Mixed Messages or Media Wish Fulfillment?
By Truthteller on October 23, 2008 at 10:20 AM in Barack Obama, MSNBC, Media, Media Bias, Media Handling of Story, Misogyny, NBC, Obamedia, Sarah Palin
Earlier yesterday, the Associated Press claimed the race for the Presidency was tied with Obama at 44% and McCain at 43%. I quote:
The presidential race tightened after the final debate, with John McCain gaining among whites and people earning less than $50,000, according to an Associated Press-GfK poll that shows McCain and Barack Obama essentially running even among likely voters in the election homestretch.
The poll, which found Obama at 44 percent and McCain at 43 percent, supports what some Republicans and Democrats privately have said in recent days: that the race narrowed after the third debate as GOP-leaning voters drifted home to their party and McCain’s “Joe the plumber” analogy struck a chord.
According to the AP article, McCain closed the gap for the following reasons: he had a strong debate performance last week; McCain’s television advertisements on Obama’s encounter with Joe the Plumber resonated with voters; and many voters believe their taxes will increase under an Obama administration.
Yahoo News must be dissatisfied with the results of the AP’s poll, for a few hours after the AP released the results of their survey Yahoo published a story on Sarah Palin entitled “A Drag on the Ticket?” Normally one expects to read titles that are nothing more than unfounded allegations in the form of a question at partisan blogs, not on the websites of news organizations. But we are dealing with the American press, who in my opinion have demonstrated that they are nothing more than a group of Daily Kos drones with desks in press rooms this election cycle.
Citing an NBC poll and quoting Obamabot Chuck Todd of MSNBC, Yahoo News claims voters have reservations about Sarah Palin’s qualifications. But notice how they are unwilling to aver that voters have reservations about Palin in the article’s title. Also notice how they acknowledge Palin’s popularity in the first paragraph of the article. Phrasing the allegation as a question, Yahoo News hopes to raise doubts in the minds of readers who might otherwise have a favorable opinion of the Republican Vice Presidential running mate. That is their wish, and they hope it will be fulfilled as it is interpolated in the minds of readers who mistake their partisan bilge for so much factual news.
Let us return to the AP article. According to the subjects they interviewed, voters have concerns about Obama’s qualifications, not those of Sarah Palin. I quote:
“I trust McCain more, and I do feel that he has more experience in government than Obama. I don’t think Obama has been around long enough,” said Angela Decker, 44, of La Porte, Ind.
Notice how Yahoo News only quotes Obamabot and Washington elite political insider Chuck Todd, not an ordinary voter from the state of Indiana. If they bothered to interview ordinary voters, they would discover that most working Americans view Obama as unqualified.
But also notice why Yahoo News feels compelled to raise doubts about Palin. According to the AP poll, Caucasian voters and lower income voters who actually work for a living are abandoning Obama. I quote the AP again:
- Posted big gains among likely voters earning under $50,000 a year; he now trails Obama by just 4 percentage points compared with 26 earlier.
- Surged among rural voters; he has an 18-point advantage, up from 4.
- Doubled his advantage among whites who haven’t finished college and now leads by 20 points. McCain and Obama are running about even among white college graduates, no change from earlier.
- Made modest gains among whites of both genders, now leading by 22 points among white men and by 7 among white women.
- Improved slightly among whites who are married, now with a 24-point lead.
- Narrowed a gap among unmarried whites, though he still trails by 8 points.
- McCain has cut into Obama’s advantage on the questions of whom voters trust to handle the economy and the financial crisis. On both, the Democrat now leads by just 6 points, compared with 15 in the previous survey.
- Obama still has a larger advantage on other economic measures, with 44 percent saying they think the economy will have improved a year from now if he is elected compared with 34 percent for McCain.
- Intensity has increased among McCain’s supporters.
How does one reduce McCain’s advantage with Caucasian women? How does one convince voters that the unprepared Obama has enough experience to address our current economic woes? How does one temper Palin’s appeal with rural voters? How does one neutralize McCain’s recent surge in the polls? The question to all these questions is to portray Sarah Palin, the woman who is drawing large crowds everywhere she campaigns, as unqualified, inexperienced and divisive. Misogyny determined the outcome of the primary, and it will surely sway some voters during the general election. Or at least this is the media’s wish.
So Yahoo News will publish questionable polling data from NBC on the same day one news organization announces that the race for the Presidency is tied. While some would interpret this as a mixed media message, I prefer to view it as so much media wish fulfillment. After all, the media dreams while its indolent reporters sleep.
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Well said. Here is hoping they will wake up to their nightmare on Nov 5th — a resounding defeat of their American Idol.
I would not call these people reporters or journalists. “Propagandists” or “shills” seem like better descriptions of what they do.
Journalism schools often turn out “talking head” types rather than journalists. There’s not much room for real journalism in TV. They rely upon print journalists for material.
And all the newspapers are pretty much crashing. Nobody is buying ads. ergo, no ad dollars. No money for in-depth research.
Most papers are pulling off AP wire material only, with filler stories from local areas.
AnninCa,
I agree -today many journalism schools are turning out more talking heads instead of real journalists.
It’s what the major funders to these schools (who ultimately wind up hiring many of these journalism school graduates) are looking for.
So…the presidents and deans of these schools kowtow to these major funders at the expense of the integrity of the field of journalism…
Off topic but IMPORTANT-
AN EXCELLENT YOU TUBE VIDEO entitled
Barack Obama and “The Butcher of Kenya”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8QcpdUtxNQ
has been removed from youtube within the last 24 hours. Last time I checked, it had over 327,000 hits- and the hits kept growing at an exposnential rate these past few days.
The video was so well done that I anticipated that someone would remove it. I am not really sure why it was removed.
In any case, visit the following website which also has excellent embedded videos on Sen Obama and Kenya…
http://www.nextgenerationcorp.com/NextGenBlog/?p=68
Please forward this new link to others …
like someone on another thread called them, ‘Presstitutes’.
Wow Thank you Truthteller for picking up on my thoughts prior thread!
You rock!
oh and that thing about convincing more women
forget about it
SOME women (manyyyyyy women) are more comfortable playing the victim
while others would rather NOT (some of us because we’ve actually BEEN victims and chose to fight)
it’s just their nature
they will do what ever their boyfriends or best friends tell them too as they are followers not leaders in any sense of the word. And they like it that way.
The media is acting like social issues aren’t a factor in this race. They aren’t paying a large a role as in previous elections, but they definitely are there. There are quite a few people who are disturbed about Obama’s support for abortion without limits — he even opposes parental notification for minors, supports partial birth abortion (even my liberal Republican senator Arlen Spector voted against it) and opposes the Born Alive Infants Protection Act. Come on now this is just basic human decency — no matter how you feel about abortion, shouldn’t a baby that survives “the procedure” be given medical attention (it’s rare, but it does happen). Obama says no!
That story was debunked.
BTW…I also agree with laws that do not require notification for minors.
Abortion is an issue upon which we are all going to need to compromise about, once and for all.
actually th story was not debunked. It was confirmed by the National Right to Life Committee. Obama called them liars, literally, which I think pissed them off, and they soon after produced the documents showing his votes, and demanded that he apologize, which he didn’t, of course. I agree that there needs to be some resolution on this issue, although I doubt if Obama were elected this would occur.
agree
sadly not debunked
he’s heinous through and through
I am prochoice. But as a nurse the idea that someone will not give care to child that has air in its lungs is a bit much for me. I have always supported womens right to do what they want with a fetus that needs them for life, but once that baby shows it is trying to breath, that is where, there rights end and the infant’s begin.
