My mom was gonna vote Obama til I talked to her. She called last week and was proudly filling out her absentee ballot for McCain. Might be a good idea to call your parents.
We need a great conservative schlep. Its funny, sarah silverman didn’t even bother to participate in her own propaganda campaign to convince elderly jewish grandparents to vote Obama.
At any rate, a voter’s preference for Obama is like a bell curve. Its low when they don’t know anything, it gets much higher when they first see him speak, and then gets low again when they find out his record.
Hopefully Obama has peaked early for most voters and more stuff like this happens.
Eatonville will burn on 11/5.
Someone I know said they think people may go in intending to vote for him and then think “what the hell am I doing?”
Lol...we can only hope I guess. The kool-aid is pretty strong.
AMEN! AMEN! AMEN! AMEN! AMEN! AMEN! AMEN!
my step daughter still plans to vote for Obama.Very stubborn
bttt
Don’t even count out Minnesota. The Iron Range is very much Union and live and breath it.
They are really upset at the recent Democrat coup of the “Secret Ballot” voting initiative. Now every Union member and Union boss will see just who is voting for who, which will allow them to harass and punish any member not voting the way they say they should.
Second, they are also not real excited about voting for a Black Chicago Lawyer. Or a Socialist, because they know that will be bad for free markets. Several pundits also are worried that Obama will have real trouble getting the Iron Range, a traditional Democrat powerhouse in Minnesota, to vote for Obama. They just do not trust him, and they know it.
My neighbor is also a life-long Democrat and he says that for the first time in his life, he is voting for a Republican, McCain, and for Norm Coleman. He says; “There is NO DAMNED WAY I’ll vote for a Communist, who will ruin this country!”
This gives me a real lift to hear this.
Glad to hear that she realized supporting Obama was a bad idea BEFORE she voted. I wonder how many will vote for him, then kick themselves after the first scandal hits.
Here’s the best story I’ve heard so far. Yesterday on Todd Schnitt’s show (if you live in St. Pete, he follows Rush) a businessman called in.
He owns a business in Clearwater, employs 13 people (IIRC) and grosses about 3 mil. But under Corp S filing (as with a lot of small business people,) he will fall into the over 250,000 group when he files taxes, and thus qualify for Obama’s tax raise.
He said this year had been very lean compared to last year, and his profit margin was only running around 4%.
He had been hearing his employees discussing Obama and I guess praising an Obama Presidency. So he called all his people together and gave them a little economics lesson.
He told them the dynamics of his profit this year, and said if Obama is elected, he’ll raise my taxes (x amount) and that will cut into my profit by (such and such.)
Then his final statement: I’m not telling you who to vote for, but I just want you to know, up front, that if Obama’s elected and enacts the tax cuts he’s talking about, at least one of you, and possibly two, will lose their job.
He said after that his people were very interested in the “economics” of his business and were asking questions. If more small business owners would do this type of thing for their employees, I’m sure it would have an impact.
Great post! Yes we can make a difference, not by being obnoxious and in your face, but by talking nicely about the issues to our friends and neighbors. Building on personal relationships where trust already exists is a great way to share information.
Although Miss Mary may have taken a liking to your family, your family no doubt has been a blessing to her. Thank you for taking time out of your day to help her vote and for looking after her. God bless you!
Obama will not win. He’s getting only 80% of the Dem base, while Gore got 92% and Kerry got 89%, and both lost. People crossing party lines to vote are Dems voting McCain, not the other way around (with the exception of Powell and David Brooks). Obama is done. McCain wins 54-46.
I think most importantly, is to check where your elderly parents are getting their “news” from. We had to convince my father-in-law to stop watching CBS - that was all it took.