PrintSeptember 14, 2008
McCain-Palin seeing a 'Gibson Bounce'?
Could it be that the McCain-Palin ticket is seeing a "Charlie Gibson bounce" in their poll numbers? Perhaps.
In today's Rasmussen Reports daily tracking poll, McCain broke out of a week or more or less being tied with Obama to show a 3% point lead at 50-47%. It also marked the first plus 50 day for the McCain Palin ticket. Now, the signficance of this poll vis a vis Gibson is today's Rasmussen tracking poll includes surveys taken Thursday, Friday and Saturday. In other words, this was the first poll including only surveys conducted after the first excerpts of the Palin-Gibson interview hit the news and it replaced the last day of surveys conducted before that happened.
Saturday's figures replaced those from last Wednesday in the Rasmussen formula of using a 3 day rolling sample. Wednesday was the last day of emphasis in the news cycle of Palin not doing any tough interviews. One can perhaps extrapolate that as the nation has learned a bit more about Palin -- and a bit more about media bias -- it is liking McCain-Palin better. Obviously polls are not perfect and will fluctuate many times between now and election day, but today was a significant one in Rasmussen for the reasons above, and it was good news for the GOP.
Could it be the Gibson bounce?
FOLLOW US ON
Recent Articles
- Can Trump Really Abolish the Department of Education?
- Carney’s Snap Election -- And Trump Saw It Coming
- We Can Cure Democracy, But Can We Cure Stupid?
- George Clooney: Master of Cringe
- Malicious Imbeciles
- Face the Nonsense, Again: Margaret Brennan’s ‘You Should Watch the News’ Moment
- Public School Teachers: The Stupidest Creatures on the Planet
- The Activist Judges Who Think They Outrank the President
- Dismantling USAID Services in Africa
- There Are EVs And There Are Teslas. They Are Not The Same.
Blog Posts
- Jasmine Crockett tries to backpedal her ‘hot wheels’ comment about a wheelchair-bound Gov. Abbott, forgets the internet archives exist
- Signal debacle – maybe intentional
- Trump’s executive orders have big leftist law firms running scared
- In Denmark, Americans have become 'the deplorables'
- Mike Huckabee and a turning point is US-Israel relations
- Up is down, down is up!
- Who will thaw the Arctic?
- Do trans people expect us to abandon common sense?
- Impeach the judges
- How Mississippi eliminated the income tax
- The ‘agua’ battle on the border
- Rep. Jasmine Crockett mocks Texas's wheelchair-bound governor Abbott as 'Gov. Hot Wheels,' then keeps digging
- The disturbing things that happen when you abandon Biblical principles
- In California, an anguished Dem base urges its politicians to be more crazy
- A new low: Leftist terrorists damage the Tesla of a woman in a wheelchair, leaving her with repair costs