Massachusetts: Obama up by 16-points in new poll

[book_worm]

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/election_20082/state_toplines/massachusetts/toplines_massachusetts_presidential_election_august_5_2008

Obama: 54%
McCain: 38%

[jkshaw]

1. Good news!

[Whisp]

2. is that one of those states that don't count?

:sarcasm:

forgot the sarc.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

4. No, it's one that does.

But it's one that Obama can't possibly win.

[polmaven]

16. There ya go!

OP - "Obama up by 16 points"

Post # 4 - Yay...lets bash Hillary!

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

18. Who said anything about Hillary?

I was satirizing anti-Obama nutjobs.

:shrug:

[polmaven]

19. I'm really not that stupid!

grow up!

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

22. Can you go ahead and prove that for me?

Thanks.

[polmaven]

28. I am really not at all sure

anyone can prove anything to you.

You are well aware of the posts and threads that go on here every day. That remark is simply a continuation of the post about the ABC News/Time Magazine gossip mongering.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

29. I don't mean that.

I mean prove that you're not really that stupid.

[sniffa]

20. STOP BASHING H1LLARY!!!!!11!1!!1!1!!!

[book_worm]

7. new polls out today have Obama up big in NY, NJ, and MA states that

some said during the primaries he couldn't win because the blue states voted for somebody else in the primaries.

[Whisp]

9. good info thankyou! CaliF is overwhelmingly Obama as well I hear.

yes, I remember that someone saying that those states would turn red if she wasn't the nominee.

:rofl:

[sniffa]

3. Thank god! I was getting worried.

Maybe the local Barack Obama group can focus on NH instead of the multiple canvassing in Boston outings.

[BeyondGeography]

5. And he's doing it without MADem and Durrrrty Libbby

[sniffa]

21. ...

:rofl:

[debbierlus]

6. Should be higher - the Eastern Part of the state has too many repukes

But, us true blues in Western MA will give it to Obama in a safe majority.

[book_worm]

8. It's okay. McCain isn't going to go much higher than 38% and so Obama will win by as much as Kerry

did.

[AllieB]

10. They're in their death throes. They can't even produce viable candidates

in red areas of MA!

[Mass]

15. I'd be curious to see internals from the Rassmussen poll. The Suffolk poll

that was published yesterday find Western Mass/Worcester as the only area favoring McCain over Obama. I have doubt about the validity of this poll as the subgroups are way too small to be significative, but I'd be curious to see results from previous elections.

http://www.suffolk.edu/files/SUPRC/august_6_2008_edited_tables_7news.pdf (see p 32).

[sniffa]

23. I wish we could cede Longmeadow to the western part of the state

x(

[Mass]

24. Since when does Longmeadow not belong to Western Massachusetts?

[sniffa]

25. It doesn't

That was the point.

[Mass]

26. Well this comes as a surprise to me, and probably to my MIL who has lived there for 60 years?

And apparently to Wikipedia as well.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longmeadow,_Massachusetts

[sniffa]

27. Ok. You apparently misunderstood

I was responding to, "since when does Longmeadow not belong to Western Ma."

It doesn't not belong to Western Ma.

And that was the point. The most reliable Republican area of MA can be argued to be that area (based on state representation in the state house).

Don't use no double negatives.

[Mass]

30. Is your point that Longmeadow is Republican or that it does not belong to Western MA?

You make no sense to me.

[sniffa]

31. That it's Republican, and that it's not part of the Eastern portion of the state

as the person I was responding to implied that the Repukes are from the east coast.

I hope that makes enough sense. If not, I'll try again (and this time without double negatives).

[Mass]

32. Ok. I get it now. Thanks for your patience.

[sniffa]

34. Whoops. Post number 33 was meant for you and not myself

[sniffa]

33. No problem

I understand the initial part of the subthread causing confusion, and I apologize for not being able to straighten it out until now.

[Hope And Change]

11. K & R!Thanks for posting!

[AllieB]

12. I'm surprised the lead isn't bigger.

My state is pretty Blue, despite a loud and whiney Red contingent.

[NewJeffCT]

17. I know, I'm surprised it's not bigger as well

I figured Obama would be up 20-25 because he was up 21 in CT.

[ObamaIL]

13. Cool I thought I just saw one that said up by 9 and that had me a little worried

I think he'll win by over 20, but 16 sounds in the neighborhood.

[truthisfreedom]

14. Those double-digit leads have got the mclame camp in a tizzy, trying to come up with ever nastier

ways to attack Obama.

[beachmom]

35. Kerry is looking good, too. Kerry 56, Beatty 29.

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/election_20082/2008_senate_elections/massachusetts/election_2008_massachusetts_senate