memeorandum: Gallup Daily: Obama Continues to Outpace McCain (Gallup)

6:45 PM ET, November 2, 2008

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Hidden Audio: Obama Tells SF Chronicle He Will Bankrupt Coal Industry — (Please read update about the San Francisco Chronicle neglecting to mention Obama's willingness to bankrupt the coal industry at bottom of this blog.) — Imagine if John McCain had whispered somewhere that he was willing to bankrupt a major industry?

Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:

Obama: I'll make energy prices “skyrocket” — In another clip from the same January 2008 interview with the San Francisco Chronicle in which Barack Obama promised to bankrupt anyone foolish enough to build coal-burning power plants, he also made an interesting admission about his entire energy plan.

Discussion: Political Byline, Sister Toldjah, PoliGazette, QandO, Silent Running, Soccer Dad, Ed Driscoll.com and Tapscott's Copy Desk

Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice:

Obama McCain Race Gets Uglier By The Hour — As the clock winds down to election day, with each passing hour the 2008 Presidential campaign seemingly gets more frenzied, angrier and uglier. See this earlier post about the likely outcome after the votes are counted.

Discussion: MSNBC

Gateway Pundit:

EXPLOSIVE NEW AUDIO— Obama Promises San Francisco Audience He Will Bankrupt Coal Industry!! — OBAMA TOLD A SAN FRANCISCO AUDIENCE THAT HE WILL BANKRUPT THE COAL INDUSTRY!!! — ATTN: Coal states Virginia , Ohio, Pennsylvania, Colorado, and Indiana, guess what Obama told San Francisco about you?

Discussion: 24Ahead, Flopping Aces, American Power, Don Surber, freerepublic.com, Chicago Boyz, Patterico's Pontifications, Fausta's Blog, PoliGazette and Power Line

Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Obama: We'll bankrupt any new coal plants

Discussion: www.redstate.com, The Other McCain, Chicago Boyz, The Anchoress and www.redstate.com

Washington Wire:
Attack Ad Charges Obama Will Undermine U.S. Security

Discussion: TalkLeft

Washington Wire:
Palin Attacks Obama on Coal Production

Discussion: Political Punch and Dirty Harry's Place

Rick Moran / Right Wing Nut House:
OBAMA BRAGS ABOUT BANKRUPTING COAL POWER PLANT COMPANIES

Discussion: TigerHawk

Domenico Montanaro / MSNBC:

FIRST THOUGHTS: OUR FINAL MAP — From Chuck Todd, Mark Murray, Domenico Montanaro, and Carrie Dann — *** Our final map: With two days before Election Day, the final NBC News map shows Obama remaining above the 270 electoral-vote mark, with a 286-157 lead over McCain. Last week, Obama held a 286-163 advantage.

Discussion: Guardian, TPM Election Central, Wonkette and Donklephant

Allahpundit / Hot Air:

How soon will we know on election night? — Answer: Pretty soon, potentially. Via CNN, a rundown of when the polls in various battleground states close (all times ET): … I didn't include Iowa because it's not a battleground anymore, assuming it ever was, but that's also a 10 p.m. close for what it's worth.

Discussion: The Moderate Voice, Gateway Pundit and The Other McCain

Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
IBD/TIPP: Obama +2, under 50%

Discussion: Patterico's Pontifications, THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS and The Strata-Sphere

Jeff E. Schapiro / inRich.com:
Times-Dispatch poll shows tight race for president in Va.

