Thursday, April 10, 2008

Speaking of Polls

Here's another poll talked about on CNN. It suggests that a McCain-Rice ticket would beat a ticket with both Obama and Clinton in New York, a mostly Democratic state. Of course, this doesn't really mean much, since Rice isn't going to run for VP. Also the percentage difference in the polls were so small that it probably wasn't accurate. But it goes to show, like Derek said, without party unity in the Democrats, a Republican might be in office for four more years. You can draw your own conclusions from these two polls.

5 comments:

benji said...

http://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=MaP9eiWuX3s

Anonymous said...

I think the democratic party is at a disadvantage right now because as the battle between Obama and Clinton intensifies, the Democratic party is becoming more polarized. Once the democratic nomination is finally secured, the Democratic nominee will have a lot of unifying to do. However, I think McCain also has some party unifying to do too. He has to moderate his stance to appeal to super conservatives and moderates within the Republican party. However, he has an advantage because he has already secured his party's nomination and can now focus on unifying the party, fundraising, and preparing for the elections in november

natalie g said...

I agree. I think that Obama and Clinton criticize each other so much that they're only ruining the Democratic party's chances at winning the election. If they continue to turn democrats against the opposing candidate, I don't think there will be enough votes to overcome the Republican candidate.

Derek Lee said...

I personally believe that the nation as a whole would be more willing to vote Obama as President rather than Clinton. If she grabs the Democratic nominee than McCain will have a much better chance at becoming the president. If Obama gets it, on the other hand, I think that the Democratic party will have a much chance at seeing their candidate in the oval office.

Ryan Landis said...

Really interesting side note, earlier this year in statistics class we talked about a poll and how they said one candidate was winning, but really it was to close to call. I love reading results that are so close, they should not even give a result because it is extremely misleading.