Rasmussen conducted a poll of 500 “likely voters” in Missouri on August 7th and released it on August 8th. “This survey was conducted in partnership with Fox Television Stations Inc.” The margin of error is 4.5%.
2* If the Presidential Election were held today, would you vote for Republican John McCain or Democrat Barack Obama?
Without Leaners
McCain 48%
Obama 41%
Other 5%
Not sure 7%
With Leaners
McCain 50%
Obama 44%
Other 1%
Not sure 4%
For any of you poll neophytes the race is still effectively tied (sort of) within the margin of error.
This is interesting:
1* How do you rate the way that George W. Bush is performing his role as President? Excellent, good, fair, or poor?
12% Excellent
20% Good
16% Fair
51% Poor
1% Not sure
dubya and his policies need to be the quintessential political albatross for McSame. Practice often, repeat the meme, rinse, repeat: McSame – if you’ve liked the last eight years, you’re gonna love the next 100…
The economy appears to be the primary concern of voters, cited by 43% (more than any other issues). But, there’s this:
13* When covering economic issues, do most reporters and media outlets try to make the economy seem worse than it really is, better than it really is, or do they present an accurate picture of the economy?
47% Worse than it really is
21% Better than it really is
23% They present and accurate picture
8% Not sure
They don’t trust the media or their own lyin’ eyes.
We can’t ask people at the pump, “how’s that $4.00 a gallon workin’ out for you?” anymore since it’s dropped a bit. But then again, if the price has dropped so precipitously, why did it go up so much? And doesn’t that drop in price undercut McSame’s argument for “emergency full speed ahead” drilling off shore? Just asking.
I was an election judge in NW Jefferson County this last election. It is a rural ring county to St. Louis county. It is mostly blue collar with some middle and few upper middle class people. All but one of our elected officials are Democrats. The presidential went for Hillary in big numbers.
Turn out was low(around 30%, I think?) but I was surprised that it was about equal Reb/Dem. everybody wanted to talk about the up coming Presidential. No one was happy with the candidates on either side. That was the most common comment by far. Things like,”I don’t know what I’m going to do, I don’t like either of them.”
I don’t know what this means for the fall.Being an inverate “people watcher” I kept thinking to myself what have the Republicans ever done for you? ,when some poor person would ask for a Republican ballot. The cultural divide is alive and well in my neck of the woods.
Obama really needs to put some meat on the bones of his econommic proposals to have any chance of getting Dems to come out and vote around here.Forget swaying any Republicans.