Posted on 10/09/2008 8:47:59 PM PDT by Aliska
It was in the QCTimes the other day but wasn't confirmed. Just heard on radio. They said it would be at Central High School, but looks like it may have been changed to the River Center, downtown Davenport. Doors open 8:30 am; Program 10:30am.
Tickets are required and will be available at Scott County Republican Party Headquarters Thursday at 9:00 am. Headquarters are located at 1880 E 54th Street, Dav, IA. The phone number is (563) 332-9666. Also have another phone number (563) 823-5854.
When I pick up our tickets, if there are any changes, will post an update.
I'm sorry but it isn't clear at this point if Sarah Palin will appear as well. It doesn't appear from two articles on the kwqc.com link that Sarah will accompany him.
I'd love to see what you're basing this claim on. It's not an accurate representation of what's transpiring. There is also no way on God's green Earth that McCain/Palin are down by ten points in PA. I was going to address the rest of your points, but if you're that gullible it really seems pointless.
Good deal that you’re going. I live in the QC’s, but I have prior engagements on Saturday so I won’t be able to go.
Let us know how it goes, OK?
Great post sir. I’m pingin Morgan in Denver to give us her informed take on Colorado. She has excellent insight due to her close association with an elected and high ranking Democrat there.
Help out an ol’ outsider, please. QC stands for Quad Cities, right? What are the four cities?
I’m looking forward to hearing what she has to say. My speculation is that campaign polls have shown slight but steady movement in McCain’s favor in CO. I doubt he’s out of the woods yet, but I’d bet things are looking pretty good. I’m pinging LS, as he’s always interested in hearing about CO.
Address it all you want - Here is some reality first - PA has not gone GOP in over 20 years at POTUS. Its most recent state-wide elections it went DEM both, at Senate and Gov levels...
Polls are polls - With that said, the lastest SV (Republican polling firm) has Obama up 14pts + - That was a LV poll with a large sample of 1200 - This same SV that showed McCain up 5pts in PA back in March of this year -
The last 5 polls out of PA have Obama up 10pts plus - All of them - That doesn't mean Obama will win by 10pts come election day.......but it means the State is becoming fastly out of reach. Obama leads in the last 20 polls taken out of PA.
This isn't being negative - This is facing reality - Reality is McCain needs to hold VA, OH and CO (we will win FL). If he holds those 3 States we win. Being off in IA, where Iowians already don't like him (over his ethanol positions) is foolishness this late......
QC stands for Quad Cities, which are Davenport, IA, Moline, IL, Rick Island, Il and Bettendorf, IA.
ROCK Island, not Rick Island, you dope.
God, I wish I drank coffee.
+1 on this type of thinking - If McCain was in IA doing such, that is one thing. He wasn't.
Thanks much!
AGAIN, AND WITH FEELING:
Why, since you’re soooo smart aren’t you on their staff? They are making fatal mistakes.
From Sept. 30 to Oct. 6, Obama spent more than $20 million on television ads in 17 states including more than $3 million in Pennsylvania and more than $2 million each in Florida, Michigan and Ohio. McCain in that same time frame spent just $7.2 million in 15 states. Even when the Republican National Committee's independent expenditure spending in Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Wisconsin is factored in (a total of $5.3 million), Obama still outspent the combined GOP forces by roughly $8 million in the last week alone.
So you can keep playing defense only. That's a strategy for losers in my book, especially when facing an opponent with so much money. Meanwhile the GOP is making plays at blue states PA, MI and WI (very, very close here the past two elections), plus the purplish IA (red last election, blue the one before).
You can think whatever you like. This is not a campaign trailing by ten points in PA, nor is it a campaign trailing badly nationwide. It's a campaign playing chess against an extremely well-financed Marxist with an adoring media.
Again, this is not a campaign sweating about shoring up its base. It's a campaign going after a supposedly invincible, well-financed opponent who, in reality, has some serious difficulty electorally.
Look at the crowds for McCain-Palin.
(Double the capacity of the chosen venues, which were generous for stump speeches to begin with. And that includes blue states like Minnesota, Pennsylvania, and California.)
Look at the attendance for Obama: he has to have rock stars share the stage in order to draw attendees.
Listen to the clips of Obama: cut off as he finishes speaking to mask the sound of crickets. Compare to the loud thunderous roars of large crowds for McCain-Palin.
The media is panicking, which is why they are playing the race card in mid-October already.
And the real dirt on Obama hasn't hit the mainstream yet.
(Reminds me of the old Mission: Impossible episode with the bunch of ex-Nazis who are following the orders of some one they think is "Martin Bormann" (who is really a mannequin), while the *real* leader is someone else. The MI team exposes the impostor and the episode closes with him whining and pleading "let me be your Fuehrer" as the Nazis close in on him...)
Cheers!
I disagree with DevSix on this topic, Grey, but he ain’t no troll.
Read the internals of the polls; talk to the GOP workers *on the ground*; look at the size of the McCain-Palin rallies (campaigns losing by > 10% do not draw orgiastic crowds of that size); look at the anti-Acorn investigations; talk to the PUMAs; remember the Dem primaries in Pennsylvania.
Nice try, though.
Cheers!
As they say on the crevo threads, "confidence comes from consilience."
If you have multiple independent converging lines of evidence, that's good. But the polls are the easiest thing to fake: crowd size and the enthusiasm (smugness) of the MSM is the hardest.
And the MSM is leveling charges of racism and voter intimidation, instead of crowing.
THINK!
Cheers!
Agree with you here, completely. Except I see the McCain camp and RNC playing kids checkers....not chess. Though, Gov Palin deserves credit, she at least seems willing to engage, to fight. But the RNC seems continually plain scared and McCain two debate performances speak volumes.
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