Discussion: Yourish.com, Editorial RSS, Hot Air, MSNBC and Riehl World View

Dale Eisman / Virginian-Pilot:
Down to the wire, Va. still too close to call, poll shows

Discussion: TPM Election Central, PNJ, Commentary, The Strata-Sphere, TalkLeft and JammieWearingFool

Jonathan Martin / Jonathan Martin's Blogs:
Final polls tight in key states, with Obama enjoying small advantage

Discussion: Ben Smith's Blogs and Dirty Harry's Place

Tim Craig / Washington Post:
Final Mason-Dixon Poll Shows Close Race

Discussion: Below The Beltway, TPM Election Central and The Strata-Sphere

Pew Research Center:

Obama Leads McCain 52% to 46% in Campaign's Final Days — McCain Narrows Gap — Barack Obama holds a significant lead over John McCain in the final days of Campaign 2008. The Pew Research Center's final pre-election poll of 2,587 likely voters, conducted Oct. 29-Nov. 1 …

Discussion: The Moderate Voice, Marc Ambinder, Washington Wire, Liberal Values, TPM Election Central, Real Clear Politics, Donklephant and CBS News

Gallup:

Gallup Daily: Obama Continues to Outpace McCain — Holds 8-point lead among “traditional likely voters” — PRINCETON, NJ — Voters' presidential preferences remain favorable to a Barack Obama win on Tuesday, with 51% of traditional likely voters supporting the Democratic nominee for president, and 43% backing John McCain.

Discussion: The Strata-Sphere and Donklephant

CNN:

Obama seven points ahead in CNN's final poll — (CNN) — Two and seven: With two days left until election day, a new national poll suggests that Barack Obama holds a seven-point lead over John McCain in the race for the White House. — In the CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey …

Discussion: MyDD, TalkLeft, Below The Beltway and Daily Kos

Zogby:
Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby Poll: One Day Is Not A Trend: Obama Holds His Lead

Discussion: TPM Election Central and Reuters

Glenn Greenwald / Salon:

The single worst expression in American politics — Joe Biden, speaking yesterday at a rally in Ohio (h/t Jonathan Schwarz): … As I wrote a couple of weeks ago (see the last few paragraphs): if I could be granted one small political wish, it would be the permanent elimination of this widespread …

Discussion: The Other McCain, The Heretik, Jules Crittenden and Unqualified Offerings

Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Who's the Question Mark?

Discussion: The Moderate Voice, Whiskey Fire, No More Mister Nice Blog and The Heretik

Ali Frick / Think Progress:
Syrian Ambassador: Lieberman Assured Me McCain Would Talk With Syria

Discussion: Syria Comment

Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:

Obama will answer questions ... Wednesday — ABC's Jake Tapper managed to get Sen. Barack Obama's attention on the tarmac in Springfield, Mo., this morning. — “What would you tell your Treasury secretary to do differently with the $700 billion?” he asked, according to the pool report.

Discussion: Washington Post, Power Line, Hot Air and Riehl World View

Arnab Datta / Political Punch: This Morning's “Sam"* — In Springfield, Mo., over the roar of the engine of O Force One.

Jonah Goldberg / New York Post:

OBAMA 2012: FOUR YEARS LATER — A LOOK BACK AT HIS PRESIDENCY — It's hard to believe that just four years ago, some were talking about Barack Obama as a national savior, a secular redeemer, a “light worker.” Even more shocking, President Obama lost the nomination of his own party to none other than Hillary Clinton.

Discussion: The Hill's Blog Briefing Room, The Heretik, Liberal Values, Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog and Newshoggers.com

The Huffington Post:

McCain Did Not Disclose Keating Business Deal To Investigators — The New Republic published an explosive story Saturday evening detailing how John McCain, in all likelihood, leaked information to investigators of the Keating Five scandal that was designed to help his image at the expense of the other four Senators involved.

Sahil Mahtani / The New Republic:
McCain First, Second, And Always

Discussion: Campaign Silo

CNN:

Townsfolk stuff Palin effigy with explosives — BATTLE, England (CNN) — Townsfolk in England have delivered their explosive verdict on Sarah Palin, stuffing a giant effigy of the U.S. Republican vice presidential nominee with fireworks and blowing her up to raucous cheers.

Discussion: Right Wing News

Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:

JOE THE SKINHEAD — When he was just the topic du jour because of his question to Barack Obama back in the neighborhood in Ohio, that was one thing. But “Joe the Plumber” is now actively campaigning with and for John McCain, appearing on stage with him at multiple events, etc.

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