Obama’s Ads Far More Negative, Study Finds
By SusanUnPC on September 18, 2008 at 1:35 PM in Advertising, Barack Obama, McCain/Palin 2008, Obama Attack Ads
From the Christian Science Monitor:
[...]
Negative campaigning
McCain goes negative and Obama does not — a pattern? No. It’s actually the opposite, according to a new study released today. The Wisconsin Advertising Project found that Obama went negative in 77 percent of his commercials last week while McCain’s were only 56 percent negative.
The director of the study, Ken Goldstein, said “advertising reflects reality” and that reality appears to suggest that Obama needed to fight back.
“It suggests that the Sarah Palin pick and the newfound aggressiveness by MCain got into Obama’s head a little bit,” Goldstein says. “He was under great pressure to show some spine, be aggressive, fire back.”
Here are more reports on the “ad wars” and the false perception Obama is spreading that McCain is more negative when, in fact, it’s Obama who’s airing the most negative ads:
From U.S. News & World Report:
Obama and McCain Flood Battleground States With $a5 Million in TV Ads
Much of their advertising budgets is dedicated to Florida, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Michigan
By Liz Halloran
Posted September 17, 2008The Obama and McCain presidential campaigns, along with both political party organizations, have flooded the airways with more than $15 million in television advertising since the convention and, despite early predictions of an “expanded playing field,” the key states targeted look very much like the same battleground states of 2004, according to an analysis released today by the Wisconsin Advertising Project.
The project, directed by Ken Goldstein of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, found that the campaigns were dumping their biggest loads of TV advertising money into Florida, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Michigan.
GOP nominee John McCain has spent $7.8 million in television advertising since his convention early this month, including $4.5 million to air spots in 10 battleground states–with a heavy new focus in Florida.
Democratic nominee Barack Obama has spent almost the same–$7.77 million, with $3.56 million devoted to the 10 battleground states identified by the project.
The post-convention buys, says Goldstein, “give us the first insights into the campaigns’ assessments of where they think they are competitive as the fall campaign heats up. Advertising represents reality.”
The survey also found that 97 percent of Obama’s ads were sponsored by the candidate but that McCain, who accepted public financing for the general election campaign and is limited to $84 million in what he can spend, has run 57 percent of his ads in cooperation with the Republican National Committee. The RNC is playing a major role in funding McCain’s fall effort.
The survey also found that Obama has run a higher percentage of negative ads than McCain since the conventions closed—77 percent to 56 percent. All of the Obama ads that mentioned McCain pictured him with or mentioned President Bush. …
(Release: November 13)
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Obama is going all out to win. But I think that it is too early. Come October, when the repubs lower their guns, Obama wont be able to recover in time.
Excellent point. Opampers will be out of steam and diapers.
I’m thinking the same thing. McCain’s team has been very gentle so far compared with what they have to work with if they want it(Rezko, Wright, Ayers, one-ply toilet paper thin resume, missing info, and so on and on).
Yeah,we’ll see how badly McCain wants to win in October. A republican strategist said they were getting ready to unload on FOX.
Who can argue with science?
“BLINK and you would have missed it. The expression of disgust on former US president Bill Clinton’s face during his speech to the Democratic National Convention as he says “Obama” lasts for just a fraction of a second. But to Paul Ekman it was glaringly obvious.”
The rest:
http://technology.newscientist.com/article/mg19926746.200-software-spots-the-spin-in-political-speeches.html
Yep. I always did like Bill.
The electoral map doesn’t look too great for Obama now. If he doesn’t shore up that barely dem. He’s finished. No wonder McCain isn’t attacking that much.
http://www.electoral-vote.com/
BO’s campaign seems to be pretty good at using the techniques associated with electoral success — they just seem to be challenged when it comes to connecting with voters and offering real substance.
Maybe because BO never had any real substance.
Barack connects with voters very cleverly.
Too bad he doesn’t use a condom.
This is from another PUMA site, and it upsets me. Looks like everyone is out to lynch Palin.
In stunningly self-centered, cruel fashion, Nicholas Provenzo, writer for the Center for the Advancement of Capitalism suggests that Sarah Palin’s decision to give birth to a child with Down Syndrome, is a financial burden that others are forced to suffer with.
Quote:
Like many, I am troubled by the implications of Alaska governor and Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s decision to knowingly give birth to a child disabled with Down syndrome. Given that Palin’s decision is being celebrated in some quarters, it is crucial to reaffirm the morality of aborting a fetus diagnosed with Down syndrome (or by extension, any unborn fetus)—a freedom that anti-abortion advocates seek to deny.
Quote:
A parent has a moral obligation to provide for his or her children until these children are equipped to provide for themselves. Because a person afflicted with Down syndrome is only capable of being marginally productive (if at all) and requires constant care and supervision, unless a parent enjoys the wealth to provide for the lifetime of assistance that their child will require, they are essentially stranding the cost of their child’s life upon others.
