RISE HILLARY RISE; Hillary ties O. in Gallop and beats McCain +3: RAS; C&H playing tag.

[rodeodance]

**edited again for update from BHO fan on this thread.
thanks.


Forum Name General Discussion: Primaries
Topic subject RAS. 4/27/08-Obama up 1 (48), Clinton down 1 (42)
Topic URL http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x5705358#5705526
5705526, RAS. 4/27/08-Obama up 1 (48), Clinton down 1 (42)
Posted by jenmito on Sun Apr-27-08 11:30 AM

http://rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/election_20082/2008_presidential_election/daily_democratic_presidential_primary_tracking_polling_history


Edited to add:

Rasmussen daily graph for 4/26/08 - Obama down 2 (47), Clinton up 1 (43)










Gallup: http://www.gallup.com







RISE HILLARY RISE; Hillary ties Obama in Gallop and beats McCain +3

As maya would say: Rise Hillary Rise


Gallup Daily: Clinton and Obama Tied at 47%

sat, april 26



These results, based on April 23-25 polling, are the first in which all interviews were conducted after Clinton's Tuesday Pennsylvania primary win, so it is clear that her victory there helped to erase Obama's lead. Obama led the race for much of April, while Clinton has not held a statistically significant lead since mid-March, and then only briefly. (To view the complete trend since Jan. 3, 2008, click here). The question now becomes whether Clinton can keep the momentum going to regain a lead over Obama heading into the May 6 primaries.

Clinton has also established a slight advantage over John McCain in general election preferences among national registered voters. The latest results, based on April 21-25 polling, shows Clinton at 47% and McCain at 44%.

http://www.gallup.com/poll/106825/Gallup-Daily-Clinton-Obama-Tied-47.aspx


…….Friday’s Gallop Analysis:

Gallup Daily: Obama and Clinton Tied at 48% to 47%

Fri Apr-25-08 04:28 PM

PRINCETON, NJ -- The Democratic nomination race is now tied, with Barack Obama favored by 48% of national Democratic voters and Hillary Clinton by 47%

The latest results, based on Gallup Poll Daily tracking from April 22-24, include two days of interviews conducted entirely after Tuesday's Pennsylvania Democratic primary. Support for Clinton is significantly higher in these post-primary interviews than it was just prior to her Pennsylvania victory, clearly suggesting that Clinton's win there is the catalyst for her increased national support.

Obama's lead dwindled steadily all week, falling from a high of 10 percentage points in interviewing conducted in the three days just prior to the Pennsylvania primary. However, the percentage of Democrats supporting Obama has changed little (declining from 50% in April 19-21 polling to 48% today). Most of Clinton's increased support (from 40% to 47%) has come from previously undecided voters. (To view the complete trend since Jan. 3, 2008, click here.)

Both Clinton and Obama have experienced surges in support for their candidacies at various times since the start of the primary season -- several of them linked with primary wins and other high profile events -- only to see the race revert back to a near tie position. The last time Clinton moved into a significant lead over Obama was over a month ago, in mid-March, and that was only briefly. It remains to be seen whether Clinton will pull ahead of Obama in the next few days, or if she is able to sustain her current competitive positioning through and beyond the next round of primaries on May 6.

Clinton fares slightly better than Obama against John McCain in hypothetical matchups for the November election. Although both races are too close to call given the poll's margin of error, Clinton is running two points ahead of McCain, 47% to 45%, while Obama is running one point behind, 45% to 46%. -- Lydia Saad

http://www.gallup.com/poll/106822/Gallup-Daily-Obama-Clinton-Tied-48-47.aspx

[goldcanyonaz]

1. Obama can not seem to close the deal. GO HILLARY!!

[rodeodance]

9. People are having doubts.

[Joe the Revelator]

21. No they aren't, she won states that she was always going to win...and lost a lot of support while

doing it.

[rodeodance]

70. Puff--goes Obama polls last several days

[PseudoIntellect]

95. Show me a recent streak of 3+ weeks where Hillary is comfortably ahead

and you'll have something.

[datopbanana]

98. lol seriously. about once every two weeks HRC gets a bump in the polls then loses it

[rodeodance]

103. its obama who has been losing the pts--and PA.

