Posted on 10/30/2008 5:33:27 PM PDT by subbob
The Democrats in key swing states are splitting for McCain in big numbers. This effect has either not been noted, or has been ignored, by most pundits.
Democrats are beaming that their party is outperforming the Republicans in early voting, releasing numbers Wednesday that show registrants of their party ahead 54 percent to 30 percent among the 1.4 million voters who have gone to the polls early.
Poll gives McCain lead in Florida early voting
Yet, a poll of early voters in Florida provides a curious anomaly.
A Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg poll gave McCain a 49-45 lead over Democrat Barack Obama among Floridians who have already voted.
Then we have all the Hillary Democrats, at sites like HillBuzz, reporting on potential McCain victories in Pennsylvania, Florida, Iowa, New Hampshire and even Maine!
In Pennsylvania, Democrats hard at work not just voting, but campaigning for McCain!
DEMOCRATS are staffing McCain offices across the state. DEMOCRATS are phone banking and canvassing for McCain. DEMOCRATS are raising large sums to fund this last week of campaigning.
HillBuzz on Pennsylvania
As mentioned above, key indicators that Democrats in Florida are voting for McCain.
analysis indicates Democrats voting early in Florida are voting for John McCain in huge numbers
HillBuzz on Florida
Disenfranchised Hillary Democrats in Iowa, New Hampshire and Maine also shifting to McCain.
And all of us agree that on election night, the media will be spinning and sputtering and trying to explain things that those of us on the ground have seen coming for months now.
HillBuzz on New Hampshire, Iowa and Maine
I find it hard to believe that people who are close to retirement or have retired would vote for 0bama after the hit they've taken in the market and after hearing what he might do to their retirement. They are not likely to care for his plan to nationalize health care and add however many millions of new patients with no new Dr.s or nurses.
I find it equally hard to believe that Jewish voters who have any affection whatsoever for Israel would vote for 0bama given his ties to and support from those who advocate the destruction of Israel and Jews world wide.
Then there are the women who are unlikely to appreciate his poor treatment of and disrespect to Hillary. If they had been on the fence, then the treatment Sarah Palin and her family, especially her daughters should close the deal for them.
There are many others who fall outside the more traditional democrat voting blocks who see themselves getting shafted when the Bush tax cuts expire. I still have hope that even the mind numbed will come to their senses in the privacy of the voting booth. Not all, of course, but hopefully enough.
I hope Ras finds himself another line of work, because he,the Zogster, and Gallup will find their creds in the toilet after being in the tank for BHO.
Comment of the week!
You have this completely backwards.
Operation Chaos was designed to bloody up Obama, by encouraging Republicans to vote for Hillary. The point was that McCain wanted to appear (at the time) "above the fray" and not actually attack the opposition - so conservatives had to keep Hillary in the race so that Hillary and Obama would cut each other down.
Seeing how Obama was winning all the Caucuses, that meant that Operation Chaos operatives had to prop up Hillary in the primaries. That's right, we came to Hillary's rescue, if only for our own purposes.
Don't believe me? Check out the Rush Limbaugh site yourself.
Well, McCain is the candidate the Democrats selected for us, so it’s logical.
You have it wrong about Operation Chaos. It was to get the GOP to cross over and vote for Hillary in states like PA, Ohio, and Texas to keep her in the game. The object was to keep the Democrat primary going. After Obamas string of early victories, we didn't want him wrapping up the nomination early and get all those extra months of MSM adulation and uniting the party 8 months before the election. If that had happened, McCain would be toast. At first a lot of us didn't care who won, we just wanted the fight to drag on. But when we realized how bad Obama was it changed my mind. At that point I would think many of us were rooting for your girl to win the nomination, not the election, just nomination.
Hmmm, so many questions and you signed up today. We, as Republicans, are doing our best to publicize the fact that Obama is a Socialist, has terrorist friends and will negotiate with terrorist countries without preconditions, etc. We have to fight against the MSM ignoring all of these issues time and time again. You, as a Democrat, have enjoyed the press bias until now, welcome to our world.
Colin Powell is a Democrat pretending to be a Republican (RINO). You would probably like him if you read his autobiography. I thank him for his service to our country, but I wrote him off as a serious contender years ago.
I do not work for the McCain campaign, but I agree ads should be stronger, yet they are not. The whole Palin fracas I call BS. True or not, Palin should stick to her guns (pun intended) and continue with her message (I support the 2nd amendment completely, BTW).
I know it is in your best interest to vote for McCain rather than Obama, if not, sit the vote out.
Dare we hope?
Time is growing short. I am praying.
