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Tip to the Washington Post:
In Summary:
- McCain can compete in the west because of his stance on immigration with Latino's
- McCain wins Appalachia because poor white voters can't stand Obama.
- McCain is historically strong in the upper Midwest states of Wisconsin and Michigan.
- McCain doesn't need as much money as Obama to run his ops.
Sounds good, but points number one and two would seem to be mutually exclusive, as much of the opposition to McCain's immigration came from exactly those same poor whites that McCain claims as supporters in Kentucky, West Virginia, etc.
The McCain advisor Davis also claims that McCain outperforms general election polls, which is a good thing because he's off to a very bad start in the general tracking polls. In fact it seems that the rift in the Democratic party caused by Hillary is disappearing fast. Obama has moved up five points since June 4th while McCain is down a point, according to Rasmussen.
State by state polls are more important of course, but the general election matchups do indicate that McCain has work to do, but there is reason for optimism in the McCain camp.
Recent Comments
(Page 1 of 2)John2:21PMJun 9th 2008
jpgoodrow2:06PMJun 9th 2008
"DEMS -4- MCCAIN '08"
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This isn't just oxymoronic--it's moronic. You are acting like a ten-year-old who lost at kickball. A vote for McCain is a vote for more war, more economic downturn, more lobbyist control of Washington, more ridiculous energy policies, and more loss of individual liberty. A vote for McCain is a vote AGAINST Hillary Clinton and her health insurance plans, her advocacy for women, and her agenda for the nation. She herself said it: in order to complete her agenda, we must elect Barack Obama as the next president of the United States. No self-respecting Democrat would ever cast a vote for a man committed to overturning Roe v. Wade. So, jp, you either have no self-respect. Or, more likely, you always were a Republican. Ugh.
John in Philadelphia
OBAMA '08
kaflooey2:44PMJun 9th 2008
Actually not all Democrats favor Roe v Wade. And of those who do, approximately only 30% of those polled said it would be a major determining factor in choosing a candidate. So that may not be a selling point or deal breaker for many who are considering (or definitely) voting Repubican. Voting outside of your registered party is not something that is new to elections by any means. It has been done as long as elections have existed. Although I can understand that may not have occurred to newly registered voters.
NOWAYOBAMA2:55PMJun 9th 2008
the "rift" in the democratic party is not going away, dave......nice try little propaganda moron. if anything, its growing and groups are sprouting up all over the internet. we are not going to vote for obama for a whole host of reasons besides the obvious ones. when polls are done, they select people that will agree with whatever they want to show the american electrate.......obama can not win the general election, not in his supporters wildest wet dreams. the only way that they will see is in november when he loses in the biggest landslide in history. go sip some more kool-aid and stfu.....mccain 08
Mike3:02PMJun 9th 2008
PRESS RELEASE - FOR IMMEDIATE DISTRIBUTION
FROM THE OFFICE OF BARACK HUSSEIN
My fellow Americans.
As your future wanna-be President I want to thank my supporters, for their... well, support.
Your mindless support of me, despite my complete lack of any legislative achievement, my pastor's relations with Louis Farrakhan and Libyan dictator Moamar Quadafi, or my blatantly leftist voting record while I present myself as some sort of bi-partisan agent of change.
I also like how my supporters claim my youthful drug use and criminal behavior somehow qualifies me for the Presidency after 8 years of claiming Bush's youthful drinking disqualifies him. Your hypocrisy is a beacon of hope shining over a sea of political posing.
I would also like to thank the Kennedy's for coming out in support of me. There's a lot of glamour behind the Kennedy name, even though JFK started the Vietnam War, his brother Robert illegally wiretapped Martin Luther King, Jr. and Teddy killed a teenage girl. And I'm not going anywhere near the cousins, both literally and figuratively.
And I'd like to thank Oprah Winfrey for her support. Her love of meaningless empty platitudes will be the force that propels me to the White House.