[datopbanana]

104. rodeo, your pick? the guy up most of the time or the guy down most of the time but tied evry so oftn

[datopbanana]

105. oh and just looking at the graph

WHO blew a huge lead in Jan. Who couldn't close in Jan? OK

[Nedsdag]

97. Neither can Hillary. GO OBAMA!

[marylanddem]

2. I don't get this cheerleading stuff

"rise Hillary rise" - she's not a fucking victim of some kind...

[goldcanyonaz]

Ummm, It is a poem by Maya Angelo that she wrote for Hillary.

[marylanddem]

12. It's a bad poem

and I am sick and tired of people acting as if Hillary was some kind of icon for women
because her freaking husband cheated on her.

[goldcanyonaz]

14. She is a hero to me and many other women.

Go piss somewhere else.

[marylanddem]

17. WHY is she a hero to you? What the hell has she done?

[JoFerret]

99. Just stop already

(And Obama has done so much for all of us.)

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

81. I admire how she let Bill use her as a doormat

she was so nice to put up with all of his womanizing.

Patriotic.

[goldcanyonaz]

83. As patriotic as this?

[rodeodance]

84. The RW did a smear job on them regarding their marriage--Now you act just like the RW.

[JoFerret]

100. Some members of DU take their cues , style, names, and views

straight from free republic.

[rodeodance]

102. I think they visite RW websites and steal materials and apply the crap to Hillary

[JoFerret]

101. Don't judge another. Don't judge another marriage/ partnership

Don't allow the r/w smear machine to distort your thinking.

Why do you even "know" about that stuff?
Think about it.

[rodeodance]

15. You sound just like the RW--nosing into people's private lives.

[JackORoses]

71. actually , Maya didn't write it for Hillary. The poem is decades old.

[rodeodance]

73. WRONG--be sure to read all of this.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jan/20/usa.poetry


Maya Angelou's poem in praise of Hillary

* Vanessa Thorpe, arts and media correspondent
* The Observer,
* Sunday January 20 2008

About this article
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This article appeared in the Observer on Sunday January 20 2008 on p3 of the News section. It was last updated at 01:49 on January 20 2008.

Maya Angelou, the African-American poet who is one of the most influential and respected literary voices of the modern age, has written a poem praising Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign for The Observer.

Angelou, author of an autobiographical series of books, including the international bestseller I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, was moved to send the verse after being asked by the newspaper for her reflections on Clinton.

She is supporting Clinton despite her close friendship with television personality and philanthropist Oprah Winfrey, a prominent backer of rival Democrat Barack Obama, the first black presidential hopeful with a real chance of reaching the White House.

Angelou is steadfast in her loyalty to Clinton. She said recently: 'I made up my mind 15 years ago that if she ever ran for office I'd be on her wagon. My only difficulty with Senator Obama is that I believe in going out with who I went in with.'

The 79-year-old poet was the centrepiece of Bill Clinton's inauguration in 1993 when she read her poem On the Pulse of Morning, playing on the idea of a new political dawn. Last week she handed this new poem over to the Clinton campaign.

Angelou says that she has had many long telephone conversations with Winfrey on the subject of Obama versus Clinton. 'She thinks he's the best, and I think my woman is the best,' she has explained. 'Oprah is a daughter to me, but she is not my clone.'

Angelou was recently voted one of the 10 most admired women in America, in a poll topped by Hillary Clinton. The very public marital problems suffered by the Clintons during their time at the White House seem to have reinforced Angelou's admiration for Hillary.

'When he had his brush with Ms Lewinsky, the whole world was looking under Mrs Clinton's bedclothes. Many people expected her to fall or to become as hard as a rock,' she has said. 'She did neither. I love that about her. She didn't pretend she wasn't hurt and she didn't become a virago.'

Andrew Motion, the Poet Laureate, said of the poem: 'This is a great thing for The Observer to have.' He favourably compared it with the 'vivid flourishes' of Angelou's recent work. 'With this kind of poem Angelou has decided to interpret public writing as a verbal equivalent of making a poster, and there's nothing wrong with this. The rhetoric is full of big gestures that make a direct appeal to our feelings, rather than getting to it by the little winding ways more personal poetry might use.'

