Thread: Obama’s Trip: No Bounce, No Flags, No Wounded Soldiers

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Obama’s Trip: No Bounce, No Flags, No Wounded Soldiers

Sunday, July 27, 2008 8:15 PM

By: Newsmax Editorial


Sen. Barack Obama’s international globe-hopping to the Mideast and Europe was meant to burnish his credentials as a foreign policy and potential military leader – the strong suit of his Republican rival Sen. John McCain.



Despite the media love fest over the political junket, Obama has yet to pull away from McCain in the polls. His campaign had expected a minimum eight-point lead after Obama clinched the Democratic nomination back in June, with even more momentum moving his way as the campaign progressed.


Both the most recent Real Clear Politics rolling average and the Rasmussen tracking poll that coincided with the end of Obama’s trip this weekend show Obama with just a five-point lead over McCain -- consistent with his numbers for the past two months. [Press reports this weekend have almost completely ignored the Rasmussen poll to only report on a Gallup poll, which showed Obama with a nine-point lead. Not as good as the Newsweek poll from June, which had Obama 15 points ahead of McCain.]


With President Bush suffering low approval ratings, the economy moving into a recession as gas prices surge above $4 a gallon, and growing resentment about the unending war in Iraq, Obama should be pulling away in the polls.


But he isn’t.


The Obama campaign has been quick to be out front on the bad news, claiming -- at the end of the trip -- it never expected a poll bounce from Obama’s trip anyway.


Obama campaign manager David Plouffe told Politico’s Mike Allen: “We wouldn’t expect any sort of -- I guess the term people use is ‘bounce.’â€

You know where he is standing?

Number 10 Downing Street, London England and Historic Office and Home of the Prime Minister.

Dixie

[quote]And then there was his speech, in which he proudly proclaimed he was in Germany as a “[b]a fellow citizen of the world.â€

Could it get more insane ? Of course it can although it's hard to believe .

I didn't know they had a free concert to rake them in ... that's funny.