All of our lives are essentially standing upon others. Actually more and more our lives stand on the hard work of foreigners.
Yup, it’s also going on in colleges, by professors no less.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NiGQ-jYNXI
This kind of Liberal facist thinking started in Germany about the time Hitler started to rise. Eventually it lead to a “valid” excuse for the Holocaust.
in my opinion, you hit this square on!
In my opinion you’re sounding like a bunch of wingers. What are you guys doing here? PUMA is for Democrats.
For you to come here and spew like you do is like coming to a party and peeing in the punch bowl.
Wow sounds like Eugenics.
We have seen this in the 1930’s
The less able the weak or weak minded have no place in the Reich.
Tis an ugly image. Yes it is.
But I wonder how many O’Bots will elude this fate?
Just more Obama hypocrisy of old politics per usual- so much for a change.. Liar liar Obama’s pants on fire.
The bots support a phony old DC/DNC loser!
I am pro-choice , not pro-abortion…the idea that any baby with a deformity or special issue “should” be aborted is something Hitler supported…not good.
Obama aborted his half-brother in Kenya. That we know.
A little more on Obama’s Sex Ed Bill…
When Hillary called him on it, he said it was to teach kids about HIV, now his story has changed…guilty as charged. Pass it on.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNqyt2vac4E
I’m sure those numbers are accurate, at least for the past few days. There’s no question that Obama had to fight back, and I’m very glad he did. And those ads might even be part of the reason that he is now kicking McCain’s sorry ass to the curb in every single national tracking poll and almost all the latest battleground state polls. Note, however, that Obama’s negative attack ads are issues-based, whereas McCain’s were about “celebrity,” “disrespectful,” “lipstick,” the infamous, disastrous sex ed one, etc.
McCain is a pathetic candidate and, one week after the convention, it is now clear that, as I predicted here on NQ, Palin was a disastrous VP choice. The American people have taken a look at her and rejected her, and their ticket is going to get hammered in 45 days.
Please come back after the GE when we tell you: We told you so. Oh, the negative ads were issue-based? Time for your meds, SF.
McCain and Obama are still tied according to Rasmussen – the vaunted CBS poll for some bizarre reason decided to add 4% more Democrats in their measurement for the latest. So I don’t buy that Obama is suddenly ahead. I think certain people want you to think he is ahead.
I respect Rasmussen a lot, and his is the most pro-McCain tracking number right now, and he has shown steady movement from McCain to Obama all week. And if you know how 3-day tracking polls work, you understand that by tomorrow or Saturday, Obama’s probably going to be leading in that one too.
But there isn’t just one other national poll that shows Obama leading, there are about five: Hotline, Research 2000, Gallup, Quinnipac, New York Times, and CBC, and that’s just off the top of my head. And all those pollsters show a 3, 4, 5 point Obama lead.
We’re also seeing the same thing show up in states, where suddenly Obama is being shown ahead in Ohio, Virginia, Florida, etc. Clearly something happened in the past few days. I think it’s clearly a combination of the national press recoiling at McCain’s deeply dishonest campaigning and basically calling him a liar, and the economic crisis, to which McCain’s response was, to be polite, unimpressive.
I think you are unimpressive.
And to which Saint Obama’s response was to grab more loot from his Billionaire Hollywood sucker list of wanna-be cronies.
Only as a satirist would I welcome an Obama Presidency. Bad politicians are so much easier to satirize than good ones. Too bad the Bammer doesn’t stand a chance.
The MSM is also getting tired of Sarah Palin. The Palin phenomenon is doomed.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/09/15/business/marketwatch/main4448337.shtml
Oh, you too, freedom. Please do have the courage to come back to this site after the GE. You’ll need detox.
Yes, as CNN testifies. They ran her entire speech and then people were so touched by her that they continued showing McCain’s.
Did you just reference CBS News? HONESTLY?
*sigh*
Willful complicity….
Really!
Dumbass Obamabrats quoting mainstream tabloid media as gospel?
Not the move.
foo fighter;
wait till barko once again gets the limelight: ayers, rezko, etc…
you’ll wish palin was getting all the attention.
be careful what you wish for… you just might get it.
actually, you’re gonna get it anyway, so why add to your misery?
I say this slow:
IN
YOUR
DREAMS
Bye-bye, sleep tight.
Spot on, SFhillary. Except that I fear that the quick evaporation of the Palin bounce means the GOP will have to get even dirtier to win. No doubt they’ll take Mark Penn’s advice and hammer Obama as un-American (and anti-Christian).
Howard Kaloogian’s “Our Country Deserves Better” PAC has already gone there, with some fistfuls of pungent slime on YouTube.