Motion said the lines raise questions about whether 'poster-style' poems can live long beyond the moment. 'Maybe Angelou doesn't mean them to. On their own terms they have the vivacity and strength and colours you would expect of posters. But they have a sort of best-before date, or rather a best-on date, stamped on them.'

It is not known how long Angelou spent writing the poem, but in the weeks leading up to President Bill Clinton's first inauguration she is said to have begun work at 5.30 every morning, equipped with a glass of sherry, a dictionary, Roget's Thesaurus and the Bible.

Angelou was born Marguerite Johnson in 1928 in St Louis, Missouri, and lived with her mother until she was raped by her mother's boyfriend. In England she became famous in the early Seventies with the first of her volumes of autobiography.

During her extraordinary life she has worked as a prostitute, a professor, a Creole cook, an aide to Martin Luther King, a singer, an actress, a dancer, the editor of an Egyptian newspaper and a single mother, as well as producing poetry and plays.

In recent years she has controversially even written lines to be printed inside greetings cards. 'Life is a glorious banquet, a limitless and delicious buffet,' reads one of her Hallmark epigrams.

[JackORoses]

89. WRONG! Sorry to burst your Bubble, It was a rewrite, not an original

http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15623

From And Still I Rise by Maya Angelou. Copyright © 1978 by Maya Angelou. Reprinted by permission of Random House, Inc. For online information about other Random House, Inc. books and authors, visit the website at www.randomhouse.com.

[rodeodance]

90. No one-deny's that. In fact the article I posted to you cited that fact. You could

have saved yourself some trouble by reading it.

[JackORoses]

93. That's the whole point. Hillary didn't inspire the poem.

It was just adjusted to apply to her.

In fact, Hillary has trouble inspiring anything other than derision.

[rodeodance]

94. Puff to you. I will no longer respond to your demeaning comments about Maya. bye

........That's the whole point. Hillary didn't inspire the poem.
Posted by JackORoses


It was just adjusted to apply to her.

In fact, Hillary has trouble inspiring anything other than derision.

[rodeodance]

74. Maya Angelou's poem in praise of Hillary=--January, 2008 "this new poem over to the Clinton campaign

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jan/20/usa.poetry


Maya Angelou's poem in praise of Hillary

* Vanessa Thorpe, arts and media correspondent
* The Observer,
* Sunday January 20 2008

About this article
Close
This article appeared in the Observer on Sunday January 20 2008 on p3 of the News section. It was last updated at 01:49 on January 20 2008.

Maya Angelou, the African-American poet who is one of the most influential and respected literary voices of the modern age, has written a poem praising Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign for The Observer.

Angelou, author of an autobiographical series of books, including the international bestseller I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, was moved to send the verse after being asked by the newspaper for her reflections on Clinton.

She is supporting Clinton despite her close friendship with television personality and philanthropist Oprah Winfrey, a prominent backer of rival Democrat Barack Obama, the first black presidential hopeful with a real chance of reaching the White House.

........'

The 79-year-old poet was the centrepiece of Bill Clinton's inauguration in 1993 when she read her poem On the Pulse of Morning, playing on the idea of a new political dawn. Last week she handed this new poem over to the Clinton campaign.

Angelou says that she has had many long telephone conversations with Winfrey on the subject of Obama versus Clinton. 'She thinks he's the best, and I think my woman is the best,' she has explained. 'Oprah is a daughter to me, but she is not my clone.'

.......

[rodeodance]

13. I am happy to cheerlead for my candidate-as I am sure you are for yours

[GarbagemanLB]

3. and in RAS she is 6 down...

[rodeodance]

22. RAS: 4/26/08 - Obama down 2 (47), Clinton up 1 (43)

Rasmussen daily graph for 4/26/08 - Obama down 2 (47), Clinton up 1 (43)







Gallup: http://www.gallup.com

These Rasmussen graphs are all contained on one Web page at http://www.dvorkin.com/rastrack.html

[jenmito]

33. RAS. 4/27/08-Obama up 1 (48), Clinton down 1 (42)

http://rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/election_20082/2008_presidential_election/daily_democratic_presidential_primary_tracking_polling_history

[rodeodance]

thanks---I see they are playing tag.

