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Here’s a comparison between today’s results and results from one-week ago in both major daily tracking polls:
Rasmussen Daily General Election Tracker (5/2)
- John McCain 48%
- Barack Obama 42%
One Week ago:
- John McCain 45%
- Barack Obama 45
And now, Gallup:
Gallup Daily General Election Tracker (5/2):
- John McCain 48%
- Barack Obama 42%
One Week ago:
- John McCain 45%
- Barack Obama 45
May 2nd, 2008 at 7:06 pm
That’s interesting how the two polls are identical. Did anyone hear how Obama opposes a gas tax holiday for the summer? It’s hard to believe how liberal he is.
May 2nd, 2008 at 8:18 pm
Quick question for someone more knowledgable than I of the campaign finance system. I plan on giving money to McCain, probably about 50 bucks. With Mac taking public financing in all likelihood, when is the best time for me to give, now or in the general election phase? Or does it even matter and Im overthinking this? Thanks in advance.
May 2nd, 2008 at 10:49 pm
[...] Barack Obama in the Daily Gallup Poll, 48%–42%. Think the Reverend Wright controversy has not taken its toll on Obama’s numbers? After the pasting that Obama took in Pennsylvania, he can hardly afford another loss like that [...]
May 2nd, 2008 at 11:30 pm
Clarence,
Have you read the economists view on the gas tax holiday? Take off the tax, demand goes up, prices stay the same and you put the money directly into the gas company profits. Yeah, I guess it is idiotic of BO to want the money for the gov’t use rather than to go into gas companies, isn’t it? Unless you got stocks in the oil companies, sounds like it isn’t going to make an ounce of difference as to what you are going to be paying out of your pocket this summer. So what exactly is your point here?
May 3rd, 2008 at 1:18 am
Steve while oil companies would have higher profits, it’s not possible that consumers wouldn’t also have lower prices.
Gas prices are too elastic for that.
What we’d see is higher gas consumption (good for the economy) at a lower prices for consumers and at a larger profit for the oil companies.
May 3rd, 2008 at 1:59 am
All things being equal, I’d rather give my money to a legit business (the “evil” oil companies) which will reinvest profits into our economy while hiring more Americans, not to mention all the other thousands of American businesses which benefit from increased summer travel spending, rather than continue paying higher taxes to a government with no self-control over it’s own spending on countless wasteful projects.
But maybe that’s just me.
By the way, how come no one is calling for windfall taxes to be levied on Yahoo and Google, which take in higher profits relative to revenue than the oil industry? And why is it even wrong for one industry to sell a product (oil) at a price allowed by the market (recreational travel is still projected to be extremely high this summer), but it’s totally acceptable for another company selling absolutely no tangible products (Yahoo) to earn billions for their output? And after Obama and the Dems tax the evil oil industry into submission, how will they convince the remaining energy companies to risk their own capital to invest in new sources of energy for the growing US and world market (which now includes nearly 2.5 billion people in India and China)?
Just a bunch of questions for an ignorant taxpayer with no background in economics.
May 3rd, 2008 at 2:21 am
One comment regarding the Rev. Wright business. . . We (as a party) need to be careful about running a campaign based too much on the controversial comments of an Obama associate while neglecting Obama’s actual policies and positions. Obama (and Clinton, for that matter) offers us a heap of liberal politics to legitimately criticize, from out-of-touch social positions to questionable foreign policy statements to a clear lack of understanding of economic issues. While the Wright controversy is a perfectly valid campaign issue, and we should never let the voting public forget about such things, we should also remember that comments by political associates and comments by the actual candidates are not mutually exclusive for the purposes of political campaigning.
May 3rd, 2008 at 6:37 am
Agreed #7. And supposedly Rev Wright is also associated with HRC after the Monica affair but I haven’t seen the media pick up on that. I read that on a pretty liberal website, wonder if anyone can confirm it?
May 3rd, 2008 at 3:02 pm
The tax-holiday is pure political pandering. If it’s such a good idea, why not just do it permanently?
May 4th, 2008 at 4:38 pm
Agreed that the tax holiday is a dumb idea. How about we ask how patriotic the oil companies are and ask them to voluntarily reduce their prices at the pump by a certain amount for a certain length of time. Now that would be interesting to see which companies would and which companies would not.
Forcing someone to do something rarely works for very long. Asking someone to do something for a cause they believe in might or might not work. Either way, what have you lost?