Someone needs to do a piece on how the “power” candidate or politician controls the media through conditioning “access”. If you read Scott McClellan’s book you can see how it is done. Whoever is the “news” controls what is said about him and what is said about his opponents by denying access to anyone who dares to deviate from the message. Right now, the media thinks Obama is the power candidate and so his campaign controls the message. I personally feel that this practice should be made illegal – that politicians should not be able to condition their access at all. But that is the way it is and news organizations get special brownie points if they go above and beyond what is expected. I suspect Yahoo will be well rewarded for their attempt to distract.
Interesting article outlining one reporters Election Night Nightmare (hint: he’s for Obama and McCain ends up winning)
http://thephoenix.com/Boston/News/70386-Long-national-nightmare
What’s truly desperate is for RealClearPolitics to pad Obama’s portrayed voter lead by adding this University of Wisconsin Poll:
http://www.bigtenpoll.org/
This is the biggest turd poll I’ve seen. What it has though are a > 10% cushion for all states polled favoring Obama.
Give me a break Madison, WI.
For once I had to agree with that obnoxious radio guy when he said that as the election gets closer the polls narrow because the pollsters have only their accuracy to sell.
At the end of the day those who’s numbers reflect the actual tally will get work next election cycle.
We’re in the home stretch now. Sarah has reassured the public that she’s capable and that she understands the role of a VP candidate. She’s doing her job. She’s disciplined. And effective. That’s all the public wants out of a VP, frankly.
Joe the Plumber FINALLY got through to the public on the tax plan issues. I know I have been saying the same thing for months. It was hard to cut through the campaign rhetoric to the bottom line truths. He effectively did that.
McCain is not simply rallying his base. He’s pulling in those Reagan Democrats. The more they see, the more they like. This group falls in love slowly. Remember the momentum? They aren’t kool-aid drinkers.
So we’ll see. The AP poll was, indeed, way low compared to the other polls.
annin — There is also the PUMAs–at least 7 million of us. In some ways we have been stronger for McCain than Republicans themselves. However, Republicans are proud of us for standing with them. The McCain Campaign has reached out to us and for that they have our undying loyalty.
Any smart person should know that if you split the party into Black vs White you cannot win. Obama spent 660 Million but it remains to be seen if all he got for all that money was a giant cult.
Well, I’m from a solid blue state, and there’s no split between black and white here.
So that, no doubt, informs my perspective.
CA will go for Obama. End of story.
California is not just black and white. Latinos far outnumber blacks and don’t forget Asians. When I was at the Sarah Palin rally here, there were tons of Latinos and Asians there. They could potentially tip California to McCain.
Good observations. Blacks vote for Dems anyway. So to go from 90% to 95% ain’t no big deal. Even with a greater turnout of black voters, the voting population is only eight percent.
Its an asumption that Latinos favor Obama when in actuality it was John McCain that stuck his neck out for immigration reform.
Disaffected Hillary supporters and enlightened independents will win the day for McCain/Palin.
Well, I can assure you. CA will be blue, blue, blue.
John McCain lost the Latino vote here.
Not in FL, necessarily, but here, he lost their vote.
The only question is how badly will he lose here.
and i can assure you that california is not blue blue blue. ask your former governor about that. the only question is how small a percentage obama migh have in winning.
Don’t be so sure. California has consistently gone red in AOL’s straw poll, which gets input from 100x more people than the traditional polls.
I also think California is a possibility for McCain.
San Francisco and certain parts of LA are not the whole state.
Orange County, San Diego, the rural parts inland.
This might be close, but McCain can win here.
Villaraigosa was strong for Hillary, where is he now?
What has O’blahblah ever done for latinos? Zip! Most latinos I know have strong family values and pay attention to issues that affect them. I think they’d spot a snake oil salesman a mile away.
I think it will be a landslide for McCain & I think California is going red.
There was a “riot” at a big school (maybe in New York) the other day, between blacks and Latino youths. The school tried to calm them down saying that the Gov of New York was a minority and a minority was about to win the election for president. Now that may have set well with the blacks but I think it may have poured oil on the fire with the Hispanics.
Blacks and Chicano mainly don’t get along. I know I used to live in Calif.
Chicano for the most part are Catholic. The church has come out against Polosi and Biden and Obama for their abortion leaning.
Obama has tried to buy their votes,with the drivers license for illegal aliens. Bad idea. But it has been John McCain at times in the barrio working with his hands over the years. It has been Cindy going over seas and helping, before John ran for president, the first time.
As for both Asians and Hispanics when their numbers started to grow, Obama said that he would see to it that none of the blacks lost their seats to either of these groups. Yea right he is for ALL the people. Wrong… and so is he.
“The church has come out against Polosi and Biden and Obama for their abortion leaning.”
I even had the impression that pope Benedict sended a message.
He was calling his visit here “Christ our Hope”
At the time BO was still deep in the hope-business.
And he mentioned Hillary by name in one of his speeches. Only Hillary.
My hope is that our vote-by-race black brothers and sisters are only 8% of the voting population.
Is that so?
That’s hope I can believe in.
Go Sarah!
last I heard blacks are about half of the DEM voting block so I think that makes them more than 8 percent
of course maybe that was incorrect as well
Hillary or Bust says: “California is not just black and white. Latinos far outnumber blacks and don’t forget Asians. When I was at the Sarah Palin rally here, there were tons of Latinos and Asians there. They could potentially tip California to McCain.”
I am a Californian too, and what you say is spot-on.
How sad but totally predictable.
Vote for John anyway. Build the foundations for the liberation of the people of CA
I did my part! Sent in my CA ballot yesterday and voted McCain-Palin.
There may not be a split of black and white — but there is a split —
CA may yet go for Obama but you would be surprised how many CA are voters (including life long Dems) are for McCain in CA.
That is a fact. They are quiet about it but they exist.
Hey gang – I am in CA, Santa Barbara, to be exact. I agree with Anninca – it does look bleak here at times. My town tends to go Republican, as does San Diego, but the state goes blue. HOWEVER, I am seeing more and more McCain signs around, but I’ve been told by Obama supporters (who naturally assume I am one too) that they try to run people with McCain bumper stickers off the road. I used to live in Texas, and thought the Christian coalition was a little nuts at times. But the liberals out here make me ashamed to have ever proudly called myself one.
But I am hoping CA might break its ranks at least once. And yes, we do have the Republican Governator. I am pulling McCain Palin, shocking friends and family everywhere, but I am a big believer in country over party!
anincalif is full of shit. we live in calif. and it may not go “blue”. does anyone else notice that anin is pro obama in an underlying tone sometimes ? I flat dont trust her opinions.
It’s interesting that there is an active Democratic grassroots working for the Republican this cycle. A group of insurgent Democrats rejecting the party.
Democratic crossover votes have not been a factor in an election since Bill Clinton brought the “Reagan Democrats” home in 1992. I honestly don’t see how a Democrat can win without a united Democratic party and anyone who thinks that this current situation is what unity looks like…is blind.
What appalled me about the “Joe” incident wasn’t Obama’s policy itself – it was the condescension and hostility towards an ordinary voter who just asked him a simple question (followed, of course, by the concerted effort to completely destroy him on the part of Obama himself, Biden, and their churlish ovine catamites in the media and on the net).
This bothered me for a couple of reasons: first, if you can’t tolerate dissent you have no business being the leader of a republic. Second, what does his simultaneously lame and virulent response say about his ability to handle himself under pressure? If an ordinary, Ohio plumber can get under Obama’s skin this way, what will Putin do to him? I really don’t want to find out.
Yes. Last week, a co-worker (Obama supporter) starting talking politics and he said, “You know that Joe the Plummer guy? He isn’t who he says he is. He’s not Joe. He’s not from Ohio. And he owes taxes! He was a Republican plant!”
