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Weekend Talk Show *Preview* for 11/02/2008 (not the live thread)
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Posted on 10/31/2008 7:52:47 PM PDT by Phsstpok
Weekend Talk Show *Preview* for 11/02/2008 (not the live thread)
The Sunday shows
Presented in the order they run in my area
NBC Meet The Press (Tom Brokaw)
- Topics:
- Just two days before the historic 2008 election season comes to a close, Tom Brokaw sits down exclusively with two political heavyweights.
- What are the Obama and McCain campaigns' closing arguments to voters?
- Political roundtable
- The final polls, battleground states and campaign strategies.
- Guests
- Senator John Kerry (Democrat - Massachusetts)
- Obama Supporter
- Democratic Presidential Nominee (2004)
- Senate web site | Bio
- Wikipedia web page
- Former Senator Fred Thompson (Republican - Tennessee)
- Roundtable
- David Broder
- Washington Post Columnist
- Wikipedia web page
- David Gregory
- Chief White House Correspondent
- NBC News Host, MSNBC's "Race for the White House"
- Wikipedia web page
- Michele Norris
- Host, NPR's "All Things Considered"
- Wikipedia web page
- Chuck Todd
- Political Director, NBC News
- Wikipedia web page
- Meet the Press mailbox (web page for comments)
CBS Face The Nation (Bob Schieffer)
- Topics:
- Yeah, yeah... election '08... what a shock...
- Guests
- David Axelrod
- Chief Strategist, Obama Campaign
- Wikipedia web page
- Senator Lindsey Graham (Republican South Carolina)
- Senator Chuck Schumer (Democrat - New York)
- Senator John Ensign (Republican - Nevada)
- Face The Nation contact information - ftn@cbsnews.com
Fox News Sunday (Chris Wallace)
- Topics:
- All week long, the McCain campaign has watched as some polls show the race tightening.
- Is this an indication of one last McCain comeback?
- Or are we witnessing the historical trend of polling numbers tightening as Election Day approaches?
- Sen. Barack Obama spent his last week on the campaign trail, making his final pitch to the American electorate.
- Will the Obama message of "change" and the Democratic nominee's focus on the economy resonate enough to put him in the White House?
- As both presidential nominees race all across the country, we'll take one final look at the ever changing electoral map with "The Architect" of two presidential victories, Karl Rove
- Fox News essay: Coming up on Fox News Sunday
- Guests
- Rick Davis
- McCain campaign manager
- Wikipedia web page
- David Plouffe
- Obama campaign manager
- Wikipedia web page
- Karl Rove
- Former White House senior adviser
- Wikipedia web page
- Fox News Sunday panel
- Brit Hume
- FOX News Washington managing editor
- Wikipedia web page
- Mara Liasson
- Juan Williams
- Bill Kristol
- Fox News Sunday contact information - FNS@foxnews.com
CNN Late Edition (Wolf Blitzer)
- Topics:
- Guests
- Senator Bob Casey (Democrat - Pennsylvania)
- Governor Tim Kaine (Democrat - Virginia)
- Alex Castellanos
- Leslie Sanchez
- Donna Brazile
- James Carville
- Candy Crowley
- Campbell Brown
- John King
- Paul Begala
- David Gergen
- Bill Schneider
- Howard Kurtz
- Gloria Borger
- Ed Rollins
- Tara Wall
- Hilary Rosen
- CNN Late Edition (web page for comments)
ABC This Week (George Stephanopoulos)
- Topics:
- The McCain campaign claims the race is tightening and it can see a way to clinch 270 electoral college votes.
- The Obama campaign is launching television ads in traditional red states Georgia, North Dakota and even John McCain's home state.
- What are the last minute campaign strategies and tactics?
- Guests
- David Axelrod
- Senior Strategist for the Obama campaign
- Wikipedia web page
- Rick Davis
- Campaign Manager for the McCain Campaign
- Wikipedia web page
- Roundtable
- Mark Halperin
- Donna Brazile
- ABC News
- Campaign manager for the Gore-Lieberman 2000 presidential campaign
- Wikipedia web page
- Matthew Dowd
- Chief strategist for the Bush-Cheney '04 presidential campaign
- Wikipedia web page
- George Will
- ABC This Week comment web
TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: election; sunday; talkshow
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This looks like a pretty good line up for two days before the election. I only wish that Sarah had been set on one of these shows. I just watched her (and her family) do a GREAT interview with Greta on Fox. I'm really looking forward to a McCain/Palin administration come January 20.
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posted on
10/31/2008 7:52:47 PM PDT
by
Phsstpok
To: A.Hun; Bahbah; Txsleuth; MNJohnnie; eeevil conservative; Alas Babylon!; Seattle Conservative; ...
