ACORN
A wishy washy candidate.
ACORN!
Fox News was showing how the only demographic in PA that went for McCain was white Catholics, and that was just by a relatively small margin. Still don’t understand how over 40% of Catholics could defy a majority of American bishops and vote for someone who openly favors baby killing, but that’s another story I suppose...
BTW, did Murtha win?
Personally, I think a lot of conservative voters were so disgusted after the bailout mess that they simply chose to stay home. They didn’t have a dog in this race.
We’re only sorry about the results. We still appreciate YOU.
hang in there pal. we all got our ass kicked today. go to sleep. we’ve got bigger problems than a lost election or a bad prediction. this nation is in mortal danger from enemies foreign and domestic. i’m now going to take my own advice and go to bed. it’s been a long night for all of us. later.
Yeah, I made the same prediction to my lib relatives, they thought I was nuts, and I guess I was.
Really surprises me. I am wondering whether the Pennsylvania I had in mind is not the Pennsylvania that I knew, but then I realize that with all the other factors going on (Bush, bailout), I’m thinking this was more of a “throw the bastards out” vote rather than an endorsement of Obama.
Four years from now, we’ll see how PA responds.
Hopefully by then I’ll be back living in the state and can help the tallies. :)
recriminations are useless at this point.
You were in the fight and it appears after ‘06 and ‘08 that we have some real uphill climbs to ever see PA in the right column again.
None of that is your fault and apparently it’s creeping all over the country.
I’m not mad at the people who put out the projections... *any* of you.
I AM mad at the LIEbral media who covered for BO for the last two years. I AM mad at the selfish, ignorant sheeple who voted for the flimsy “hope and change”, ignored all the warning signs and threw the entire nation under the bus.
Ehh...dude...McCain was a longshot to begin with, PA was just as good a place to roll the dice as MI was, this was the payback Election for 8yrs of GWB.
Add in 700 million bucks, MSM media fawning and a Nominee that most Conservatives viewed as what ends up in the cat litter box and it does not take Betty Crocker to figure out what happened.
Not your fault my man, if Mac had tried the same thing in MI,WI or MN, the same result would have happened.
It seemed to me McCain was wasting his time on PA and should have been campaigning in other states, but it was obvious they weren't going to change their strategy. too bad.
It wasn’t just PA. It was also FL, VA, OH, CO and NV.
We got shelled.
Whatever the lesson is, it is not about small differences in tactics.
We got beat big. We must make big changes in how we do things.
I won’t flame anyone that held onto believing McCain was going to win. There is no way 0bama should have won the majority. I have to go to bed. I am still stunned. I am going to not watch the news for several years now. 0bama doesn’t exist in my world. I will tend to my business. When I visit the Free Republic I will stick to the social areas from now on. I simply do not care to live in an 0bama Nation. Thank God, I am in a Red State.
ACORN for starters was much deeper into voter fraud then any of us imagined. Votes didn’t materialize in parts of the state we needed them. Too many Republicans stayed home who were not energized by McCain and saw all the hits against Palin that took their toll.
Host of reasons but maybe this Party has finally learned you cannot give the nomination to someone as a reward like we did to Dole in 1996 (I voted for Phil Gramm in TX) or McCain in 2008.
We need strong candidates that will take on the other side during an election and not reach across the aisle to their opponent and talk about what a nice guy he was and not to be afraid of him.
We need leaders who are not afraid to stand up!
Pennsylvania had an opportunity to send a message to the rest of the country that they care more about the coal industry than party loyalty. They failed. Let Obama bankrupt them for all I care.
Bottom line...Obama had a Ground Game...he beat Hillary with it...and improved upon it with technology and more people for beating McCain! It is about face to face, phone call to phone call...it is about the people...not ads, not front page, not news...it is about connecting...BO did it!
Forgot to add.... here are my extended thoughts.... What is the new Grass Roots movement? http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2125428/posts