He only reads MSM. My first thought was, why is the Democratic party attacking a blue collar worker? I thought is was a huge mistake. It made me so mad that they were trying to destroy this guy. All he did was ask a question about taxes and then Obama and Biden started mocking this guy. I can’t believe how mean spirited the party has become. I am glad there is a backlash about Joe the Plummer. There should be. Shame on the Democrats.
A Republican plant?! Obama walked up to Joe’s house.
Yeah, but two years ago, the Republicans anticipated that Obama would not only run, but that he would come to that neighborhood. They surreptitiously purchased the house and started training “Joe” in the arts of Debate. William F. Buckley was smuggled in and he worked extensively with “Joe” prior to his passing.
After cramming economics, international law, history of race relations, and current theories on Arugula farming into his library-like mind, “Joe” was ready.
The Republicans are always looking to the future…
Brilliant observation, propertius.
Big mistake for the Dems and the media when they attacked Joe the Plumber. I believe that this more than anything that Joe actually said has had an effect. Picking on the “little guy” isn’t really a good political strategy. Guess Dems were freaked out when he entered the scene and just lost their cool. Hope it’s enough!
One of my biggest hopes is to have McCain win the election and have all these media hacks and thugs who have trashed Sarah Palin wake up Wednesday morning November 5th and have to call Ms Palin Madam Vice-President and have to do so for four years!!!!!!! This is not good English, but you get my drift.
It would be good to see Palin turn the tables on Couric and Gibson– maybe she could call them in and interview them about why they hate women, then edit their answers to maker them look stupid(er), then use Voice of America, Fox, and Rush to broadcast it all over the planet.
Instead, I think we should vet Couric and Gibson.
First, lets check their tax status, then their driving histories, college records, memberships, divorce records, look for swimsuit pics, see how much they spend on their wardrobes, etc…
bert — what I would like to see if the Republicans take Congress is an investigation of what actually went on during this election, money changing hands, Acorn and was Hillary cheated out of the nomination with only a 4 delegate difference? I want to see Pelosi having to explain herself on that and also why she waited to take up the Bail Out till the Fall because it would make a great election issue. How many banks might have been saved and how many people might have been able to keep their homes if she took this on earlier.
I’ll be glad to just settle for a Dem congress and a Republican President/Vice President team. That way they keep each other honest.
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Thanks for posting this. I’ve shared this with some LA PUMAs and I’m looking into going maybe next weekend.
Many Americans have distrusted the liberal media for decades and don’t give a fig what they say. In fact, their criticism of a pol may just make the public believe the opposite. And even if people foolishly believed Palin is less than stellar, look who has been elected–real dopes like Quayle and W.
The media is anything but liberal.
How else do you account for the breathless reporting of any rumor about the upcoming Clinton scandal that never was?
How do you rebut the media gleefully trashing Al Gore by taking his quotes out of context or making them up out of whole cloth to smear him?
How do you argue that the media reported the Swiftboat lies about John Kerry without comment as to their truthfulness?
What about the New York Times parroting the lies about Iraqi WMDs put out by dick Cheney?
The media is in this for the media so the Keith Obermanns, Chris Matthewses, and Maureen Dowds can strut and preen showing you what smart witty journalists they are. Besides ensuring a healthy bottom line for their corporate masters.
The media is corporate owned and pushes the agenda of the few the have the most $$.
*few that have* Ugh…
That is the truth, Lisa.
The media displays whatever bias its owners tell it to display at that moment.
The media is a dog, salivating when the master rings its bell.
They choose based on what their corporate masters say and who will produce the best ratings. It is a nightmare scenario for governing the world’s best armed country.
Keith Olbermann isn’t a journalist. He’s a news entertainemnt talk show host.
He’s a hack.
I totally agree. They are not Liberal, they just like to pick their favorites and then give them free reign. How else can you explain how Bush got away with so much for so long until the scales got so top heavy that they actually had to do some work and find out what was ACTUALLY going on.
Frankly, I have been surprised that they have trashed McCain so viciously because they used to like him. I guess when the new kid on the block appears, you just throw your old favorite on the trash heap.
And, like Kerry who asked McCain to be his running mate (finally confirmed by McCain) you make a crude joke about him wearing adult diapers.
What a class act, that Kerry!
Yes, I love the point that MrMike makes about the pollsters hoping to keep their jobs for the next election cycle…so they have to be accurate the closer we get to the election.
AP pollsters are being forced to tell the truth!
McCain/Palin ‘08
There are all kinds of “polls.” Yesterday I was driving through the most predictable moneyed liberal area in Ohio. Two McCain signs for every 0bama. I read that as very promising since it is up here in the Northeast stronghold that Barky is counting on.
B,
i was driving through wooster/ashland area and didn’t see a single barky sign. all Mccain.
Here in Florida a man’s house got shot up, just after he put up his McCain signs. Down in Seminole County. He was head of the Republican Party in that county.
None of us will forget that man who shot and killed Hillary SD who was at his headquarters. Wonder what was promised or what may have been threatened with the other SD?
I won’t forget the last 10 months. Even 4 years from now. Doesn’t matter how accurate they are the last week.
One of the funnier attempts to smear Palin, to me, was the story about the family’s wardrobe costs. I was imagining those latte-sipping matrons who would look at that figure and go, “How did Cindy pull that off for so little?” *haha
They KNOW.
Yes, yes they do…. Vanity Fair did a “write up” on Cindy McCain’s convention outfit. Didn’t see one on Michelle Obama, but Michelle did make a best dressed list.
and hey we know too….
we also know who he is and who his friends are…
Gov. Palin looks great, she’s got it going on. I’ve been told by more than one woman “they need to dress her cuter”.
The line of attack about her wardrobe is pure misogyny. It goes NO WHERE with women. (unless they are predisposed to heart them some Obama.)
This is a great site that tells alot about Obama:
http://obambi.wordpress.com/2008/10/22/obama-mentor-marxist-poet-frank-marshall-davis/
Larse12
I checked out this website-I can not vouch for its credibility however I did listen to the audio on the link you provided and I read through some of the articles-
Again- dont know if this website is credible or not howver one article did catch my eye.
The article discussed a sexually perverse book that Davis SUPPOSIDLY wrote under a pen name.SUPPOSIDLY the book was published two years before Sen Obama became Davis’ mentee in Hawaii-acc to article.
SUPPOSIDLY this book is no longer available.
If someone could locate an original copy of this book- it would be very explosive.
SUPPOSIDLY , acc to the article on link you provide- DAVIS-writing under a pen name- described his early sexual escapades which included having sex repeatedly with a young woman named ANNE- book’s author states he and his wife had sex with this young woman and …it was the young woman who initiated the relationship.
Now…I read this article with an open mind- not ruling anything out. I have no comment at this point except to say-this needs to be investigated further.
Back in those days, our own govt engaged in many smear campaigns against people our govt viewed as threats-(look what they did to Martin Luther King)
so…this book might be a smear campaign..or else it could be the real deal…
http://obambi.wordpress.com/2008/10/22/obama-mentor-marxist-poet-frank-marshall-davis/
About the particular article I refer to in my comment: I do not remember the EXACT HEADLINE -But headline includes the words Sexual Perversion & Rape (I think).
WHO IS PAYING FOR BARACK’S TRIP TO HAWAII????
HE MADE IT CLEAR THAT THIS TRIP IS FOR PERSONAL REASONS
IS HE USING CAMPAIGN FUNDS?
IS HE USING THE CAMPAIGN PLANE???
Yes good point and with Michelle Obama spending 500 dollars on caviar,lobster and champagen for a snack
it would add up to 60 k a month of you add 3 regualr meals totalling 2k a day on her eating habbits alone .
