Bob Barr to put Georgia, North Carolina in play for Obama?

HotAir ^ | June 4, 2008 | Allahpundit

[rightwingintelligentsia]

All part of his daring master plan to make his name as widely reviled among the right as Ralph Nader’s is among the left.

Polls in Georgia and North Carolina over the last two weeks show Mr. Barr winning 8 percent and 6 percent respectively of the presidential vote, and in both cases helping keep likely Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama within striking distance of Mr. McCain in those states — which, taken together, account for more electoral votes than Florida, Pennsylvania or Ohio…

[InsiderAdvantage pollster Matt] Towery said North Carolina and Georgia are exactly the places that Mr. Barr could put in play: both have high African-American populations that Mr. Obama can tap to boost his turnout numbers, and have conservative-leaning voters whose dissatisfaction with President Bush could lead them to a third-party candidate.

[RockinRight]

Yeah...wait’ll they see what an ACLU whore Barr has become. That’ll but the brakes on that real quick.

[AmericaUnited]

What an evil little man.

[WhatAgain?]

My wife and I will be voting for Bob Barr.

[Loyal Buckeye]

I used to think Barr was o.k. He seems to have taken the nutty fork in the road.

[rrrod]

I live in NC and will probably vote for Barr. I wont vote for McCain. Looks like we will dump Senator Dole too but that no loss.

I just hope a re-grouping fo conservatives will occur in 2010 as in 94.

[OKSooner]

“Gee... It sure would be too bad if he was to have some kinda accident or sumtin’.”

[OKSooner]

If Barry Hussein gets in office with a Rat majority there ain’t gonna be a 2010.

[Sybeck1]

Seems like McCain needs a come to Jesus speech where he grabs conservatism hook, line, and sinker. He has the ball and its only the third quarter of the game. He has time if he makes sincere game adjustments now.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Dole ain’t gonna lose. The polls showing Hagan in the lead was a fluke. If she does manage to lose, that will be a 10-seat blowout in the Senate, and you ain’t gonna want that.

[SoCalConservative]

Gee, that’s brilliant. Are you trying to send some kind of message by voting for Obama? Oh, excuse me, “Barr”. Same vote, pal. Sheer stupidity.

[doodad]

He was good in Borat. Tired of him in politics.

[Puddleglum]

“John McCain’s liberalism to put many states in play..”

[bert]

Bob Barr is not a candidate. Bob Barr is merely a pretender. A vote for Barr is an intellectual cop out.

[wideawake]

People always say they are going to vote third party - not long before the election in 2000 more than 10% of Californians said they were voting Nader.

3.8% actually did.

[Dead Corpse]

Your statement is the real cop out. No matter how many of these threads you post the same banality on...

Vote for Jaun McRino, just don't pretend to hold the moral high ground.

[Theodore R.]

“Hoping” for a “regrouping” may be a pipe dream. It may be oblivion, instead of “regrouping”. Why? So many are looking to Washington, D.C., to solve any and all imagined ills.

[bert]

The view from up here is good. I can see the situation down below very well.....no pretending

[Wallace T.]

If this were the same country it was in 1972, McCain, like Nixon a centrist Republican, would overwhelm Obama, like McGovern a left wing Democrat, by a 60%-40% popular margin, winning 450-500 electoral votes. Barr's Libertarian campaign would be as irrelevant as John Schmitz's American Party campaign was in 1972. (Schmitz received over 1 million votes that year, more than double any Libertarian or Constitution Party candidate has ever done.)

However, the demographics of this nation have changed radically. The minority percentage of the vote has increased, as have the liberal leanings of upper middle income and college educated whites, especially in the Northeast, the Midwest, and the West Coast. In 1972, most of the suburbs of cities like New York, Chicago, and Philadelphia were reliably Republican. Democrats are far stronger now in such areas. If Obama can hold onto most of the blue collar white Catholic voters in the Northeast and Upper Midwest, the Hispanic voters in the Southwest and the East Coast, and rural and blue collar Anglo-Protestant voters in the Upper South and Lower Midwest, i.e., the Hillary voters, he will be the 44th President. If the economy does not enter a recession and energy prices stabilize or decline, McCain has a chance of winning over these swing voters. $5 per gallon gas, $3.50 loaves of white bread, and 6% unemployment in the fall will doom his chances.

[AmericaUnite]

I just hope a re-grouping fo conservatives will occur in 2010 as in 94.

If you can't see how the appeal of Camelot will not allow that. Or that the very changes in the nation with respect to amnesty for illegals, Iraq, redistribution of wealth, the reinstatement of the fairness doctrine and the emboldening of our enemies will take decades to reverse, IF IT WILL EVER BE REVERSED, then, I don't think you ever will.

And to all who vote for a sure loser and throw their votes away, it's just spitefulness.