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Rendell says race is closer than polls indicate (Sites the Palin as reason for tight race)
Times Leader ^ | 103108 | Bill O'Boyle

Posted on 10/31/2008 12:52:19 PM PDT by Fred

Gov. Ed Rendell Friday said the presidential race between Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain is "closer than the polls indicate." Urging people to get out and vote in Tuesday's general election, Rendell said Obama does not have a double-digit lead in Pennsylvania and he told voters to take an umbrella and dress warmly to withstand the weather.

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"Stay in that line and make sure you vote," Rendell told about 50 people at Wilkes University. "I've seen polls that have the race as close as four points."

Rendell also said the addition of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin to the Republican ticket has "enthused" the campaign. "She has drawn thousands of people to every event she has appeared at," Rendell said. Read the whole story in Saturday's The Times Leader.


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: biden; mccain; obamatruthfile; pa; palin; pennsylvania; rendell
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To: Fred

Rendell’s support for Fauxbama is backhanded... its token at best. He doesn’t want Fauxbama, but has to keep up apperances... Face it, this guy was speaking to 50 people here... Rendell can get a crowd of 200-300 with a phone call in the most remote part of the Allegheny forest if he wanted to.

Fauxbama isn’t taking PA folks.


21 posted on 10/31/2008 1:00:02 PM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: Fred

NRA needs to keep up the ads in PA. The truth will be toxic to Obama there.


22 posted on 10/31/2008 1:00:20 PM PDT by freespirited (Honk to indict the MSM for treason.)
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To: ConservativeMan55

I wonder how much redneck racist Murtha is helping McCain?


23 posted on 10/31/2008 1:01:18 PM PDT by Tarpon (Barack Obama will ban all the guns he has the votes for ...)
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To: HamiltonJay

Is it the wretched Springsteen who sings that song “there’s something happening here....” I am getting that feeling about PA and maybe some other states. When the Dems are less than enthusiastic I think maybe they sense something is happening here, and the momentum is shifting.


24 posted on 10/31/2008 1:01:26 PM PDT by TNCMAXQ
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To: cmt21
I wouldn't necessarily say you're over-analyzing. Liberals tend to lie in ways that technically are true in a certain sense, but objectively would be seen by rational people as false. He was on H&C last week and said, in regards to the "nervous" leaks, "The public polls show this as an 8 point race, and that's probably about right." But he didn't say WHO had the eight point lead.
25 posted on 10/31/2008 1:01:38 PM PDT by Thane_Banquo (Barney Frank is a Fannie bandit.)
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To: Fred
Rendell also said the addition of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin to the Republican ticket has "enthused" the campaign.

Not possible. The Obamedia told me she was a drag on the ticket.

26 posted on 10/31/2008 1:01:47 PM PDT by careyb
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To: Fred

ROFL. Rendell is still campaigning hard for Hillary.


27 posted on 10/31/2008 1:01:49 PM PDT by Harry Wurzbach (Joe The Plumber & Rep. Thaddeus McCotter are my heroes.)
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To: cmt21
If Obama isn't up by double digits in PA, he will lose. Even the MSM polls have him up only 7+. Not enough to get the job done. Kerry's margin of victory in 2004 was 2.5% statewide. Obama is not going to get anywhere near what Kerry got there four years ago.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

28 posted on 10/31/2008 1:02:05 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: HamiltonJay

Some on hear and the PUMA boards say that, secretly, Rendell is not putting the PA Dem operations apparatus behind Barry like he did for the Poodle in ‘04.


29 posted on 10/31/2008 1:03:07 PM PDT by Thane_Banquo (Barney Frank is a Fannie bandit.)
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To: TNCMAXQ

Buffalo Springfield


30 posted on 10/31/2008 1:03:38 PM PDT by MNlurker
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To: TNCMAXQ

nah...that’s Crosby, Stills and Nash...


31 posted on 10/31/2008 1:03:39 PM PDT by Longstreet63 (Che Guevara is a genocidal hero of the ignorant...)
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To: Fred

Can’t be true. After all, Georgie Stephanopoulos says Sarah’s a drag on the GOP ticket.


32 posted on 10/31/2008 1:05:07 PM PDT by Gumdrop
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To: Fred

I’ll take Ed Rendell over Howard Dean as DNC chairman anytime. Those democrat chairmen that follwed Ed Rendell are reposible for the far left kooks that control the party today, especially Howard Dean.


33 posted on 10/31/2008 1:05:30 PM PDT by tsowellfan (http://www.youtube.com/cafenetamerica)
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To: Longstreet63

oops...Buffalo Springfield it is...


34 posted on 10/31/2008 1:05:50 PM PDT by Longstreet63 (Che Guevara is a genocidal hero of the ignorant...)
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To: Fred

so the clintonites are finally turning on obama. they will go down in civil war and we will win in a landslide!


35 posted on 10/31/2008 1:06:04 PM PDT by Palinservative
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To: karpar

I do not live in PA but I was there during the primary! BO’S minions were enthusiastic and vile as hell! Most of them were high school kids that probably registered through ACORN.


36 posted on 10/31/2008 1:06:09 PM PDT by DoneWithDems
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To: careyb; All

Did you see the commercial that team obozo did not Governor Palin? They trash McCain’s VP choice. HUGE MASSIVE MISTAKE!!!


37 posted on 10/31/2008 1:06:27 PM PDT by Fred (The Democrat Party is the Nadir of Nihilism and OBAMA IS A MARXIST)
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To: Thane_Banquo
No doubt on the orders of Hillary. He's been a Hillary backer and behind the scenes they're seeing to it the PA Democratic Party does just the minimum for Obama for the sake of appearances but nothing more. Even Bill's campaigning for Obama in Philly seemed pro forma.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

38 posted on 10/31/2008 1:08:03 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: Fred

“Cites”

The word is “cites,” not “sites;” unless you’re talking about places, of course...


39 posted on 10/31/2008 1:09:36 PM PDT by Redbob (W.W.J.B.D. - "What Would Jack Bauer Do?")
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To: TNCMAXQ

Buffalo Springfield.


40 posted on 10/31/2008 1:09:36 PM PDT by HANG THE EXPENSE (Defeat liberalism, its the right thing to do for America.)
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