Surprising West Virginia Poll: Obama -8

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Friday June 06, 2008 · 9:50 AM PDT

2008/06/06 · 09:50

Maybe this shouldn't be a shock considering its historically blue, but according to a new Rasmussen poll, Obama is down only 8 points to McCain after losing to Hillary Clinton by 41 points in the primary there.

Logically I've always known that a vote for Hillary was not a vote against Obama; and that primary results don't necessarily correlate with general election results. Still, thats a pretty massive swing. Especially when you consider that unlike the primary the general population contains many hundreds of thousands of Republicans.

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Sunday February 03, 2008 · 2:18 PM PST

2008/02/03 · 14:18

From Noam Scheiber at The New Republic, "According to a source close to Al Gore, multiple people in the former VP's orbit are in touch with him on a regular basis to urge an Obama endorsement."

Gore's hesitation, according to Scheiber's source, is that he both enjoys the new contrast between himself (statesman) and Bill Clinton (hatchet man), and that he doesn't want to 'jinx' Obama.

Whatever you think of the reasons, it seems pretty clear who Gore is going to vote for in Tennessee on Tuesday. I would also add that he might be afraid that he'll endorse Obama and that Clinton would still win Tennessee, compounding the embarrassment of losing his home state in 2000.

I still believe that a post-Tuesday endorsement at this point would be more valuable than one that only has about 24 hours to sink in. I suspect Gore will endorse later this week unless Obama is blown out on Tuesday. My guess is the endorsement will come Wednesday or Thursday if Clinton is the narrow 'winner' on Super Duper Tuesday, as a check to the momentum she would have. If Obama is the 'winner', my guess is he'll endorse around Friday to carry Obama's media momentum through the weekend and the Sunday talk shows, and into the monday morning shows.

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Saturday January 26, 2008 · 9:38 PM PST

2008/01/26 · 21:38

A lot of history has been made so far in this election. But by far the most unexpected has been Democrats outdrawing Republicans in one of the most hard core red states in all of America, and Obama counts for well over half of that.

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