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/election_20082/2008_presidential_election/majority_of_voters_say_only_mccain_biden_prepared_to_be_president
A poll from this week:
Only 44% say Obama is prepared to be president. Now how is he going to win with numbers like that? He isn’t?
Shiloh, you should be asking why John McCain, a war hero, can’t maintain a lead in the polls over a manifestly unqualified ultraliberal who’s half African and has the middle name “Hussein.” What is up with that?
What part of Bush disaster and republican party are you not getting? I’m shocked Barky isn’t ahead by at least 20 points by now. He should be picking out curtains for the Lincoln bedroom and sending out thank you cards at this point not barely treading water. I’d feel sorry for the bastard if he wasn’t such an arrogant ass with no reason to be arrogant.
I’m shocked Barky isn’t ahead by at least 20 points by now.
If you’re shocked by that, then you must not have grown up in America.
Damn you are a racist. I don’t give a shit about colour. I want the most qualified person in office. That would have been Hillary. Now it’s Mccain. I’m sure most Americans feel the same way. Powell would have won in a landslide if he would have run against Bush in 2000.
Judging by the way you spell “colour,” I must be correct: you didn’t grow up in America.
So where was it? England? Or South Africa?
Oh for cryin’ outloud. I lived in Europe for a spell. PS Stephen Biko was a hero of mine. As well as Bishop Tutu.
^ I knew there was something I liked about you.
If the vote really went along racial lines you would be hollaring.
spot on, undercover. you forgot to take your meds again. dont get deranged when Obama loses the GE. You’ll need very special care.
The trolls seem to forget Opampers limped across the finish line only because of inside help. In other words he could not close the deal by himself. The GE is a whole different animal and no caucuses and RBC skulduggery to help him. The MSM alone won’t be able to save his sorry ass.
UBM is going to need an anti-psychotic meds rather than his usual Prozac.
And isn’t it special that so many bots are out today. Panic, panic, panic!
Notice how the trolls are “hunting in packs now”
That is a sure sign that they are Obama’s paid bloggers or know each other. Wish the campaign would change it up a little and give us some with brains.
LMFAO!
Cut us some slack, will you, tzada? We were flop-sweating like crazy last week… biting our fingernails down to the nubs.
Oh we of little faith. Instead of folding like Superman on laundry day, Obama kept pushing forward.
You lot may have the last laugh. But for now, Obama’s looking strong.
A troll who actually recognizes this. Hat’s off to you.
You could say that if this election was in a vacuum historically. With the approval rating of Bush Opampers should be ahead by 20 points. Obviously Opampers has some deep problems. I think the 20 year church thing continues to be his albatross.
FYI, he does not look strong. He has spent the last two weeks doing everything he can to counter the fact that Palin just showed up. That is not strong, that is desperation. The GE is has just begun.
McCain has the Zero team right where he wants them: in his sight. I’m not sweating about the polls. I know the McCain teams has the goods, the Palin pick proved it to me. You just watch and learn. Take notes.
I know the McCain teams has the goods, the Palin pick proved it to me.
JP… dude… bro-ski… even Karl flippin’ Rove says Palin was “a political pick” and that the excitement surrounding her will wear off soon.
Matter fact, it’s wearing off already. Like that sugar crash after you drink a Red Bull.
I can’t believe you guys got faked out of your socks by a typical post-convention bounce! Y’all thought it was all over but the counting!
Look at how McCain and Palin have been stammering and staggering since the Wall Street meltdown, then reconsider your statement as to who has “the goods.”
You quoting Karl Rove should wake you up from your stupor of delusion.
Ever heard of a TRAP?
You think about how it looks Obummer team quoting Karl Rove. Just think about it for a minute.
Besides, I haven’t said the GE is over. I said it has JUST BEGUN.
Well, it’s “beginning” with Obama trending up and McCain trending down.
Sorry if that ruins your day.
Nope, it doesn’t ruin my day. Sorry if my day not being ruined ruins yours.
Besides, it is Obama who started GE round being down. But hey, short memories and all that. Right?
Sugar crash? Seems Obama and his minions relate better to coming down from illegal drugs. I find it funny that he garners support from all the evil, vile and scum on a regular basis, but today has said he rejects Lindsay Lohan’s endorsement.
What a joke.
Then her dad felt he must point out that Obama is condemning her because of doing the same things he (Obama) has.
Drug using losers.
He’s right, I guess, Pam Anderson is a much classier endorsement. ROFL.
Real, thinking Americans will reject the immorality and hypocrisy of both Hollywood and Obama.
Even you couldn’t want such reckless and self pitying trash to lead this country.
If you brought up “drug using losers,” McHope, you must not’ve seen the latest National Enquirer.
Womp womp.
