Posted on 10/31/2008 8:37:08 AM PDT by AHerald
Everyone has written-off Iowa. In fact, we've been very curious as to why McCain -- who opposes Ethanol subsidies -- has "wasted" his time there this year.
I'm on a conference call right now with McCain campaign manager Rick Davis. According to Davis, McCain's internal polling shows them "dead-even in Iowa." Davis says this is the reason Obama is headed there to campaign ...
He’s not up by 16. I posted about how Survey USA posted a survey where Democrats sampled 16% more than republicans when turnout was +2 for Republicans in 2004 and about even in 2006. Guess what ... McCain was “behind” by 15 in that poll. Readjusting for proper turnout, McCain is within the MOE.
These people go so far to lie for Barack Obama.
Please post the McCain Calendar for us. You do such a good job! Sarah will be in Iowa on Nov 3rd.
Iowa call.
It is a diverse state in factors other than race (being overwhelmingly white). Eastern Iowa is more industrialized, more unionized, more Catholic, and more Democratic; western Iowa is more rural/agricultural, with more wheat farms mixing in with the corn the farther west you go, more Protestant, more Republican, and unfortunately more lightly populated.
Not quite the stereotype I had of a land of Ethanol subsidy-loving WASP farmers. Thanks for enlightening me. :)
Not surprising. The MSM and pollsters/tricksters played a good game this election but in the end McCain/Palin wins.
Iowa was, in my opinion, the biggest surprise of Election Night 2004., with W. nipping Kerry 49.9%-49.2%. As I recall, it wasn't called until after dawn.
All I remember about that was that it was like water torture waiting for the Iowa call.
Actually there are a few of us here, who have actually been quite pleased with McCain’s campaign, they have shown brilliance and daring, and recognized trends on the ground far earlier than the other side.
My biggest complaint with the McCain campaign were lackluster performances in the first 2 debates... I really expected the performance in the 3rd debate in all 3, I don’t know why McCain phoned those first 2 in.
The suspension of the campaign was a risk, I don’t think it hurt him nearly as much as the press tried to make it seem like during that few weeks of completely manufactured polling, but it may not have been the best move.
Generally though, these guys are running and have been running a solid well fought campaign within the context they have had to work under, Huge money disadvantages, a press that is openly hostile to them, poor economic conditions etc.
McCain’s on the verge of a virtual route in spite of all this, he hit his stride at the right time and is peaking when he should, etc etc etc.
McCain wins this thing even by a small margin its an absolute repudiation of Fauxbama and the radical left that runs the Democratic part... He wins it by the margins I am expecting, and it should knock those radicals right out of their seats of power within the Democratic parties structure.
Short of a something drastically changing, McCain’s taking this election by 4-5 points minimum, and 310-320 EC votes minimum, and likely more than that. Republicans will definately be regaining house seats. Murtha I am cautiously optimistic will be booted. Given the fundamentals of the race, McCain pulls this off and you are looking politically at the equivalent of 1980 folks. Yes the margins won’t be as big, but given the fundamentals that this race had to run under, this is an accomplishment that goes right up with 1980.
Granny,
How are things looking on the ground there?
For your viewing...
I had that read too... Took me just a minute.
The problem with the democratic strategy is that it depends on a 4% to 5% margin of victory. When races get tighter, the ship springs leaks all over the hull and there is no way to stop it.
Note to DNC: The next time you want to have an “historic” election, you might want to try to ordain a candidate who doesn’t happen to be a Stalinist-Leninist-Marxist. That little detail can tend to rub a few people the wrong way in November.
I don’t understand Iowa. Is it just full of white liberal guilt?
right on!
MacMentum!
MacMentum!
MacMentum!
Sarah is campaigning there either tomorrow or Monday. Forget which!
This tracks along with calls I made into Western Iowa.
I’m shocked. Iowa doesnt want the most LEFT-WING CANDIDATE IN AMERICAN HISTORY?
AMAZING!
http://no-bama.blogspot.com/2008/10/final-countdown-case-against-obama.html
“Iowa needs to wake up about what a socialist redistributionist would do with the death tax to prevent them from passing down a family farm to their kids. That is a much bigger deal than subsidies.”
GOOD POINT!
Obama’s pro-higher-taxes and pro-death-tax polices are really the “Comprehensive Destroy the Family Farm & Business Act”.
Maybe it was that infomercial that he tried to run as a victory lap?
It will be important to win Iowa. If we can win all of the battleground states, plus a couple that were "in the bag" for Obamugabe, it will tamp down the charges of stealing the election. You cannot manipulate the ballot in so many places at once, without using dead people to vote.
And that's a Rat tactic.
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