Posted on 11/07/2008 7:25:52 AM PST by flintsilver7
Indiana is still updating its website and it appears that McCain's lead is growing.
Marion county turned out 314,000 in 2004 with a 51-49 Kerry margin. Have they turned out an additional 15% with a 2-1 lead for Obama? Sure, it’s possible. It’s convenient how that’s the last major county not reporting.
364 to 173 is an electoral college landslide and pretty much a strong mandate. Get that down to 300 to 237 and it’s a lot closer, less of a mandate.
“Get that down to 300 to 237 and it’s a lot closer, less of a mandate.”
Great point!
Indiana had a lot of reported suspicious activity. ACORN in bigger cities.
If GWB did not endorse MFN, conservative textile and light manufacturing communities would provide the margin of victory for McCain. Instead the GOP catered to the free traders, passed MFN, WTO and want even more free trade with Latin America, and the blue collar Reagan Dems went with BO. You can not lead an Army to victory if you start screwing the troops who support you.
You are right. We “rich Republicans” were vastly outspent by B Hussein. Since many of us are working families with tight budgets, volunteering is one way we can get the word out next time. I have been a bit lukewarm on the Republicans in recent years, but that is the best structure we have at this point so we need to get strongly behind it.
Nowadays, anything is possible. Taking both IN and NC would not change the outcome (victory) since he lost Penn. and Florida.
Palin should be proud of her accomplishments... notice that the media wants facetime with her and NOT McCain.
You’re right. If we didn’t let those companies outsource most of their production, those jobs - and the jobs and receipts of the bosses and company owners - would have been lost as well...
Better to let the company die altogether on US soil rather than survive with manufacturing overseas!
/sarc
“.... and McCain has conceded.” ~ Masshood
His whole campaign was a “concession”:
So learn this - and learn it good (paraphrasing Rush from yesterday - URL at bottom):
We (Reagan conservatives / “classic liberals”) did not lose the election. Conservatism was not on the ballot. The Republican Party has not sought to be conservative since the new tone was initiated by the Bush administration in 2001.
The frustrating thing about McCain’s campaign was that we didn’t really have a chance to contrast ourselves with Obama and the radicalism of his campaign. In four-and-a-half hours of televised presidential debate, not one mention of any of the extremism that Obama has said he was for.
John McCain’s concession speech was a testament to his campaign. His whole campaign was a concession speech!
We have now demonstrated to one and all how to lose. We know how to lose. There are those that we are talking about here who have been the architects of this defeat, and it is going to be crucial to point this out as the reestablishment of conservatism takes place.
Some say not to worry because Obama’s going to have to govern from the center. He’s going to have to because look at the economic crisis and look at all the bailout money and look at terrorism.
Read the New York Times! They are demanding, A, he close Gitmo; B, he raise taxes right now; C, he get out of Iraq.
The left thinks they got somebody that’s going to implement their agenda even before he gets to the White House. Their rage is going to go someplace. These people live and thrive on rage. It is their fuel, and they’re going to find an outlet for it somewhere. They are perpetually miserable. They are perpetually unhappy. They might be in a moment right now of bliss, but the hard stuff hasn’t started yet, and it’s going to very soon.
[] Governing from the center?!! His first appointment, his chief of staff is Rahm Emanuel. He is good a old-fashioned Chicago thug just like Obama is a good old-fashioned Chicago thug. On the night of the Clinton election, Rahm Emanuel was so angry at the president’s enemies that he stood up at a celebratory dinner with colleagues from the campaign; Rahm Emanuel grabbed a steak knife and he began rattling off a list of betrayers. As he listed their names, he shouted, “Dead! Dead! Dead!” and he plunged the steak knife into the table after every name. This is not a bunch of people that are going to govern from the center. These are left-wing extremists. They are radicals, and we’re not gonna let these people either on our side or on the left say, “Well, we didn’t really know that much about this guy.”
McCain said, “Ladies and gentlemen, my friends, my friends, I want us to come together tonight in unity with Senator and President-Elect Obama.”
Unity with President-Elect Obama? Abandon 57 million Americans who voted Republican and want no part of an Obama agenda. Unity with Obama?
What little we know about Obama is precisely that he is a radical.