Obama is a crack using thug that represents all of what is corrupt and bad in those neighborhoods he has ’served’. You know it, you cannot defend it.
There’s no moral he hasn’t trashed, no principle he’s ever fought for.
But you see, he will go on bilking the community out of their money long after he loses; while you, sir, have had the greatest fraud perpetrated against you. He cares nothing for you, you are being used and you seem to like it. He’s proven he will not defend you, he will not provide for you, he, in fact, has great disdain for you.
So much for the Great Black Hope.
Obama is a crack using thug…
When the Enquirer reports it, I’ll believe it.
Obama has reported his own drug use. It’s obvious Obama followers have no level of comprehension for written, verbal, or visual information.
Obama tells you daily through his own words and actions how corrupt, unqualified and tasteless he is.
Who’s worse? The con artist or the utter fool who falls for the con?
Good luck on your path to redemtion with your cocaine using, money laundering, board stacking, tax dollar funnelling, terrorist appeasing messiah.
redemption *sp
‘quicker evaporation’? — and just how does that measure up against ‘negative bounce’?
Why don’t you, SFHillary and the other moron — Freedom Fighter start a new 0bama trend? Instead of getting in our faces with nonsense, try some facts, mkay? Got my new McCain/Palin yard sign. Put it out on a street with NO SIGNS here in Ohio … 40+ houses. I figure that I am letting it all hang out so others can, too. I’ll let you know when the next McCain sign comes out, and the next, and the next. Oh. Tomorrow, I work the phones calling other dissatisfied Dems. Got to love it. Do something POSITIVE.
McCain will have to get “even” dirtier. Um, did you read the article you are commenting on?
This race is essentially tied. Obama has never been able to put McCain away despite the fact that there are more democrats than republicans.
So is Barack going to bring his new toy to the debates. You know the “telaprompter”.
You wish Obama was kicking McCain’s ass.
I keep imagining Obama trailing a really long extension cord behing him.
He will use one in the debates and one of his advisors, not him, will answer the questions.
You cannot allow the man to speak because then people see through him!
Even with the teleprompter, he has not issued one statement to address the econmic issues this week. Day after day, he makes another excuse for why he hasn’t got any solutions. Today, he actually said that he doesn’t want to make a plan because he hopes McCain will make a mistake.
What inspiration, what comfort from a great and thoughtful leader.
How many times does he have to prove in real time how inept, and innefective he is?
Iraq- Wrong
Russia/Georgia- Wrong
Iran- Wrong
Pakistan- Wrong
Economic crisis- Present.
These are current events affecting the welfare of the nation. He has not demonstrated the slightest ability to determine, analyze or react sufficently to any crisis.
The only thing he is good at is running a campaign by using questionable, underhaned, and illegal tactics.
Sphincter starting to tighten up, sugar? Starting to think the unthinkable? That “The Precious” just might actually lose this election in this, a year in which all the stars were perfectly aligned for the Dems to retake the White House.
Better get used to the idea, honey. Here’s the facts for ya ….
The polls are basically tied right now (Actually, I think McCain is probably really 3-4 points ahead because of the Bradley Effect) and the remaining undecided voters are overwhelmingly white and lower-middle or middle class. This is a demographic that strongly favors McCain. If he wins these undecided voters by just 55-45, he’ll win fairly comfortably on Nov. 5th.
I’m still blown away that they’re tied. This should have been a blowout for the Democrats of epic proportion. And Barky is only TIED? Jesus wept. How the hell do we keep screwing ourselves?
McCain has closed the gap in the internals. All these Obama bot cheering about the polls. The map is turning red.
Obama will not pick up a single red state while McCain will pick up at least 6-8 blue states. I understand you have a job to do here but deep down you know this is going to be rout of McGovernesque proportions once the reality of who Obama is and his lack of American roots are really brought to light.
If McCain takes PA and MI and holds his states, it’s over.
You are entitled to your opinion but not your own facts. The fact are that the closer the race the more news people watch and the worse the economy does the better for Oblahblah. So be happy when corruption rules so that your wishes come true.
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/election_20082/2008_presidential_election/majority_of_voters_say_only_mccain_biden_prepared_to_be_president
A poll from this week:
Where’s Obama in the rankings?
The polls aren’t showing the whole picture. Barack has brought in 20 million new African American and youth voters who aren’t accurately reflected in the polls. The reality is that Barack is probably up by 20 points.
The Youth vote is so reliable./sarcasm
I wouldn’t get too comfortable banking my election hopes on the Youth vote. Honestly, I seem remember the “Vote or Die” drama the last time around.
Oh boy, after the GE, freedom needs immediate detox. delusions of grandeur is what I call it. It’ll be hard for you, freedom. but dont tell us you weren’t warned.
“There’s a word for candidates who rely on the youth vote: losers.”