Heck, he’s been earning a salary while campaigning since he got to the Senate! We’ve been paying a whole lot for Mr. Obama’s quest for power for quite awhile! Including his visit to Odinga last year….
timeforarealitycheck — Hell yes the Obama campaign is paying for the trip and the media is saying what a wonderful guy to be loyal to his Grandmother in the middle of a campaign. GET IT PEOPLE! Obama is a good guy who is loyal to his gramma. Isn’t that the guy we want to vote for (BARF) He will be in Hawaii for 2 days — if God forbid she dies on the third day–well Obama will be back campaigning.
Fine, just fine for BadRock to take time off from campaigning to visit ailing granny, but absolutely atrocious and a stunt when Mccain takes time away from his campaign to go back to the Capitol and take care of the nation’s business.
I just don’t get it.
Or when he went on vacation in the summer? Did Michelle & kids – you know the ones…that didn’t see grandma – pay their own way?
Who paid for his trip to Kenya? I think it was taxpayers. Where he campaigned for his cousin. Raila Odinga. It is interesting to learn that same man had intended if he became president to change that country into a Muslim one. His platform was CHANGE!!!
Anyone surprised?
Since his cuz advocated violence to get his way, is it surprising that Barack tell his voters to “get in their face”? Odinga killed people, burned them up, mainly women and children in a church. Hacked other to death when they tried to escape. Condi Rice went over there and persuaded the president to create a new position and make Odinga prime minister. Can you see the corrupt Congress doing that should Barack lose?
BTW Obama said he needs extra Secret Service men for his anticipated coronation in Chicago. He also expect Homeland Security to pick up the bill for that.
I signed up to go on the November 1 and 2 precinct walks in Nevada. Can’t wait. I have a few friends from LA going too. This is the best stuff we can do. Get out there and spread the word. I always figure if I convert one person a day at least I am doing okay.
Thanks and please tell others. Hopefully NoQuarter will put up a thread for the effort. PUMAs are on board for both trips.
Obama is a fraud — I am making calls for McCain. Early voting started October 18th in Nevada and over the weekend there was a massive turnout of Dems. However, since Monday its been all Republicans doing the early voting.
After working all day in the office making calls for McCain, I waas thrilled to come home to hubby’s email giving me this good news.
Thanks for posting.
Hmm…very interesting poll. GWU has obama up by +4. must be somewhere in between.
GWU?
I think this is George Washington University.
yes, the GWU/Battleground poll.
Thank you. I read that’s a very reputable poll.
Dang, that IS good news!
benny — AP has Obama up by 1–dead heat.
yes. but I was comparing the AP poll with the GWU poll. thats all.
Notice how Yahoo News only quotes Obamabot and Washington elite political insider Chuck Todd, not an ordinary voter from the state of Indiana.Well, misogyny would sit well with that one, no? That one would probably do a positive review of something Yahoo later on.
The truth is that we are in a transition from the way we were in the last two/three decades of the 20th. Century to something different. And what is that something different? I’ll let you decide.
As for me, I can contemplate this new different environment where feminism is completely gone as an environment where you are not allowed to decide.
I understood it
I have been thinking the same thing. If Obama wins it is going to be women who are hurt the most, and may never get over it.
As for me, I can contemplate this new different environment where feminism is completely gone as an environment where you are not allowed to decide.
Back To The Future, where the far right wing finally wins the War On Women, with a most able assist from left wing women.
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As an outsider looking in I have to acknowledge and appreciate the fairness of the American people — this exercise also helped me better understand what I assumed to be the Republican mentality of stinginess. First most of them don’t necessarily have too much against spread the wealth in the sense of giving a leg up to hard working and deserving people with good work ethic. What they object to is giving their hard earned dollars to undeserving perhaps lazy who don’t help themselves. Obama’s plan to give a handout to 40% of the people who don’t pay any tax is seen as just that and that is what they are objecting to. Now Obama camp is scrambling to change that by adding a last minute work component to whatever their tax plan is and doing it surreptitiously so they can come back and lie later that that was always their intention. Again despicable in more ways than one. Joe the Plumber was Obama’s and media’s nightmare.
To be fair some of them don’t know how to help themselves. As long as American school systems are funded they way they are it is a guarantee that children in the poorer districts will fail.
Here, I’ll fix it for you:
“As long as parents in American School systems don’t get involved they way they should be it is a guarantee that children in any district will fail.”
Notice I didn’t say the parents had to be highly educated themselves, just involved. My whole family are educators (one a grade school teacher in the poorest district in MI), and the one thing is clear: The kids whose parents come to meetings and allow the professionals to do their jobs, are the ones who don’t cause problems and work hard, regardless of their grades. You can’t throw money at the school and think that solves everything.
I agree with you that things have to change to lift the poor. But the comment was specific to Obama’s tax plan of throwing crumbs at people who don’t pay taxes.
Anyone can do anything they truly want to do. Case in point Abe Lincoln.
Not to compare myself to Abe, but I did not have an easy time. I started school at 4. Was pulled out at 5 1/2 and had NO school of any kind until I was 12 1/2. Seven years of not even a rudimentary education. But I was lucky to have learned to read and write in that first year and a half. I read everything I could find, and after testing was placed in 7th grade. I graduated at 18. I did it, so anyone that at least has a school and teachers of any kind has no excuse.
That said I agree all schools should be treated equal. But when parents allow their children or others to deface and destroy what they have then, taxpayers get tired of footing the bill again.
That work clause is the dumbest idea ever.
Unbelievable. Talk about a silly one.
Very apt comment about Obama Tax Plan. Those 40% who do not pay taxes will just increase the spennding burden on welfare. He had to change it. But too late. Obama Tax Plan is now mocked as the Obama Expanded Welfare Tax Plan. Instead of making us richer. He wants to make the rich poorer and Hopes the poor gets richer by takign money from those who pay taxes and give to those who don’t.
Wake up America!!!!!!
Yeah the money they get will make China Walmart richer and Hollywood as well. It will not go to the small business that are trying to stay afloat and they will sink under the added tax.
BO was a NEW PARTY MEMBER….
Follow the link….
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2113182/posts
This is photograhic evidence…
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So will they get front seats in his inauguration day?
I will love to see the MSM commenting with them in their viewer screen. ‘Here walking down the stairs now are New Party leaders, such and such, and they will be taking their seats in the platforms with all the other foreign and Washington elites.’
This ouught to be broadcast everywhere…
New Pary News. Thank me!
Obama’s Censorship Czar
Video
http://patriotroom.com/?p=3256
Who is that guy? Trying to tell us what we have to listen to.
Wow… this is heart wrenching video of John McCain as a POW in Vietnam
http://hotair.com/archives/2008/10/22/video-french-archive-releases-footage-of-mccain-pow-interview/
Video: French archive releases footage of McCain POW interviewposted at 9:35 pm on October 22, 2008 by Allahpundit
It was first broadcast in 1968; I’ve seen a few seconds of it in his ads, but never this much. Watch to the end. You’ll never forget it.
Go see what McCain critic Matt Welch got from the forces of Hope and Change for having the nerve to argue that McCain’s a hero.
The last 45 seconds are really wrenching. John McCain is truly a decent human being and went through a lot for his country. I’m not sure how anyone can consider supporting Obama, who has shown no decency throughout this campaign and puts himself before anything else.
Drudge has it up too, thanks for the link.
Palin is THE real change. The only one of the four who is NOT a Washington insider. Even though Obama is the youngest or newest insider he has been in training for this campaign for 20 years. Obama wasn’t corrupted by Washington, he developed that through practice in Chicago politics, a product of Saul Alinski and William Ayers.
All politician campaign on changing the system, Sarah Palin is one of the few who did and that’s why Team Obama is working so hard to smear her.
Put it this way, is Chicago and the state of Illinois a better place? What did Obama do to put a stop to the Chicago machine politics business as usual? From the indictments coming down I’d say no and nothing.
