McCain Rally: Salter Is Smiling

Washington Times ^ | 11/03/08 | Elizabeth Holmes

[acsuc99]

You know it’s a big day on the McCain campaign when Mark Salter is smiling. The senior aide to John McCain, known for his gruff demeanor, was practically giddy this morning on the campaign plane. He was cracking jokes with reporters and describing an optimistic atmosphere surrounding McCain. “We feel like we’ve been saying all week. We’re well within the margin or on top in all these battlegrounds,” Salter said. “We got a real good shot at catching the guy.”

[wagglebee]

What do you see in Obama’s eyes?

Obama seems very angry and defensive.

Based on the polls, he SHOULD look happy and upbeat like Clinton and Reagan did both times and GHWB looked in 1988.

Obama has a "deer in the headlights" look that reminds me of Carter in 1980.

[RinaseaofDs]

I’d be shocked if NJ goes for McCain, but then again it might happen. What you say to your neighbors, and how you pull the lever, these can diverge.

Anyone remotely familiar with Camden, NJ might think twice about an affirmative action hire as President, regardless of your party affiliation.

[apillar]

Even when Obama is smiling, the smile never reaches his eyes. His eyes are constantly giving what I call a “visual sneer”. Whether he is talking to his own supporters or debating McCain there is the look of arrogance and annoyance in his eye as if he is angered about having to put us with “scum”. I think he has bought into the whole messiah complex and is angered about having too campaign and debate for what he feels should be handed to him uncontested.

[numberonepal]

I think last year McCain was a different candidate in some respects

I think he was falling into the Washington Elitism. However, getting out there on the trail changed him as he started talking more and more to regular folks outside the Beltway. Then along came Miss Sarah to solidify that regular guy understanding. I think the man changed his world view a little for the better. That's something I can respect.

[drangundsturm]

I saw a you tube of a XM talk show... and someone said NJ and MI are McCain. Maybe they know... that some blue states are going to turn!!

Alas, every year they say NJ is in play and every year it is reliably democrat. I wish it were different, I live here. Where I live everyone will vote McCain, but the big cities outweight all of us in the rural areas by a long margin.

People are abandoning the sinking ship that is NJ. My wife works in a medical office and she says every day one or two of the patients say they are planning to move out the moment they retire (the ones who say that are typically retiring within a year or two). Some have already bought houses in NC or FL and are just running out the clock.

You can bet the ones on public assistance will not be the ones leaving.

[Joe460]

I work in management for a union shop constuction company. A handful of solidly-tradition labor Dems that work here say they just can’t vote for 0bama.

My sister-in-law, another “solid” dem, is going for McCain. Apparently she’s fed up with all the crud she has to fill out in the HR deparment she works for. Sick of regulation I’d guess. Her husband—my brother—is a co-owner of an electrical business. He always let the better half rule the roost when it came time for political opinion, and he may be doing that now, but I don’t think so. He’s just now “getting it” with all the barriers he and his partners face trying to make the company grow and go. In spite of his mate swaying him in the past, he’s seen the light and is coming over from the dark side this time around. I reckon my regular pontifications at the Sunday gathering at Mom’s may have done the trick.