James Carville
Carville knows what he is talking about. By time we get to November 4th Zeromama will have been so sullied by the 527’s that he’ll be smelling too bad for the college youth to be bothered to vote for him. By then the trend will be that it is cooler NOT to vote for him.
Exactly!
Are you pulling statistics out of your ass. Blacks make up between 12 and 13 percent of the population. That works out to be about 35million people which about 35% are underage. That leaves about 20million blacks which according to your theory have never voted. The public votes in presidential races are about a 62% rate of registered voters and about 53% of the population as a whole. One of the great fallacies is the size of the nonvoting population. It isn’t as large as you think. The new voters you see quoted are not really new voters so much as people registering again and again or people with change of addresses. So don’t get your hopes up on this so called new voters there just not there.
Here’s my feeling on this too. If you have to actively go and find someone who is not registered by this point, then that person is already too apathetic to want to vote in the upcoming election. They won’t get around to it, they’ll forget, they’ll get busy. People who are not registered by now DO NOT VOTE.
Marvin,
Maybe this loser is talking about all of the dead people Obama and ACORN have probably recently registered as “voters.”
Seriously – Obama and his crooked crew must be watched so that they don’t steal this election. And I hope McCain’s people are watching them all the way up to Election Day.
Oh you silly person. That’s just like the AA’s in Georgia making it look as if they can turn the state for Barry. They, along with all the Republicans who didn’t want to fight against Hillary in the GE, were the mask you all went for. Have you checked out GA now? There aren’t enough AA’s to overwhelm any election when the Republicans step up to the lever.
That’s just like Obama is still hoping Gary can turn Indiana. desperate.
the only tripping these new voters will be doing AIN’T to the polls…
Felons and Dead People, Dead People and Felons and a child or sixty…. We will spot them at the polls. Believe me I will study signatures and do whatever it takes.
Seriously, that is probably THE single dumbest statement I’ve ever seen posted here.
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/election_20082/2008_presidential_election/palin_47_biden_44_in_make_believe_presidential_match_up
Biden defeated by Palin in a matchup? I wonder why they don’t like Joe.
Maybe some people remember how he shafted Anita Hill and helped us get stuck with Clarence Thomas.
The only real debate will be between Palin and Biden. They will speak their minds and the sparks will fly. Undecided will make their minds who they will vote for.
and don’t forget biden’s mbna bankruptcy bill…
I’m sure that question will come up. Biden is practicing right now to answer with a straight face.
Bwahahahahaha! You are delusional. You must have missed McCain and Palin speaking today. They kicked his “skinny” ass to the curb!
“Obama’s negative attack ads are issues-based”
BWAHAHAAHAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAHAAAHAHHAAAAA!!!!!!!!
Oh my goodness gracious. How deep in denial one can be.
.
I guess they forget choice means just that. Whatever that choice may be. These twits annoy the hell out of me. Grrrr they can go directly to hell.
Patti, you got a point. But when these people analyse the intent, they don’t take that into view. Their thought-process is: come on, the baby has down syndrome. which mother would logically knowingly give birth to a child with down syndrome. and therein lies the problem. and its nasty. more like eugenics. terrible….
Hell is where we will all be if “these twits” are allowed to assume power. Obots scare the sh!t out of me. Where did Obots come from? Where they hiding in the bushes and just appeared in 2008? It’s like they weren’t even raised in the same country as us. They have no sense of the common values and principals of American culture.
OMG they are POD people! Eeecck!!
“unless a parent enjoys the wealth to provide for the lifetime of assistance that their child will require, they are essentially stranding the cost of their child’s life upon others.”
OMG, I didn’t know the Palins were on Welfare…NOT.
Sounds to me as if the Palins are pretty self sufficient and have loads of family who pitch in to help in every way.
More to the point I know people with Down Syndrom who have made much of their lives. I know that some will never be self sufficient but their presence is valuable.
I don’t like the idea of someone sitting in judgement over which life is valuable and which is not.
Who do these liberal nutjobs think they are?!? They have expressed distain for the society having to support special needs people but they want to take my hard EARNED money and give it to hose that did not earn it.
These people are able bodied they can make their own way.
WHo is next? Disabled soldiers?
In my humble opinion, I strongly believe that these bastards are former Bushbrats who (almost) wrecked then abandoned the Republican party.
They act exactly like the former Bush supporters did eight years ago – completely evil and hateful!
Barky still doesn’t get it…Michigan is bigger than Detroit…Aaaaaand the same can be said of other states…The Working class aint’ buyin it…
Take a look at New York State, for instance.
Ahhh… New York state. Obama +13 in the latest Rasmussen poll.
No one is expecting McCain to win NY. Opampers was supposed to redraw the electoral map but at this time the map is looking very traditionally blue versus red. That fantasy of redrawing the map may have worked to con the Democrats in the primary but won’t push him over the finish line in the GE.
