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Re: Voters: McCain, Biden ready for presidency
Sixty-three percent (63%) of voters say John McCain is prepared right now to be president, and 50% say the same thing about Democratic vice presidential candidate Joseph Biden. Forty-four percent (44%) say the man at the top of Biden's ticket, Barack Obama, is ready, but 45% say he isn't.
Just 26% say McCain is not ready, and 34% feel that way about Biden, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.
Over half of voters (52%) say McCain's running mate, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, is not prepared to be president, but 33% disagree.
Among voters not affiliated with either major political party, 71% say McCain is prepared for the Presidency while just 35% say the same about Obama.
The McCain-Obama numbers track roughly with what Rasmussen Reports has been seeing for several months when voters are asked if Obama is too inexperienced to be president. However, the number who viewed Obama as too inexperienced fell to 38% immediately following the Democratic National Convention late last month.
Ironically, while both parties are trumpeting the need for change in Washington, voters see the two longtime senators as best prepared to be president. McCain has represented Arizona in the Senate since 1987 and was in the House for two terms before that. Biden has been a senator from Delaware for 35 years. It's truly remarkable that a sitting U.S. Senator will be elected President for the first time in nearly half-a-century at a time when just 9% of voters say Congress is doing a good or excellent job.
Women, by a 46% to 41% margin, think Obama is ready to be President. Men do not, 48% to 42%.
Both men and women by sizable majorities think McCain and, to a lesser degree, Biden are prepared to lead the nation. Both also believe by a roughly 20-point spread that Palin is not ready.
The older the voters are the more confidence they have in McCain's preparedness versus Obama's.
The good news for Democrats is in the vice presidential numbers. While 71% of Democratic voters think Biden is ready to be president, so do 26% of Republicans and 49% of unaffiliated voters. Thirty-one percent (31%) of unaffiliateds say Biden is not prepared.
By comparison, 68% of GOP voters think Palin is prepared to be president, but 82% of Democrats and a majority of unaffiliated voters (51%) say she is not. Twenty-eight percent (28%) of voters not affiliated with either major party believe Palin is ready to be president.
Voters are fairly evenly divided on which candidate they trust more. McCain has the edge in the national security area and on taxes, while Obama is favored more on economic and most other domestic matters.
McCain and Obama remain very close in both the Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll and Electoral College projections.
Asked which of the four candidates they'd most like to see as President, 42% say Obama, 35% McCain, 10% Palin, and 7% Biden.
Re: Voters: McCain, Biden ready for presidency
Could this have possibly backfired any worse? Obama and the liberals wanted an Obama vs Palin race. Your dreams came true. Like I said all along, the more they harped on Palin's inexperience, it would cause voters to look at Obama's even smaller resume and see that he isn't ready to be President.
Now the country thinks McCain and the bottom of the dem ticket are ready, while Obama and Palin are not.
Karma works in mysterious ways.
Among voters not affiliated with either major political party, 71% say McCain is prepared for the Presidency while just 35% say the same about Obama.
Ouch! That reality check's gotta hurt.
Asked which of the four candidates they'd most like to see as President, 42% say Obama, 35% McCain, 10% Palin, and 7% Biden.
This is a very interesting statistic. It shows more fantasize about an Obama presidency, but reality brings them back to McCain.
Re: Voters: McCain, Biden ready for presidency
Electoral College maps have been updated. These are the SAME links/sources liberals have thrown in peoples faces for months. Even Huffington waves these around. I have a sneaky feeling they wont be waving them around anymore.
Rasmussen has McCain up by 9 electoral votes:
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_ … tion_20082 /2008_presidential_election/election_2008_electoral_college_update
RCP shows McCain up by 20 electoral votes:
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls … vs_mccain/
538 has McCain up by 37 electoral votes:
http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/
Now that's a change.:haha:
In an even more disturbing development for Obama, real clear politics(not a site I use but I see liberal sites using them as sources constantly) now has Obama's 21 percent lead in NY down to 5 percent. He's tanking in NJ as well.
If even one electoral college map ever gives NY to McCain, the election is literally over.
Thoughts on these latest developments?
Re: Voters: McCain, Biden ready for presidency
If you do no toss up states on RCP & had the election as is, Obama would win 273-265
Re: Voters: McCain, Biden ready for presidency
So now we're to the point where we have to discount 2 of 3 maps and leave out toss up states favoring McCain for an Obama win?
Hell, by looking at the site you're using for an Obama win, several Obama states are on the verge of going into McCain's column.
I'm seriously starting to think we may be looking at a landslide. Way too close and too early to say that now of course, but when democratic states are starting to lean republican with six weeks to go, its potentially Reagan/Carter or Reagan/Mondale all over again.
Re: Voters: McCain, Biden ready for presidency
This is just the media playing up the experience thing on Obama & Palin.
Experience don't mean shit when it comes to a good Pres, or a Vice-Pres for that matter.
Just because some whores are more experienced, doesn't mean they are more equiped to fill your needs. 
Had to throw that one in there.
McCain is definently more qualified than Obama, i don't think anyone could debate that.
This is a pretty good judge of how the election is turning.
I'll be interested to see how this progresses now that Obama has his head out of his ass and is actually starting to talk issues.
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