Obama is not Winning Hillary Clinton’s Supporters or Independents

A new poll has just shown that 52 % of Hillary Clinton Supporters (WSJ/NBC poll) will support Obama.  The same poll showed that 17% of her supporters will be voting for McCain.  These new figures should be sending superdelegates into high concern mode as they head towards Denver.  While Obama is running neck-and-neck with McCain, any generic democratic candidate has a  10% lead while Senator Hillary Clinton is still showing a 5 – 8% lead over McCain.

A Wall Street Journal/NBC poll also points to a big challenge for Sen. Obama as his party gathers in Denver next week for its convention: rallying Sen. Hillary Clinton’s supporters to his cause. Only half of those who voted for Sen. Clinton in the primaries say they are now supporting Sen. Obama. One in five is supporting Sen. McCain. The Republican has reached out to Clinton supporters by offering steady praise for the former first lady and hinting that he’d be open to a running mate who supports abortion rights.

source: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121926582869857905.html?mod=hpp_us_whats_news

Is the press finally seeing that Senator Obama is a seriously flawed candidate who is unlikely to win the Presidiency?  Will the superdelegates wake up to the same realization before it is too late?

Overall, the poll finds the race a statistical dead heat, with 45% favoring Sen. Obama and 42% Sen. McCain. …Sen. Obama’s campaign faces a critical task in Denver: bringing Sen. Clinton’s supporters to his side. Among all voters, 11% say both that they would vote for Sen. Clinton if she were running against Sen. McCain and that they aren’t ready to back Sen. Obama against the Republican.

These voters seem like natural Obama backers: They are not happy with the direction of the country, they don’t like President Bush, and they want Congress to be controlled by Democrats. Ideologically, they are liberal or moderate. Demographically, they tend to be female with incomes below $50,000 — two groups that lean Democratic.

Yet people in this group view Sen. McCain more favorably than they view Sen. Obama, and they are uncomfortable with the idea of Sen. Obama in the White House. One in three sees Sen. Obama as “arrogant and cocky,” an image the McCain campaign has aggressively tried to create for him over the past month.

These disaffected Democrats could make a difference in big states where Sen. Clinton did well, including Ohio and Pennsylvania.

Can we say PUMA?  This is definitely a display of the size of the PUMA movement.  While I’m still betting Obama takes Biden to shore up his complete lack of foreign diplomacy, new rumors of a Hillary VP are found in every MSM outlet this afternoon.  Why put the obvious presidential candidate at the bottom of the ticket to drag the inadquate Obama up in the polls?  If I were Hillary, I’d run as fast as I can from this proposition, even though she’s already being blamed for Obama’s sagging poll numbers by all the usual suspects.

Superdelegates!!  PLEASE WAKE UP!  Put CLINTON first, and OBAMA second and I bet you’ll see those poll numbers shoot up in no time!

Meanwhile, CNN is reporting that Hillary’s Debt is still high.

Well over two months have passed since Hillary Clinton formally abandoned her White House bid, but newly-released Federal Election Commission reports show the New York senator has made little headway in paying off her sizeable campaign debt.

According to an FEC report filed Wednesday, Clinton’s debt as of the end of July stood at just under $24 million — a decrease of only $1.2 million since the end of June. More than $13 million of that total is owed to the New York senator herself, while close to $11 million is owed to individual vendors. Clinton has suggested she is not seeking to pay back the money she owes herself.

The report also shows Clinton was only able to raise $2 million in the month of July — down from close to $3 million in June. By comparison, Barack Obama raised over $50 million for his White House bid in the same time period.

The report comes as some high-profile Clinton backers have expressed disappointment Obama has not made more of an effort to help his onetime rival retire her campaign debt.

source:  http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/08/21/disclosure-repots-show-clinton-still-deeply-in-debt/

What do we have to do to set all of this RIGHT?