“Warmonger” Mc, Cain hates war??? He said he will be in Iraq, 100 YEARS , how much more time would he be there if he did like war? Republicans don’t like wars, were no richness on those countries are involve (Oil, Mines, Diamonds ,ETc) if a region is poor and miserable and there is dead and desolation, they don’t care about it, at all!! AND THEY PROCLAIM THEY ARE THE PARADIGM OF CHRISTIANITY!!! ( THE CONSIDER THEMSELVES THE BEST CHRISTIANS IN THIS WORLD. Christians should preserve life at any cost, And REPUBLICANS, are producing, KILLING FIELDS, all around the world, is that the only motive they do not want ABORTIONS they oNLY WANT TO PRESERVE LIFE!! TO HAVE A LOT OF A NEW GENERATIONS TO SEND TO THE KILLING FIELS!!

That must be the least sincere non apology ever printed!
It wasn’t even Obama saying it. It was a staff member!
McCain is a national hero. Obama is a national zero!
This shows McCain has class. He straightens out the inaccuracies himself!

I don’t think Obama purposely ignored the topic. Obama renouncing someone that no one in the crowd had heard of would seem kind of pointless.

I would have thought Mccain would like the Warmonger label, after all he sings about bombing Iran

Did anyone see Obama and his goons shove the man who wanted a picture taken with Obama?

I thought it strange that msnbc and cnn hasn’t shown it. But then again, it’s not strange at all, They are in love with Obama.

Whats wrong in being a warmonger? We should put Iran in its place and when we have dealt with them turn our military attention to China and Russia.

Only McCain has the balls to attack those two countries if they don´t behave. Anyone actually believe Obama woul ever attack China or .

[...] Despite an Obama campaign statement in which traveling press secretary Jen Psaki said “John McCain is not a warmonger and should not be described as such,” the McCain campaign is pushing for personal repudiation of Schultz by the Democratic candidate. [...]

A warmonger,sure McPain is but he is better than Hillary!McPain still have some beliefs and moal values left in him even though he support sudomy and illegals!

well, first of all, mccain is a warmonger. ask him why it is that we need to stay in Iraq for 100 years, why is it that Us troops are spending $3.40 for gas to protect them and that Iraqis are spending just $1.36. why would he bomb Iran? so although a person of Obama’s class wouldn’t call Mc”cain” a warmonger, he certainly is one. JFK’s biggest mistake was going to war without a clear plan, when he approved of the Bay of Pigs invasion. His biggest success was showing restraint. the first bush’s biggest success was having clear plan, bring the world behind him in attacking saddam. his biggest success was showing that restraint in not pursuing saddamm into his country because he understood what he was getting into. We don’t need more recklessness in our foreign policy. We’re not living in a vaccum and with somebody that mistake-prone while speaking, we don’t need another warmonger. I’ll also add foxgossip’s bias in coverage. Of course, Ed Schulz was presented as an Obama supporter attending an obama event. they’re trying to build a parallel between that little hillbilly rascal of Cunningham and a factual recount of Mccain’s policy. Well, they aren’t the same. We democrats and independents admire mccain. we admire his service to this country and when he stood up to bush. he’s changed of course, and what we ridicule aren’t his personality and decency as a human being. We ridicule his policies. that’s a mile from an hillbilly’s role as an agitator who’s trying to cast obama as a radical, extremist muslim while trying to pounce his as a radical christian. it doesn’t make sense and the fact that foxgossip gave this delusional guy a platform to come back and repeat his incendiary remarks completely discredited them as a reasonable source of news.

Understand sodomy!

Response to someone who said barack obama condemning that comment is pointless. when bill cunningham said “hussein” about barack obama, mccain who didnt hear the comment, quickly condemned it and said he wants no part of it. This situation is a perfect example on who wants to run a fair and decent campaign and who picks and chooses accordingly when to run a fair campaign when to not run.

Obama like usual did what he does best.And he wants to lead this country. I sure hope the american people wake up and see him for the liar that he really is. vote for hillary clinton for her experience.

I hardly think Senator McCain should get upset by this warmonger title. He is in truth the worst kind of warmongerer. Here you have a national hero, tortured for eight terrible years and has now changed his position to condone torture! He wants to set up a permanent occupation in Iraq and indeed bomb Iran. The Obama campaign should not have been compelled to apologize for the truth.

McPain once said this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioy90nF2anI and sure he can be trusted!

