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2.26.2008

 

Poll parade

Another day, another poll of Vermont presidential primary voters.

Today's news is that Rasmussen Reports is reporting that Barack Obama has a 24 point lead in Vermont over Hillary Clinton with six days to go before Tuesday's Democratic presidential primary. Obama had 57 percent and Clinton 33 percent.

The poll finding was based on interviews conducted on Sunday with 1,013 likely Democratic primary voters in Vermont. Reaching that many "likely voters" at home on what was a beautiful winter day is a feat all by itself, but I'm digressing.

The numbers aren't much different than what American Research Group found out last week, when it gave Obama a 26 point lead over Clinton. We hear WCAX is going to drop its poll on the contest on tonight's news.

What's most interesting in the Rasmussen results is what Vermonter Dem voters listed as their number one issue. Bulletin: It's the economy, stupid, not the war in Iraq.

Also worth chewing on: The poll found that Obama was deemed eminently more electable in the fall than Clinton. Check it out by clicking HERE. By the way, it looks like Rasmussen didn't bother doing a poll for the state's GOP primary. ARG did, and it had McCain up by 62 points over Paul, and a couple more over Huckabee.

-- Sam Hemingway

Comments:
It's interesting how much more electable an inexperienced junior legislator that talks in vagaries and seems to have his share of baggage from the past can be.

I have yet to hear anything of substance from him. The message has been trust me, it can be better.

How please!

Didn't trusting an inexperienced, unproven politician get us in this mess to begin with? It has nothing to do with party affiliations. It has to do with qualifications. Exactly what of importance are Barack's?
 
I find it interesting that Obama is faulted in the national media as unable to attract broad support from white voters, yet he is killing it in Vermont. Race sure doesn't seem to be an issue here.
 
So much kukluxkrishtin racist rubbish, so little time.


bubba said...

"How many elitist flatlanders move to Vermont to get away from "inner city" crime, and in the whiteness of their little enclaves then feel free to criticize southern states for all kinds of supposed racism!"

And outside of Slavery, Jim Crow, countless lynchings, Klan Church bombings, the murders and Assassinations of Emmet Till, Schwerner, Cheney and Goodman, Medgar Evers and MLK for openers, what supposed racism would that be, little bigot boy?

You really are the dumb, white-supremacist trash scum of the Earth, little bigot boy. Thank God you're not a Vermonter.

Dismissed.
 
I rest my case.
 
"And outside of Slavery, Jim Crow, countless lynchings, Klan Church bombings, the murders and Assassinations of Emmet Till, Schwerner, Cheney and Goodman, Medgar Evers and MLK for openers, what supposed racism would that be, little bigot boy?"

Guess you forgot about the Irasburg affair in good ol' non-racist Vermont, little fella.
 
I have to stick up for poop on this one - I'm sure he was still in NYC at the time. That was almost pre-flatlander time.
 
Anonymous has left a new comment on the post "Poll parade":

"And outside of Slavery, Jim Crow, countless lynchings, Klan Church bombings, the murders and Assassinations of Emmet Till, Schwerner, Cheney and Goodman, Medgar Evers and MLK for openers, what supposed racism would that be, little bigot boy?"

"Guess you forgot about the Irasburg affair in good ol' non-racist Vermont, little fella."

I did, eh? How so, little nameless nitwit?

Gee, I hate to confuse ya with the facts, but if ya can find someone to read and/or explain it to your ignorant ass, you'll see my answer was in response to the little bigot boy's latest ludicrous, lunatic-fringe lament that the dim-witted dolts of Dixie have gotten a bad rap and the Klan and his beloved White Citizens Council are merely misunderstood, good Christian Folk engaged in a desperate struggle to preserve their heritage and the good, conservative-Christian traditional values that have been under siege ever since an activist Supreme Court legislating from the Bench pulled the plug on Segregation and let a bunch of dirty Jew-Commie beatniks and outside agitators come down there where they don't belong and ain't welcome just so they could stir up trouble with all their dirty Jew Commie Civil Rights talk that was fillin' the heads of some uppity, ungrateful Negroes who don't know their place go to the same schools, use the same rest rooms, swim in the same pools and drink from the same water fountains as good Christian White Folks do in violation of the Bible and God's Law.

In other words, his usual ignorant, ill-informed white-supremacist-slime nonsense masquerading as good Christian, Traditional Values song and dance routine.

If it please the Court, at this time I offer into evidence, Exhibit A:

"...How many elitist flatlanders move to Vermont to get away from "inner city" crime, and in the whiteness of their little enclaves then feel free to criticize southern states for all kinds of supposed racism!"

So, given those facts and notwithstanding the little bigot boy's latest load of delusional dreck, even the shamelessly-stupid, factually-challenged/fundamentally-dishonest likes or your ignorant white supremacist ass would be hard-pressed to make a case for the inclusion of the Irasburg Incident you've so gleefully cited, little coalition of the clueless cretin fella.

Furthermore, in addition to the fact that Vermont is not now, nor has it ever been considered a "Southern State", there's the additional matter of Irasburg not even being considered to be a part of Southern Vermont which renders your already ludicrous argument a final, fatal, coup de grace.

At least it would had it not died in the process of being born.

Finally, I'm struck by the glee in which you announce the Irasburg Incident.

Why do you take such obvious pride and joy in being able to cite a Racist Incident in Vermont, little ignorant white-supremacist trash fella?

Clearly, it's all you can do to contain your joy and keep from dancing a celebratory jig because one of your kindred clueless-cracker spirits took a shot at one in '68.

What's with that, little fella?
 
Glee? Gee, little flatlander punk, we're just trying to show you that racism exists everywhere. When we think you're ready, we'll also tell you about Cake Walk at UVM ("Walkin' 'fo de cake"), the Ku Klux Klan influence in the 1920's in Vermont, and even the minstrel shows (blackface included) that local church and men's clubs put on in Vermont towns 50 years ago or so.
 
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