[snarkytart]

Pass the tums. I’m going to be hitting refresh on FR a million times in the “LIVE ELECTION RESULTS” thread come November 4th,

[Ciexyz]

Fingers crossed.

[snarkytart]

This is somewhat good news, though.
We’ve been hearing this race is basically over, and Gallup sees it coming down to the wire.

[SandRat]

Thie FIX is already in to steal the election
ACORN Posting Big Registration Numbers in San Diego http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2108647/posts

[zebrahead]

Of course the race will go down to the wire. Everyone is assuming Obama’s massive turnout operation having a major impact. Certainly the black vote will be increased, if nothing else. What we don’t know is whether the Bradley effect will cost Obama 1 point or 5 points. We also don’t know how much of an effect Palin will have on Republican turnout. Keep in mind, Kerry thought he’d win on turnout in 2004 and he did actually get 8 million more votes than Gore in 2000. The problem was that Bush turned out 11.5 million more votes than in 2000. Palin’s rallies seem to be stoking the base much like Bush did in 2004. McCain’s campaign claims to have made more phone contacts than were made at a similar point in 2004 by the vaunted Bush/Rove machine. The fact that McCain and the RNC have saved a wad of cash for the stretch run could also be a huge variable.

[Force of Truth]

I know a lot of my fellow conservatives like to play negative, so they don't get their hopes dashed in the end; but remember one thing: McCain has won many more elections than Obama. McCain knows what to do in the homestretch, and if you know anything about sports or chess, you know the winners often have to win it in the endgame.

[bray]

Sounds like the pollsters are showing some fear?? Wonder if it ain’t swinging harder than they want??

Pray for W, McCuda and Our Troops

[greccogirl]

Come on! The SCOTUS today gave Ohio 200,000 more votes. Now that they don’t have to prove they are a legal voter with an address, they can vote in another state and vote there too. This is probably going to go on widespread. The Fix is in, I’m afraid. Once Obama gets in the next election it will be register here and then vote immediately - they won’t have to have photo ID’s or a real address so really, anybody can, can’t they? Legal, illegal, different states, it really won’t matter.

[Theresawithanh]

McCain and Palin win the state of CA and the state of NY! Now that would be a headline I’d love to see, our very own “Dewey Defeats Truman!”

Too bad it ain’t gonna happen, but wouldn’t it be great?

[VOA]

Pollster predicts race to wire (Gallup)

I think McCain should tell the crowds how disappointed Obama
voters will be not long after they vote for Obama.
e.g.,

"If you like the idea of disappointment, please do vote for
my colleague Senator Obama. Because if you think he's going to
enact all sorts of special benefits for you, but he can't because
he doesn't have enough tax revenues from "the rich"...you'll
be disappointed.

On the other hand, when he realizes he MUST raise taxes on
not only "the rich" in order to fund all his new entitlement
programs...well, even those in the middle class that voted for
Obama will be disappointed when he raises your taxes.

Finally, if you're dead, but voted for President Obama thanks
to the community organizing efforts of ACORN...you'll be disappointed
because you are still DEAD!!!"

[Private_Sector_Does_It_Better]

Sorry, barring an October surprise it's going to be four years of Marxist domination. God help us all.

[SaintDismas]

There already has been a major gaffe, by Barak Obama. About Joe the poor freaking plumber now getting beat up by rich bling bling 0 and his goons. The ‘racists’ in Murtha’s district probably don’t like seeing it, nor do Joe’s homies in OH.

[napscoordinator]

I have to get my fellow FRiends here credit because they predicted this weeks ago. FRiends said that the polls were suddenly going to tighten up so that when McCain wins they will say “Hey the polls tightened.” The only thing that was a bit off was the FRiends said that they would have waited until the last week to do this, but I guess the pollsters wanted to start even earlier. lol. We are so lucky to be among such smart FRiends!!!!

[I. M. Trenchant]

Newport did not mention that the "expanded" likely voters in this election will also include those who wouldn't ordinarily vote except in the rare instance when there is a broad national concern that one of the tickets contains a nominee whose possible election to office is so frightening that it must be blocked. This sort of situation has occurred twice in the past 50 years: in the case of Goldwater in 1964, when the Democrats convinced large numbers of voters that Goldwater was too dangerous to be President and might use 'the bomb' (the famous 'daisy ad'); and in 1972, when McGovern was seen by the public, including centrist Democrats, as too radically leftwing to hold the office of the Presidency. Both LBJ and Nixon won in 1964 and 1972, respectively, by the largest pluralities that one of the major parties ever held over the other major party at the time each election took place. The same factor had been put in play by Adlai Stevenson on the eve of the 1956 Presidential election when he reminded the public that "a Republican victory tomorrow would mean that Richard M. Nixon would be President of this country within the next four years." This was a not-so-cryptic suggestion that, if elected, Ike, who had suffered a serious coronary in his first term, would die before his second term expired, and Nixon would succeed to the Presidency, a consequence that Stevenson seemed to think would chill the blood of the U.S. public as much as it would chill the blood of the murderers' row in the Kremlin. In this case, the threat of a Nixon Presidency fizzled and Dick & Ike sailed to a landslide victory. This time around, in 2008, the threat of an Obama Presidency is pitted against the threat of a Palin vice-presidency leading to a Palin Presidency. So far, judging by the polls, the former is not as threatening to the public as the latter, and if the gap begins to narrow, the question is: Which threat will bring out more of the "expanded" likely voters who respond to 'armageddon-type' threats. The only clue we have is that so many prominent Republicans (e.g., Christopher Buckley, Noonan, Brooks, Will) have 'felt the chill' and have openly defected from Republican ranks on the basis of the Palin candidacy, whereas no prominent centrist Democrats have openly defected from Democratic ranks on the basis the 'Obama threat.' Only careful analysis of the Nov. 4 electorate, based on asking the right questions, will give us the answer.

[MrChips]

We have a “wild card” of our own: the incredible crowds Sarah Pain is drawing.

[babylucas]

All this Joe the Plumber stuff has put the spotlight on Ohio. I think this is going to fire up Ohio Republicans. But I’m still worried about Colorado. Anybody following what’s going on there? Real Clear Politics says That One is up by six.