Do you plan to unify with a radical extremist who is not going to govern from the center? Pelosi and Reid are not gonna govern from the center. What the hell do people think they wanted to win this election for? When do liberals govern from the center? The only time they do that is when they have to, when there are enough Republicans around to keep their extremism in check — and that’s going to be interesting to see if we have enough now.
I know McCain wanted to sound gracious, but what is the point now of saying unify with Obama? Does Obama say he wants to unify with us? No.
There is no unity with Obama. He doesn’t cross the aisle.
Let me ask you which of the following Obama and Democrat agenda items you want to sign on to:
Do you want to compromise with them on the Employee Free Choice Act? These are things that they have said they’re going to do.
Do you want to sign on with the Employee Free Choice Act? Do you want to have union thugs in your small business being able to harass your employees who cannot vote secret ballot on whether to unionize or not? Do you want union thugs visiting your employees’ homes to pressure them, to vote to unionize your small business?
Any of you who want to make nice out there want to compromise and unify on the Democrat Party’s position on the Fairness Doctrine? Chuck Schumer just yesterday suggested that the federal government can legislate and regulate porn on the airwaves, what’s the difference in talk radio?
How about the nationalization of health care?
Estate tax increases. You want to unify with Obama on increasing the death tax when you croak?
Unify with Obama on driver’s licenses for illegal aliens?
Unify on capital gains tax increase?
Unify on defense cuts? Barney Frank wants to cut the defense budget 25%, get out of Iraq, get out of Afghanistan; while Putin’s loading up Europe with missiles and the Gaza Strip is coming alive.
Unify around the notion of liberal judicial appointments to the federal bench, including the Supreme Court? Left wing judges who attempt to by-pass the will of the people through their legislatures and make laws themselves from the bench (rather than interpret them as the constitution demands).
Unify around racial and ethnic preferences and reparations? You want to agree that we’re a bunch of racist pigs, sexist, bigots, homophobes, and expand the whole concept of racial preferences and quotas and affirmative action. (Black leader from the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Charles Steele, Jr., said: “We haven’t accomplished anything. This doesn’t mean anything. Obama doesn’t have slave blood. His wife has slave blood, but he doesn’t. So he doesn’t come from the down-with-the-struggle crowd.”)
Can we oppose the idea that confiscatory taxation produces prosperity, when in fact it punishes economic growth? Yes, we can!
Can we oppose the notion that our national greatness is derived from an ever growing government instead of the freedom from government our Founders envisioned? Yes, we can.
Can we oppose the belief that one’s earnings must be redistributed for the false promise of fairness? Yes, we can.
Can we oppose the belief that it is immoral to secure our own borders or defend ourselves from terrorists intent on destroying us? Yes, we can.
Can we do all that and more? Yes, we can. Because now it is plain for one and all to see that taking the moderate path of appeasement leads to abysmal defeat. Bush’s new tone came home to roost when Obama won the election.
And the last thing we’re going to unify around is the notion that what really killed McCain was Sarah Palin.
Yes We Can: The Reestablishment of Principled Conservatism Begins
November 5, 2008
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_110508/content/01125106.guest.html
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“This was such an enormous Democratic year that even John Murtha won his congressional seat in Pennsylvania after calling his constituents racists.
It turns out they’re not racists — they’re retards.”
The Reign of Lame Falls Mainly on McCain
by Ann Coulter 11/05/2008 ET
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?print=yes&id=29385
Kerry: 114,743 (61.03%)
Bush: 71,903 (38.24%)
Lake did not change significantly between 2004 and 2008 other than an additional 20% in Democrat turnout. While this is big, it’s not even close to what they expect from Marion County.
Amen from Clark County!
I’m seeing that as the SOS website is updated it matches the CNN numbers. Why the SOS is taking so long I don’t know. The numbers maay be statistically suspicious but they seem to be accurate.
Thought the numbers were way beyond what shows at the link — like somewhere in the 1.3 million range per candidate.
Am I missing something here? The CNN numbers show Obama and McCain somewhere around 1.3 million, while the Indiana SOS site says McCain is ahead by 97K votes with 1.17million. Are they doing a recount?
Indianapolis & the peoples republik of Bloomington have not reported their results to the SOS yet.
Bite it buddy
Marion and Monroe counties are all that’s needed to put Obama over the top “officially”. Waiting until the other counties have certified their results lets Marion County decide if they need to fight over any provisional ballots. I’m sure there are more provisional ballots in the dem’s favor vs. Rep’s in Marion.
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