[jenmito]

49. My pleasure.

[rodeodance]

65. I edited the OP to include.

[jenmito]

86. Thanks.

[MercutioATC]

4. Does anybody else ger the visual of a Voodoo priestess raising a zombie from the dead

when they see "Rise, Hillary, Rise"?

[marylanddem]

5. Now I will - Thanks!

[VolcanoJen]

6. I think of souffle, actually.

A failed souffle, that is.

:-)

[rodeodance]

32. ha ha. YOU are ones stomping on her grave for months. Suck on that

[MercutioATC]

61. You've been making less and less sense lately...

seek help.

[rodeodance]

I do not need lectures from pop psychologists wanna-beZZZZZZZz.

"seek help"

[SwampG8r]

72. lol

every time i hear a hillary supporter say "suck on that"
i think of monica the humidor

[rodeodance]

79. That's what happens to those who are OBSESSED with Bill Clinton's penis.

.......i think of monica the humidor

[Captain Hilts]

7. Either Obama or Clinton will beat the crap outta McCain in November. nt

[Milo_Bloom]

8. She has no path to nomination.

[goldcanyonaz]

10. Nor does Obama. Has he reached 2024 yet?

[Joe the Revelator]

18. To say that Obama has no path to the nomination proves how complete out of touch with reality

you guys are.

[goldcanyonaz]

23. OMG! Has he reached 2024 yet? NO!!

[Joe the Revelator]

34. Does Hillay have any REAL chance of reaching 2024? NO! Is she killing the party? YES!

[rodeodance]

68. oh that magic number is so hard for you. te he

[Milo_Bloom]

96. Actually it is kinda easy.

Obama can LOSE all the remaining contests by 10 points

AND get LESS than 40% of the remaining Superdelegates and he will be over 2024


So... how does Clinton get there?

[Milo_Bloom]

50. Sure he does.

Obama could lose every remaining contest by 10 points and still get the nomination by only getting 38% of the remaining super delegates. That is a very easy path.


Clinton on the other hand if she got 10 point victories in every remaining contest, she would need nearly 70% of the remaining Super Delegates (which is impossible since many of them have pledged their support to the one who captures the most pledged delegates, which Obama will have done even with 10 point victories for Clinton)



Even with 20 point victories in every remaining remaining contests she would STILL need over 60% of the remaining SD's (a number she has never been able to achieve even as the presumptive nominee in January) (Hitting 60% is also is impossible since many of them have pledged their support to the one who captures the most pledged delegates, which Obama will have done even with 20 point victories for Clinton)

[Joe the Revelator]

11. You're a day late and a dollar short Rodeoclown.

Also, go ahead and alert me again. Apparently you can't take the heat.

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[Evergreen Emerald]

27. so?

Knock if off! Be an adult.

[Joe the Revelator]

31. You're turn, be an adult, unite the party, and give up on your lost cause.

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[Joe the Revelator]

41. You've surrounded yourself with those kind of people and support a candidate who's entire strategy

is based on anger, lies, and distortions.

Don't tell me you don't support that kind of stuff.

[Evergreen Emerald]

47. You are misinformed with the mob mentality that makes it

impossible to have a democratic discussion of issues with you.

[Joe the Revelator]

58. I don't even know what this statement means....

[Evergreen Emerald]

59. and that would be another reason...

[Joe the Revelator]

60. Yes, your inability to form english sentences does make it hard for us to communicate

I'm glad we can agree on something.

[Evergreen Emerald]

63. LOL thats the ticket!

When you cannot comprehend simple sentences, attack!!!

[Joe the Revelator]

67. Seriously, your sentence makes no sense

read it again.

[rodeodance]

64. Thank

you for your support on this.

[Evergreen Emerald]

69. No problem

we are the same person after all! :)

[rodeodance]

51. Your posts are IMMATURE --NAME-CALLING.

[Name removed]

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[rodeodance]

44. this was the lastest on the gallop web page at the time of my post.

[Maribelle]

19. Personal attacks are against the rules of DU.

[Joe the Revelator]

26. Time to grow up, kid.

[Maribelle]

37. The up that needs to be grown appears to be elusive to you.

[Joe the Revelator]

45. you tried so hard to make that sentence interesting...

