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There are a lot of unbelievable similarities between Carter's 1976 and Obama's 2008 campaigns. Let's see if their rulerships look similar in the coming months.

NEWLAND, N.C. -- Barbara Aycock thought the phone call she received in July, about a meeting for supporters of Democratic nominee Sen. Barack Obama here, had to be a prank. Sparsely populated Avery County, deep in the Appalachian Mountains, has voted Republican every presidential election in its 97-year history, usually with more than 75% of the vote. There's seldom a Democratic candidate running for county office. With the help of a massive database of potential Democratic supporters, though, the Obama campaign found Ms. Aycock and a group of more than 40 volunteers in the county. "They started coming out of...

An Extensive Relationship with Domestic Terrorists Most of the recent reports concerning Obama’s relationship with known terrorists are focused upon unrepentant Weather Underground domestic bomber William Ayers. That’s because it is now clear that Mr. Obama has been far less than forthcoming in his efforts to explain his lengthy in-depth relationship with a man he originally said he hardly knew. If this was his only relationship with known terrorists, his original story might have been more plausible. Had he been more honest in answering these questions, investigative journalists might have found some other way to spend their time. But Obama’s...

A talk radio host in Pittsburgh was reprimanded by his employer on the air for being too critical of Barack Obama. KDKA-AM 1020 host Kevin Miller was silenced after his executive producer P.J. Kumanchik read a statement by CBS Radio accusing him of being unfairly biased against Obama. Then he offered the listeners to Miller's show an on-air apology saying "We want to apologize to listeners who have found your show offensive." Then Kumanchik offered Obama three hours of airtime on KDKA in Miller's time slot. Miller, a Marconi Award nominee and former Army Reserve journalist, was accused of featuring...

In a rally last week in Waukesha, Wisconsin, there was anger. The anger was clearly based on a genuine fear that Barack Obama will become the next president of the United States, and along with Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi, will take our nation in a direction so far to the left, that the system of government our founding fathers envisioned will be totally unrecognizable. And they are looking to John McCain and Sarah Palin to have the cojones to take Obama and the Democrats to task on it. Barack Obama is a socialist, perhaps even a Marxist. His political...

Journalists are trained to “follow the money” – to uncover who donates how much to what campaign, especially in the midst of a presidential election. When Lehman Brothers CEO Richard Fuld testified before the House Oversight Committee Oct. 6, the media criticized his wealth and spending amidst financial turmoil in his company and on Wall Street. But conspicuously missing was the story of Fuld’s political contributions. According to the Center for Responsive Politics, Fuld has donated to Democratic candidates over Republican candidates by a margin of almost 5-to-1 in the last 15 years. He has given $106,400 to Democratic candidates...

Last Friday's debate between John McCain and Barack Obama proved to be a let down to most rational thinking conservatives. Sure, it would have been easy to claim victory as some on the right side of the political spectrum did. But in analyzing the debate from a critical perspective, McCain just didn't measure up. Not that he didn't score several points on foreign policy and national security issues. This is McCain's strong suit. He vigorously defended the war in Iraq, the dangers posed by Obama's plan for a quick withdrawal without a clear plan for victory, and the threat from...

The last two weeks have been a wild ride for the United States economy and for the presidential campaigns. The stock market has taken a tremendous beating, and financial institutions once thought of as solid, have now reached the verge of collapse under the weight of bad decisions and lack of oversight. The government has taken an unprecedented step at a bailout plan that will cost up to a trillion dollars of taxpayer money, while offering no guarantees that it will stop the bleeding. Treasury Henry Paulson, appearing on Fox News Sunday, said that our nation's still frozen credit markets...

The drumbeat. It's always there. Day and night. Rain or shine. Winter or Summer. Sunday or Monday. It comes at you from every direction. It comes over the TV, the radio, at work, at school, in music, in the newspapers, from the politicians, in conversation with others, even in church. It wears you down. It robs you of the will to resist its message.

Sarah Palin's interview with Charlie Gibson was an appalling attempt at smearing her, even to the point that some in the mainstream media even took Gibson and ABC News to task on it. From the outset, it was clear that Gibson planned to paint her as completely inept and unqualified. The very first question, asking Palin if she hesitated when McCain offered her a spot on the ticket, dripped with condescension. Here was Gibson, looking professorial with his glasses down at the end of his nose, eyebrow cocked, as if to portray her as a liar, or so self-assured as...