Kathy Marino: “Obama like usual did what he does best.”

What exactly does that mean? Look, the suggestion that Senator Clinton’s service as First Lady somehow qualifies her as the person most ready to be President of the United States is a ludicrous assertion. Perhaps then she and Laura Bush should share a ticket. It would, however, be difficult to determine who of the two has the most experience to be President. After all, Laura Bush has traveled around the world and given her opinion regarding many significant issues. However, I don’t recall Laura Bush, (as first lady) blatantly lying about being shot at in Bosnia, risking a possible US invasion of that country! Or lying about her daughter being near the twin towers when they got hit, and spinning an outlandish tale of how she (Chelsea) had to run for her life, just to win a seat in the senate! The fact is Senator Clinton is a liar! She lied when she said she put pressure on Bill to intervene in Rwanda, and she lied to the voters in Ohio as she now lies to the voters in your state, when she says she fought against NAFTA. As the White House papers show, she was a huge proponent of NAFTA. Senator Clinton will do anything to win this nomination and has completely fabricated her foreign relations experience!

During Bill Clinton’s presidency Senator Clinton was not qualified to speak in any official capacity, nor was she in a position to sign peace treatise or broker deals. It’s absolutely absurd and offensive to the intelligence of thinking individuals to suggest otherwise. She was however given the official position to head and be the chairwoman of the Task Force on National Health Care Reform. As usual she attempted to secretly draft the bill, botched the job, turned Democrats against her and effectively galvanized the Republican Party to work in unity against the Democrats!

Now fast forward to the not so subtle lobbying of the insurance company responsible for halting the 1993 health care reform plan of the Clinton Administration — Health Insurance Association of America (HIAA), now America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) –paid President Clinton $150,000.00 dollars in June of 2005, to deliver a speech to their board. I believe it should raise a red flag to those supporting/endorsing Senator Clinton to recognize the problematic relationship created by this. The language that now crafts Senator Clinton’s health care plan, mirrors AHIP’s proposal in remarkably unsettling ways that warrant examination.

http://www.ahip.org/content/default.aspx...

Senator Obama has far more legislative experience than Senator Clinton. He served as an Illinois senator for 8 years and has only 2 less years of congressional experience than Senator Clinton. His experience as a community organizer, civil rights attorney, Illinois State Senator and US Senator will enrich the position of President and bring about a positive change much needed in Washington.

OBAMA MUST APOLOGIZE TO SEN. McCAIN

Truth hurts doesn’t it. The fact is, Republicans are warmongers. Anytime there is a Republican in power the country is at war. Usually with some third world colonial backwater whose US backed dictator has gotten uppity or out of line. Republican=warmonger. McCain=Republican. Ergo
McCain=McMonger.

HEY REDNECK YOU THERE?

HANG ON HOLLY,, I WILL BE BACK IN A FEW MINS.

OH PLEASE, REPUBLICANS ARE MORE CIVIL THAN DEMOCRATES ANYDAY, THEY ARE JUST NOT CHICKENS WHEN IT COMES TO MAKING HARD CHOICES, THE MEDIA IS AGAINST THEM ,YOU I WOULD GUESS YOU WOULD KNOW ,NO BETTER!!!

I lost respect for Obama when he said to the typical white lady, ” Hey if I kiss you will you vote for me? How about if I kneel down and Kiss you?” Is that anyway for a canidate for the Presidency of the United States to talk. Obama belongs on a Reality TV show!!!!

Comment by allex
April 5th, 2008 at 4:46 pm
Truth hurts doesn’t it. The fact is, Republicans are warmongers. Anytime there is a Republican in power the country is at war. Usually with some third world colonial backwater whose US backed dictator has gotten uppity or out of line. Republican=warmonger. McCain=Republican. Ergo
McCain=McMonger
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Tell me you know better than that or are you just a kid ,and take what people tell you as truth,people lie , so do some research. If Bill had the balls to shoot down Osama’s plain before it landed in Afganistan, there may have never been a war, we certainly could have avoided 9/11. He (Bill talked and thought about it ,but decided not too?

I don’t think McCain is a warmonger, but I do not like his plan for war if he even has one . He just seems too laid back about it like if we are there okay if we aren’t that is okay too. Doesn’t have a plan . I still a hanging on to Hillary will make it. Obama is this country”s nightmare . There can not be enough people who think his mild and easy going ways are for real. READ HIS BOOK, with your heads out of the clouds …Read into his remarks and pick them as you would if he was Hillary.

