Gallup's Tracker showing HRC 46, OB 44, that's a 5 point swing!
Saturday's polling showed a strong day for Obama, bringing the candidates back closer together in the latest three-day rolling average.
Obamafriends, click the Graph and Push Obama over the Top!!!
USA TODAY/Gallup Poll: Clinton 45%, Obama 44%
Democrat Barack Obama has erased Hillary Clinton's national lead in a new USA TODAY/Gallup Poll, gaining 11 points over the last two weeks to make the nomination race a statistical tie. The new state of play: Clinton 45%, Obama 44%.
The poll's margin of error is plus or minus 3 percentage points for 985 Democrats and Democratic leaners.
Is it possible that kubla000 nailed this one?. Keep in Mind, Obama has thus far outperformed polling by 3.7%, but I'm not jinxing this. Luckily this time, the media narrative is on our side; remember, We're running out of time and Hillary is the Front Runner ;)
I'd like to point out Hillary's Campaign ad running most heavily per NY Times, somewhat similar to the poll numbers. Great Job Mark Penn!!!
Voters across the country are seeing what has become [Hillary's] signature advertisement on the economy: a man dropped from a plane and hurtling toward the ground — an image intended to capture an economy in free fall — until his parachute engages, presumably suggesting what a second Clinton presidency might do for the economy.
Mr. Obama, of Illinois, has run advertisements in 21 of the 22 states that will hold Democratic primaries or caucuses. (Mr. Obama has spent $10.9 million on advertisements in the states voting on Tuesday; his first expenditure was Jan. 12, according to officials from both campaigns. Mrs. Clinton has spent about $8 million, starting on Jan. 17 in California.) Mrs. Clinton, of New York, has run advertisements in 16 of those states. His campaign has aimed advertisements on different issues at particular cities in an effort to tailor his message to the concerns of voters.
Voters in Hartford and Fargo, for example, are watching advertisements for Mr. Obamadecrying Wall Street abuses and talking about tax cuts. The advertisements seek to address the economic anxiety that polls suggest is rife in those parts of the country. (“Stock markets in turmoil, jobs in jeopardy, fear of recession,” the announcer says.)
In Minneapolis and Albuquerque, audiences are seeing advertisements that include battle scenes from the Iraq war, reflecting Mr. Obama’s effort to emphasize his early opposition to the war in a part of the country where antiwar sentiment appears high. “We can end a war,” reads the message on the screen, over a backdrop of Mr. Obama talking and rousing rock music playing. “We can save a planet.”
My Favorite Obama Ad: Chances Interesting Contrast to the Sky Divers.
Endorsements:
Also, Newark Star Ledger Endorsed Obama as an Inspired Choice
On health care, their differences are more pronounced. Clinton would require coverage, while Obama would do so for children but concentrate more on attacking what's wrong with the health care delivery system so coverage becomes more affordable.
An Obama presidency has the potential of restoring the world's faith in America. Some say faith is the problem, that voting for Obama requires a leap of faith that he indeed can deliver. We believe a vote for Obama is an affirmation of one's faith in an America that brings out the best in all of its people.
Also, the Birmingham News Endorses Obama
But something happened along the way to her coronation. That something is the audacity of hope embodied by Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois. He is not the man from Hope, but Obama sells hope like the Home Shopping Network peddles Esteban's guitars. With his cool charisma and soaring rhetoric, Obama mesmerizes crowds the way John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan did. He sells the hope of bridging America's ideological divide, of restoring our standing around the world, of improving the lives of our downtrodden, and many voters are buying.
Clinton touts her experience and her ability to get things done. Unfortunately for Democrats, she carries enough baggage to fill an airport luggage carousel. And her husband's heavyhanded (and hardly presidential) treatment of Obama hasn't played well with many. In the general election, Republicans will remind voters of every problem, real and imagined, from the Clintons' eight years in the White House.
For Democrats, Obama, with his ability to inspire and to mobilize young, African-American and independent voters, in particular, offers the best hope of victory in the general election.
The Albuquerque Journal Endorsement
Worse, her campaign virtually embodies the tick-tock inevitability of the pendulum of polarization: Bush, Clinton, Bush Jr. ... Clinton II? That would be a gift for far-right strategists depressed by the prospect of a President McCain, much less a President Obama.
It may be hard for citizens, who for so long have been in the habit of voting against the greater evil, to cast a vote "for" something. If so, vote against negative campaigning. Vote against division and the gridlock it encourages. Vote against being taken for granted by politicians who think they know what buttons to push. Vote against this dead-end status quo that predates the White House's current occupant and involves both parties.
Or just be positive and vote for Sen. Barack Obama. At worst, he's guilty of campaigning on the promise of hope.
Kate Michelman, the former president of NARAL Pro-Choice America, has endorsed Barack Obama for President of the United States.
John Edwards is not going to be president, and so what we who were helping him must do is now elect the individual who has deep in his core John's principles and vision for this country. And so today, with every passion and enthusiasm I have, I am endorsing Senator Barack Obama to be president of the United States
Barack Obama, like John Edwards, is redefining what is possible and in so doing he's changing us, each one of us.
Senator Obama is not just prepared to lead as our beloved Teddy and Caroline Kennedy have said, he is prepared to lead in a way different than we have seen for decades. Not out in front with us behind him, but rather with us beside him.
And that difference is all the difference. That difference separates just any president from a great president; and right now, we need a great president.
Barack Obama will be that great president.
Footage of Obama from the Crowd working his magic in Minnesota
UPDATE: OBAMA's Superbowl Statement
A reminder - seven years ago, a patriotic group of Americans had to make a choice between conventional experience and change they desperately needed. It wasn’t an easy decision. Both options were compelling in their own right, but when it was time to make a decision, the choice was clear. The New England Patriots started Tom Brady over Drew Bledsoe, and Brady went on to be the MVP of Super Bowl XXXVI. Now that’s change we can believe in.
Prediction: Drew Bledsoe will now endorses Hillary Tomorrow
UPDATE: SUPER BOWL AD REVEALED!
This is Reported to be the Superbowl Ad bought in some Local Markets. My thought is that this ad motivatees people to engage more than anything, and for the cupcake type beer drinking audience the Superbowl Attracts, you can't get wonkish... Political Partisans may decry that it's Light, but I say it's the Pitch and Tone that are perfect, showing the Movement Politics with Upbeat Promises to cure the worlds toughest challenges. It also broaches the conversation at superbowl parties nationwide, and as this blog is a testament, Obama Fever is Contagious, Infectious, and Downright Beautiful! The Passion of Obama Supporters will bleed into conversations and this could really allow Obama's biggest asset, namely YOU AND ME, to win our friends over while watching the game... Fabulous!
Per Politico
The campaign says they're airing this upbeat spot which has been used to reach younger voters around the country, during the Super Bowl in the Super Tuesday states, plus the Potomac states. The full list: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Georgia, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Utah, Virginia and Washington.
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