Somebody called me out for not pointing to my source that indicates that Barack Obama is still getting smoked in the polling despite all the hoopla about myspace friends and YouTube videos views you read over at techpresident.com. He’s still a good distance behind Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination.
They we’re right for calling me out, so here’s the source. PollingReport.com.
PollingReport.com lists not just one, but numerous polls from different groups around the country. Private polls. Media polls. You name it. Some have him around 10 points behind. Some put him more like 20-plus points behind. There’s some obvious descrepancy, but not one has him ahead. And while it may appear that I’m bashing the guy, I’m not. I’m just pointing out that despite how it appears in the media and on the Internet (no. of myspace friends, 100,000 donors), polls say if the vote were held today he’d lose pretty badly. Essentially, more people are telling pollsters they will pick Hillary Clinton over Barack Obama.
Lucky for him, he has until January’s Iowa primaries to change that.
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Thanks Russel. That’s very interesting - I would guess that the polling numbers are pretty much name recognition at this point. I was watching some of the MItt vidoes on Youtube and it looks like the same thing is happening to him. People just don’t know who they are yet. I’m glad you pointed me to that site - keep up the good blogging.
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