Today's TRMS
We hope you all enjoyed Rachel filling in for David Gregory on Race for the White House tonight. But have no fear, there are still two more live hours of the Rachel Maddow Show coming up. On today's show Rachel will be talking to Steve Benen from the Carpetbagger Report about whether or not Obama is actually hitting McCain hard enough to win a presidential contest. And then David Bender will be here talking about Obama's week long vacation and whether or not he thinks it's a good thing for the tired candidate. Finally, Rachel welcomes Juan Cole back to the program. We want to know if the reports of a final agreement on a time line-- yes, you heard me, a time line-- has been reached between the Iraqi government and the Bush Administration.
Rachel, I see a problem with your analysis on RftWH
I'm watching Race for the White House clips on MSNBC.com right now. I just got to the part where you're looking at McCain's numbers versus how Bush did. It's about 9:30 into this:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/26068618#26080252
Are you comparing the current McCain polling to Bush's exit polls? Exit polls don't have an "undecided" category. Some of the numbers you quoted seemed to have a much bigger undecided percentage than the difference between the McCain lead and the Bush lead.
If the Bush numbers against Kerry really were exit polls, then this is all wrong. That would mean there is no under-performing from McCain, he might actually be beating Bush's performance in some of those categories.
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By Jason M. BryantAugust 7, 2008 - 7:06pm