Posted on 10/06/2008 3:27:56 AM PDT by acsuc99
OMAHA, Oct. 5 -- With a month to go before Election Day, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the Republican vice presidential nominee, touched down here Sunday for an unexpected rally in a state that President Bush won by 22 percentage points in 2004. This Story Candidates Prepare for Tuesday's Town Hall Debate Monday, Oct. 6 at 11 a.m. ET: Post Politics Hour Monday, Oct. 6 at 10 a.m. ET: Election 2008: Conservative Concerns About Palin Registration Gains Favor Democrats Nebraska Becomes Unlikely Battleground GOP Seeks Probe of Donations to Obama Death in Biden Family Obama and Biden on the Trail McCain and Palin on the Trail INTERACTIVE: The Debate Decoder A Shift to Democratic Party View All Items in This Story View Only Top Items in This Story In early September, even as it was shifting resources out of other traditionally Republican states to key electoral battlegrounds, Sen. Barack Obama's campaign sent 15 paid staffers to Nebraska, a state that has backed a Democrat for president just once since 1936. Despite Nebraska's consistent preference for a Republican in the Oval Office, Obama and the national mood are forcing Sen. John McCain to focus more on the state's biggest city and most urban congressional district. Both camps have their eyes on the same reward: a single electoral vote that could prove pivotal in determining the next president. Nebraska is one of only two states that award electoral votes by congressional district, rather than on a winner-take-all basis. Obama strategists see an opportunity in the 2nd District, where disaffection with Washington and strong Democratic voter-registration efforts are narrowing the Republican advantage. If Obama pulls an upset in this district, regardless of what happens in the rest of Nebraska, he will pick up one electoral vote toward the 270 needed to win.
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The good news about all of this is that, if McCain wins, the media will be beside themselves and will have an immense amount of crow to eat.
Watch out trolls around by these times!
OSSAMABAMA trolls on the web and the media have among other strategies ,the strategy of demoralization,disheartening
the bad news is, if they are right. how has this happened to my country?
If McCain wins, the media will declare the election stolen, there will be riots in the cities, and the Democrats will pledge to cooperate LESS with McCain than they did with Bush.
Good analysis. The MSM and the pollsters are setting America up for internecine warfare. The pollsters better be right about the dem/pubbie/independent mix because if they’re wrong and McCain wins there will be consequences across America.
this is just a head fake like mccain in maineand of course the media is licking it up and sadly a lot of chicken littles on here will be crying. number two has it right that the woman was in cali as well
That’s Warren Buffet country and he makes the media put out what he wants them to put out.
Mac "pulls" out of Michigan and its because he's losing there, Sarah visits Texas, and its because Mac is "losing" there....and then she does a pit stop while crossing the country and that she is stopping there because Mac is "losing".....
so I guess every 20,000 person rally means that no one is voting for McPalin ?....
hussien better watch his own backyard....
McPalin are winning...that is why the drivebys are trying drive us down...
ONWARD PEASANTS AND PAUPERS TO THE WHITE HOUSE!
crow is too good for them....moose droppings would be more fitting....
I’ve noticed the same theme with the trolls...several were on several threads asking “why is she visiting there...its a waste...Mac must be behind in that safe state or why is he/she wasting time going to that long shot state”....an on and on and on.....
hi newbie....don’t forget to visit the freepathon threads....
she knows how to connect.....
ONWARD PEASANTS AND PAUPERS!
I don't think they're worried about the whole state going for Obama. But Nebraska, like Maine, partitions some of it's electoral votes among the winners in its congressional districts. The article is pointing out that Obama could possibly pick up one of the state's votes by winning the congressional district Omaha is in.
Yep and that is why he media hates her..
OMAHA, Oct. 5 — With a month to go before Election Day, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the Republican vice presidential nominee, touched down here Sunday for an unexpected rally in a state that President Bush won by 22 percentage points in 2004.
In early September, even as it was shifting resources out of other traditionally Republican states to key electoral battlegrounds, Sen. Barack Obama’s campaign sent 15 paid staffers to Nebraska, a state that has backed a Democrat for president just once since 1936.
Despite Nebraska’s consistent preference for a Republican in the Oval Office, Obama and the national mood are forcing Sen. John McCain to focus more on the state’s biggest city and most urban congressional district.
Both camps have their eyes on the same reward: a single electoral vote that could prove pivotal in determining the next president.
Nebraska is one of only two states that award electoral votes by congressional district, rather than on a winner-take-all basis. Obama strategists see an opportunity in the 2nd District, where disaffection with Washington and strong Democratic voter-registration efforts are narrowing the Republican advantage.
If Obama pulls an upset in this district, regardless of what happens in the rest of Nebraska, he will pick up one electoral vote toward the 270 needed to win.
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nice to solidify the one electoral vote the Dem’s could have a shot at there AND to get some free cross border publicity in Iowa, a state they haven’t yet given up on.
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