New Iowa Poll - O 55% - M 39 %. - excellent use of time and resources by McCain camp - heh

[Pirate Smile]

NEW KCCI Poll: Clear Presidential Frontrunner Emerges

DES MOINES, Iowa -- An exclusive KCCI poll shows Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama widening his lead here in Iowa.

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The latest KCCI poll shows that if the election were held today, 55 percent of those surveyed would vote for Obama, 39 percent for McCain. The poll has a magin of error of 4 percent.

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Compared to KCCI's last poll on the race in April, the gap has doubled, when Obama had an 8-point lead over McCain.
"This is a pretty good lead at this point for Obama," said Dennis Goldford, KCCI political analyst.

Goldford said the poll shows that Obama is taking what were traditionally Republican votes.
"Women are more likely to vote for the Democrats. Men more likely to vote for the Republican. In this poll at least it shows, Obama is well ahead, all most two to one among women but Obama is slightly ahead of McCain even among men and that is a striking finding," said Goldford.

KCCI also asked those surveyed how they felt about each of the candidate's qualifications to be president. Some 65 percent said Barack Obama was qualified and 63 percent said McCain is qualified.

http://www.kcci.com/politics/17598982/detail.html

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[DuaneBidoux]

1. Has Obama pulled out of Iowa yet?

[mucifer]

2. Illinois volunteers will be going there until election day.People go on the weekends.

Illinois people are also going to Wisconsin and Indiana.

It would be silly for us to canvass in Chicago or other parts of IL.

[ClarkUSA]

6. Team Obama in Iowa is almost completely local grassroots.

They are an incredible bunch of dedicated folks who've been working hard for over a year doing neighbor-to-neighbor contact.

[patrick t. cakes]

4. nope still has an office

downtown. still working

[book_worm]

3. but...but some McCain lackey said today that Iowa was very winnable for McCain.

[CalGator]

25. by that standard, so is the election

:rofl:

[Condem]

5. Thanks, Pirate

You in Des Moines?

[Pirate Smile]

8. Cedar Rapids

[Condem]

12. Well, for fucks sake.

I work there. Live in Iowa City. You survive the summer, OK?

[Pirate Smile]

13. I'm fine. We aren't anywhere near the flooding (NE side).

I love Iowa City - went to undergrad there.

Have you already voted? I voted yesterday. They moved all the city/county offices into Westdale Mall - very convenient voting location, plus, it is mostly vacant anyway.

[Condem]

14. No. I'll wait for the big day.

Gauge the lines. Happy that you were high and dry. I have ran into so many who weren't so lucky. Just a bitch. I understate that, Pirate.

[LooseWilly]

7. And there was the grouch element in that speaking bit in Iowa the other day.

I think it was Olbermann showing bits... it was amusing to see that the crowd just needed to call him on some crap, and suddenly he goes from "great town hall speaker" to a grouchy old asshole dismissing anyone who isn't willing to just accept whatever he's telling them.

I doubt many people in that library are liable to be voting for him... unless they like surly assholes who take it personally when you don't acknowledge that Obama had to be referring to Palin with the lipstick on a pig bit...

[FVZA_Colonel]

9. Let's turn it into a money-sink for McCain.

Just keep making him waste precious dollars.

[Thrill]

10. He made it worst than this when he visited yesterday

[justiceischeap]

Mike Duhane: McPalin Political Director on MSNBC 2day "Iowa in play for McPalin."

That's right, he told Norah O. that Iowa was in play, that their internals showed the race was closer and that was why McPalin was in Iowa.

[elkston]

11. Iowa is the epicenter of the Obama movement.

If we win (which SHOULD happen), it wouldn't surprise me if he gives his victory speech there.

[Faygo Kid]

15. Agreed. Iowa deserves all the props for making it happen.

Iowa's proudest moment will be Obama's election.

It's no battleground.

[Condem]

16. faygo.

It's been a couple of weeks. We come to visit you this Saturday. You SHOULD blow us out. I look at our schedule and we may not win another game. I guess we aren't going against the old Michigan State of John L. Smith, are we?

