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Barack Take New Lead Over John McCain
Despite Sarah Jab |
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September 19, 2008 Sen. Barack Obama has
widened his lead over Sen. John McCain,
according to CNN's latest "poll of polls."
The senator from Illinois is ahead of McCain
in national polls by 3 percentage points, 47
percent to 44 percent. Obama was up by 2
points in the poll of polls released earlier
Thursday.
McCain led in national polls last week, but by
the weekend, the candidates were tied. Obama
recaptured the lead for the first time in 10
days Wednesday.
The latest poll of polls consists of four
surveys: CBS/The New York Times (September
12-16), Gallup (September 15-17), Diageo/Hotline
(September 14-16) and American Research Group
(September 13-15). It does not have a sampling
error.
The economic crisis has given Obama and his
running mate, Sen. Joe Biden, the opportunity
to go on the offensive. Most Americans see
Obama as more capable than McCain when it
comes to the economy, polls indicate.
The two campaigns have traded shots all week,
most recently over the government takeover of
insurance giant American International Group
Inc.
At a campaign event Thursday in Cedar Rapids,
Iowa, McCain said he didn't want the
government to have to take over the company
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"When AIG was bailed out, I didn't like it,
but I understood it needed to be done to
protect hard-working Americans with insurance
policies and annuities," he said. "Sen. Obama
didn't take a position. On the biggest issue
of the day, he didn't know what to think. He
may not realize it, but you don't get to vote
'present' as president of the United States."
The senator from Arizona also accused Obama of
seeing the economic crisis as a "political
opportunity."
Obama's campaign responded by accusing McCain
of flip-flopping on the issue because he said
he opposed the bailout this week.
"Barack Obama does not second-guess the Fed's
decision to take unprecedented action to
prevent the failure of one of the largest
insurance companies in the world from creating
an even larger crisis, and he believes it must
protect families who count on insurance,"
campaign spokesman Bill Burton said.
Biden continued to slam McCain for his
economic plan and lack of support for
financial and health care regulation, calling
the Republican's answers for the struggling
economy "the ultimate 'Bridge to Nowhere.' "
"He is totally out of touch with the problems
of average people," Biden said in Canton,
Ohio.
"If you look at John McCain's answers for the
economy, and we're in such desperate shape,"
Biden continued, "[they're] the ultimate
Bridge to Nowhere. It's nowhere. It takes you
nowhere."
Following a week of playing defense, McCain
toughened his tone at his Iowa event Thursday.
Sen. Obama has never made the kind of tough
reform we need today. His idea of reform is
what his party leaders in Congress order him
to do," he said. "I know how to make the
change that Sen. Obama and this Congress is
afraid of.
"My opponent sees an economic crisis as a
political opportunity instead of a time to
lead. Sen. Obama isn't change; he's part of
the problem with Washington."
Democrats pounced on McCain's comments that if
he were president, he would fire Securities
and Exchange Chairman Christopher Cox.
Speaking after a bipartisan meeting Thursday
evening with congressional and financial
leaders about the financial meltdown, Cox
said, "Right now with so much at stake for our
country there's no time political slamming.
This is the time and the opportunity for
leadership."
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada,
said that although he was not going to vouch
for Cox, "This is very typical McCain-style
politics. Go after the first person you can to
divert attention from your failures."
During Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's remarks in
Iowa, she lashed out at Biden, who earlier
Thursday tied paying taxes to patriotism.
In an interview with ABC News, Biden was asked
whether people making more than $250,000 would
pay more in taxes under Obama's economic plan.
"You got it. It's time to be patriotic," he
said. "Time to jump in. Time to be part of the
deal. Time to help get America out of the
rut."
Palin shot back, "To them, raising taxes --
and Joe Biden said it again today -- raising
taxes is about patriotism. To the rest of
America, that's not patriotism. Raising taxes
is about killing jobs and hurting small
businesses and making things worse."
McCain and Palin were drowned out by anti-war
protesters for a few moments during the Iowa
event.
Palin kept speaking throughout the disruption,
but her remarks were nearly unintelligible to
much of the audience inside the airplane
hangar where the rally was held.
About five minutes into Palin's speech, four
female students from the University of Iowa
Feminist Majority and the University of Iowa
Anti-War Alliance held up a cloth banner and
began a loud anti-war chant in the middle of
the crowd.
Other members of the audience shouted them
down with chants of "USA! USA!" and "Sarah!
Sarah!" It was several minutes before the
women were escorted from the venue. |
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