Over at the Lincoln Journal-Star, Don Walton buries this nugget in his latest column:
New 2nd District Democratic poll shows Barack Obama and John McCain virtually even in measurements of approval and disapproval.
The figures for Bush tip substantially toward disapproval.
That seems to point toward an effort to tie McCain securely to Bush as Obama seeks a presidential electoral vote in the metropolitan Omaha congressional district.
Jim Esch trailed Lee Terry by a single digit in the poll. (Emphasis added)
Unfortunately, the who, what, and when of this poll is still unknown, so take it with a grain of salt until we can find out more about this phantom poll.
SSP currently rates this race as Likely Republican.
…”trailed by single digits”. Which would be good as is.
That’s valuable even if it’s entirely made up
Terry only beat Esch 55-45 in 2006 despite Esch’s being outspent more than 2:1. This race has always been a sleeper. I still seriously doubt the race is within 7 points much less 1.
stand Lee Terry. He’s an absolute doof. I can’t stand his new ad either. It wouldn’t surprise me to see this poll be at least in the ballpark. Obama should certainly run better in Omaha than did Kerry and his campaign kicked off canvasing her this weekend (the first Dem to do so in forever).
Please let Lee Terry go down!
If there was like a number to back up this claim of “Jim Esch trails Lee Terry by a single digit in the poll”
purely semantics: he says a single digit, not a single point. Either of them would be pretty good, all things considered.