What was that you said about personal attack?

[Maribelle]

55. Indicating a concept appears elusive is not a personal attack.

[rodeodance]

62. the .....

mods are saying it is time for you to follow the rules.



Good for the mods.

[goldcanyonaz]

20. Obama can not close the deal. Why is that?

[Buzz Clik]

24. Hillary cannot close the gap. Why is that?

[Joe the Revelator]

29. Hillary squandered the entire nomination, why is that ??

[rodeodance]

76. Hillary is on the rise in the polls. Deal with that instead of name-calling.

[SoxFan]

28. Rise, my friend...

[rodeodance]

77. Please do not Maya's poem with ugly posts. It is not becomming at all.

[Maribelle]

30. 'Hillary Clinton will not give up on you'

Thanks for the good news, and for quoting Hillary's dear friend and staunch supporter Dr. Maya Angelou. I love them both!

[marylanddem]

38. A meaningless statement, hair-brained.

[Maribelle]

42. Nothing from Dr. Maya Angelou is meaningless.

Please do try to keep up.

[rodeodance]

78. Obviously you have problems understanding poems.

[Raffi Ella]

36. Hallelujah!

because of HIS OWN bad judgment and HIS OWN problems that have been exposed America is finally waking up.

Thanks for the post rodeo :patriot:

[slick8790]

39. Cultist. n/t

[SoxFan]

80. Poetry? That sounds elitist and upscale!

Time for another beer and a shot to balance it out.

[okasha]

40. For months, Obama has had the advantage

of being the bright, shiny new thing. While there's no question that Obama's benefitted from our media-driven short-attention-span culture, the down side of that is that when the attention span plays out, interest shifts. Now the novelty has begun to wear off him, voters are having second thoughts--some are having buyer's remorse--and the electorate is looking more to experience and competence.

[Joe the Revelator]

43. There is no "buyers remosre" . She won a state that she was ALWAYS going to win, by smalled margins

then even she expected.

[okasha]

46. Maybe you should peep in a few more windows.

You might lean something about how people think outside the overheated BamBam culture on DU.

[Joe the Revelator]

53. so why not just say that you can't rebute my statement? WHen was Obama EVER expected to win PA?

When was it not Hillary's to lose? Did she or did she not blow a 20+ point lead?

And you reference the Hillary-supporters only message board and want to lecture me about living in a bubble? Quit joking.

[okasha]

66. What's "rebute?"

I wasn't referring to Pennsylvania. But as long as we're on the subject, perhaps you don't remember that there several polls that showed Obama and Hillary tied in that state as well as several threads here celebrating his upcoming victory there. Then Hillary opened it up and blew him away.

"And you reference the Hillary-supporters only message board and want to lecture me about living in a bubble? Quit joking."

No, you poor computer-fixated child. I'm talking about the real world.

[rodeodance]

75. great one. --it will learn if it is man enough to take its head of of the sand

[Maribelle]

52. Obama lost Pennsylvania. It was a huge loss for a few reasons. Period.

How much he lost by, and why he lost are pure speculation now.

What is notspecultion, however, is the fact that all the millions he spent attempting to thwart Hillary in that state did not work - - Obama was not able to buy a win there.

[Joe the Revelator]

56. You're kidding yourself. When was:

Obama ever expected to win PA?

When did he ever have a lead outside of the MOE?

What about PA's demographics favored Obama over Hillary?

How did she blow a 20 + point lead?

[rodeodance]

88. ha ha--your $$ down his toilet in PA

[goldcanyonaz]

48. And Oprah, one can not forget her helping him in all the early states.

[rodeodance]

92. her presence has faded while Maya re-affirms her support of Hillary.

[Arkansas Granny]

54. The Gallup poll shows Obama -3 and Hillary +7 since 4/20/08.

Looks like she has some momentum. I hope she can keep this up.

[rodeodance]

85. yes, it is steady rise which is good to see.

[chitty]

82. What is she?

Bread dough?

[rodeodance]

87. another immature obama fan chirping in with insults.

[PBS Poll-435]

91. That is sick on many different levels.

Way to represent your candidate!