Posted on 10/11/2008 3:58:54 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
Gloria Johnson, who heads up Democrat Barack Obama's local campaign for the presidency, says she and other supporters are undaunted by polls showing Republican John McCain strongly carrying Tennessee.
Pollster.com, which provides analysis of all national and state polls, showed McCain at 57.4 percent of those polled and Obama at 37.3 percent in Tennessee on Friday.
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Now she's planned a get-out-the-vote campaign that has a "staging" location and leaders in every Knox County Commission district, she said. Phone banks, canvassers, rides to the polls and poll-watching will be done at that level, she said.
"This is what we did in South Carolina. It worked beautifully," she said.
She's not sure if the statewide effort is the same, but it's similar, she said.
Johnson, a Central High School teacher, estimated the number of active volunteers at 700, with "probably 1,000 or more interested in becoming active."
They are motivated by Obama, she said.
"They are motivated by the candidate, the economy and the need for change," Johnson said.
The Republicans are still determining what their efforts for McCain will be over the next three and a half weeks, said Corey Johns, Knox County Republican Party vice chairman.
Tentative plans are for a major tailgating party at the University of Tennessee-Alabama game on Oct. 25 and a cookout rally at the parking lot of GOP headquarters at Downtown West Boulevard. The latter would be held sometime before Oct. 30
The number of voters registered in Knox County in 2008 will set a record at more than 250,000, said Greg Mackay, Knox County elections administrator. His office is still processing registrations, but he estimates another 4,000-5,000 will be added to the 249,864 registered as of Sept. 27, he said.
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Not too shabby, Tennessee....
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Tennessee PING
I have yet to meet an admitted Tennessee Obama supporter.
I heard a united Steel Worker crew leader give a 20 minute monologue on why he wouldn’t vote for a Muslim. (he actually won’t vote for a blackman but Muslim is the fig leaf). I know a third generation Democrat Judge who says he can’t do it either. He might waffle but to make the statement is earthshaking.
Thank you!
Analyze this: “The number of voters registered in Knox County in 2008 will set a record at more than 250,000” and “he estimates another 4,000-5,000 will be added to the 249,864 registered as of Sept. 27”
Even if you take that to mean that he expects the number of people registered to vote by election day to be 300,000, I kind of wonder about that because the total population in that county in 2007 was only 423,874. Can the population of a county expand that much in a single year? The Census number would include children wouldn’t it?
423,874
My black EMT neighbor down the street has been trying to get a McCain/Plain sign to put in his yard for weeks now! He says Barack Obama is a thug organizer, not a community organizer.
Something is going on in East TN...
Bradley County (SE TN) now has 60,000 registered voters out of a possible 72,000
He’s the real thing fur sure
Have the authorities taken note of this or has the media reported it?
Frank Watson ???
Is he related to Eric Watson ???
Yikes !!!!!
My source says the population as of 2005 is 92,092, but again that includes children so that still seems very strange.
There’s about 72,000 age 18 and up...
Agree, so is anyone noticing this?
Have the authorities taken note of this or has the media reported it?
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I posted a thread about it..
And called EMS for the latest numbers...
Bradley County (TN) voter registration to top 60,000
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2102211/posts?page=10#10
The time is up for talk. We must begin to act effectively.
Yeppers....
What I’ve noticed about all these media reports about the fraudulent registrations is they all don’t seem to have a clue why the Obamabots are doing this. They don’t get that the myriad of times the public hears “unprecedented Democrat registrations” etc etc is just to get the numbers up there so they can get the fraudulent votes in. That way the overboard voting won’t look weird compared to registrations. I suppose ACORN expected no one, especially the MSM, would do anything about their fraudulent activities since they hadn’t for years now.
I suggest we get together some of these oddities in terms of registered voters vs population and see if we can’t get a media friendly to investigate them.
The fraudulent registrations allow the pollsters to shift their percentages.
The shifted percentages allow polls that show Obama in the lead.
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