Much has been made about how Sen. Barack Obama appears to have weathered nationally the storm over the controversy about the Rev. Jeremiah Wright. While Obama is in a statistical tie with Sen. Hillary Clinton in the latest Rasmussen daily tracking poll, Gallup has him up by eight points.
But Democrats worried that Jeremiah Wright will hurt Obama with "lunch-bucket" working class voters in bellweather states or that the party infighting will hurt their nominee have to be troubled by the latest Rasmussen poll in the Show-Me State.
For Obama, the results mirror a previous Survey USA poll and they show Claire McCaskill's going to have a hard time making good on her pledge to deliver Missouri for Obama. But Clinton supporters shouldn't crow just yet. Unlike last week's Survey USA poll, the numbers in Missouri aren't good for Clinton either although she does fare better than Obama.
Rasmussen finds Republican presumptive nominee John McCain has opened up a significant lead over both Obama and Clinton in Missouri and now places the Show-Me State in the "leans Republican" column. (And as Missouri goes, so goes the contest).
McCain leads Obama 53 percent to 38 percent, according to results from the poll conducted Monday. That's one percentage point lower for Obama than in the Survey USA poll conducted in the height of the Wright controversy.
Clinton does better than Obama but still below where she was in the Survey USA poll, where she was in a statistical dead heat. Now it's McCain with 50 percent and Clinton with 41 percent.
McCain does well with men against both Democratic candidates but unlike Obama, Clinton has a lead among women against McCain.
But there is some good news for Democrats. Rasmussen also shows Jay Nixon ahead of both leading Republican challengers and says Missouri appears likely to go Democratic in November for governor. For more details on the gubernatorial poll, go here.




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I Quit the Republican party after 28 years , because the Republican news people are driving the Train over the Cliff with this News coverage on Obamas pastor , for Heavens sake , I am done with the party , If everyone is like that one guy on Fox News , then everyone thats a Republican should quit the Republican Party It sucks if this is all they got to work with for ideas , Why not Talk about NAFTA and how its cost the General Public their Liberty , and Solvency , and Both Parties backed it but No one wants to change it , why , because the Multi-National Corporations have bought them off through the Lobbyists , so no Tariff fees can be discussed and be applied to our SS and Medicare , no instead we talk about a Guy thats faith has been shattered with despair over the years , and he feels like no one gave a dang , and thats saying lightly , but all these Super Perfect News people can do is use it like a Steak Dinner for the Network ratings , and I Hope this is one time that God has a special place for all that act as Predators feeding off this despair , makin g it worse and harder to help the United States of America , but rather harm her people more , like before , you all make me sick , to think we have not come any farther than when this frickin Mess was born generations before us , good Grief !!!!!!!!!
People that don't want to rally the country together , but just Divide it ,,, and that should be on the Dems side too , anyone that divides the country on issues that are using a persons despair over a inequality , should be seeking some metal help , while the rest of us try to find ways to work together , and point out the past failures of a Candidate . Obama did not say these things of despair , and to suggest that he holds a Similarity in point of View .
I hope the members leave quick so the country can heal up , because we got bigger issues to deal with than one President can handle anyway . And if we don't find a way to deal with this and the food shortages that are coming in 30-40 years , your TV shows and ratings won't matter anyway .
Bleak retirements for 150 million?
A majority of Americans aren't saving nearly enough for retirement -- or aren't saving anything at all. And the expenses they'll face in their later years are sobering.
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