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Michael Barone: Was Obama’s Bounce a Bubble? - Polls continue to show an unstable...
National Review Online ^ | August 02, 2008 | Michael Barone

Posted on 08/02/2008 11:03:24 AM PDT by neverdem

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1 posted on 08/02/2008 11:03:25 AM PDT by neverdem
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To: neverdem

May I kindly suggest we begin recycling reverend wright a bit. ;-)


2 posted on 08/02/2008 11:04:38 AM PDT by Maelstorm (I don't want a government that can guarantee me a life long job at a department store.)
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To: Maelstorm

October seems about Wright.


3 posted on 08/02/2008 11:11:14 AM PDT by fogofbobegabay
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To: Maelstorm

Recycling the good reverend now only in small doses, just to keep it as background noise. Bring it up in October. I really think the more the young voters think about the Obama listening to the old racist, their enthusiasm will be dampened.

With the young, Obamamania may already be yesterday’s fad. In November they will be back in their college dorms & apartments taking bong hits. Come November 5, they will be saying “you mean the election was YESTERDAY?. Wow, I was soooooo stoned yesterday. Was that Women’s and Transgender Studies exam yesterday too?”


4 posted on 08/02/2008 11:14:15 AM PDT by henkster (Politics is the art of telling a bigger and more believable lie more often than your opponent)
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To: neverdem
"Mainstream media provided lavish coverage of Barack Obama’s trip abroad the week of July 21–25 and predicted he would get a bounce in the polls."

When someone stands on Nazi soil and talks smack about the good ol'USofA there will be no bounce. That the MSM can't figure that simple notion out reveals them for who they are: America-haters!

NO BOUNCE FOR THE STUTTERING DUMBO!

5 posted on 08/02/2008 11:14:58 AM PDT by avacado
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To: neverdem

McCain bump.


6 posted on 08/02/2008 11:15:49 AM PDT by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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To: neverdem

Mark my words; Come November, political correctness won’t be following voters into the voting booth, where nobody knows how a person votes. Obama is toast.


7 posted on 08/02/2008 11:15:55 AM PDT by umgud
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To: neverdem

**This poll showed that when you narrowed the base of respondents down from registered voters to likely voters, John McCain was ahead 49 percent to 45 percent. **

This is good news for Republicans. Gear up for the final months!


8 posted on 08/02/2008 11:18:24 AM PDT by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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To: avacado

Dude, what are you racist against Germans?

Obama wasn’t on Nazi soil, he was on German soil.

Big difference between SS Nazis and the common German man drafted to fight.


9 posted on 08/02/2008 11:25:30 AM PDT by Transformers
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To: Transformers

Comments like that piss me off. I have a few drops of German blood in me, - what am I supposed to be embarrassed of those ancestors? England and France started far more wars than Germany ever did. Read your history.


10 posted on 08/02/2008 11:28:13 AM PDT by Transformers
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To: neverdem

It was a media fart...


11 posted on 08/02/2008 11:36:21 AM PDT by johnny7 ("Duck I says... ")
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To: Transformers

“Big difference between SS Nazis and the common German man drafted to fight.”

I’m not defending avacado’s silly NAZI statement, but I need to point out that to the dead there was no difference “between SS Nazis and the common German man drafted to fight.” None.


12 posted on 08/02/2008 11:38:39 AM PDT by Owl558 ("Those who remember George Satayana are doomed to repeat him")
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To: avacado

The “stuttering dumbo?” OMG, how funny is that?

Love it!!! Thanks for the laugh!


13 posted on 08/02/2008 11:48:26 AM PDT by CaliforniaCon
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RE: “Mark my words; Come November, political correctness won’t be following voters into the voting booth, where nobody knows how a person votes. Obama is toast”

I believe you’ve summed it up nicely. I never thought he could win — and if by some chance he does, I’ll eat my McCain hat!


14 posted on 08/02/2008 11:50:24 AM PDT by CaliforniaCon
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To: Transformers
"Dude, what are you racist against Germans? Obama wasn’t on Nazi soil, he was on German soil. Big difference between SS Nazis and the common German man drafted to fight."

I was using a bit of hyperbole. But to criticize the USA while in Germany after the USA trounced the Nazis is just a very bad thing to do.

15 posted on 08/02/2008 11:50:38 AM PDT by avacado
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To: Salvation

This is good news for Republicans. Gear up for the final months!

McCain winning is not good news, but it could be a whole lot worse considering the options.


16 posted on 08/02/2008 11:53:37 AM PDT by proud okie
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To: neverdem

This big turn around did not start until McCain took some excellent advice as posted by many FReepers on this forum.

The advice being, “John pull your head out of your butt, start listening to your very wise base and spank this Obama for being nothing more than a childish naïveté Narcissistic fraud”.

Personally, I want to see a good fight not two guys clutching for twelve rounds.

Just my lowly opinion John McCain but the candidate for president does not deserve nor is he worth his salt, if that person is not willing to stand up and fight for the job.

What say you O’Really?


17 posted on 08/02/2008 12:00:44 PM PDT by OKIEDOC (OBAMA aka Post Turtle the Forest Gump of American Politics ABORTION -Liberal Child Abuse.)
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To: neverdem
Young people watch much more TV and expect their politicians to speak with the fluidity of a practiced actor. This is how they judge candidates. Style over substance.

Obama seemed to exhibit a certain eloquence back in the spring and it contrasted with President Bush. But increasingly, despite the mendacious cover-up press that once thought the spelling of "potato" a major issue, young people are beginning to see Obama as more and more of a stumbler and bumbler when his teleprompter is not there to save him. He does not handle curve balls well at all. Hence their fading enthusiasm.

18 posted on 08/02/2008 12:10:16 PM PDT by cookcounty (Obama, the last man to figure out the Surge ---Except for Nevada's Hopeless Harry)
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To: umgud
You really summed everything up in one sentence. Right now it is “sexy” to say you are for Obama, and even respond so in a poll, but when it is time to throw down, I feel many will play it safe. I think you can take every poll you see now and subtract 3% from Obama and add 1.5% to McCain.
19 posted on 08/02/2008 12:30:03 PM PDT by lt.america (Captain was already taken)
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To: proud okie

A McCain win might not be “good news,” but an Obama win would certainly be bad news!


20 posted on 08/02/2008 12:35:44 PM PDT by karnage
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