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Sun Aug 03, 2008 at 23:43:02 PM EDT
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| Guys this is an action item. Given the stagnant polls and BHO's inability to close the deal, I think it's time for the polling outfits out there to start including Hillary in some of their models. Please contact the following polling groups to request that they include HRC in their Presidential polling. Here's a sample letter - send them an email and ask them to get to the real story in this election.
Dear Pollster X
In light of the recent findings, (Obama is about tied and slipping in a year when more Americans, over 60%, want a Democratic president), and there is currently NO certified nominee, I think the pulse of the American people should be taken again. Hillary was ahead when the last polls like this were done soon after she suspended her campaign.
And contact information for the big pollsters out there...
Pollsters Rasmussen Reports, LLC
Phone: 732-776-9777
Email: info@rasmussenreports.com
Quinnipiac University
CONTACT THE POLLING INSTITUTE
275 Mount Carmel Ave.
Hamden, CT 06518-1908
203-582-5201
pollinginstitute@quinnipiac.edu
Gallup
Sarah Van Allen
Phone: +1-877-242-5587
or +1-202-715-3030
Fax: +1-202-715-3045
901 F Street, NW
Washington, D.C. 20004
email: sarah_van_allen@gallup.com
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| Alegre :: ACTION: Ask Pollsters to Include Hillary Again |
| The Financial Times ran an article on Friday that asks the question that's on a lot of our minds these days - why can't BHO close the deal in a year when Dubbya's numbers are in the basement and our economy is hurting in more ways than we can list? Surely he could repeat Reagan's question - are you better off today than you were four years ago? - and people would rush to his side screaming NO! at the top of their lungs.
Well that's not happening folks and its making people within the party nervous.
Democrats anxious for Obama to widen lead
...a number of Democrats, including advisers to the Obama campaign, are worried that the Democratic party's overall electoral advantage this year has not yet translated into comfortable leads for Mr Obama. On Friday Gallup showed Mr Obama just one point ahead of John McCain - a significant tightening in the past two weeks.
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With just one month to go before Labour Day - the traditional beginning of the general election - and only three weeks before the Democratic convention, many Democrats fear that time is running out for Mr Obama to overcome the suspicions of this key swing vote.
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At this stage in the 1988 presidential race, Michael Dukakis, the Democratic candidate, had a 17 percentage point lead over George H.W. Bush, who went on to win the election. John Kerry emerged from the 2004 Democratic convention with a strong lead over George W. Bush only to lose the election as well. In 2008, conventional wisdom says Mr McCain is running a much less effective campaign than either of the Bushes.
That only reinforces disquiet about Mr Obama's inability so far to take a decisive lead. "Even on his worst day, Bill Clinton was able to signal that he understood voters' concerns and that he felt their pain," said Douglas Schoen, a Democratic consultant. "Obama has no trouble with the campaign stagecraft. But this isn't Harvard, it's the beer hall. He has to talk in language that people understand."
Hillary was way ahead in the polls right before she suspended her campaign. She's won the popular vote. Neither candidate has enough pledged delegates to win the nomination. It's time we get the full picture re electability and from what the polls from late May / early June were saying, Hillary's a much stronger candidate when polled in head-to-head match-ups against McCain in the states we Democrats MUST WIN in the general election.
It's time to take another look at those head-to-head match-ups - ask the pollsters to include Hillary in their next round of polls. |
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"Always aim high, work hard, and care deeply about what you believe in. When you stumble, keep faith. When you?re knocked down, get right back up. And NEVER listen to anyone who says you can't or shouldn't go on."
Hillary Clinton - June 7, 2008
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