I am in fact, expecting McCain to win NY and CA. I think Obama will win IL and DC only.
Yeah. Ask them how they feel about the settlement of $8.4 Million paid to the police officers when Kilpatrick LIED …. it is a real sore spot.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0908/13541.html
One Elizabeth Drew has written an indictment of John McCain, representing herself as a quasi-historian based on a bio she did of McCain. “How John McCain lost me.” What she doesn’t say is that if you look her up at the FEC website she’s been a consistent heavy contributor to the Democratic Party.
On the other hand, here’s Donald Trump strongly endorsing McCain:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/personal/09/18/lkl.donald.trump/index.html
Now, if we want to talk about Wall Street and the economy, which seems to be the hot topic of the day, I’d be far more inclined to listen to Donald Trump than Elizabeth Drew.
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D939A0EG9&show_article=1
Needs no comment, really.
Is she stupid or on drugs? Gawd, can you imagine listening to her for four years…Hell, I’ll take Nancy Reagen over her anyday. And Nancy was like tinfoil on fillings to me.
with an electric probe.
Michelle is worse.
clearly….she was talking about herself. As Amy so spot on said as she posed as Hillay on SNL… Bwahahahahahahahaha!
When she referenced that part about “I like that guy” perhaps she’s talking about John McCain because he is more likeable than Barack.
His “NEW” speech…a stimulus plan..LOL..buy the people..shut em’ up…..I’m gonna BUY your LOYALTY..what a Suck azz he is
Obama = Bush 3, except twice conniving.
“Obama = Bush 3, except twice conniving.”
and thrice stupid!
Off Subject…..After the Chicago Tribune exposed him for the do nothing Senator, he caved in.
Jones caves on ethics bill; Senate to meet next week
By: Greg Hinz Sept. 18, 2008
(Crain’s) — Bowing to a request from “my friend Barack Obama,” Illinois Senate President Emil Jones Jr. midday Thursday announced he will call the state Senate back into session next week to take final action on a pending major ethics bill.
“I stand by my interpretation” that the measure could have waited until after the November election, Mr. Jones said in a statement. However, he continued, “I plan to call the Senate back into session to deal with the issue of ethics, only at the request of my friend.”
The statement does not say when the session will occur, but Mr. Jones’ spokeswoman said it will be “sometime next week.”
Mr. Jones has been refusing to call back the Senate until November, even though Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan and others have warned that such a delay places the ethics bill in legal jeopardy.
But Mr. Obama, now a U.S. senator and long Mr. Jones’ political protégé, called the Senate president on Wednesday and asked him to reconsider.
Some government watchdogs and political conservatives had begun to question why Mr. Obama, the Democratic presidential nominee, would not intervene on a matter of such importance. Had the matter become a national story, it could have damaged Mr. Obama’s credentials as a reformer, coming after earlier attacks on his relationship with indicted fundraiser Tony Rezko.
The bill involved would ban political contributions to statewide officials from those who hold a contract worth $50,000 or more with the office. Gov. Rod Blagojevich has moved to widen the bill with an amendatory veto, but the House voted to override, and the bill will die unless the Senate takes similar action.
If those are really the stats, they certainly represenet a dramatic reversal from past weeks. Up till now, McCain campaign ads have been nothing but negative. Obama was either rebutting an attack ad or trying to work in his own position on issues.
The reversal most likely results from a shift of national attention from goundless allegations, celebrity, and lipstick to the national economic crisis.
When the democrats turn their attention to republican economic policy, there just isn’t all that much positive you can say.
wait and see. wait and watch the fun. these are republicans. not twits. It’ll be fun to watch Obama go down this time. and Hillary to rise in 2012.
The republicans always close. All McCain has to do is say tied.
I attribute the reversal to the MSM contriving to level the field and not letting McCain get too far ahead. Is not difficult for them to do that.
But with stocks crashing, the MSM may have a different view now. They all have a lot of money invested in stocks. They may go for the candidate they think will really fix this mess up. So, start looking for some changes.
The stock crisis is over. The reason I say it’s over is because now the democrats want to bailout Detroit. So it will be on the democrats from now on. Those floaters will go back to McCain at the debates or either break for him in the poll booth.
“Paying taxes is patriotic.” Joe Biden explaining redistribution of wealth.
And what was that Joe said the other day about the small town people not being able to understand someone as smart as Barack Obama? Wow! How elitist is that?
Elitism and Black Liberation Theology seems to be their policy. Certainly no definite policy for changing the problems in the economy. Just more generalizations and platitudes.
McCain has started putting out specifics. I hope he avails himself of Trump and his advisers on the real estate issues.
