More Polls: AZ Prez Race Tight!

We saw the Obama campaign’s “Rear View,” a negative ad targeting John McCain, on KVOA, Channel 4, this evening, so it appears Barack Obama is not just running the positive ad “Something” in Arizona.
Meanwhile, a Mason-Dixon poll released today shows Obama trailing McCain by just four points.
You have to consider the [...]

“Something” Happening Here: Obama Team Calls Arizona “Functionally Tied”

Here’s an ad you’ll be seeing a lot of in the next few days. The Obama campaign announced this morning that they believed they had “a real shot in Arizona” and would be making a major buy to run “Something,” a positive spot that’s getting play in other battleground states.
One Obama [...]

Cronkite-Eight Poll: Arizona Prez Race “A Toss-Up”

A fourth poll in Arizona shows a tight race between Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama.
The Cronkite-Eight Poll shows that 46 percent of voters surveyed said they were supporting McCain, while 44 percent said they were backing Obama.
Three other recent polls have shown McCain losing support among Arizona voters.
Poll director Dr. Bruce Merrill:
“The race [...]

Three Polls: Obama Closes Gap With McCain in AZ

Three polls in the last few days show that Democrat Barack Obama is closing in on Republican John McCain right here in Arizona.
A Rasmussen Reports survey released today shows a five-percentage-point gap between the candidates, with 51 percent of voters supporting McCain and 46 percent Obama.
That’s a staggering drop from a Rasmussen poll released late [...]

Napolitano on Joe the Plumber

We asked Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano about the story of Joe the Plumber today while she was on a campaign stop to motivate Southern Arizona Democrats.
Napolitano said the plumber’s story about planning to buy a business wasn’t holding much water and he appeared to be the kind of citizen who would benefit more under an [...]

New AZ Polls: McCain Pulls Ahead While Lead Narrows

Two new polls released today give us completely opposite pictures of the presidential race between John McCain and Barack Obama in Arizona.
A Cronkite-Eight Poll says that Obama is closing in on our senior senator. There’s only a 7 percentage point gap between the candidates, according to pollster Bruce Merrill.
From the Cronkite-Eight press release:
Republican John McCain [...]

Napolitano at DNC: “LET’S DO IT!”

Yesterday was a busy but exciting day. We were bombarded with speeches and differing opinions throughout the day but one that remained constant was that AZ is mobilizing for Obama and that AZ is in a very good spot to push the Obama agenda. Everyone in the AZ delegation believed that it’s quite possible to turn AZ [...]

New KAET Poll: McCain Leads in Arizona

The latest Cronkite/Eight Poll shows that Arizona Sen. John McCain continues to lead in his home state, although the numbers are significantly lower than a Rasmussen poll taken at the end of July.
The survey shows that McCain has the support of 40 percent of those surveyed, Obama has the support of 30 percent, Ralph Nader [...]

A Burger With Obama

So I had two goals I wanted to accomplish when I set out for my vacation in the foreign and exotic land known as Hawaii: Catch up with Barack Obama and learn to surf.
I accomplished the first one when I walked into Kua Aina Sandwich Shop and Obama was in front of me in line. [...]

Covering Obama: Is The Media Biased?

The only way for a reporter to look at a politician is down.
—H.L. Mencken
Mencken probably would have been horrified by the crowd of journalists who attended Barack Obama’s talk on Sunday, July 27, at UNITY ‘08, the largest conference for journalists of color in the United States.
Despite pre-emptive calls for restraint [...]