June, I agree about Obama…

I think 4000 troops dead is an awful thing,God bless them and thier family’s. However I see things from a different view, I think if we leave Iraq before we establish a strong governmnet, we will leave a oil rich country to terrorists who will kill all Iraqi people Who oppose them, then they will get the oil up and rinning,it will be priority #1 so they will have billions of money to make sure they can hit us at home (weather it bi nuclear or biological or another suicide attack,) they will bring it back to our shores. I think we should learn from the first George bush’s mistake, he left to early and now his kids and us are paying for it ,we must stay until the job is done,or our kids will be dealing with it again in the future………. How many people have been murdered in usa since the war began any one got the answer to the one?

Englishman , how do you know McCain , or Mcpain as you say, has morals.?I think that is something none of the people know .I would think he does have morals, but I sure do not know. I do think I know Obama must have been in a coma when he was in church and Mr Wright was preaching his sermons and heard nothing said racial ,I can no see how he could sit and listen to such garbage about this country and white people and not “cringe” as he said he did when his grandmother (or mother ) made the remark about fearing black people.Well ,unless he agreed …then he could

allex, who was president and got us into WW2, Korea and Vietnam?????Dems thats who. FDR, Truman and Kennedy/Johnson. Who got us out. Repubs.
Just goes to show how the schools are failing….at least to those who bother to go to school.
Any one with an IQ over 10 knows what McCain meant. Get off it. We know better. Better bring home those guys from Germany, Japan, Korea, Kuwait and Bosnia too. What the heck, if you want us unprotected close up every base we have around the world.
Obamas an ass. He will never make president. Who the heck would want Michelle for first lady representing the USA?
McCain 08…..and Cindy who has class and LEGS.

HOLLY,, sorry,, I was fixing supper,, I’m back now. I just logged on a while ago and read the headline.. I do believe b.o. SHOULD APOLOGIZE TO SEN. MCCAIN NOW!!!!! OBAMA should get out of this race NOW!!!!!!! B.O. does not have the experience to be a leader of this great nation.

I also think that all CHRISTIANS,, that are on this blog,,should join together and call upon OBAMA to apologize publicly to sen. MCCAIN TO HIS FACE!!!!

OBAMA ,,,, GET OUT OF THIS RACE

Here we go Holly you know I do not like war..no one does .I don’t really think the fact Iraq being left an oil rich country reall y matters one way or the other. Those people do nothing but fight ,have been since before Christ.( I do not know that literally) so I will say for alongggg time they have been fighting. We are not going to stop the killing and fighting there and maybe that is what McCain knows ..a hundred years it would take just make them see fighting isn’t the only way for a solution to problems.I do not think of McCain as a warmonger , but I just think of him as a man without a plan. If those people do want come into this country they will find a way I think and we just have to be ready and able to stop them . Do you believe they couldn’t do something now ? With our troops over there winning ground for them ? I believe yes they can and it is only a matter of time before they will, unless there are none of them left to fight. It is either leave or wipe them out. War is ugly and for the civilians it is the worse of all , they die for those who can not stop fighting.

BE BACK LATER

Back in the sixties, some of my friends got on the anti-establishment bandwagon. Make love not war, get naked get wild, LSD, lets all go to San Fransico, and gather in the masses for our cause. The problem was most of these nuts didn`t know what their cause was. Mainly it was to end a war so their non-patriotic asses wouldn`t have to do their part. Now these same people are the major stock holders, and journalists in our main stream media. You can`t make any sense out of what any of them report, because it comes from a one demensional viewpoint. To hear a little snip of an issue on the news, then have the spin put on it, is enough to misguide anyone. People are wondering why those of us on the right use blogs to bash those on the left, well, it`s to try to keep things as even as possible. As educated as our TV journalist are, they will only give you their personal views. These views are genuine, or the would have never been hired by their liberal employers in the first place. So people, believe what you want to, but I would suggest you use your own intellect to guide you, not mainstream media.

Do you what does mean by redneck—-HATE, POOR, STUPID, terrorist for civil society.

