Posted on 09/21/2008 5:21:32 PM PDT by markomalley
Post-convention swing state polls are tipping toward Sen. John McCain, the TV pundits are waxing about "The Palin Factor," and Sen. Barack Obama's California supporters are freaking out about a race Democrats were uncommonly confident about only a month ago.
Conversely, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's addition to the GOP ticket jolted Northern California Republicans out of what one described as their "Underground Railroad" existence in one of the nation's most liberal regions. Ever since her speech to the Republican National Convention on Sept. 3, party officials say volunteers have been contacting California GOP offices in numbers unseen since Ronald Reagan was on the ballot for the White House.
Despite generating all this fear and enthusiasm, the Palin Factor hasn't changed the race in California. Obama beats McCain 52 percent to 36 percent in a Field Poll released last week (snip)
So Californians seeking to get involved in either campaign have options: pick up the phone, get on a plane, or hop in a car and contact a voter in a swing state that's still in play. Nevada, New Mexico and Colorado are the closest swing states. Most of the Great Lakes states are still up for grabs, and Florida always beckons.
Lizzy Gore was tired of preaching to the blue choir when she was living in Redwood City during the primaries this year and found the same unanimity when she moved to Rhode Island three months ago. So last week, she began an online campaign at thepoint.com where she started raising money for a newspaper ad that would argue that Palin would not be a good vice president. If the online effort raises $21,285, she will buy and place the ad in the Cincinnati Enquirer in swing state Ohio.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
When this happens in California, then we are well on our way to being able to celebrate on election night with a McCain/Palin win!
No wonder Obama wants people to get in our face to vote for the most liberal Senator. Their internals must stink!
The SF Comical trys to make light if it?
He who laughs last...
They’re right, I’m one. And I’m one of those people who swore they would never vote for McCain. (And I hope he gets a message from this........)
Obama wants people to drive to swing states and persuade the undecided? Not a very green strategy, that.
Kalifornicate long ago achieved the critical mass driving in to ruin.......
It's already halfway down that proverbial slippery slope into the turd world toilet...
I've been here for over 30 years -— I've watched it happen...
It's real.
But there are enough Hispanics who absolutely hate blacks to perhaps tilt things.
So Californians seeking to get involved in either campaign have options: pick up the phone, get on a plane, or hop in a car and contact a voter in a swing state that's still in play. Nevada, New Mexico and Colorado are the closest swing states. Most of the Great Lakes states are still up for grabs, and Florida always beckons.Palin has the SF Chronicle so scared they're trying to hustle Republicans out of the state!
“But there are enough Hispanics who absolutely hate blacks to perhaps tilt things.”
Great point about he Hispanics, Catholic Hispanics who worked hard to gain legal citizenship could not vote for a Muslim.
This is legal? Why have contribution limits if they can be evaded so easily?
I live in Los Angeles,** Eagle Rock** ...and our McCain yard sign is the ONLY one I have seen in our city so far!! I am surrounded with Obama-nation signs and I have been getting freaked out and worried all weekend!!! Thanks for the hopeful post! polly
I'm assuming it's a 527 that would raise the money.
What I find hilarious is the notion that a full-page ad in a paper in Cincinnati funded by a bunch of Left Coasters will persuade swing voters.
If anything I suspect it will have the opposite effect (just like that whole 2004 British effort to write letters to people in a county in Ohio to get them to vote for Kerry).
...and the 9th Circus with ACLU help will overturn it just as fast.
The good news is that all the leftists including the Cornholicle are so abusive of their positions that they are universally hated, even among their own party.
The state WILL fail, and there will be no cover for the leftists, they're the only ones in power.
The Obama camp knows that they cannot attract any new voters to Obama. They can only rely on turnout at this point. I think we will see a shift in their strategy to just getting the vote out. Obama has peaked and has not been able to come up with anything new and exciting. McCain/Palin should make a slow but steady gain over the next few weeks until the election as the fence sitters go with them. We will see one “leaning” state after another go with McCain.
I may be wrong, but I thought 527’s could not advocate for or against a specific candidate, only for or against an issue.
I just don’t see a full page ad in any newspaper in Ohio doing much at all. Ohio Dems loved Hillary but don’t think much of Obama plain and simple.
“I’ve been here for over 30 years -— I’ve watched it happen... It’s real.”
I hear you. I lived the first 28 years of my life in California, aside from the four years I was in the USAF. I fled the place in 1979 because it had changed from being paradise to fast becoming a third-world hellhole. I was out there last month for a function and I can say without reservation that the place is too far gone to save.
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