TBJ poll: Readers prefer McCain to Obama for president
Triangle Business Journal
North Carolina might be a battleground state in the race for president, but John McCain has a comfortable lead over Barack Obama in an unscientific poll of Triangle Business Journal readers.
From Oct. 29 through Nov. 3, visitors to TBJ's Web site were asked, “Who do you support in the election for president?”
Some 1,753 people responded to our survey – one of the best responses we've ever had.
Of the respondents, 55 percent said they support McCain, the Republican senator from Arizona. The remaining 45 percent said they support Obama, the Democratic senator from Illinois.
Across North Carolina, McCain is leading Obama by 0.6 percentage points, according to calculations of recent scientific polls done by the Web site RealClearPolitics.com. FiveThirtyEight.com, a Web site that uses polls and historical voting data to predict elections, was predicting an Obama win of 0.6 percentage points.
Either way, of course, the race is close. Polls across North Carolina are open until 7:30 p.m. To find your polling site, click here.
What follows is a list of comments on our own poll:
- Obama will raise taxes. There will be little incentive to grow your company or personal investments with a tax policy that penalizes someone for success. Redistributing the wealth is unprecedented in America and I am truly afraid of what will happen to the economy if Obama is able to implement his ideal agenda.
- Every US federal government income tax and most government spending is income redistribution. McCain's and the Republicans' soaring deficits and trickle-down economics are two of Reagan's worst legacies. The truth is that spending more than you earn is always bad policy. When wealthy people have extra disposable income, they buy Lexus not Chevy. No new American jobs with that formula.
- I put myself through college, graduate school, been working since I was 14, started a business, took risks. Now I am successful and have created over 100 jobs. Obama makes me out to be the bad guy and I'm sick of it. He can raise my taxes and all it will do is result in layoffs at my company.
- Anyone who jumps on the "socialist" bandwagon has been hypnotized by the incessant McPain/ ailin attack ads and negative campaigning. If he had a concrete stance rather than "trust me; I know what to do", McCain might be believable, but he doesn't, and he's not. And Palin? 'Nuff said!
- The economy will right itself just like it always does. 18 months or less from now the Dow will be strong and the economy will also be strong but Iran, N. Korea, Russia, Venezuela and al Qaeda will STILL want to see us weakened. McCain will inspire fear in these enemies and Obama will invite attack. It's that simple really.
- It is refreshing and hope-inspiring to hear Obama's intelligent and logical approach to problems. In comparison McCain's vitriolic knee-jerk calls to "fight, fight, fight" are shown for their shallowness, for their win-with-any-lie approach, and for their irrational appeal to the worst self-serving fear-driven weak links in the country.
- Was there a fire sale on Obama Kool-Aid today because some of you people are bathing in it. Does anyone care what principles and ideas this country was founded on anymore? As I said before, please for the love of God, move to Europe and take Obama and Congress with you. Preferably with Reid, Pelosi, and Frank on the first rickety plane.
- Barack is a 21st Century American – in a land of domestic pluralism in which the majority will be surpassed by the minority in less then fifteen years. A presidential candidate that is worldly in an interdependent interlinked global landscape. McCain is a 20th century president whose ‘one more grasp for the chance’ is over.
- Regardless of who wins, both are solid choices despite their VP's. Probably the most patriotic election in the last many years.
To vote in this week's poll, which asks whether banks should be able to use federal bailout money to buy other banks, click here.
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