Posted on 10/03/2008 8:16:39 AM PDT by TSchmereL
Oh, thank you! I don't seem to be able to bring up a list of rwi's posts, so I wasn't gettin anywhere.
Why do you say that?
Good thing Rush has a disgronifier.
WARREN, Mich., Oct. 1 (UPI) — Michigan’s “Reagan Democrats” have not been convinced by Democratic U.S. presidential nominee Barack Obama to return to the party, polling indicates.
Although a recent poll indicated Obama, a U.S. senator from Illinois, holding a 49 percent to 42 percent statewide lead in Michigan, another survey suggested he was tied with Republican opponent Sen. John McCain of Arizona in Macomb County, The Detroit News reported.
Macomb County known as the birthplace of the “Reagan Democrat” movement of the 1980s that saw union workers abandon their populist roots and vote for Republicans. A survey by Washington pollsters Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research indicated McCain was virtually tied with Obama in Macomb County, northeast of Detroit, leaving the key county up for grabs.
It is home to 460,000 Michigan workers who have lost their jobs since 2000, and residents blame Democrats as well as Republicans, the News said.
Frank Herdrick, a 55-year-old laid-off toolmaker from Warren, Mich., said, “I didn’t just lose my job, man. We lost a whole industry, and nobody seemed to give a damn.”
The newspaper did not report the methodology used for the Macomb County poll.
The new mode of TRANSPORTATION for us.... the STAGECOACH...
Yeah, just like the European banks taking the emergency liquidity funds and squirreling them away in savings accounts. We're being had. BOHICA
New Energy Policy - GET A HORSE!
FAVORITE PALIN QUOTE FROM THE DEBATE
“It was Ronald Reagan who said that freedom is always
just one generation away from extinction. We don’t pass
it to our children in the bloodstream; we have to fight
for it and protect it, and then hand it to them so that
they shall do the same, or we’re going to find ourselves
spending our sunset years telling our children and our
children’s children about a time in America, back in the
day, when men and women were free.”
I know... someone 3 weeks ago.. bought a car there, but they closed the dealership without him getting his car.
Yeahhhh.... well I had a good week and I am buying a new bottle of wine and rum so there.
Yup, well at least I can still buy ammo.
What you can learn on FR!!
WASHINGTON - Republican presidential candidate John McCain conceded battleground Michigan to the Democrats on Thursday, GOP officials said, a major retreat as he struggles to regain his footing in a campaign increasingly dominated by economic issues.
These officials said McCain was pulling staff and advertising out of the economically distressed Midwestern state. He also canceled a visit slated for next week. Michigan, with 17 electoral votes, voted for Democrat John Kerry in 2004, but Republicans had poured money into an effort to try to place it in their column this year.
The decision marked the first time either McCain or his Democratic rival, Barack Obama, has tacitly conceded a traditional battleground state in a race for the White House with little more than a month remaining.
In a campaign now unfolding across more than a dozen states, the decision allows McCain’s resources to be sent to Ohio, Wisconsin, Florida and other more competitive states. But it also means Obama can shift money to other states like Virginia, Colorado and North Carolina where he is trying to eat into traditional Republican territory.
By pulling out of vote-rich Michigan, McCain conceded a large part of the electoral map in the heart of the industrial Midwest.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
I still cannot figure out why the McCain campaign would publicize this at all. It serves no purpose other than to dishearten his supporters.
McCain, get your ASH back to Michigan!!!
It’s going fast,better get busy!
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