America is on to the MSM charade. They have marginalized themselves by becoming the propaganda arms of pols and corporate execs.
MSN is the least watched network. Fox is much more popular.
The ratings during the debates? MSN practically tanked.
the poll numbers for these so called media outlets is shrinking everyday and rightfully so.
I have gone to this website in the past:
http://www.theobamafile.com/ObamaLatest.htm
While I do know just what a computer can do as far as images, there is someone who claims they have nude pics of Obama’s mother. I know…a horrible smear, whether real or not. Just thought I would mention it. The private parts of the pics are covered so I guess that makes it all not so bad. The face looks like her and there are different facial expressions so it is not the same photo of her face.
Just weird..thats all. With how strange Frank Davis was and all. I think the poster is claiming that Frank Davis took the pics.
New ad for McCain
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZS0OYjMKCdc
That’s great – McCain using real people to talk to real people.
If 0bama tried to use his real people in ads – his real supporters – Americans would turn off their TVs in horror and McCain’s numbers would go up 20 points overnight!
This ad is for everybody who’s tired of hearing barky’s “inspirational” but deceptive voice and his “soaring” but empty promises, all over TV and radio 24/7.
Whodathunk the people’s candidate – the people’s president – would turn out to be a republican. This is a very strange year…
McCain/Palin ‘08!
Send this ad to everyone you know. ANd while you are at it, make your own “I am Joe” 30 second video and send it to
JoeIn30Seconds@johnmccain.com
or go here:
http://www.johnmccain.com/joe/
Take a walk through John’s site there is a lot there to like.
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BREAKING: Hillary Clinton in So. NM the SAME TIME as McCain, as Obama is in ABQ (Sat. 10/25)
http://insightanalytical.wordpress.com/2008/10/23/breaking-hillary-clinton-in-so-nm-the-same-time-as-mccain-as-obama-is-in-abq-sat-1025/
Sorry for being off topic, but I am truly mad now…not only is Clinton doing an event close by as the same time as McCain…BUT, Obama is in ABQ the same day! Since last week’s debate, Clinton has not been making moves that make me happy…she seems to be trying to attach herself to Obama way too much for me.
Maybe Hillary knows that inside polling is looking very good for McCain and so she’s doing everything she can now so that after The Messiah loses nobody can say it was her fault. Although they all will anyway.
Detroit News endorses John McCain:
http://detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081023/OPINION01/810230337
Interesting!
excellent news!
the NYPost.com has endorsed Mccain too…
a great editorial from a soldier on the anniversary of the Beirut bombing that killed 241 marines…
http://www.nypost.com/seven/10232008/postopinion/opedcolumnists/lessons_of_beirut_134858.htm
this is a very good read… especially as it relates to Iran and Obama’s moronic promise to meet with the Holocaust Denying President who said he wants to “wipe israel off the map”
a. hillary
b. mccain
america first!
That one was a given. I presume the Detroit News is about Obama’s seedy associations there. His buddy ending up in jail and shaming the state didn’t help much.
Bingo. They certainly don’t have my respect. I also suspect you speak for tens of millions more.
Oh that gives way too much credit to Kos…the cheetohead.
Someone likened the Daley Chicago Mob to the Baptism scene in the godfather. Maybe that’s why the MSM is so enthusiastically lying to the pubic they are afraid to do otherwise. The big story after this is all over will be how much money Senator Government paid to all the networks to preach the mighty one’s message. Journalism is dead.
AP had to get its act together after it lost Obama papers because it was raising its fee. It has cast its lot for truth and the people.
There is no way that polls swing from plus 3 to plus 13 just before debates or bad news. It is a coordinated psychological attack that will go on until the afternoon of November 4th.
But the American people are not sitting still. They are voting in early voting in huge numbers. They are pissed and disappointed in the so-called free press. Seventy percent believe that the media is in the tank for Obama, which shows a level of awareness that should scare the MSM and the Obama campaign. If you’re bamboozling and the majority of the people can define it, then you’re not winning the bamboozling game.
The public was also awake when the misogeny was in full swing against Hillary. Hillary would have easily won over those ‘disaffected Republicans’. Now McCain and Palin will win over ‘disaffected Hillary democrats’.
With a energized base, who are definitely NOT staying home, all McCain needs is 10% of democratic votes. He already has a committed 23% of Hillary votes and unknown 5 to 15% more Hillary democrats beyond that number. Add to the fact that an unprecedented 65 to 80% hang-ups on the polls (signalling further dissatisfaction with the ‘media’) and its pointing to a McCain/Palin landslide.
I and 7 of my friends, are Hillary Dems, and have voted early for JOHN McCain – if that is any indication – BTW we all live in PA – u kno – the racist/redneck/gun, religion clinging, bitter people
Thank you! And your friends…
My family and I are all voting for McCain. We live in California, so I don’t think that it will make much of a difference, but you never know.
hey you never know…
my family in california is voting mccain too!
it would be amazing if california elected mccain…
it could happen…
gotta dream…
it matters if u all voted dem b4 or 4 hillary
*heh….me, too!
I’m very used to being in the minority, however. Still enjoy the game.
I live and vote in a deep blue state and I do not feel that my vote is useless. I believe that if McCain wins the electoral college but loses the total popular vote, there will be no end to the howling from the left, and it will definetly be claimed that McCain has no mandate.
A strong win for McCain/Palin in the electoral vote AND the popular vote may be the best way to prevent Obama from attempting future runs at the presidency. Obama must be sent into political exile, a resounding defeat is the best way to achieve that.
Agreed. I too live in CA, voted HRC in the primary, and will vote JMC in the general. It would be incredibly ironic if JMC wins the electoral college, and not the popular vote. If Obama cried foul, the argument is how is this any different than winning a bunch of caucuses and superdelegates, but not the popular vote???
I’m voting for McCain in California also, first time to vote for Republican. Maybe we have a upset in the making!!
Rock on my friends. 7 more votes for a better America!
I think the issue with the polling companies has pretty much been laid out for those curious about this phenomena.
It has to do with projected turn-out.
And there really isn’t any way to guarantee that aspect of the election.
I think the polls are over-estimating Democratic turn-out. I think it will be high. I also do not think they will get the anticipated high percentage of certain fringe populations who did register and have been discussed ad nauseum this year. It’ll be a split.
For example, in the Houston area, I was really surprised to read that the actual stats for the AA voter turn-out were lower than in the past. Why? Because the population has shifted to other areas.
So I think some of the polling paradigms are off-kilter.
The AP poll was too dramatically different for me to trust. Battleground says 3 points today, I understand?
That means, the race is tightening. I look at the rally attendance, the enthusiasm, which is huge, and the fact that McCain has successfully defined this election into terms people get. That helps voters. No ambiguity left now. People like to know what they are voting “FOR,” not some far-fetched story or fear-based nonsense.
He’s succeeded. And Palin is very disciplined and always on message.
Obama is the one on the defense now, because of Biden’s remarks. Also, the news that we would be attacked by Bin Laden isn’t exactly bad for John. *haha
(god forbid it happens)
John has a shot.
Yes, John has a shot…and being a former fighter pilot, he will make it his best one!
We’ve got your back John…
I have read editorials that John really knows how to close.
That’s a knack. Obama, so far, hasn’t shown that he has it.
The Force is Strong in this one!
I was wondering if there is a valid source that gives us the % hang ups during phone polls. I have seen some articles saying that, but nothing that I felt was reliable enough.
Doesn’t matter. You just call more.
The point is to reach the number of respondants so that the poll reaches a statistical validity.
Does anyone know why Obama would pay out over 21 Million for polling? Who is he paying and for what?
does anyone know that the candidates get to keep whatever is left over from their campaigns? looks like the obamas will go home very rich. think they’ll share it with those less fortunate?