PING
The Weekend Talk Show Preview is up
I’ll add analysis and links through the day on Saturday.
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posted on
10/31/2008 7:54:27 PM PDT
by
Phsstpok
(When you don't know where you are, but you don't care, you're not lost, you're exploring!)
To: Phsstpok
Also, I know its not the weekend but both Obama and McCain will be on ESPN monday night football at halftime.
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posted on
10/31/2008 8:04:53 PM PDT
by
fkabuckeyesrule
(If McCain loses I'm moving to Alaska!!!!)
To: Phsstpok
It was a awesome interview IMO, that setting just fit Gov Palin to a “T”.
As of the lineup, Rove has been swamped with the polling data, there is so many polls that he has sort of lost his touch, normally he can look at internals and pick out Demographics.
Not now..:(
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posted on
10/31/2008 8:09:23 PM PDT
by
padre35
(Sarah Palin is the one we've been waiting for..Rom 10.10..)
To: Phsstpok
Wonderful to see you back! Great post love your being here.
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posted on
10/31/2008 8:20:37 PM PDT
by
mojo114
To: Phsstpok
I don’t need to watch NO sticking Sunday Talk show!
We will win this!!!!
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posted on
10/31/2008 8:30:39 PM PDT
by
Calif4Bush
(Proud Moosehead)
To: Phsstpok
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posted on
10/31/2008 9:47:56 PM PDT
by
Son House
(McCain Can Win Without The Media's Help, Øbama can't)
To: Phsstpok
I'm really looking forward to a McCain/Palin administration come January 20.From your mouth to God's ear!!!!
Thanks again for the heads up. No need for me to rush home from Mass since the only one I'm interested in hearing is Fred Thompson, and MTP doesn't come on till 10:30 here.
Fred has really been giving great campaign speeches since he appeared at the convention.
I'm sure everyone else will be spewing the same old talking points.
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posted on
11/01/2008 4:11:55 AM PDT
by
Walleye_Walter
(No to Osama and Obama)
To: Phsstpok
I'm really looking forward to a McCain/Palin administration come January 20. Me too, Phsstpok, me too.
Thanks for this post. Just sitting down with a cup of coffee to enjoy it.
9
posted on
11/01/2008 7:33:02 AM PDT
by
Bahbah
(Typical white person-Snow white)
To: All
NBC Meet The Press (Tom Brokaw)
- Meme:
- Yo, Conservatives! It's all over. Give up already!
- Obama's campaign is brilliant and energized while McCain's is old and boring
- Obama will fix all the bad things the evil racist white people have done to ruin the world
- Topics:
- Just two days before the historic 2008 election season comes to a close, Tom Brokaw sits down exclusively with two political heavyweights.
- What are the Obama and McCain campaigns' closing arguments to voters?
- Political roundtable
- The final polls, battleground states and campaign strategies.
- Guests
- Senator John Kerry (Democrat - Massachusetts)
- Former Senator Fred Thompson (Republican - Tennessee)
- Roundtable
- David Broder
- David Gregory
- Michele Norris
- Chuck Todd
- Meet the Press mailbox (web page for comments)
Side note: NPR has an interesting interview with author Toni Morrisson about her new book, A Mercy, which her a view of slavery that Michelle Norris will not cover during the roundtable - Letters: Toni Morrison
I'm looking forward to Fred pummeling Lurch on MTP. The linked video of Fred is fantastic. I'll pass on the Obama insane clown posse roundtable. Talk about a self referential mono-culture. If an opposing idea were to randomly pop up it would be like a multi gigaton anti-matter explosion!
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posted on
11/01/2008 7:36:52 AM PDT
by
Phsstpok
(When you don't know where you are, but you don't care, you're not lost, you're exploring!)
To: All
CBS Face The Nation (Bob Schieffer)
- Memes:
- Axelrod and Obama have so PWNED that old stupid McCain
- Pay no attention to Lindsey Graham. He's just a bad comedian
- Chuck Schumer is running a confidence game
- Hey, Republicans! If you're not already depressed wait until we trot out your guy Ensign. Talk about depressing!
- Topics:
- Yeah, yeah... election '08... what a shock...
- Guests
- David Axelrod
- Senator Lindsey Graham (Republican South Carolina)
- Senator Chuck Schumer (Democrat - New York)
- Senator John Ensign (Republican - Nevada)
- Face The Nation contact information - ftn@cbsnews.com
Axelrod is the new, good, Karl Rove, according to the MSM. Lindsey Graham is to be viewed as a clownish figure, and they won't get much argument from many of us here. Ensign is resembling Eeyore from Winnie the Pooh, or some other such pathologically depressed Sad Sack. Ironically our one hope for FTN this week may be an over confident Chuck the Schmuck straying off message. He is an incredibly arrogant person so there is hope. That may be why he's doing a 30 minute CBS show instead of one of the others. Less chance to screw up, plus a very Dim friendly host to correct any blunders quickly.
