would vote for what they considered to be a qualified black or woman candidate, BUT, what they will actually do in the privacy of a voting booth could very likely be another matter entirely.

And Edwards is about as close to Jimmy Carter as one can get in this election.

WHAT MUST BE DRIVEN HOME TO YOUNG VOTERS IN PARTICULAR IS THAT THERE IS A CRITICAL DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HAVING THE QUALITIES OF A PRESIDENT AND HAVING THE QUALIFICATIONS TO ACTUALLY BE THE PRESIDENT.

So, back to your lament about BIDEN: that's why it's unfortunate that he's not doing better than he is...BECAUSE HE DOES HAVE THE QUALITIES AND THE QUALIFICATIONS TO BE POTUS...More so than ANY of the other candidates.

QUALITIES + QUALIFICATIONS.
EXPERIENCE = CHANGE.
TRUTH TO POWER....POWER TO THE PEOPLE.

BIDEN/Rich­ardson...A­ll of the Above.

[genmalia]

Haven't you heard the argument of those with "experience" like Rumsfeld, Cheney, Ashcroft, etc.?

Is experience or jedgement more important to you? Richardson has a lot of experience being ambassador to countries we have really poor relationships with at the present time.

Biden, well, I like Biden, but I do think he will do more good in the Senate than as president.

[SensibleAmerican]

Any internet "mashup" is attended primarily by the far-left-w­ide-eyed-n­ader-lovin­g-tree-hug­ging-far-l­eft-fringe­! They love Barack Hussein and his fluff!

In the real world though, he trails 20 points behind Clinton and is actually headed South, as Hillary makes her way North and East to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue as US of A's 44th President!

[genmalia]

Who, in the "real world," can live by the polls, expect for supporters of Hillary Rodham because Hillary Rodham will say whatever will keep Hillary Rodham in the polls' favor. It also helps that Hillary Rodham's campaign staff works for polling companies.

And you do know that "Hussein" is about a common name as "Smith" outside of the US? Honestly, are you TRYING to be like Ann Coulter? Hardly Sensible...