I agree with you. The poll swing obviously has tossed this salad right up in the air.
No reason to believe that Obama has reached a tipping point.
Sarah was a game changer, in spite of the Conservatives who worry over that choice.
Joe the Plumber……..another game changer.
Debates……another game changer.
What McCain has shown us is that you don’t NEED an OCTOBER surprise or attack ads.
You simply need to nail down your message effectively.
Rove is even writing nicely about McCain today.
When I saw Drew Griffin from CNN pull that absurd crud on Sarah Palin with an intentional(MHO)cruel misquote – I thought oh, they got to good old Drew. Drew was the one reporter on CNN who was reporting fairly on ACORN. Wasn’t it on CNN that Anderson Cooper got snarky with Drew during his report challenging hey man what are you saying style? A number of posters here noticed and some including myself thought, hey here comes Drew’s pink slip. Well, Drew is another slob who doesn’t deserve the public trust. Poll numbers, inaccurate reports – how about blatant lies – Andrea Mitchell was interviewing a McCain spokesperson about the brutal honesty not gaffe, by Biden – and of course Andrea carrying Barry’s water in place of her brain, refused to play the whole clip – playing only a portion that carried zippo meaning. When challenged by the McCain spokesperson Andrea cut her off and when returning played a harmless clip of Biden from an entirely different event. WTF? I repeat WTF? How is that allowed? Play something blatantly FALSE?
I’m fuming about this. This is not only a disgrace, the media is actively stealing our Democracy. I don’t know exactly but this sure feels like TREASON. Anyone in the Justice Dept. give a crap? Anyone in this Country in charge of preventing a Coup? Or are we to continue to worry about protecting their free speech and watch our Country be sent down the shitter?
Re: CNN reporting.
It’s a small point but very illustative of the ethical vacuum at CNN.
Greta had done an extensive set of interviews in Alaska with multiple Palin associates, I watched the whole thing. When Greta asked Palin’s former minister if he talked in tongues he answered very distinctly “I do not.” When CNN rebroadcast that exact interview they editted out the end of the ministers sentence. This is how it played on CNN. Greta: Do you talk in tongues? Minister: I do (cut)
Don’t believe a damn word that CNN,ABC,MSNBC,CBS, and the rest of the dissemblers toss out at you.
If I had no journalistic ethics I could easily have quoted out of context a statement that Obama made in the second debate, “I have post tramatic stress dissorder, and I can’t get any help.” He did say that,(check the transcript) and taken as I’ve quoted it sure sounds like an admition of mental/emotional problems. I suppose that I should provide the context in which that statement was made, but WTH, I’m not a journalist!
speaking of the media, this is a COOL article:
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/10/long_national_nightmare.html
don’t look at the polls out today – very ugly
Rush is talking about Obama waiting to go to Hawaii if his grandmother is so deathly ill. Why did he announce it and then wait two days to go. He’s talking about the scuttlebutt regarding his birth certificate.
Limbaugh just mentioned the Obama Birth Certificate suits.
Also Michael Savage of The Savage Nation Radio show.
Yeah, he said nothing will come of it.
he is right. These things won’t matter. Obama has to be beaten at the polls. One suit has already been dismissed, and Berg’s is soon to follow.
New ad from the NRA:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzEjxvVaPm8&eurl=http://texasdarlin.wordpress.com/2008/10/23/an-ideologue/
Rush is covering the possible reason why Obama is anouncing the departure to his grandma days before he actually goes and he first comments about the Berg case and bith certificate theory.
Vow this will be national knowledge now.
Rush makes a good point ..why wait days to fly to Grandmas several days precisely on Thursday.
When there is a serioul illness you go now,especially since according to the media he has such a big lead.
Too bad. This will be viewed as a racist smear.
racist smear? by who? no matter what is said in done in the world of obama it is a racist smear if you don’t agree with them. if he is elected, better get used to it. i for one don’t want to hear the word racism for a long time. major overload.
The entire “muslim birth deal” is definitely viewed as a racist smear tactic.
Obama has said he is not Muslim. Everybody knows Obama is a member of a Christian church that believes “white people’s greed runs a world in need”, “US of KKKA”, etc.
Voters accept Obama at his world that he is not Muslim and have seen video evidence (Wright at Trinity Church) to support that!
So please…Obama needs to simply produce his B.C. to show where he was born. That’s it! American citizen, eligible for President, not hard! AND CERTAINLY NOT RACIST AT ALL!
The entire “muslim birth deal” is definitely viewed as a racist smear tactic.
Backlash!
Obama should present his birth certificate – HOW HARD IS THAT?
If it’s a legitimate issue – call it that! If it is a falsehood about Sen. Obama, call it a falsehood.
Let’s play straight here. Ann, with all due respect, if you want to help Obama smear people, who ask questions, as racist, please do so on another blog where that type of defense is gleefully used.
Yahoo news is so completely biased that I replaced them as my homepage a few weeks back — a homepage that I had for over 10 years. They make me sick!
I’m in a red state and let me tell you people here are fired up to get to those polls to vote for McCain. I think the media love-fest has turned off the majority of American voters. I expect a very close election with McCain coming out of top and the Obots screaming fraud and burning down whatever they can.
yup it is disgusting. yahoo searches very hard for positive sounding info for obama.
Don’t know if any of you caught Chuck Todd saying on MSNBC last night that he perceived a total lack of “chemistry” between McCain and Palin on the interview with Brian Williams. What garbage.
And why is Palin continuing to expose herself to their interviews. If I were her, I would stop. Speak directly to the people.
Well, Gawd knows that Chuck Todd is THE LAST WORD – and the WORLD’S UNDISPUTED EXPERT – on chemistry! LOL!
The entirety of Chuck Todd’s expertise is in acting the good little corporate stooge and playing with numbers to conform to the chosen narrative – period.
I think they look real cute together.
This is incredible footage of Sen. McCain as a POW
just released on Fox.
New Video released of POW- John McCain Prisoner of War
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvcuEqGUwmc
That made me cry.
yeah i watched it this morning…
you could hear the emotion and the pain in his voice…
and remember, he could have gone home early but he stayed with his men till they all were released…
wow…
this is the kind of strength we need in the white house…
not the common criminal Obama…
a. hillary
b. mccain
america first!
RUSH LIMBAUGH IS TALKING ABOUT OBAMA’S TRIP TO HAWAII. WHY IS HE RUSHING TO HIS DYING GRANDMOTHER’S BEDSIDE WHEN HE IS NOT RUSHING.
THEN HE BROUGHT UP THE “BIRTH CERTIFICATE” “PHILLIP BERG” RELATIONSHIP.
He speculated on what the DNC would do if he was in fact not a US citzen. He said they would probably stay with OBAMA regardless.
I don’t know if anything will come of this, and many people, including me, dislike Rush Limbaugh. Flame me if you will, but I don’t think this birth certificate business helps McCain.
i heard part of this while out running an errand and it seemed to me that Rush was telling folks to leave it alone, and was not fueling the fire. He stated that it was curious, but asked listeners right away did they realistically think that they would remove him
Dems Outsourcing.
Now Rush is slamming the media for questioning Sarah’s wardrobe money. He says what about Pelosi’s pearls, Joe Biden’s failed hair transplant costs. LOL
That was a silly story, for sure.
I’m confident that people are glad that the RNC helped spiff up the family for this election.
Good gravy, nothing worse than if we saw Todd in an ill-fitting suit!
I mean….populism is great, but there are limits!
I’m serious. People expect candidates to look smart. And certainly I would guess that Michelle’s makeover cost that much, anyway.
