Posted on 10/08/2008 1:11:10 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
They really are out of touch. The ebay stories and all that crap are yesterday’s news. No talk about revolutions in transportation or any vision. Just maintenance garbage. If the engineers don’t come through we are in for 70’s retro.
It was suppose to be 50 but turned out to be 71.
Even in a very liberal poll just out, it showed McCain down 8 points. They must have very encouraging internal polling to spend that kind of money here. You don’t see any Obama signs or car stickers Inland.
McCain is all about McCain. His way or the highway. He really doesn’t put Country First, despite his slogans. I’m not questioning he has patriotism. But first and foremost, he’s about himself. Unfortunate, because our nation needs a conservative with a vision running for president.
I’m in Maine, which hasn’t been carried by the GOP since 1988.....just like California.
I see McCain or McCain / Palin lawn signs everywhere around here, but only a few Obama signs. It always cheers me up when I’m driving around.
Good luck! Never surrender!
McCains only concern is to be careful not to piss off his Dim Buddies.
Obama has been above 50 percent in some polls. That indicates to me that he probably HAS closed the deal, or very nearly so. He and a democratic Congress will have a devastating effect on the country they secretly hate. Wait till we all see what they do to try to turn us into a country they can love.
I don’t know who the drama queen is, either, but there’s sure a lot of them surfacing. They’re clueless. Unless we stop Obama, we won’t even have a country and political parties to complain about.
Just for example, did you hear the word "Constitution" once our of his mouth last night?
Not only did I not, but none of his words even indicated that he holds at all sacred the conservative principles upon which this Republic was founded.
He is the antitheses of a Federalist. He actually believes and has acted time and again on the belief in large, ever intrusive central government. I wish it wasn't so, but unfortunately by his "record" he is!
The same way the computer was originally invented by a bunch of government scientists who were trying to figure out, for defense purposes, how to communicateFirst, we didn't invent the computer assuming by "government" he meant ours. Restricting it to first electronic computer still gives the Brits a win with Colossus in 1944. Restricting it to the first Turing-complete computer was us, with ENIAC. But I doubt Obama knows what that means.
Second, neither was used to communicate. Colossus was a code breaker and ENIAC calculated artillery firing tables.
If we take it to mean he was talking about the Internet instead of computers, he's still wrong. The man with the initial idea was a defense contractor. He then worked for ARPA for a while and then quit. Those who followed him carried the idea forward and hired his old company to actually build the ARPANET. Researchers at universities also contributed to the project, as the first link was between UCLA and Stanford.
And even then it wasn't about communicating, computers could already do that. It was about joining the networks together so you didn't have to, in the example that kicked off ARPANET, log onto three different terminals to talk to three different people.
Obama's statement was wrong in every possible way.
Indeed it is sad. Even more so it is indicative of what the Grand Old Party has re-morphed into.
He has never been above 50 in a poll that had a true sample of Dems (i.e., any poll having 35-37% Dems, 35-37% Republicans, and the balance independents.) If you look at the samples, the ONLY time he has gotten over 50% is when they have out-sampled Dems by 10%.
But the point was to the other poster that one can tell where the “race” is based on where the campaigns are spending money. Not necessarily. Bush spent tons in NJ, WI, and MI, and lost them both times. On the other hand, I just don’t see the Messiah winning either NC or VA and I don’t think it will be particularly close in either state.
How can you say that? The people you reference get sampled just like the rest of the population in the polls. They show up in the polls, and their preferences show up just like everybody else's. They ARE being counted. Why would you say they are not?
Did you see the SNL skit where Barney Frank and Nancy Pelosi abused him and he just nodded and smiled? I hate to say this, but they completely nailed him.
How do you know what balance should be? How do I know? Pollsters make it their business to know. Sure, there are push-polling organizations that are less than honest, but the well-known pollsters use standard, well-developed statistical techniques to calibrate their polls. I doubt they are very far off.
I watched last night's debate and thought they both stunk. Actually, Obama worse that McCain. At least McCain set the table for himself. Obama just stepped in it.
My Mom was on food stamps and I got to go to a private school. Ha Ha Ha.
I got polled by the AP earlier this year (The night before Palin’s convention speech, IIRC), and they didn’t ask me who I liked, they asked me who I would vote for if the election were held that day. Someone who votes for McCain solely to stop Obama would answer “John McCain.”
That said, I think LS is probably right. If he wasn’t, the media wouldn’t be feeding us polls that have a sample of Democrats ten percent larger than these polls usually have.
As far as I can see Obama, Mclaim AND George Bush are eye rolling leftist Socialists..
BIG government socialist government union worker democrats and republicans..
A Union for government workers should be illegal..
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