Americans should vote for me, not because of my lack of experience or achievement, but because I make people feel good. Voting for me causes some white folk to feel relieved of their imagined, racist guilt.
I say things that sound meaningful, but don't really mean anything because Americans are tired of things having meaning. If things have meaning, then that means you have to think about them.
Americans are tired of thinking.
It's time to shut down the brain, I can sure talk the talk even if I can't walk the walk. So when you go to vote, remember don't think, just do.
And do it for me.
Thank You.
JOHN3:20PMJun 9th 2008
>>>THIS #3 ARTICLE OF THE 14TH AMENDMENT COULD BE USED AGAINST OBAMA FOR HIS LINKS TO WRIGHT, REZKO, AYRES, FARAKAN ETC WHICH WOULD DISQUALIFY HIM FROM THIS PRESIDENTIAL RACE!!!!
Amendment 14 - Citizenship Rights
3. No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.
Ali Khajawall3:32PMJun 9th 2008
Dear American Voters,
Hon. Senator McCain and Obama, besides each having many attributes and characteristics. The critical differences between the two of these presidential presumptive nominees are as under:
1. Presidential "Temperament and Composer".
2. Little Washington "insider Versus outsider" experience.
3. "Vision and mission" for our nation future rather than past.
4. American policies, " first U.S.A Centric" than any other country [ ies ] centric.
In my professional opinion Senator Obama leads in all above qualities.
The need of our next movement and generation is a change. The Change in " past Washington and its Leadership". A change we can believe in and not the seductive, deceptive, and confusing slogan of "leader we can believe in" [? Effexor ?".
Our Greatgrand Nation has to address many present and future challenges and start with new clean "Slate and Senator".
God Bless America. its diverse people, and our Greatgrand Nation.
Our Greatgrand Nation is needs the CHANGE at every level and for long time.
I am sure Senator Obama with the help of Senator Clinton and her supporters, can deliver that CHANGE.
Please stay involved, stay engaged, and stay informed. Please do not allow any seduction, deception, and or confusion by some partisan media and leaders effect your vote [ Psychological Terrorism ]..
Yours truly,
COL. [retd] A.M.Khajawall
Disabled American Veteran
Forensic psychiatrist, Las Vegas
speak4:30PMJun 9th 2008
John,
you may know how to count words in trying to read but you lack the understanding of the words you are trying to read.
Don't you think if Obama was guilty of anything, he would have been held accountable by now? Or are you sayin that the justice system is not doing its job?
Are you saying that the politicians do not know about the 3rd article of the 14th amendment?
Why don't you stop being stupid?
Red Mountains - Blue Sky4:32PMJun 9th 2008
Do you really think that when it push comes to shove the American people will vote for four more years of Bush/Mccain?
Scary thought!
We will be in Iraq or Iran depending on how his mind is working that day.
The Sunnis or Sheits will be our enemy
(Terrifying isn’t it)!
We will spend all our social security funds fighting a 100-year war.
The rich will become richer and the poor poorer.
There will no longer be a middle class.
A man with the worst temper in the Senate will have his finger on the nuclear button
This nation will belong to the Japanese And Arabs because they already own this country.
That is why this white Republican woman is voting for Obama.
Kathy4:52PMJun 9th 2008
God Speed, dear McCain. AS a former CLinton supporter who watched the DNC and press derail her at every turn, I will gladly vote for a man, who at least has some modicum of experience. If all the Dems would realize you ARE NOT Bush - are a lot more moderate then the choice would be easier.
CHUCK5:01PMJun 9th 2008
John McCain is pretty quick to anger, this according to a new book by Cliff Schecter entitled, The Real McCain.
Now a hair trigger temper might be OK for a Senator but for a President it cold is disastrous.
Worse his temper apparently knows few limits, even when it comes to his own wife. In his 1992 Senate bid, McCain was joined on the campaign trail by his wife, Cindy, as well as campaign aide Doug Cole and consultant Wes Gullett.
