Posted on 10/26/2008 7:24:08 PM PDT by EdnaMode
I think this is an election like no other, so why aren't more people ruling out the idea of McCain pulling off an upset in a couple of blue states?
People weren't wearing John Kerry and Al Gore t-shirts during the last two elections. Their supporters didn't wear Gore or Kerry t-shirts or faint during speeches. Obama is revered in a way that no Presidential Candidate has been.
Any McCain supporter or undecided voter knows it's "uncool" to not be for Obama. He's Elvis. He's the Beatles. Admitting you're not for "cool" Obama would be like admitting you didn't see Star Wars in 1977.
I've also considered this: during the primaries, the polls often overestimated Obama's support or underestimated Hillary's. Think New Hampshire. If they could be so wrong in a contest involving only Democrats, doesn't that mean the polls could be even more inaccurate when a Republican is his opponent? The libs certainly would have accepted a Hillary nomination over a McCain win.
And finally, I think the PUMAS are going to have a huge impact. What about Hillary supporters in Florida and Michigan? Don't many of them feel betrayed that their state was taken out of play during the primaries? Might her supporters in other states feel the same way.
Based on all of this, I don't think anything is a sure thing in this election.
Yes, please! I seriously don’t want a third world socialistic country that used to be the U.S.!
All he needs is a flip of PA and NH. That alone would produce a near lock on the Electoral College.
Why anyone in PA would vote for Obama is beyond me. He insults them and they repay the insults with their vote. Duh?
That would be wonderful! perhaps a fantasy as now even Fox News is depressing me.
The vote is out and it is conservative.
Hope runs eternal!
I have given money to:
Our Country Deserves Better
GOP of PA
GOP of VA
National GOP
John McCain
Give!!!!!
oh yes he can!!!!....This last week they need to pound on Spreading the Wealth......McCain should say I’ll tell you what we want to spread....
OIL!!!! ALL OVER THE U.S.A DRILL NOW.....
RELEASE SARAH TO TALK ABOUT OIL...BRING IT HOME!!!!
DRILL BABY DRILL....AND SPREAD THE WEALTH!
Good job. I have been giving and will keep giving. It is getting painful. :-) More painful if Obama wins (he won’t).
Probably not Michigan.
PA was very close in 2000 and 2004 and may be even closer in 2008. McCain will be spending more time in PA this week.
WI isn’t really a blue state at all, but a purple state. Gore won WI in 2000 by barely 5,000 votes, while Kerry won WI four years later by only 11,000 votes (out of almost 3 million votes cast). WI could very easily go red this year. In fact, WI and NH look to me to be the most winnable “blue” states from 2004.
Yes, he can pull an upset. It’s debatable as to whether or not it’s even an upset. Look at the insane weighting of most of these polls.
Zero’s support is nowhere near the claimed groundswell. Kids buy t-shirts, but they don’t vote. People had WAY more Kerry gear than Obama gear.
People are AFRAID to say they support McCain. People are angry at the media, angry at the BS, and they are sick of the rather transparent game that is being played on them to force them to vote for someone who is obviously un-American.
I live in a blue state. I know a lot of Dems. Some of them are even barking moonbats. ALL of them were Kerry voters. Rabid Kerry voters in fact.
NONE of them are voting for Zero. NONE.
People are turning off the news. They are stopping reading the paper. Tuning everything out. Not answering polls. They see what’s going on and it scares them.
Fox News is in pro-Obama mode with the exception of Hannity.
Why?
1. Ruper Murdoch probably got a threat from Obama.
2. Murdoch has Saudi and UAE investors who want Obama to win.
3. His second wife is a young Chi Com and they had a baby. She has pushed his kids away from him. All he cares about is his TV rights in China and the Chi Coms want Obama.
4. Publications he has bought in teh past have turn to lib crap. Times of London and most recently the Wall Street Journal (WSJ). He bought WSJ six months ago and it has bceome lib trash.
6. He backed the Labour Party in the UK over 15 years ago and they ruined England with open borders, mosque building and PC. See Saudi money. Today it is called Englandistan and it is essentially over. Obama wants to do the same thing in the USA.
Your list looks like mine. I have not given one penny in OK and will not especially in my OK House District and for the Congressional seat held by the NRCC Chair.
Hi from southern New Hampshire, near the Massachusetts border.
Driving from my town to a neighboring town today, I saw many more McCain/Palin signs on private property than there were a week ago! One lonely Obama sign (next to the road, not on someone’s lawn or business) compared to the several dozen McCain signs I saw.
There were many more Obama signs during the primary last winter. They’re gone!
Both McCain and Palin have held rallies recently in NH, so that’s helped.
And today I saw a neighbor wearing a “John Kerry 2004” t-shirt... even he can’t bring himself to wear an Obama one!
I wish I could convince by New York City dwelling relatives to vote for McCain. My 43 year old, single, thinks she’s 21, and lives with a psycho cat sister says she is voting for Obama because:
“If I get pregnant, I want to have the option of having an abortion.”
Meanwhile, my sister’s friend feels the exact same way. Too many women vote on this issue and this issue only! And McCain hasn’t even talked about abortion during this election!
PA, absolutely; I think it’s a 50-50 bet at this point. I would think Western PA is not in love with Obama, but it’s going to come down to Philly and their 100%+ ACORN voting. I wouldn’t be surprised to see Obama get crushed almost everywhere outside greater Philly.
MI, not counting on it.
NH, again, I think McCain has a chance. He’s won the state twice in the primaries and it definitely has an independent/maverick streak. I worry there about the influx of liberal Democrats.
MN and WI, I don’t know. I have a feeling one or the other could be surprisingly close, but I’m not going to count on either. I’d be ecstatic to get even one.
Your words above are the among the clearest and most intelligent I’ve read on FR during this whole fiasco.
Thank you.
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