Dumb story.
and Barky’s silk suits and designer sun-glasses. I guess we can’t rag about MO’s dresses though…they look like that old floral print oil cloth we used to use to cover our kitchen tables here in the South! Cheap.
Did you see O’Reilly’s clip of him on the View? Joy Behar said “Michelle’s dress was only $150.00″. What a bunch of hypocrites. The clip of O’Reilly on The View is hilarious.
Yeah cheap at $1200 a pop. No I am not kidding.
how much did obama spend on his fake greek columns? how much do you think michelle o is spending on her clothes with the half a billion dollars her husband “raised”(even tho she looks like she shops at k-mart?) how much did he spend painting his fake logo over the flag on his plane or on his fake presidential seal, or his trip to europe,or his hiawii vacation? now he wants to charge journalists to attend his victory party??? they sure know how to spend other peoples money dont they?
Two weeks ago Robin Givhan of WaPo said NOTHING about “Sarah is a C–t” tee shirts. Today Robin Givhan gives us this “Ater $150,000 Makeover, Sarah Palin Has an Image Problem”. Robin Givhan is an idiot disgusting hack with no fashion sense. Hey Robin, bad news, lots of women and men LOVE Sarah! Why do you think SNL got it’s highest ratings in 14 years when Sarah was on? Time for Rush to talk Birth Certificate and Medica Records for the Senator Government.
Well, the media is clearly making a play for the left voters.
Air America tried it.
I was shocked, initially, by how incredibly insensitive the media was being toward a huge, huge market share.
By the end of this season, I’ve decided they are nothing more than boutique news sources. They know they are offending people. They have given up attracting those viewers.
They are trying to develop a niche market.
That’s their survival plan, obviously.
others have said, accurately i think, that the media knows this is the last election in which it will be able to have an effect, so it has abandoned all pretext of objectivity, and has resorted to full blown campaigning for Obama.
On the day Palin gives her Beijing women’s speech, the MSM focuses on her wardrobe.
Her women’s rights are human rights line:
“And I was lucky to have a lot of support at home, too. Now among the many things that I owe my parents is one simple lesson, and that was this is America and every woman can walk through every door of opportunity. The belief in equal opportunity is not just the cause of feminists, it’s the creed of our country-equal opportunity. And if I’m given the honor of serving you in the White House, I intend to advance that creed in our own nation and beyond because across the world, there are still places where women are subjugated and persecuted as they were in Afghanistan, places where they’re bullied and brutalized and murdered in honor killings, places where women are sold like commodities in the nightmare world of the sex trade, and places where baby girls are unwelcome as a matter of state policy and their mothers are forced to have abortions. Now no one person, no one leader, can bring an end to all of those ills, to all of the injustices inflicted upon women, but I can promise you this, if I am elected, these women, too, will have an advocate and a defender in the 47th vice president of the United States.”
The MSM is in the tank, not legit, why bother with them.
Yes, yes, yes. Keep going Sarah, keep talking about justice and equality for women around the world.
No more academic, intellectualized faux-feminism, but real-world feminism that improves real women’s lives.
THIS is the human rights movement of the millenium.
Yep, this was the most poignant part of the speech and was delivered strongly and with confidence.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2008/latestpolls/index.html
Anyone from these states? I cannot help but to shout “fraud”!
Obama up 10 in Indiana! What a joke..I lived in NW Indiana for over 10 years. I just don’t buy it.
Live in Indiana and there is no way Obama is up here.According to everything I follow here,McCain is up around 5 points average now.Indiana will go McCain.
You in the cities? Indiana was looking good for Hillary, and the rural areas didn’t overtake the city voters by nearly enough.
She lost momentum in Indiana.
I saw the election night in Indiana. fraud!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5goTs_Bp8I
I only saw that idiot holding off returns to skew the publicity.
I remember election nite in Indiana …Took til midnite to get the numbers..stations were starting to ask questions,on if this was fraud..Clinton won,the state,and I bet if the numbers would have come out sooner,at close.More would have been in Clinton’s side.
IMO it was Fraud..in Indiana..Even the mayor of one of the towns,had said,he sent his numbers in at close.
Looks like maybe the public is making up its own mind, and the polsters don’t know it.
Rush ccovering Obamas half brother living in a small hut while Obama does not send money to improve his lifestyle.He is letting it all out today !
This is another interesting poll. since its gallup which heavily favours democrats, its a revealation.
No Increase in Proportion of First-Time Voters
http://www.gallup.com/poll/111331/Increase-Proportion-FirstTime-Voters.aspx
so all this increase of the youth vote for obama is highly exaggerated. it’ll be interesting to see what really happens. and since its gallup, the turnout will be much lower.
Interesting…..
There was a satirical piece on RCP where the guy dreamed this would happen.
All the gray-haired people turned out in droves. The kids were missing.
Sayeth James Carville: “You know what they call a candidate who’s counting on a lot of new voters? A loser.”
There there, it’ll all be over soon and you won’t have to keep clutching at straws.
Buck up there kiddo, whisper it at first if you have to: President Obama.
Soon be over, there there…
keep on dreaming, child. It’ll be fun to watch you say President McCain and Vice-President Palin. having a woman as VP would really hurt your pride. lol
According to Biden, we have to gird our loins for an obama presidency. Not buck up.
The Republicans seem so at ease and prepared for the BS coming out of the MSM.
I guess we former Hillary supporters and democrats just aren’t used to the scope of it.
I know I’m not.
To think, in past years, I believed whatever they told me. I remember following Bill and Hillary around (in person) this year and then seeing the total BS spewed out in the MSM, including MSNBC, CNN and McClatchy, a CA family that owns a bunch of local papers that are lying and putting out crap for Obama. Their headlines made me want to puke.
Fox was the most fair and Howard Wolfson of Hillary’s campaign admits that. He now works at Fox though he shills for Obama as does HRC (ugh!).
No matter who wins, our country will be more divided than ever. And we’ve discovered that we can label people as “racists” or “old” or even the “c” word and pretty much get away with it, barely a blip on the now blank “respect screen.”
Here! Here!
I agree, but I think people have a part to play in this.
I’m a bit fed up with the victim thinking of the public. Oh, it’s ok to smear because Hard Ball does it.
Good gravy.
That’s immature.
People voted in George Bush, folks. And they wanted revenge. And now they would like to pretend that isn’t so.
And once again, people have access to information that tells them they are about to give power over to the party that crashed the economy more than anyone, through Freddie and fannie.
It’s about like the AIDS stats going up. As though anyone over the age of 8 doesn’t know about safe sex.
People need to take responsibility, too.
I disagree — I think if McCain is elected, that will not be something people can get away with.
If Obama is elected, then that will continue because he advantages himself by it.
The crap pulled in Gary Indiana is what lowered Hillary’s counts in the primary.
I think the MSM reporters would have a heart attack if Sara Palin becomes the first female VP.
Can you imagine the exuberance on election night if the most powerful woman in the wolrd is a conservative.
I think they are mentally prepared for a Barack Obama win. Not for the first female VP.
Hooray!
I am looking forward to seeing the fear in a certain man I know who is scared blind of Sarah. When McCain/Palin win, I am not sure what he will do, but I will smile and say nothing. I’ll just be happy and relieved.
I live in CA and know that we don’t have much of a shot. Reagan took CA but that was because he was a two term Governor. Nevertheless, I have a ton of Hispanic and Hillary vote friends who are actively campaigning for McCain/Palin. Hollywood is a drag and I live with it every day. But remember they are a really small population in the first place. There are MANY Republicans in Hollywood, we just can’t talk about it. But we’re out there. I was a registered Indie until this year, but will never go back to that or God forbid ever be a Dem. I pray for the Dems that they take their party back, get rid of the scumbags and thieves that ruined this election, and REBUILD. I can’t imagine what people must feel like having been lifelong Dems and now this. But none of my friends will be rewarding that crappy criminal behavior with a vote for OHitler, thank God.
