[ishmac]

...this is what "Obi Wan" at National Review said to watch out for: the Messiah's campaign has built it's whole operation on "inevitability."

Yeah, he said that on Oct 20:

"Believe me, there is someone in the Obama campaign who is deathly afraid of the 'McCain pulls even or goes ahead' poll ... That Obama strategist knows how much depends on the whole Chuck Schumer and Rahm Emanuel approach —.work with the media to demoralize conservatives, and keep the perception of a juggernaut going. But a day or two of a few bad polls, and that strategy backfires."

Smart little Jedi, that Obiwan!

Amazing how effective the Obama strategy has been. It's had me depressed over the last few weeks. It didn't seem possible that he would be so far ahead, but there it was, day after day: the margins varied but Obama's lead never vanished. Now it seems the O-man's campaign was based on one of the biggest bluffs in political history.

One reason the blog postings of that "Sarah P" were credible is that she accurately described the way the polling et al affected me. Now it looks like McCain really has a shot (which in reality he had all along). The Obama "phenomenon" turns out to be part real, part Potemkin Village. I'm jazzed--we can pull this out!!

[LS]

Actually, I'm starting to think it's more than a shot. The fact that they are in OH and VA and FL the final days concerns me, but I interpret that as they are not going for the TD when a field goal wins the game. If they break a long run (PA, IA) along the way, good, but better the sure win than a fumble.

That said, I'm going to have my final analysis up tonight sometime, and there might be more possibilities here than we've considered.

[R0CK3T]

Amazing how effective the Obama strategy has been. It's had me depressed over the last few weeks. It didn't seem possible that he would be so far ahead, but there it was, day after day: the margins varied but Obama's lead never vanished.

My thoughts were similar to yours, but when I sat back and thought about I wondered about how I had missed it? Then I came to a realization about what the 0-machine has now brought into the American Political system.

I wouldn't have even considered, let alone expected, that I was being played at this level. Do Politicians stretch the truth, you bet, but I do not expect that they could have a systemic strategy of "psychological repression" thought control that would span them, pollsters, and the media.

I also expect the media to biased, but in in that to separate themselves from a single party's attempt at the control of our thinking.

If true, and I'm certain this will be 100% confirmed or disposed after the election, then just how is this "psychological" voter repression at all different than the "Voter Repression" that the Dems insist that the people, law, media be on vigil to stop?

Have we all REALLY been victimized by a preplanned, systematic, engagement of voter repression?