Economists are universally saying that raising taxes in this climate will throw us in to a full scale DEPRESSION (Kinda like the one the bots are living in now).
McCain/Palin 08
What a winning sound bite. Who among us is not delighted to pay more taxes?
Is Biden actually using the words “redistribution of wealth?” I hope so.
PUMA
where is benny?
I heard he was handing out meds
lol
The polls show the McCain lead has now slipped away. Obama is ahead again.
Matter of fact, the lead has grown just since this morning. Obama is now ahead by over 2 points in the RCP poll average.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/polls/
TWO WHOLE POINTS!!!!! HOLY SHIT! ALERT THE MEDIA!!!! Wait.
Now if Obama can just keep his mouth shut till November…
…we’ll have another incompetent ex-cokehead in the White House!
Obama has lied about pretty much everything at this point. He has flipped
on even the most basic principles, whether party or countries. But while
he started his campiagn claiming he was going to bring a “different kind
of politics and campaign” not “dirty politics we’ve seen”, he has done
exactly the opposite and embraced the dirtiest Chicago style politics he’s
in the circle of.
THIS coming from ABC’s Jake Tapper
From the Fact Check Desk: Obama’s New Spanish Language TV Ad Es Erróneo
September 17, 2008 5:53 PM
Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., has launched a new Spanish-language TV ad that
seeks to paint Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., as anti-immigrant, even tying
the Republican to his longtime conservative talk-radio nemesis Rush
Limbaugh.
As first reported by the Washington Post, Obama’s ad features a narrator
saying: “They want us to forget the insults we’ve put up with…the
intolerance…they made us feel marginalized in this country we love so
much.”
The screen then shows these two quotes from Limbaugh:
“…stupid and unskilled Mexicans”
—Rush Limbaugh
“You shut your mouth or you get out!”
—Rush Limbaugh
The narrator then says, “John McCain and his Republican friends have two
faces. One that says lies just to get our vote…and another, even worse,
that continues the policies of George Bush that put special interests
ahead of working families. John McCain…more of the same old Republican
tricks.”
There are some real factual problems with this ad, which is titled “Dos
Caras,” or two faces.
First of all, tying Sen. McCain – especially on the issue of immigration
reform – to Limbaugh is unfair.
(READ THE REST AT THE LINK)
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/09/from-the-fact-1.html
Obama should have really thought long and hard about calling another Senator a LIAR like he just did.
He got away with it within his own party when he did that to Hillary, but this one just earned a donation to the McCain / Palin campaign.
Sweet.
Finally, someone with the balls to call out Biden and Obama for their “hard upbringing, blue-collar” bullshit. Mike Medved at Townhall.
Democrat Fakery on Obama/ Biden Working-class origin
pretty funny, huh?
And how many times did Barry outperform his polling numbers in the primary in races where living people actually voted?
Oh, that’s right, he kept underperfoming.
Translation, anything close means you are losing…
I want to remind the trolls here that McCain is still up in the electoral college, and that’s what counts:
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/election_20082/2008_presidential_election/election_2008_electoral_college_update
When it comes to the polls, lets not be discouraged. A PUMA offered this anaylysis earlier:
Let me start with the polls from OCT 11 2004.
Kerry 280 – Bush 254
http://www.electoral-vote.com/evp2004/Pres/Maps/Oct11.html
Does this not look familiar. Did anybody think that Bush with a 45 to 48 % approval rating going up against a veteran from Vietnam and Senator of 16 years could win? Especially since he was not truly elected in 2000? Everybody in the democratic circles had a sense that the wrongs of 2000 will be corrected and we will finally get a President in the White House who understood our problems and will put an end to the Iraq war. On Nov 1st things looked even better.
Kerry 298 – Bush 231
http://www.electoral-vote.com/evp2004/Pres/Maps/Nov01.html
On Nov 5th 2004, however, those hopes died and everybody tried to find somebody to blame.
This year thing have not really changed. It will all come down to PA,OH, MI and VA
Let’s take PA for example.
Hillary won PA primaries by 55% (1.275 million). BO got about 1.04 million votes. That is 200K + difference. The 2004 election was decided by 144K votes. It will take no more then 20% of Hillary voters defecting to McCain to turn the state red. That is smaller then the 25% who said they will vote for McCain if Obama becomes the nominee in the exit polls.
So whatever the polls say, in the end, I really do think that the repubs will pull this off.
Yep, we know McCain. People already are more comfortable with Palin than Obama after nearly to years worth of his campaigning. I know Bill says…”it’s the economy stupid”. But was it really? He won first against George H. Bush… yes, it was the economy, but also nobody really connected with him. Sound familiar? it should. The American people are a lot smarter that Obama gives them credit for.
Thank you for lending some perspective.
Factor in the Bradley effect AND the fact that Obama is truly Anti American and a poll does not exist to guage this election accurately.
