UMD Libertarians

Ok, well not exactly:

"An by Gallup Poll Managing Editor Jeff Jones shows that recent presidential campaigns have enjoyed a small (though short-lived) bounce from the running mate announcement. This includes a four percentage point bounce for John Kerry in 2004 after selecting John Edwards, a 5-point bounce for Al Gore in 2000 with his announcement of Joe Lieberman, and a 3-point bounce for George W. Bush in 2000 upon choosing Dick Cheney. Bob Dole received an extraordinary 9-point bounce in 1996 after bringing Jack Kemp onto his ticket."

This wouldn’t be the same Gallup poll that’s getting wildly different numbers from all of the other polling organizations, would it?
Generally speaking, Americans are morons. So, expect numbers to go up and down; down and up; side to side.

After Obama’s speech on Thursday, you’ll most likely see a jump.

Not to mention what might happen from Clinton’s speech today, if she really rallies her troops over to Obama.

Yep.

She better be sincere

it does not matter what she says…the die hard clinton supporters will not support obama

i just cannot wait to hear the boos coming from the convention halls it wil be great!
if he picked Clinton Republicans would be bitching about how he is a pussy who gave in to the pressure. Anyone else would be an unknown and wouldn’t affect anything
I would say 75% of Americans had never heard of Joe Biden before last week

and 75% of that 75% wont ever bother to learn who he is.

most have heard of him because he was in the primaries, the two people who had more exposure than him were Clinton and Edwards.

he didn’t make it past Iowa

And how many americans watched the early primaries?

enough…its not about exposure, the VP is there to balance out the ticket. McCain made national security his main issue, so Obama needed someone with those credentials to eliminate it. And Biden was pretty much his only choice.

You overestimate the American public. I went around the office asking people if they ever heard of Biden before last week. 32/32 people said no.

I know the office isn’t an accurate pool to pick from, but it does make the 75% number look very solid.

In his defense, its very easy not to

sounds about right

And look how well that all worked out for Kerry, Gore, and Dole

nope. gallup tracking’s been pretty close to the average most of the time.
(CBS) Delaware Senator and Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden may have been in Congress since 1972, but three quarters of registered voters say they don’t have either a favorable or unfavorable opinion of him, a new CBS News poll finds.

Fifty-six percent of registered voters say they haven’t heard enough about Biden to form an opinion. Nine percent say they have a favorable view of the candidate, while 15 percent say they have an unfavorable view. Nineteen percent are undecided.

Biden’s long tenure in Congress isn’t hurting him: few Democratic primary voters say they’re actively looking for a nominee from outside the beltway. Twenty-eight percent of Democratic primary voters prefer a nominee with experience from inside Washington, compared to 18 percent that prefer a nominee with experience outside the nation’s capital. Forty-nine percent say it doesn’t matter.

Biden, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, has discussed the idea of de-centralizing the Iraqi government and separating Iraq into three distinct regions. Asked about that idea in general, most Democratic primary voters (as well as nearly half of all voters) favor it. Fifty-two percent of Democratic primary voters favor separating Iraq into three parts, while 37 percent favor keeping Iraq under one government.

goddamn I am good, even though the pole is a year old the numbers are probably similar.

you can probably say the same thing for every single senator who hasn’t run for president or was married to one. i.e. I have no clue who are NJ senators

i.e. looking here:

The ones that ring a bell and why. The ones bolded are those who I actually know what they look like
Stevens, Ted - TUBES!
McCain, John - from running for president.
Dodd, Chris - from running for president
Lieberman, Joe - corrected McCain on Sunni/Shia mix up
Biden, Joe - from running for president
Craig, Larry - Wide stance
Obama, Barack - from running for president.
Bayh, Evan - from being mentioned as a VP pick
Brownback, Sam - from running for president
Vitter, David - Prostitute scandal
Kennedy, Ted - JFK
Kerry, John - from running for president
Hagel, Chuck - from being mentioned as a VP pick
Reid, Harry - from being a senate majority leader
Clinton, Hillary Rodham - from running for president
Dole, Elizabeth - from running for president
Graham, Lindsay - not sure but sounds familiar
Hutchison, Kay Bailey - from being mentioned as a VP pick
Webb, Jim - from being mentioned as a VP pick
Feingold, Russ - from McCain feingold

And I’d say I follow politics more than most people. For your average person they most likely only know McCain, Obama, Kerry and Clinton

I agree

are you 12 or something? How do you not know him from running for VP

oh yeah. Well I didn’t really follow politics in 2000

You don’t know Lieberman… and you follow polotics… while McCain is running for President? Seriously?

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