Congratulations, President . . . McCain

self | 11/1/08 | LS

[Miss Didi]

I wear a large McCain/Palin button and also a Veteran’s for McCain sticker on my sweatshirt. MANY folks come up to me and almost whisper “Go McCain” as if we’re part of some secret society - and this is NEW HAMPSHIRE!

That happens in NY, too. Whenever I pass someone on the street with a McCain button I'll stop them to tell them I like it. At first they're shocked and then it's like finding a long lost friend. And I like to call our "secret society" those who wear flag pins and carry the NY Post. ;)

[o2bfree]

I think John Fund deserves some vigilante justice.

[FastCoyote]

[the McCain team said their polling showed that Obama lost ground with the infomercial.]

“That’s my sense of it. “

When you stop to think about that propaganda piece, it was downright Hitlerian in content. The adulating crowds, the slowly soaring speech reaching a mindbending crescendo. I expected Richstag salutes to thunderous chants of O-Bama! O-Bama!

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[FastCoyote]

[A civilian police force is something I would never agree to]

That ought to scare the bejeebers out of most people. Imagine if Bush had said such a thing!

[katiekins1]

Thank you. I agree entirely. The byrd comment made me pmsl!!! : )

[jveritas]

Let us win this one for our beloved America.

We Vote We Win.

Vote McCain/Palin.

[SuziQ]

The number I heard was 35,000 votes would have kept the Senate for the GOP.

That's an average of 700 for each of the 50 states. Just an average of 700 more Republican votes per state could have kept the Senate in Republican hands. That's what anger got us in 2006.

[dixiechick2000]

LS, you’ve outdone yourself this time!
I love reading your posts.
I’ve read them for more than one election. ;o)

Thank you, nutmeg!
This makes me very happy!

[Lexinom]

There are other dynamics at work that could, in fact, blow this open a tad for McCain (i.e., bring in IA, PA, NM, and even WI). First, GOPTrust is running $7 million---that's right, $7 million---in devastatingly effective Jeremiah Wright ads this weekend. McCain's support with the oldsters has been somewhat soft due to claims he'll "cut" Social Security, but these ads will scare the bejeezus out of them, and with good reason.

Here's the thing: those have been temporarily stopped by Obama thugs. Not sure what the legal basis is (First Amendment, anyone?). Censorship has played a bigger role in this election than any in my lifetime.

[Lexinom]

Actually, re-reading it, it appears that two networks voluntarily censored this (hmmm, wonder why?) GOPTrust is working on it in the legal arena.

[Mr. Silverback]

Randita, a few weeks ago I looked at the internals of one of those "reputable national polls" and found that they had not only oversampled Dems by 9%, they had McCain losing men by 14 points. When Dole lost the election by 9 points in 1996, he still won men by 8-20 points depending on their income and education.

These people are either using bad methodology or lying out their butts. Either way, the polls are a steaming pile of crap and I will stand by that statement even if Obama wins.

[tarheelswamprat]

The number I heard was 35,000 votes would have kept the Senate for the GOP.

That's an average of 700 for each of the 50 states. Just an average of 700 more Republican votes per state could have kept the Senate in Republican hands. That's what anger got us in 2006.,

Once again, the canard that just won't die gets trotted-out. This anger "excuse" has been analyzed and debunked repeatedly here - it simply isn't true. Conservatives were indeed angry, but they still showed up and voted. What cost us in 2006 was the loss of the independent and swing voters. It seems some here need the comfort of their scapegoats rather than studying the hard analyses.

[ALOHA RONNIE]

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CLARITY =

McCAIN ‘Teddy Roosevelt’ Bears coming = Respect for the Man

http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2122023/posts

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[LS]

Not true in OH. We’ve run the numbers. We had local candidates pulling far higher proportionally than the state offices, indicating that Rs came out, but voted D.

[LS]

If I’m wrong this time, it probably won’t matter. A little humiliation will be irrelevant compared to the horrors this country is about to endure.

[LS]

You are absolutely right: in OH, we had local candidates-—proportionally, because many times people don’t vote down ballots-—doing far better than senator and governor. They were angry at DeWine and angry at Taft (and took it out on Blackwell). With Blackewell, however, there was an astonishing 10% (!!!) Bradley Effect difference in the final poll to the final numbers.

[LS]

Terrific on the ground report. One of your fellow Virginians, however, weighed in with observations about the western part, which he says gets completely ignored in all these samples. He claimed it was overwhelmingly McCain, and just wasn’t being factored in anywhere.

[LS]

See Kabar’s post in this thread. What is your take on western VA? We had someone from western VA post a few days ago that it is solidly McCain, yet no one seems to be factoring it in. True, it’s not as heavily populated as either the north or the south, but in a close election, it would be important.

[bert]

......What is your take on western VA?.....

I am reporting from East Tennessee, Our TV stations broadcast to the SW Va markets

Beginning last night, there is a heavy flood of McCain TV ads. They are from McCain, NRA and many of the one that was banned by two networks. This morning they are on the Fox networl locally. McCain is coming here to campaign on Monday with heavy promotion in South West Virginia.

I can’t tell if this is good or bad.

Does Obama think he has it in the bag or has he given up and spending his money elsewhere.