Posted on 11/02/2008 7:00:45 AM PST by Bill Dupray
It's anecdotal, to be sure, but last time I checked, the Obama Brown Shirts haven't resorted to duck-taping Republican voters to their refrigerators . . . yet. From Jim Geraghty at The Campaign Spot.
While Texas will go solidly McCain as it did for Bush, I thought this was interesting. I live in Lubbock, TX a city of about 200,000 that went about 75-25% for Bush in 2004. In 2004 about 58,500 early voted in the county (total county pop is somewhat higher than city's 200,000), this year early voting was about 69,500. That's almost a 19% increase, and you can bet it's largely McCain support. No glum McCain supporters (as the AP reports) or apathy, or giving up, here.
Second, the Campaign Spot Hilton Head Bureau Chief (a.k.a., "Dad") is resigning in the near future to become the new president of the Hilton Head Republican Club. He mentioned an interesting anecdote to me recently. South Carolina in general, and the Low Country/Beaufort County portion of the state, are some of the most deep red sections of the country as you're going to find; in a year when traditionally Republican states Indiana, North Carolina, and Virginia has wavered, no one has contemplated any Obama movement in the Palmetto State.
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Funny you should say this: I just posted, below, Lee County FL that is deep red. It went for Bush by 20%, and the pop increased by 160,000. That’s a 20% increase if just the Rs vote R and the Ds vote D.
I’m telling everyone this is 1994! The last time middle America was very afraid.
But that additional 20% moved from somewhere where they won’t be voting. Hopefully they came from NY or some other lib hellhole.
Im on the left coast i I am scart pelosiless
I was polled about a week ago, and as far as the poller knows, I was in the tank for obama.
........I am drying out my powder anyway, just in case.....
Lubbock has grown much more in the last 4 years than most anywhere else I know. I doubt this is any kind of national trend in voting.
Yes, it could well be.
The 1994 election, with its strong response from gunowners who now knew exactly what they were facing after the Clinton administration had went so strongly for gun control in its first two years, were particularly fired up.
Every gunowner has to be aware that Senators Obama and Biden are even more more dangerous gungrabbers than the Clinton administration.
If you want to help change the vote why print either one of these two articles and give them to your friends and neighbors http://www.theusmat.com
Gallup found 84% oppose redistribution of their wealth.
While 85% didn’t mind redistribution of other people’s wealth.
That is the sad part.
Perhaps, but Lubbock does have plenty of minorities who probably don’t normally vote or aren’t usually amped up about voting— 28% Hispanic, 9% Black and others adding up to 39%. A huge part of Obama’s GOTV is grabbing every non-white they can find and getting them to the polls, without any other vetting of the voter they grab.
Middle America is EXTREMELY FEARFUL OF THE RADICAL MARXIST, whereas Barry's KoolAid drinkers are just greedy.
Middle America will turnout in numbers that will crush the Marxist's hordes.
I think the whiny pubbies who let the Dimocrats take over our government by staying home in 2006 realize what a mistake they made.
It’s been a few years since I lived in Lubbock. Yes, they are strong conservative and that hasn’t changed. The numbers above have to favor the conservatives in some way even if only a small increase.
I remember all the pundits saying Hillary couldn’t win because she would energize the republican bsse. Guess o did her one better.
I volunteer as a court-appointed advocate for abused kids here in Lubbock. I deal with the minorities on the north east side on a weekly basis — have had my car circled by emaciated crack whores like hyenas as I’ve gone searching for an AWOL mother. Grotesque. I’m telling you ACORN can register all these people they want, but they will not be able to get them out to vote. These mothers lay in bed behind cardboard-thin doors, so exhausted and high they won’t accept a free ride to CPS to visit their children who are waiting in tears to see them, or lift one finger to get them back — they’ll cry themselves to sleep over it, but they won’t do a damn thing to work a program and get them back, or even visit to check on them, write a note, place a phone call. They certainly will NOT turn out to vote. That is the Dem problem. If they can ever use their powers for good, and get these people cleaned up, then Republicans have a “problem” I’ll be happy to accept. Dem turnout % in Lubbock “may” be a little higher than usual (I predict it will be lower d/t more Republicans moving in plus a savage rage at the GALL of 0bama having the nerve to run in this election), but the numbers they are counting on will not materialize.
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