Iraq has got a nasty little thorne in it’s side. He is another crazy leader (saddam want to be). he is AL SADR. He must be taken out or surrender and call off his little army. If he doent surrender it could lead to his own demise. Remember Zarqawi?????? he was another little thorn, but he caused his own demise by not stepping down, he beheaded our troops. We are making progress in IRAQ. We may be there for quite some time,,, but it will not be to take over IRAQ,,,OR TO have war there. We will be there like we have soldiers PEACEFULLY,, IN south korea, Geramany,, ect. ect.

edward from texas,,,,,, WOW MAN,,,THANKS FOR THE COMPLIMENT

Redneck Woman, That has been explained a thousand times, but some people have the 100 years thing tatooed on their brain for life. I am getting burned out on talking to people with tunnel vision.

What age group were you in the sixities ? I was not into all the hippie movement or drugs . I was a mom of 4 and wife of a soldier who had his time in VeitNam . Not a nice time ..the sixites unless I guess if you were a hippie. The war then was ugly . This one is too.

RC,,, me too… you are right,, tunnel vision

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June,,, I have a son who is a SGT. IN THE U.S. ARMY. Yes he has done a long term in iraq,,, he may have to go back this year….

June, I was born in 1949, and I went into the USMC in 1967. Your right, the war was ugly. I will never try to make it seem like anything else. All i can say is, public opinion has a lot to do with the outcome of war, and the media has a lot to do with public opinion.

Well for me I would rather see Hillary with her baggage in the white house than the Boma man . I think John McCain is okay ,but he is much on the Bush path which bothers me. He needs a plan of his own not just fall in Bush’s muddy tracks. Note ..I didn’t say anything about the hundred year war . I do not think he meant that literally.

RC I agree somewhat, but what really amazes me is the people flocking behind Obama , people I would have never dreamed would before the Wright sermons and then after , they are still trailing behind him. I am not talking about people so old they have to be driven to the polls ,I mean educated young people who evidently can not see the forrest for the trees. I have lost friends for saying I would not vote for Obama.

June, I will admit that we don`t have much to pick from, but I don`t think it is as bleek as it might seem. McCain has seen war first hand, and I really have to believe he hates it. But he is a realist who knows how best to implement it. Bush likes to use our troops like a board game. It`s kinda like the little punk kid who always treatens other kids, be telling them his big brother is going to get them. Ive said before that I don`t think anyone has the right to hand out orders for war, if they have never had the misfortune of reading their own.

June, I don`t know what the fsination is. maybe they want to be part of history, or maybe they are affraid of being labeled racist for not supporting him. I don`t really care what their reasoning is, I just hope they can live with what they have done, when it all goes south.

RC,,,,, I think obama is percieved as a hero,, one that is going to make all war go away. His charisma is a deception to our younger people. I only hope our young people are smart enough to research ,, that there are home grown terrorist already here.

I just want to say if it is Obama or McCain then do you have to guess who I will be voting for?

no

We’re sitting back here in Florida and as Hillary supporter waiting to vote for John mcCain. I’m not going to waste my time telling you why. I’m coming out today to bash a degenerate named Ed Shultz who has embarked on a fateful trip to elect Barack Obama. He like MSMBC and Air America has gone “all in” for obama and will trash anyone who stands in their way. Ed Shultz and the rest have miscalculated the November result. they have done so for very understandable reasons. All are desperately trying to pump some life into their dwindling ratings. I’m from Florida and a Hillary support as all have read in these Fox blogs ad-nauseum for 2 months. The bottom line is simple. we are embarassed by those who would sell their very souls to achieve what they percieve as success. We look forward to the defeat of Obama in Florida and therefore for the Presidency in November and we hope that that defeat will also spell the demise of MSMBC and Air Amaerica. As for Ed Schultz, it doesn’t really matter. He will self destruct because he is a mouth breathing idiot not unlike his counter part ole Rushbo.

Hey RedNeck woman I think all the christians commenting here need to urge McCain to commit to ending this illegal occupation of Iraq that has taken not only the lives of 4000 US soldiers but hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqi lives (men, women and children).

J Taylor, That would seem like the christian thing to do, but it would kill more people than it would save. We cant invade a country, then just walk away leaving our mess behind. That is much worse than the initial invasion. Right or wrong, we have to finish it now.

J Taylor,,, did you know that russia has been flying their fighter jets over alaska?? in the NO FLY ZONE??? did you know a l ot of the mortars used in iraq are from iran ????? remember, Saddam killed thousands and thousands of his own people????

MCCAIN ,just demanded an apology from the obama campaign

[...] supposed to change politics? Nope….all we heard is silence until today, and only after being asked to repudiate the remarks. After numerous inquiries from Obama’s traveling press, the Obama campaign eventually responded [...]

will not vote for the Bama man.

