Sondagens Nacionais – 15/07/2008

Race	Poll	Results	Spread
General Election:   McCain vs. Obama	Rasmussen Tracking	Obama 47,   McCain 45	Obama +2.0

General Election:   McCain vs. Obama	Quinnipiac	Obama 50,   McCain 41	Obama +9.0
McCain:   Favorable/Unfavorable	Quinnipiac	Favorable 50,   Unfavorable 31	Favorable +19.0
Obama:   Favorable/Unfavorable	Quinnipiac	Favorable 55,   Unfavorable 29	Favorable +26.0

McCain a fazer a campanha de Hillary?

“That Clinton and McCain would run similar races might seem odd. Their ideological differences are severe, and no one sane would ever call Clinton a maverick or McCain a feminist. But it’s also true that they share a view of politics and policy. They venerate the Senate as a noble institution, not as the imagination-deadening, soul-destroying hellhole that it is. They regard legislative experience, forging compromises in the trenches, as formative and indispensable. They see having national-security chops as a sine qua non for sitting in the Oval Office.

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And here we arrive at a second set of views held in common by McCain and Clinton: their views about Obama. How closely in sync are the two of them when it comes to the hopemonger? The other day I suggested a sort of thought experiment to someone close to McCain for years: If Hillary wrote down on paper all the things she thought about Obama and handed the paper to McCain and asked him to check the ones he agreed with, what percentage would be marked? “Oh, 90 percent, at least,” this person said.

The opinions of both of them, not surprisingly, would be skeptical, harsh, dismissive: that Obama is a lightweight, that he’s a line-cutter, that he’s arrogant, elitist, all talk no action. And that perspective is evident in the campaign that McCain and the Republicans more broadly are running against Obama. In tone and substance, once again, the similarities to the broadsides that Clinton and her people launched against him are striking. More than one GOP e-mail in recent weeks has taunted him with the phrase “Just words.”

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The question for Obama is whether he can persuade the public that he is who he says he is, not the alien that the Republicans will try to portray him as. It won’t be a simple task. But making it just a little bit easier will be the fact that he’s running against a man who seems intent on cross-dressing as the former First Lady.”

Por John Heilemann na New York Magazine.

McCain em La Raza

Aqui realcemos as suas palavras sobre imigração que são, notoriamente, diferentes daquelas que proferia aquando da campanha pela nomeação republicana.

Obama em La Raza