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posted on
11/01/2008 8:57:51 AM PDT
by
Phsstpok
(When you don't know where you are, but you don't care, you're not lost, you're exploring!)
To: All
Fox News Sunday (Chris Wallace)
- Memes:
- The McCain campaign is whistling past the graveyard with all this happy talk... they ain't got no mo' mo', no matter what they say
- We're supremely confident in the Obama campaign. Really. Pay no attention to panic ad buys in Florida, Iowa and even California. Really Really. we mean it.
- Yo, Conservatives! It's all over. Give up already!
- Obama's campaign is brilliant and energized while McCain's is old and boring
- Topics:
- All week long, the McCain campaign has watched as some polls show the race tightening.
- Is this an indication of one last McCain comeback?
- Or are we witnessing the historical trend of polling numbers tightening as Election Day approaches?
- Sen. Barack Obama spent his last week on the campaign trail, making his final pitch to the American electorate.
- Will the Obama message of "change" and the Democratic nominee's focus on the economy resonate enough to put him in the White House?
- As both presidential nominees race all across the country, we'll take one final look at the ever changing electoral map with "The Architect" of two presidential victories, Karl Rove
- Fox News essay: Coming up on Fox News Sunday
- Guests
- Rick Davis
- David Plouffe
- Karl Rove
- Fox News Sunday panel
- Brit Hume
- Mara Liasson
- Juan Williams
- Bill Kristol
- Fox News Sunday contact information - FNS@foxnews.com
It's now all about managing expectations and either encouraging or depressing each sides partisans. The Democrats and the MSM (there's a difference?) are strongly pushing the theme that this time they have the ground game and the pubbies should just give up and stay home. Chris Wallace was on Fox ad Friends this morning and that's all he wanted to talk about. The only contest now, it seems, is whether Axelrod or Plouffe is the "new Karl Rove, super genius." Lets hope that works out about as well as it did for that Wiley Coyote fella.
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posted on
11/01/2008 10:11:59 AM PDT
by
Phsstpok
(When you don't know where you are, but you don't care, you're not lost, you're exploring!)
To: Phsstpok
Lets hope that works out about as well as it did for that Wiley Coyote fella. Or Bob Beckel, Susan Estrich, Donna Brazile, or Mary Beth Cahill!
To: All
CNN Late Edition (Wolf Blitzer)
- Memes:
- McCain is wasting his time and money in Pennsylvania. The Democrats own this state. Always have and always will. He might as well give up and go home.
- McCain is wasting his time and money in Virginia. The Democrats now own this state. He might as well give up and go home.
- Even McCain supporters agree that he's run a lousy campaign and that Obama's has been brilliant.
- The evil (racist) Republicans will tell any lie to try and defeat The (Historic) One! Lynch them!
- Never mind. CNN will protect The One from their lies.
- Topics:
- Guests
- Senator Bob Casey (Democrat - Pennsylvania)
- Governor Tim Kaine (Democrat - Virginia)
- Alex Castellanos
- Leslie Sanchez
- Donna Brazile
- James Carville
- Candy Crowley
- Campbell Brown
- John King
- Paul Begala
- David Gergen
- Bill Schneider
- Howard Kurtz
- Gloria Borger
- Ed Rollins
- Tara Wall
- Hilary Rosen
- CNN Late Edition (web page for comments)
If John McCain pulls this out I feel very sorry for this bunch at CNN. They are truly invested in the Obammessiah's win.
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posted on
11/01/2008 1:53:32 PM PDT
by
Phsstpok
(When you don't know where you are, but you don't care, you're not lost, you're exploring!)
To: Phsstpok
The Democrats and the MSM (there's a difference?) are strongly pushing the theme that this time they have the ground game and the pubbies should just give up and stay home.Yup, they tried that on Matt Blunt earlier today. He basically said bull cr*p.
I have never seen the media stay so "on message" before. I know they aren't very creative, but this goes beyond laziness.
And no, there is no difference between the Dems and the MSM. None.
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posted on
11/01/2008 2:59:43 PM PDT
by
Bahbah
(Typical white person-Snow white)
To: All
ABC This Week (George Stephanopoulos)
- Memes:
- Yo, Conservatives! It's all over. Give up already!
- The McCain campaign is whistling past the graveyard with all this happy talk... they ain't got no mo' mo', no matter what they say
- Axelrod and Obama have so PWNED that old stupid McCain
- The moderate Democrats in Congress, like Dick Durbin, will keep Obama from going full goose Marxist. No, really. Stop laughing.