I just heard Bama man has 23% lead over Hillary in N.C. I am ashamed of my state! I just pray he can’t win the election. Why do people want him do be president? What do you people think he can do? I would like to know. People are flocking behind him like the folks that followed Jim Jones.

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http://www.webtrec.com/hillary

I’d trust John McCain with the security of my family and the nation where I’d be nervous letting Obama watching my dog! Wonder if Barrack Hussein Obama will respond with the character McCain did under the same circumstances - doubt it? BHO sure is a fine bowler though huh?

Todd, I`d be nervous too. There are some people in Indonesia who think that dog meat is good eating.

1-WHY WOULD YOU VOTE FOR OBAMA?

2- WHAT CAN HE DO FOR OUR COUNTRY?

3- WILL HE DO FOR THE PEOPLE?

4-NAME ALL THE REASONS WHY YOU THINK HE WILL MAKE THE BEST PRESIDENT

I just read an article that says,B.O. will try to win more votes in RURAL PA. by telling them that he SUPPORTS the N.R.A. though he is not a fishing man, nor a hunter,, that he is a city guy. Has any one else heard this??????? What else will he say to get a vote?

I don’t want Big O to appologize, It wouldnt mean a thing. It would be just like his the rest of his empty retoric. Not to mention all the Big O groupies would use it as one of his steps to “unite the country”

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[...] Barack Obama has thrown Lefty radio talk show host Ed Shultz under the bus and repudiated his assertion that John McCain is a “WARMONGER.” Yesterday evening, Senator Barack Obama dropped by a fundraiser for North Dakota Democrats. The campaign arranged with the state party to allow a print pool reporter to accompany the senator, but no cameras were allowed, which has been typical at fundraisers (usually the events are not equipped to handle cameras, which require lights, a sound system, and risers). [...]

Obama is a wimp. He ALWAYS asksMcCain to stand up for him. Obama is a JOKE!!! NOTHING will energize the republicans MORE in Nov. than Obama.

I’m gonna vore for obama because the gov. does not take enough taxes out of my paycheck. It would be REALLY nice to have MORE of my pay STOLEN before I can see it

McCain wants to keep the race clean (because McCain knows there in a lot of dirt that could be used on him out there)

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Clinton Leads 50 - 41 Among Pennsylvania Democrats; Quinnipiac University Poll Finds; Whites Give Clinton Lead In Key November Matchups: — PENNSYLVANIA Democrats: Clinton 50 - Obama 41; FLORIDA: Clinton 44 - McCain 42; McCain 46 - Obama 37; OHIO: Clinton 48 - McCain 39; Obama 43 - McCain 42

New York Sen. Hillary Clinton holds a 50 - 41 percent lead over Illinois Sen. Barack Obama among likely Pennsylvania Democratic primary voters and runs better against Arizona Sen. John McCain, the likely Republican nominee in Pennsylvania, Florida and Ohio, according to a Quinnipiac University poll.

In general election match ups of the three largest and most important swing states in the Electoral College, the survey finds.
Florida: Clinton 44 percent - McCain 42 percent; McCain beats Obama 46 - 37 percent;
Ohio: Clinton beats McCain 48 - 39 percent; Obama gets 43 percent to McCain’s 42 percent;
Pennsylvania: Clinton tops McCain 48 - 40 percent; Obama leads McCain 43 - 39 percent.

The primary vote between Obama and Clinton splits sharply along racial lines, with her advantage coming from stronger support in every contest from white voters. For example, Clinton leads 59 - 34 percent among white Pennsylvania likely primary voters, while Obama leads 73 - 11 percent among black Democrats.

“When it comes to November, Sen. Hillary Clinton’s strength is a big edge over Sen. Barack Obama among white voters, who have not given a majority of their votes to a Democratic presidential nominee since Lyndon Johnson in 1964,” said Peter A. Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute.”

More than a third of voters in the three states think Obama’s race is an advantage, more than twice the number who think it is a disadvantage. By contrast, roughly a quarter of voters say Clinton’s gender is an advantage, and about the same number think it is a disadvantage.

“Former Democratic vice presidential nominee Geraldine Ferraro’s assertion that Obama’s race has helped his candidacy finds some support among the electorate,” said Brown.