I am not sure how to respond to your post, actually.
But, I did notice that you say you despise the NRA. I do not know where you live, and that might be why you do not understand why some of us need to have a gun.
My husband and I are both elderly and disabled, and live in a rural area. It would take the local police at least 15 to 20 minutes to get to us if we called 911. We have a rifle and ammo, but I would really feel safer if we had a shotgun, because I am not sure I could hit an intruder with a rifle.
And, it is entirely possible that one could come our ways, for reasons I do not want to explain on a public forum.
We keep it in our bedroom closet, and hope we never have to use it. But, we do have a quick frontline defense to give us time to get it out and load it.
Two wonderful Belgian Malinois dogs, who will defend us with their lives, and we so hope it never comes to that, for we love them dearly. We do not belong to the NRA, but we appreciate them, for they stand up for our right to defend ourselves and our property.
You must realize that the police can’t do it all alone, be everywhere at once. We need to be able to defend ourselves in am emergency, even if we do not want the job.
I live in an Atlanta suburb, but feel pretty secure. I am within 2 miles of the city police station, the county sheriff’s office, AND the county police station. :) I think the highway patrol might even be here. Heehehee
I think I’ll just say welcome to FR, and enjoy your stay.
OK, I lied, one more thing: The right to keep and bear arms must NEVER be taken away from this great country’s citizenry.
By now you know that Operation Chaos has kept Hillary in the race longer. You also know that none of us are that impressed with McCain. He's not conservative enough for us. But he will not destroy the very foundation of this country like Obama would.
As far as November 4th, we are so very glad for every ally we have. I am actively talking to people every day and I've heard this sentence many times now: "I've been a life-long Democrat, but I will vote AGAINST Obama, cause Obama scares me."
And my attitude toward those Democrats has softened. They are putting country over Party, and I can respect that. Even my own family who is fiercely Democrat and who at first had chosen Obama, changed their minds after "Joe The Plumber". :)
I hope on Nov. 5th we can all breathe a sigh of relief if (and I want to say WHEN) McCain has won. I hope that Obama's followers won't torch the country like Odinga's followers did after Odinga lost in Kenya.
BTW: I lurk at PUMA sometimes and it's been refreshing that for once we're talking the same language.
*blushes* To all of those that pointed it out before a Mod apparently fixed it, sorry about messing up the headline. Thanks for pointing out the mistake, and more thanks to whoever fixed it.
I did preview it before posting, but apparently not well enough.
We need to refrain from any and all vituperative and insulting commentary about Democrats (except for Obama-Marxists, of course) until further notice (the PUMAs could help us even after the election).
“I don’t put much stock in the puma claims. They’re beyond emotional about O’Bomber. We shall see.”
Yeah but. Their votes are just marks on a sheet of paper, they do not retain the emotion behind them. I’m a stock trader, so please consider this example from my universe; which has nothing to do with electoral “voting” but OTOH has EVERYTHING to do with a different type of voting.
One party sells a stock because he thinks it’s done rising and wants to redeploy $$ elsewhere. Another party sells a stock because he can’t stand the pain seeing of it going down in price any further. Another party sells a stock because they need the money for an entirely differnt purpose. Another party buys a stock because he thinks it will rise in price. Another party sees the stock coughed up by the capitulating owner and cannot resist the bargain. Another party buys a stock because he sees the parking lot full of cars or he got great service using their product. And every one of those decisions can be right or wrong or both in the next 5 minutes or the next 6 months or the next 5 years. Every one of those individual decisions at the moment they are made influences the “price” of the stock. The stock market is continuous, generally. The election is obviously a one-time event in time.
The votes cast by the PUMAs individually and collectively do not bear the motivation(s) behind them. The vote cast by a hardened Dem for a Republican in clumsy error does not differ from a vote studiously cast by the purest Conservative alive.
Ergo, I believe we should welcome the PUMAs and welcome their disgust at their treatment by 0bamas’ thugs because the struggle at this point, in an election where not that many of us are all that thrilled with McCain, is to defeat the enemy, 0bama. We have common cause. After that war is won, if it CAN be won, we can engage in niceties and shades of meaning.
Respectfully,
Great information! And don’t think Hussein and his minions don’t know this.
You make great points. I have to hand to you guys, you know how to play hardball. Even the Swift Boat ads were done independently of the Bush campaign.
This leads me to ask... With so much there, why didn’t the Clintons take this guy out?
I am assuming you’re really a PUMA. If you are, thank you for your efforts. Many of us aren’t crazy about McCain either, for reasons I would presume are far different from yours, but I hope you will vote for him. You can have your crack at him in ‘12.
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