Posted on 10/15/2008 11:22:39 PM PDT by Rokke
I have an interesting story to relay that took place earlier this week between my boss (a senior VP in the company I work for) and one of the Obama campaigns' internal pollsters.
Just to note, my boss is a republican and was meeting the Obama rep over lunch for other reasons. Politics obviously came up due to his line of work.
He asked my boss what her political leanings were and they did some chit chat around the issues and the impressions each had on the state of the race. What happened next was more than fascinating and should be a reminder to all of us to buck up and remain strong. All is not lost. In fact, we may be in a much better spot than we think - despite the national polls and what the daily media drumbeat to give up.
He asked my boss what she thought about Sarah Palin. While my boss is a republican she hasn't been nearly as enamored with her as most of our base. She noted concern about Sarah's experience, but said that she is still voting for McCain.
As she was explaining her perspective it dawned on her to ask why he (the Obama internal pollster) was interested in her view of Palin. He replied that Obama's campaign is extremely nervous about the energized republican base and what he called the "unkown factor" regarding Palin's draw as a candidate.
In the polls they're conducting around the country, and my boss wasn't able to relay specific numbers, the Obama campaign is very, very worried about how Palin appears to be energizing whole groups of people who don't typically get energized about politics, precisely because she appeals so strongly to the middle class, as well as women and dissatisfied republicans that stayed home in 2006.
More than that, they don't know how to guage and predict the support of people typically turned off by politics, but that are enamored with her "up from the bootstraps" appeal.
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Bump for later reading.
Thanks to Palin, we will NOT have the apathy that plagued us in ‘06. The dynamic is completely different.
Let the Obamabots believe victory is theirs. On Election Day an army of us will descend on our polling places. No ONE will stand between me and the ballot box. Even as a Conservative in California.
This just confirms what we on FR have already figured out.
BTW, anyone heard from Joe Biden lately? What the heck have hussein’s handlers done with him? He doesn’t seem to be part of the campaign lately...
Bin Biden Mr. Nonfactor.
There is somewhere on earth a discussion that involves harm to Sarah Palin, the powers behind the left, MSM, and of course Obama never planned for something so far out of the blue and they have no contingency for it except a “final option”.
I actually fear something big like a ship with a nuke entering Alaska at Valdez and they hold Alaska hostage to make Sarah “back off”.
No kidding. Don't Botox clinics have telephones?
Yuppers! The tactic I've been usuing hte past week or so is to NOT debate them. Let them believe they've won...get fat, dumb and lazy. In my neck of the woods when they get like that they won't go to the polls.
prisoner6
He’s having his buttplugs rotated.
I meant hairplugs.
Take your pick.
Very interesting. Is David Rasbold a regular writer or columnist at Red State, or an anonymous poster on a forum (like a Freeper)?
I saw a blog commenter today still spewing the ‘husband & daughter are the real parents of Palain’s 5th kid’ crap.
Thank God so many of them ‘forget’ to vote, or are ‘too busy’, or are too just plain passed out on 42’s & doobies to crawl to the polls.
http://www.delawareonline.com/blogs/2008/10/ill-meet-you-anytime-you-want-in-our.html
“Very interesting. Is David Rasbold a regular writer or columnist at Red State, or an anonymous poster on a forum (like a Freeper)?”
Don’t know. But here’s his follow up...
“She called me during the lunch meeting and said “we need to chat later” that I’d be “very interested in what he had to say.” Honestly, I was avoiding the conversation with my boss because I didn’t want to hear about an Obama campaign person gloating about their internal polls.
When she told me this story tonight - just after the debate - I was floored. It was the last thing I expected to hear.
By the way, if anyone that reads this (and I’m not saying this to you PSDA) and thinks that I’m embelishing, think again. In fact, I tried to keep my retelling of the conversation to the key details and not make anything sound “more positive” for our side. Also, my boss is a straight talker and not into overstating events.
I’m not trying to sound defensive, but with the current negativity taking hold among some Republicans I just wanted to get this out there before I get the proverbial “rrrriiiigght.”
Let me put it this way: I stake my name and my honor against what I’ve relayed above.”
Delaware used to be such a nice state before Biden and his asshat rodent & RINO friends ruined it.
:-)
You need help, call. Might take me a few hours to get there but come I will.
I think I screwed up my only chance to play with these ding bats......
Last week, doorbell goes off, boy says (looking through the window), "Dad, must be for you - nobody I know."
Open the door, middle aged male, half of a beard...no intro, nothing....launches right into it.....
"Are you ready to take your country back?"...no pause..."Are you sick of what the current administration has done to this country?"......
I said, "I suppose you really believe that your wonder boy is going to fix everything?....Now GET OFF MY PROPERTY ya friggin' 'RAT!"
Not the most intelligent come back. In hind sight, I would have loved to play tit-for-tat with the a$$....just not prepared for the sudden verbal on-slaught like that, I guess.
I'm ready now....so is the 14 yr old...."Can I use water-ballons?".....NO!
Precisely. The arguments of the left are mostly aimed at causing the conservatives to doubt their postion.
Sadly, that works too often. Despite all the tough talk, many go wobbly without a shot being fired.
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