“AT LEAST FOR NOW, SEN. CLINTON`S ARGUMENT THAT SHE IS THE BETTER GENERAL ELECTION CANDIDATE IN THESE KEY BATTLEGROUND STATES APPEARS TO HAVE SOME VALIDITY,” SAID BROWN. “IN THIS SURVEY, HER STRENGTH AMONG WHITE VOTERS IS WHY SHE RUNS BETTER AGAINST SEN. McCAIN THAN DOES SEN. OBAMA.

“Roughly one in five Democrats in the three states say they will vote for McCain against Obama, but less than 10 percent say they would vote for McCain over Clinton. Among white Democrats, 23 percent defect to McCain in a matchup with Obama, but only 11 percent defect when Clinton is the Democratic candidate.”

Pennsylvania

Among Pennsylvania Democrats, Clinton leads 54 - 37 percent with women, and ties Obama 46 - 46 percent with men. Obama leads 51 - 42 percent among voters under 45 years old, while Clinton leads 54 - 37 percent among voters over 45.

By a 48 - 42 percent margin, Pennsylvania registered voters have a favorable opinion of Clinton. Obama gets a 49 - 31 percent favorability and McCain gets 47 - 31 percent.

“Sen. Clinton’s imaginary snipers, Rev. Wright, Geraldine Ferraro, these events have taken only a small toll on Sen. Clinton’s lead in the Pennsylvania Democratic primary,” said Clay F. Richards, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute.

“Her strength is her clear advantage among white voters - blue collar whites, less educated whites, economically hurting whites, that group known famously as Reagan Democrats in the Keystone State. Obama is marshalling all his forces, but despite his eloquent dialogue on the race issue, Pennsylvania Democrats are unmoved. So Far.”

The economy is the most important issue in their vote, 46 percent of voters say, followed by 23 percent who list the war in Iraq and 14 percent who cite health care.

Looking at the most important quality in a candidate, 30 percent want a strong leader and 26 percent want someone who is trustworthy.

Being black is an advantage for Obama, 32 percent say, while 15 percent say it’s a disadvantage and 47 percent say it makes no difference.

Being a woman is an advantage for Clinton, 26 percent say, with 25 percent saying it’s a disadvantage and 45 percent saying it makes no difference.

Florida

In a general election match-up, McCain trails Clinton 44 - 42, too close to call, but handily defeats Obama 46 - 37 percent.

“The difference between Clinton and Obama in Florida is the white vote,” said Brown. “She gets 38 percent to 50 percent for McCain, but Obama loses to the Arizona senator 54 - 27 among white voters. If Obama does get the nomination, how he fares with whites will be crucial to his chances.”

The economy is the most important issue to Florida voters, 44 percent of voters say, followed by 19 percent who list the war in Iraq and 14 percent who cite health care.

Twenty-nine percent say a strong leader is the most important characteristic they seek in a president, while 27 percent say trustworthiness.

Being black is an advantage for Obama, 35 percent say, while 15 percent say it’s a disadvantage and 44 percent say it makes no difference.

Being a woman is an advantage for Clinton, 24 percent say, with 25 percent saying it’s a disadvantage and 47 percent saying it makes no difference.

Ohio

Clinton’s 48 - 39 percent lead over McCain puts her clearly out in front after several months of see-saw, too-close-to-call results.

Men split with 43 percent for McCain and 42 percent for Clinton, but women go with her 53 - 35 percent.

In an Obama-McCain matchup in Ohio, women back Obama 44 - 40 percent as men split, with 44 percent for McCain and 42 percent for Obama.

The economy is the most important issue in their vote, 44 percent of voters say, followed by 22 percent who list the war in Iraq and 17 percent who cite health care.

“The economic concerns of voters make Ohio a tougher challenge for McCain than has traditionally been the case for Republicans, who have never won the White House without carrying Ohio,” Brown said. “But Obama’s weakness among white men is an indication that he has not yet closed the sale among the lunch bucket brigade.”

Ohio voters split in the most important quality they want in a candidate, with 28 percent looking for someone trustworthy and 27 percent looking for a strong leader.

Being black is an advantage for Obama, 36 percent say, while 14 percent say it’s a disadvantage and 45 percent say it makes no difference.

Being a woman is an advantage for Clinton, 24 percent say, with 27 percent saying it’s a disadvantage and 46 percent saying it makes no difference.

From March 24 - 31, Quinnipiac University surveyed:
1,136 Florida voters with a margin of error of +/- 2.9 percent;
1,238 Ohio voters with a margin of error of +/- 2.8 percen