At one point, Cindy playfully twirled McCain's hair and said, "You’re getting a little thin up there." McCain’s face reddened, and he responded, "At least I don’t plaster on the makeup like a trollop, you c*unt."
McCain’s excuse was that it had been a long day.
If elected president of the United States, McCain would have many long days.
Who is elitist?5:05PMJun 9th 2008
John McCain isn’t merely fabulously well off, courtesy of his wife Cindy’s $100 million beer distribution fortune. At almost every turn, the Republican presidential nominee has shown almost a total ignorance of – or yawning disinterest in – the real lives of American voters. From the growing financial hardships of the economic slowdown and the foreclosure crisis to the disintegrating American health care system and the dangers U.S. troops face on the streets on Baghdad, it is John McCain who is truly out of touch. Yet voters and pundits alike agree that the supposed maverick is treated with kid gloves by the press, an elitist masquerading as a man of the people.
MJG227:32PMJun 9th 2008
Women for Hilary, Stay United. Dump the Democrats in November. Vote for John McCain and WE WILL have Hillary in 2012. This is the only way to overcome the evil deception the Media pundits have perpetrated against women in particular and the country in general. At his best, John McCain is way ahead of Barack Obama in experience. At his worst, he won't be another George Bush. Do you really want to trust the government of our country to a spellbinding novice with a serious lack of credentials and a complete lack of humility?
“When the general election arrives, I have NO DOUBT that Hillary Clinton will cast her vote for John McCain, just like McCain himself is reported to have cast his vote for Al Gore. To all of you who may have doubts of what Hillary wants, the answer is quite easy: Do NOT elect Barack Obama to the White House! You will do Hillary Clinton AND our Country a huge favor.”
MJG228:11PMJun 9th 2008
Hitler was a party organizer whose mesmerizing rhetoric made him Fuehrer of Germany. Barack Obama is a party fund raiser with a gift for spellbinding oratory who wants to be President of the U.S.
Why do Barack Obama’s followers, frantically waiving their "Change We Can Believe In" signs like so many swastikas, remind me of the same mindless zealots who followed Hitler to their doom? Politics makes strange bed fellows.
Bettybb8:15PMJun 9th 2008
Boy is the media tripping over itself to spin Obama. They know he is in big trouble.
With the exception of the looney left and the racist blacks, Americans realize Obama is a lying, racist, sexist, bigoted snake oil salesman,
Obama has split the Dem Party; women, moderates and the working class are walking away.
McCain is hardly ideal.. but at least he has some integrity; Obama has none.
McCain just has to hold the states Bush took in 2004. With the influx of Dem women, working class and moderate voters, he is going to be hard to beat.
Bettybb8:16PMJun 9th 2008
Obama is an abomination.
He is a lying, racist, sexist, bigot.
He is a con man.. a snake oil salesman.
That is why half the Dem Party want nothing to do with him.
Obama is a liar. He promised the American people tough Nafta negotiations while assuring the Canadian government that they could ignore those promises as "mere campaign rhetoric". When caught, he lied and said it did not happen. Then the memo proving him a liar surfaced.
Obama is a liar. He said he did not take big oil money. He has taken more than any other candidate.
Obama is a liar. On May 19, 2008 he said in Oregon that Iran does not pose a threat to the USA. On May 20, 2008 in Montana he claimed he has always said Iran is a serious threat to the USA.
Obama is a racist .. check his writings, rev wright, rev phelger, his wife's thesis. Now he has refused to deny that his wife engaged in a highly toxic racist rant.
Obama is a sexist.. check youtube video of his Detroit remarks, NH primary debate, Geraldine Ferraro. Obama in Detroit called a woman journalist "sweetie", the linquistic equivalent of calling an African American "boy".
Obama is a bigot,... He sneers at the working class, those who believe in religion, own guns, are pro legal immigration but anti illegal immigration, and thos who are anti free trade with profits only for the rich.
