Posted on 11/06/2008 9:28:18 PM PST by beagleone
PUMAS gave you Obama? You do not make sense! Republicans did not turn out. I traveled for McCain, made phone calls, and donated money, don’t blame me!
Hey, at least the PUMAs bothered to vote McCain. Leave them alone. Any day that a Democrat votes Republican, it’s a gift.
What I said Dimwit(whether you traveled with McCain or not)is by not prosecuting the crooks and thieves and looking the other way which btw, McCain, seems to be adept at; we got Obama and it is not the many Republican conservatives that did this.
That is bs.
The PUMA factor was either a myth or an Obama Front.
If they were in fact serrious, their effort was a complete failure.
funny, that’s the same thing they said about us.
Man, what I would have given to have had a Nugent/Palin Ticket. That would TRULY be an HISTORICAL ELECTION. I'd vote that ticket in a heartbeat!
LLS
I think a lot of Republicans, sadly, stayed home and didn’t vote or voted third party.
I pray they didn’t vote for b hussein o
ACORN had a 50 state plan and it worked.
They managed to corrupt many states because there were dem governors this time.
NC is filled with people from NY and NJ who moved there to get away from higher taxes. They brought their liberal mindset with them.
I’d lay most of the problem at the feet of the Osama-adoring media — a 24x7 sucking up, Bush/McCain-bashing media that never covered Osama’s gaffes and didn’t cover or downplayed his scandals.
I’m sorry, did you not read the entire article?
“We don’t know what the PUMA factor was, since a lot of PUMAs voted third party, left the top of the ticket blank, or wrote in Hillary.”
Most of them did vote for McCain when it was obvious he was running behind.
None of them were votes for Obama.
Very well stated, and opened up my mind a little more. I think you are correct that the situation the non-voting conserves (I voted) may need a swift and hard kick in the butt (as well as the people who worship the 0ne).
My hope is that this major mistake will actually get the lesser experienced Americans to pull their heads out of their butts and learn to respect the great freedom, seen nowhere else in the world, has given them. And I hope it’s not too late.
My brother who is the same age as Barry and only a few weeks age difference supported him, last time I saw him was 1990, he has sent me several e-mails this last year and I have talked to him over the phone, he was an ardent supporter of Hillary, he supported Barry, he sent me an e-mail the day after the election.
I deleted it before reading it.
This is possibly as like it was during the American Civil War, families split and choosing opposite sides, thank you Barry for the change.
So when did voters really decide how they were going to vote?Well, well: so much for the McCain campaign's theory that most voters decide in the final 72 hours. Another one bites the dust.
Seventy percent (70%) told Rasmussen Reports on Election Day that they decided more than a month ago. Sixty-nine percent (69%) of voters for John McCain and 72% of Barack Obama’s voters decided then.
McCain’s electoral fortunes came crashing down in our presidential tracking polls six weeks ago when Wall Street’s meltdown took over the front pages. [Duh!!!]
Fourteen percent (14%) decided whom to vote for within the last month. This group included 13% of McCain voters and 15% of those who voted for Obama.
Among the four percent (4%) who made a decision on whom to vote for within the last week and the six percent (6%) who decided within the last few days, Obama voters outnumbered those for McCain by two-to-one. [So much for Dickie Morris's prediction that late undecideds would break 7 to 1 for McCain!!!!]
Just five percent (5%) said they decided on Election Day. These last-minute deciders were evenly divided between five percent (5%) of Obama’s voters and five percent (5%) of McCain’s.
The "change" meme was the determiner this year. The O-man's people were on to this from the begining. Remember, way back when, the "VOTE DIFFERENT" ad? It turns out that this was brilliant. The other side figured out the main passion of this election season. Obama rode "change" wave to victory. Given the connivance of the media, the ineptitude of our candidate, the unpopularity of the current President and the financial crisis, Obama's victory was was darn near inevitable (Oh yeah, the fundraising advantage didn't hurt either). I'm surprised Obama didn't win by 20%. Hillary would have. In the end, didn't McCain receive only slightly less than Dole in percentage terms? (About 7% vs. about 8.5%)
Are they switching parties to the GOP or will they be fighting tooth and nail against Sarah in 2012?
Thank God nobody in my family voted Obama, that would be very painful. I have a sinking suspicion my wife might, I say might have considered voting for Obama if she had been allowed to vote - but she’s an Australian so thank God I didn’t have to consider divorce. She doesn’t understand politics so much, she just goes with the flow. For the sake of my sanity we just don’t talk politics, period.
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