Money Track at Political Base Data aggregated from the FEC. All records are based on $200+ contributions to campaigns except for the 2008 Presidential campaigns, which include sub-$200 transactions as well.

Republican presidential running mates John McCain and Sarah Palin roared into Virginia yesterday in their first appearance together in this vital battleground state. Sans their opponent’s usual big-name band opening act to pull in crowds, the McCain-Palin rally drew an estimated 23,000 or more from across Virginia. Crowds packed into a hot and humid Van Dyke Park in Fairfax City to cheer for their candidates. According to the campaign press office, this was the largest McCain-Palin rally to date. Sen. Fred Thompson fired up the crowd as the lead-in to the main event with red meat jabs at the media,...

On Shepard Smith program tonight, there was a clip of Obama on campaign trail saying this: "you take a PIG, and put lipstick on it, it's still a pig" Smith said Obama was referring to Palin in the comments. NOTE: Brit Hume said today that 3 democrat Senators , who Hume showed in a picture at Obama event are the ones investigating TROOPERGATE, which is OUTRAGEOUS...why are Obama supporters "heading up" that investigation, that is a conflict of interest. That too needs to be addressed.

There's a huge buzz in the conservative community. Republicans are finally on board with John McCain's candidacy, what with his excellent accounting of himself at Rick Warren's Civil Forum at Saddleback and the addition of Sarah Palin to the ticket. We should feel excited, even proud to be Republicans again. We appear to have finally found our way, recovering from the mistakes that were made which led to the Democrats taking over both houses of congress in 2006. But lately I've been sensing a certain feeling of cockiness. Democrats, we are told, are running scared. Palin has the Obama camp...

A few months back I wrote a blog post in which I gave several reasons why I would not support John McCain for president. I had and still have several issues with which I disagree with McCain. However, since that posting, several factors have changed my stance. The biggest thing that has led me to re-evaluate my position is that fact that Barack Obama has emerged as the most dangerous candidate to ever run for the presidency. His political ideology is so far to the left as to be considered Marxist, and his ties to unsavory characters such as William...

John McCain's latest campaign ads attacking Barack Obama on his celebrity status and his messianic persona are hitting their marks. Obama has helped to paint himself as the second coming of Jesus Christ...and now those chickens are coming home to roost. His arrogant, elitist attitude has struck even some of his most ardent supporters as over-the-top. McCain, for his part, has up till now, refrained from going after Obama on his exaggerated sense of importance. Instead, he has preferred to paint Obama as just "not getting it" when it comes to such issues as the Iraq war, negotiations with Iran...

John McCain is making it increasingly difficult for conservatives to support him. His lack of passion and enthusiasm for this race has left many dumbfounded. The mainstream media's love for Barack Obama has kept McCain out of the spotlight for the longest time, and this past week with Obama on his "magical mystery" tour, McCain was virtually nowhere to be seen. One exception was when Obama was giving his "citizen of the world" speech in Germany. McCain made an appearance at a German restaurant...in Ohio. How lame is that? On those notable occasions when he pops his head out of...

There is no such thing as a bad time to salute our nation's soldiers This note ought to come under the heading of dumb, stupid or insensitive. Why would a person, least of all a presidential candidate, travel all the way to a war zone and not take time to salute our troops? And this is the man who wants us We the Peoples to believe that he deserves to be our nation's Commander in Chief. And his big ol' inept excuse? He did not think it would be appropriate to use campaign money to visit the troops! What an...

Understanding American voter sentiments heading into the 2008 Election cycle is no easy task. Voters seem to be all over the board on how they feel about the issues, the candidates, and what they think we should do about each issue is even stranger. In studying current Rasmussen Report detailed numbers, Americans seem to struggle with remaining on task all the way through their thought processes. Many voter positions appear quite counter-indicated, contradictory and even downright confusing, or should I say, confused. Obama and McCain are clearly in a dead heat statistical tie in the race for the White House....

We are in the eye of the hurricane; past the primaries and caucuses, not quite to the conventions, debates and the general election. This should be a time for both candidates to be pounding home their messages. Barack Obama is getting all the support he needs from the mainstream media. They love him, adore him, worship him. He is the second coming of Christ, or so it is believed. But what of John McCain? During the primary season, when McCain had already wrapped up the Republican nomination, and Clinton and Obama were duking it out, several pundits were saying John...