If you look at the strong Kerry on that map and the strong Bush. You can see why it played out like it did.
By any measure, this race is very close, no matter who might be judged to be “ahead” on any given day. When you’re trying to predict the voting behavior of over 120,000,000 voters on the basis of sample sizes of only 1,000 people, the statistical margins of error are huge.
The key is to focus on the demographic profile of the remaining undecided voters who, at this point in time, probably comprise at least 10% of the electorate. The overwhelming majority of this 10% is composed of middle-class and lower-middle class whites. This is a demographic group with which Barack Obama has had considerable trouble up to this point.
This, in a nutshell, is why I believe that McCain will win. If McCain can win this demographic group by 60% to 40% … which I see as very doable in view of the fact that Hillary won it by about 65-35 in the primaries and those were all Democrats … he will win the general election by 2-3 points.
Who cares about polls? you obama supporters are the biggest idiots. Last week you were in a panic over polls now you think it is in the bag.
Your morons.
Explain to me how a poll of 1000 poeple represents the entire country?
How many poeple per state is that Obama supporters?
2.
That is really reassurring, if your an idiot.
haha, sorry i forgot to add the zero. 20 not 2. Guesss i am the idiot on that one.
But again, a poll of 20 folks per state and you morons are calling victory.
Have the Obots ever heard of “margin of error” I wonder?
Have the Obots ever heard of “margin of error” I wonder?
OK, here’s what I want to know, and I’m asking this quite seriously:
If the race is really that close, why does AOL’s straw poll, which polls almost a HALF A MILLION PEOPLE, consistently show McCain up by 20 points?
I just did the poll again last night and the ENTIRE country was red.
Now, I’m sure there might be a skew towards a certain demographic using AOL, but you don’t have to be an AOL member to use that poll. And I’m certain Obamabots know about it and vote on it.
The thing with that poll is that it uses a captcha and does not let you vote twice.
So wouldn’t that poll be a lot more accurate than a phone poll of 1000 people? Because even if you skew for people who don’t use the Internet much, that would FAVOR Obama for the online poll.
So I don’t get how McCain gets 20 points ahead in the straw poll and is only breaking even in these phone polls.
I didn’t know that. looks like the obots will have a major surprise on D-Day.
Let them drink Grape Kool-Aid.
That’s because xenophobes such as yourself use AOL. Not reasonable, rational human beings like me and most everyone else.
You really do your master proud Kevin hates pumas…..I heard about his “strategy” to have his puppets, I mean followers/cultists like you “get in our faces”. Wow, now there’s a hopey and changey way to win over voters. Did I say win over? More like screw over.
The race card, the sexist smears – now the rabid-Obama-leftists are attempting to smear McCain as a liar.
This script should sound familiar to all but the most intoxicated Kool-Aid drinkers.
Too bad McCain has neutralized your Messiah on all these counts Obamas; which is precisely why The One (with no inner core) is grasping to redefine himself.
We have been looking for something of substance from this man for nearly two years now. No doubt, he is a shill. The real question though… whose shill is he?
This is bad….
DENVER (CBS4) ― Metro State College is investigating a professor who asked students to write an essay critical of Republican vice presidential candidate Gov. Sarah Palin. One student said the instructor singled out Republican students in the class and allowed others to ridicule them.
“I was shocked, I was holy cow, this is just an open door for him to discuss politics with us,” said Jana Barber, a student in the class.
Barber shared the first class assignment with CBS4. Instructor Andrew Hallam asked students to write an essay to contradict what he called the ‘fairy tale image of Palin’ presented at the Republican National Convention.
“What the faculty’s responsibility is to provide opportunity for critical thinking and civic engagement so bringing something of relevancy into the classroom was the faculty’s goal,” said Cathy Lucas, spokeswoman for Metro State. “Should he have broadened it and included all the political figures, yes.”
Metro State officials are investigating claims of bias, harassment and bullying.
Hallam declined an interview with CBS4. He has revised the assignment.
Students may now write about any of the candidates.
Yet another lying ad of Obama.He doesn’t stop does he.
He is ungly – A liar-A dirty handed politician if you can call him that.I think he is just a punch card and a want a be.
McCain/Palin 08
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/09/from-the-fact-1.html
From the Fact Check Desk: Obama’s New Spanish Language TV Ad Es Erróneo
September 17, 2008 5:53 PM
This Obama is a congenital liar and never trust an Islamic political terrorist.
The Islamic political terrorist doesn’t practice what he preaches, period!
This is the norm! There is a similarity between ‘prophet’ Muhammad and Obama.
They are both orphans!
Islam’s Mohammed: The False Prophet that Deceived the World
i think the bradley effect is working, cant wait to see the let down for “THE ONE” and his little bots