Obama is a fraud-
May I suggest you forward this link to your friends in the Hispanic community in California and ask them to forward to others.
Sen Obama’s record with the Latino community in Chicago…what do you think that he will do for Latinos across the USA???
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdWjjvpH1Qw
I know from McCain’s record that he’s the best answer to the Latino community in my state.
He understands and put forth a bold bill. Obama is just such an empty suit. He’ll be another bush on that issue.
Now, maybe the Latino politicos are banking on that.
I don’t know.
hey GOOD NEWS!!!!
remember the congressman who called his constituents racist?
http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/10/23/murtha-race-tightens-racist-redneck-remarks/
Rep. John Murtha finds himself in a statistical tie in his re-election bid as Western Pennsylvanians take issue with being called “racist” by their congressman.
i ‘betcha they vote for mccain when they vote that moron out of office…
a. hillary
b. mccain
america first!
mark my words…
if you remember 1 thing i say tonight…
i bet they vote that moron out of office…
-=chortle=-
a. hillary
b. mccain
america first!
He should lose, frankly. That kind of talk has no place in our society today.
Murtha is a powerful Ways and Means chairman. If the people of PA are considering throwing this guy out look our Dems and Obama.
Btw the ‘racists’ comment was amended to ‘redneck’. Huh? Okee-dokee.
Fox had his opponent on. He’s a Lt Col
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,443102,00.html
I read that this morning. Goodness, next to McCain winning, if Murtha loses I will be on cloud 9. What a slap in the face it would be to Pelosi and her gang:-)
The Europens are saying, “since America is the cause of so much of the world’s problems the rest of the world should have a vote in this presidential election”. One in ten (90%) of the Europens say Obama should be our next president. Even though most of them also say they are not ready to vote for their own Obamas. To make a long story short, the Europeans want America to become more European. But how they can get that (Euporean) through Kenya is a puzzle to me.
Um, 1 in 10 is 10%, not 90%. I have a friend there in Europe who is under the impression O. is winning. I told him about the media hype, the personality cult, the crooked primaries, etc. My friend lives in Hungary. Guess what. Mr. Soros has a protege there, Viktor Orban, who is a noted flipflopper, has a brainwashed entourage, and apparently will be leading the government next year. Meanwhile their money scene is also going from fair to worse. Makes you wonder, how many more little “acorns” there are out there?
This one had me laughing – new headline at Yahoo:
McCain, Obama neck-and-neck for rural vote
The first paragraph says this:
I just don’t know who they think they’re fooling anymore – 0fraud is NEVER gonna get the rural vote – these people who, according to the elitist democrats, are “bitter” and “clinging to their bibles and their guns” are not stupid, and as much as barky would like them to be, they ARE JUST PLAIN NOT INSANE! Therefore, they ain’t voting for barky.
Yeah, look above and see the AP has an 18 point rural advantage for McCain.
Yahoo may as well be writing about the extra terrestrial vote. Oh yeah I believe them!
The are polling the Kasheestee Universe!!
It’s getting more ridiculous every day.
God I pray McCain wins (a landslide would be nice Lord, I’m not asking too much am I??).
Are you kidding me. Take this example only 10 minutes old.
Obama giving an excellent speech in Indianapolis.
He attacks 18 thousand corporation by stating that the reason ‘the reason’ that they are incorporated in the Cayman Islands is to defraud the American people.
(So the market begins to go down)
The he tells his audience that McCain is for Wall Street but he is for them (taking ownership of their work places) getting what they deserve. Socialism in the raw but nobody notices.
(So the market goes down hill)
Then the CNN anchor says 10 minutes later that ‘after being high up now the market is down and he thinks it is probably the jobs report.’
You decide.
I think we are seeing the Bradley Effect in action. Lots of white people are afraid to say that they won’t vote for a black guy, but will pull the lever for McCain once they get in the polling booth. I live in north Texas, and even here I see a lot of white people who are afraid to show support for McCain.
The AP and IBD polls are great news for McCain supporters. McCain is solidifying his support amongst the people who actually vote on Election Day.
This black guy is not someone anyone should vote for.
Well, I think of it more the “New Bradley Effect” – meaning yes, barky is “the black guy” and yes, there are a lot of people afraid to say they won’t vote for him, but “the black guy” part is actually a technicality that the barky campaign says is the reason, when it’s not.
-1- The real reasons people won’t vote for him number in the millions (including corruption, inexperience, bad judgment, shady past, dishonesty, stealing the nomination, on and on and on and on…) but are reduced by the 0bots and the 0media to just one – “he’s the black guy in a racist, backward, red-neck country.”
-2- The real reasons people won’t say they’re not voting for him is fear and intimidation.
And those, I think, are the 2 components of THE NEW BRADLEY EFFECT.
Or they could be calling someone like my brother, who just fucks with them!
WOW! This is a must read.
A liberal journalist calls out the national media on how it has ignored the Dems role in the Freddie / Fanny crisis.
I wish every independent and undecided voter in the country could read this article.
Here’s a snip:
Whole article here:
http://www.ldsmag.com/ideas/081017light.html
In an earlier post someone asked the simple question:
How can a democrat win after alienating half of his party?
Women, older people, white blue collar etc.
Think Begala said it early in the primaries: You can’t win a GE with just Eggheads and African Americans.
Let’s enjoy the final days.
McCain will win!
Look at the Gallup trend:
http://www.gallup.com/poll/111415/Gallup-Daily-Obama-Has-Modest-Lead-Among-Likely-Voters.aspx
Note also that Battleground (Not Big 10 battleground, which is crap) is Obama +2 today (+1 yesterday) and the complete trend there…
Note the AP Obama +1 poll…
Note IBD/Tipp at Obama +4 yesterday (after being +7 the day before).
The RACE is on…completely…’gird your loins’ folks, we CAN do this. The state polls mean little in the sense that many are done by organizations skewing their data to lean WAY TOO MUCH dem.
Faith..have it.
Courage…vote.
Conviction…take a friend!
Take care,
Patrick
Right. Make sure we all take into account the fact that gallup also reported that there are no more new voters this year than there were in 2004. The polls have been basing their weights on all of the new young democrats who were supposed to be out there. Well..they aren’t.
So my guess would be that the polls have been off all along.
We’re going to win this thing!!!
I’ll addend my own post!
IBD/Tipp now Obama +1!
Look, it is now UNARGUABLE that the polls that have this ANY HIGHER than a four-point race are outliers. FLAT OUT WRONG.
IBD/Tipp was Obama +7 two days ago, +4 yesterday and +1 today.
Battleground was +4 two days ago, +1 yesterday and +2 today.
Gallup was +7 two days ago, +5 yesterday and +4 today (expanded has an even larger trend towards mccain +10 tue., +8 yesterday and +5 today).
AP has it +1 Obama.
This is now essentially a statistical dead heat.
KNOW IT. BELIEVE AND VOTE!
take care,
Patrick
Here is the link to IBD/Tipp:
http://www.ibdeditorials.com/Polls.aspx?id=309635713550536
I very good read on internals!
Take care,
Patrick
That AP-GfK poll also overweighed the ’social conservative’ factor by around 2x what is considered standard, with 44% of respondents identifying as evangelicals or born again Christians. Maybe all those voters are coming out for Palin this cycle, but the more plan Bs and Cs McCain has the better.
http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/10/the_apgfk_poll_evangelical_sur.php
as a (former) democrat, even i dont want to see one party rule. a democratic congress, senate and executive branch would be disastorous for the country. we need some balance of power in govt. so thesres no need to worry about a mccain presidency as much as an obama presidency.