[Drunken Irishman]

17. WTH is wrong with Kirk Ferentz?

This guy was the hottest coaching prospect after the 2004 season and now he's barely hanging on. How can he take a team that dominated from 2002-2004 and turn them into this?

Pathetic!

[Condem]

18. Ah, Drunken, a sore subject around here.

I love THE man. Had the chance to sandbag with him this past summer. The salt of the earth. His problem is, he is loyal to a fault. Needs to get rid of both coordinators. But that's pulling teeth. Anyhoo. the tailgates are still top notch!!!

[Drunken Irishman]

19. Sounds like Ron McBride at Utah.

He built Utah football and then became too loyal to his offensive coordinators and too tied to his past offensive philosophy. Because of it, Utah football stagnated and while he made a change in 2000 (Utah went 4-7) and they bounced back (8-4 in 2001, including a win over Carroll's USC Trojans), it didn't last and he was fired after a 5-6 season in 2002. Enter Urban Meyer, who brought an exciting offense and the Utes go 22-2 under his watch.

Since 2003, Utah is 51-16 (.761).

[Condem]

20. The problem, Drunken, is we just love the man.

Pure class! So, the rope is a little longer.

[Drunken Irishman]

23. No doubt.

We loved McBride, too. He took a Utah team that had won like 70 games in 20 years and had them in a bowl game by his third season.

No one wanted to see him go, but the Utes just hit a wall. I remember when he was fired, there was outrage and a lot of people saying Utah football would never see another coach as good as he was.

Well they were wrong. I love McBride, but the program needed new blood.

[Condem]

28. Drunken

Ferentz is a proven winner. I think the best is still ahead.

[Drunken Irishman]

30. Well good luck!

I don't know how many more 7-6 seasons Iowa can take before they fire him.

[Condem]

31. They'll fire the AD first, Drunken

The bottom line, though, is Kirk is going to have to make some changes. Thanks,Drunken!!! ND fan??

[Drunken Irishman]

32. I grew up an Irish fan, yes.

In my house the four deities were God, The Pope, Notre Dame football and the Kennedy's.

I'm more of a Ute fan, though. But the Utes do play at South Bend in 2010 and I'm gonna try like hell to make it!

[Condem]

33. My father was a huge ND fan, Drunken

Irish as hell. The last time I saw him, we almost came to blows. I called them the MOST overrated school in history. That day, they lost to BC for the umpteenth time. Never had the chance to take it back.

[Drunken Irishman]

34. My uncle graduated from Notre Dame.

I'm not as avid of a fan as I was growing up, but I tend to get pissed when they lose.

Unlike most in my family, though, I don't like Charlie Weis and I think the program has sucked ever since Holtz left.

[Condem]

35. Nah, Drunken, I still root for them to lose.

Hey, Pirate. Sorry for hijacking your thread.

[Drunken Irishman]

36. I'll never root against the Irish.

Unless it somehow impacts Utah.

[Faygo Kid]

21. We owe you for last year. It's payback time.

Don't care about blowing you out. Just the W.

John L. Smith is gone. Coach Dantonio is doing it the right way. Good luck the rest of the way, Iowa, but State is a new team. The attitude is, one at a time.

Except for that game coming up against the Arrogant Asses. We owe you guys, and we should win, and no offense against Iowa.

But those Michigan guys . . . Nuke 'em.

[Condem]

22. 31-10, faygo

We're a program in trouble.

[Faygo Kid]

24. Nah. You have some good athletes, and you're Iowa.

I believe State will win, but I predict here and now you are going to gain a monumental upset yet this year.

Wisconsin Oct. 18, or Penn State in November.

Not this weekend, though.

[Condem]

29. A good shot against Wisconsin, faygo.

We match up well. Too many skilled positions at PSU, though. Hope you crack the Top 25!

[Thegonagle]

26. They're smarter down there than most Minnesotans give them credit for.

Kudos!

[Imagevision]

27. Currently - Ohio - Florida - penn. are in Obama's column nt/

[Blue Gardener]

37. McLame has had a bad week in Iowa

Pissed off the farmers when he said he wanted to end ethanol subsidies during the debate, then was a petulant smartass during the Des Moines Register interview this week. What a dumbass.