- The Democrats have picked up on the mean nasty evil tactics of the Republicans and will use them to win. The evil Republicans deserve their fate. Now let's talk 2012.
- The stupid hayseed redneck Christian yokels, like Bush and Palin, have ruined the lovely country club Republican Party. After they lose badly on Tuesday the smart people can take back over and perform our rightful role as the loyal opposition for our Democrat overlords.
- Topics:
- The McCain campaign claims the race is tightening and it can see a way to clinch 270 electoral college votes.
- The Obama campaign is launching television ads in traditional red states Georgia, North Dakota and even John McCain's home state.
- What are the last minute campaign strategies and tactics?
- Guests
- David Axelrod
- Rick Davis
- Roundtable
- Mark Halperin
- Donna Brazile
- Matthew Dowd
- George Will
- ABC This Week comment web
ABC is already into the post mortem analysis of the masterful victory of The One. And the chattering classes on both sides of the isle are looking forward to banishing the rubes back to the hinterlands. so they can get on with the business of running the world via attending the right cocktail parties.
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posted on
11/01/2008 3:02:59 PM PDT
by
Phsstpok
(When you don't know where you are, but you don't care, you're not lost, you're exploring!)
To: Bahbah
The drive by media is both right and wrong about this. I've been checking and I don't see the same party / campaign ground game as was mounted for Bush in 2000 and '04. However, I am seeing a LOT of independent GOTV work being done by ad-hoc and independent groups. One example is a major second amendment organization getting their grass roots organizers to man phone banks and set up door to door.
There's also some big independent ad buys being done. The one that's getting all the press is The Conservative National Republican Trust PAC. They've got a 6 million dollar ad buy with the major networks between now and Tuesday to run this ad on the Obama / Wright relationship.
As Rush has been saying we're going to drag McCain across the finish line on Tuesday. Then the real work of reforming the party and the nation starts.
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posted on
11/01/2008 3:32:25 PM PDT
by
Phsstpok
(When you don't know where you are, but you don't care, you're not lost, you're exploring!)
To: Phsstpok
As Rush has been saying we're going to drag McCain across the finish line on Tuesday. Then the real work of reforming the party and the nation starts.As is so often the case, I completely agree with Rush. There is lots of grass roots work going on here to do that dragging, and then we have got to get the party back on track, in spite of or without McCain.
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posted on
11/01/2008 3:50:39 PM PDT
by
Bahbah
(Typical white person-Snow white)
To: Bahbah
This from
Jerry Pournelle's day book:
Despair is a sin, and often a mistake. The polls do not record the "refused to respond" which in my judgment is a much larger category than any admit -- it includes me, five times so far this year since I'm home to answer the phone more than many people are -- and I suspect that more McCain people refuse to respond than the trendier Obama enthusiasts.
Few Republicans are enthusiastic. I wish there were a safe recipient for the Turn The Rascals Out! vote. There isn't. Electing a junior senator whose political positions are indistinguishable from McGovern except on the checkoff unionization which even McGovern opposes cannot be a good thing for the future of the nation. If the Democratic candidate were Colin Powell, who has fairly traditional liberal views but is primarily a centrist with some military (including political military, but who has led troops in combat) experience, I'd very likely vote for him on the grounds that he would be a good restraining influence on Rangel, Franks, Dodd, Pelosi, and the weak Reid. Alas, Obama isn't likely to stand up to much of anything; his political experience has been Chicago machine go along to get along.
But the election is not over. There are more decline to answer voters than it takes to change the election.
One vote per precinct in California delivered the nation to Woodrow Wilson.
The way to win elections is to get those who intend to vote for your candidate to go vote. Few readers here are not capable of getting two or three voters to the polls. That's well over a million votes. Think on it.
I'm with Dr Pournelle on this one.
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posted on
11/01/2008 5:39:38 PM PDT
by
Phsstpok
(When you don't know where you are, but you don't care, you're not lost, you're exploring!)
To: Phsstpok
I’m with Dr. Pournelle as well.
Here is an interesting thing from ages past :)
“With Undecideds Allocated, Bush Leads Kerry By Two In Final TIPP Poll.
The final TIPP tracking poll of 1041 likely voters, conducted over October 31-November 1 shows 48.6% of likely voters would vote for George W. Bush; 45.3% would vote for John Kerry; .9% would vote for Ralph Nader; 4.4% were undecided. With undecided voters allocated to the candidates, 50.1% would vote for George W. Bush; 48% would vote for John Kerry; 1.1% would vote for Ralph Nader; .8% would vote for another candidate.”
They don’t say how they allocated the undecideds.
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/politics/bulletin/archive/bull041102k.htm
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posted on
11/01/2008 5:48:31 PM PDT
by
Bahbah
(Typical white person-Snow white)
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