The only people who support Obama are:
1. the naive (they don't see the con),
2. racists (ie look at the Black vote),
3. sexists (check out the male media reports on Clinton- Cenk is a big offender),
4. and bigots (all of the looney left of the Dem Party).
ANYBODY-BUT-OBAMA8:30PMJun 9th 2008
COULDN'T HAVE SAID IT BETTER MYSELF
Bill Cosby on Rev. Wright
Article from Wall Street Journal:
Rev.Wright epitomizes the thoughts and actions that have prevented and continue to prevent black America from moving ahead and achieving their potential as a people. He suggests that this United States of America made up of sons and daughters of immigrants (I'm talking of the millions of 1st, 2nd, 3rd generation immigrants in this country) of every race, creed, color and religion each and everyone of them who had nothing to do with slavery, some how owe something to a group of people who have never been slaves? Its amazing. It seems everyone is to blame for the shambles black society is in with its violence, drugs, high school drop out rates, misogyny, and a host of other real and virulent problems, except for the very people who engage in such behavior.
Enough. As a society, culture or people, they should look within themselves and fix their problems.
When did this man become the spokesman for the 'black church'? And of course his church is different, but that doesn't mean his message and philosophy is acceptable, or productive or non-offensive or not-racist or indicative of our greater cultural behaviors, values and norms of Americans.
And yes, the link between this man and Obama really does matter. At a very minimum, it provides insight into the political and philosophical strain that Obama adheres to.
Comment by Bill Cosby
DEAD-VOTERS?8:42PMJun 9th 2008
DEAD VOTERS STILL SHOWING UP ON ELECTION RECORDS, PUZZLING OFFICIALS”
Dead people on voter lists? Dead people voting? It happens all the time up here in the People’s Republic of Massachusetts. Democrat poll checkers up here actually hand Democrat ballots to unenrolled voters with statements like, “Use this one. Everybody uses this one.”
Precincts up here won’t even post any other ballot but the Democrat ballot on the door! We’ve found dozens of dead Democrats who’ve been voting since 1996. This is why Democrats don’t want Voter ID’s required at the voting precincts. (They don’t even want Republicans working at voting precincts.)
Why do you think they’re so DEAD set against Voter ID requirements? They’ll do ANYTHING to stop voter ID requirements.
It would simply destroy a good portion of their voting constituency. But remember this: Every time a “dead” person votes, someone’s vote is canceled out and that vote could be yours.
You might be able to scrounge up a few dead Republican voters here and there, but those numbers PALE in comparison to dead Democrats who’ve been voting for years.
Trust me, we’ve seen it.
WOULD LOVE TO KNOW HOW MANY "DEAD" VOTERS VOTED FOR OBAMA IN THE PRIMARIES???
COUNTRY-NOT-PARTY8:57PMJun 9th 2008
EXCELLENT SITE FOR ALL THE BAMA-KOOL-AID DRINKERS TO VISIT…..but they’ll all have to take off their rose colored glasses and quit listening to the pied piper long enough to let all the info on this site sink in.
Tons of info with links to verify everything.
http://www.theobamafile.com/
McCain ‘08
ernie8:49AMJun 10th 2008
Obama and his people can't give a speak or interview without trying to tie John McCain to George Bush.
'Bush has a low approval rating and if we mention Bush and McCain in the same sentence, morons think they are one and the same.'
Wrong!
Dems better realize that yes Bush only has a 39% approval,
But the Democratic controlled congress only has a 22% approval!
Obama doesn't offer solutions only deflection, must be getting help from Hillary already.
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jpgoodrow2:06PMJun 9th 2008
THE MEDIA DECIDED LONG AGO OBAMA would be president, then proceeded to swift boat Clinton right out of the race.
Now with that MISSION ACCOMPLISHED I am not at all surprised to see them shift the Swift Boating Campaign to John McCain.
Even The FOX Noise Channel seems to be slobbering all over Obama these days. It's up to Dems for Mccain to right this crooked ship.
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