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Barack Obama’s campaign prides itself on grassroots organizing, with thousands of staff members targeting numerous subsets of the population for voter registration and persuasion. One even sought to register inmates. An internal email from the Michigan Department of Corrections in August describes a request from the campaign to enter jails to register those inmates set to be released before Election Day. An Obama spokesman in Michigan acknowledged that a new organizer made the request, but supervisors nixed the idea as soon as they found out about it. The campaign denied all association with a second request to the Department of...

This is not intended to be investment advice. In my watch of the market, I am finding there is a definite Obama put in the market. What is a "put"? A "put" is a bet that the instrument you are taking a position in will decrease in value by a specified date in the future. Take this morning for example. Dow and Nasdaq opened flat, and some selling pressure was creeping in, then the Rasmussen daily tracking poll hits, showing Mccain gaining a point to close to within 4%. Boom, market turns around and is positive by 1.5-2%. Now the...

Barack Obama is SENATOR GOVERNMENT! Now let's fight to stop him from become PRESIDENT GOVERNMENT!!!

Monday, October 13, 2008 Email to a Friend Overview Fox News/Rasmussen Reports polling this week in Florida, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio and Virginia shows a very stable race whose underlying dynamic strongly favors Barack Obama over John McCain. Obama holds a narrow advantage ranging from two to five percentage points in four of the five states and is tied with McCain in North Carolina. Keep in mind that all five of these states were carried by George W. Bush in Election 2004.

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Strategy for forcing political change through orchestrated crisis First proposed in 1966 and named after Columbia University sociologists Richard Andrew Cloward and Frances Fox Piven, the “Cloward-Piven Strategy” seeks to hasten the fall of capitalism by overloading the government bureaucracy with a flood of impossible demands, thus pushing society into crisis and economic collapse. Inspired by the August 1965 riots in the black district of Watts in Los Angeles (which erupted after police had used batons to subdue a black man suspected of drunk driving), Cloward and Piven published an article titled "The Weight of the Poor: A Strategy to...

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Among 562 likely voters in Ohio, PA, and Colorado, McCain enjoys a 7% edge. Key groups breakdown as follows: The poll found Obama enjoying substantial support among women who previously had abortions, convicted felons, and individuals who derive 75% or more of their income from public assistance programs. McCain drew higher support among people who describe themselves as "proud americans," people who own anything of value, and typical white people. McCain 53% Obama 46% Barr/Other .5% Margin of Error +/- 4.2% Survey conducted 10/2/2008 after airing of the vice presidential debate.

We need some comic relief and some more motivation after the huge win for liberty today. So, in my attempt at a Paulsonian strategery to motivate my fellow FReepers, this projected cabinet should strike fear and anger in the hearts of all of us. Go McCain/Palin '08!!! President- Zero VP- Joseph "Plugs" Biden Secretary of State- John F'in Kerry Press Secretary- Helen Thomas Secretary of the Treasury- Franklin Raines Secretary of Commerce- Bernie Sanders Secretary of Defense- Richard Simmons Secretary of the Interior- Barney Fwank Secretary of Homeland Security- Jamie Gorelick Secretary of Transportation- Ray Nagin Secretary of Veterans Affairs-...

Taxpayers will lose money in the $700 billion government rescue plan for the nation's banking system, Oppenheimer analyst Meredith Whitney said. Contrary to predictions from some supporters of the bailout plan, Whitney said on CNBC that the continued slump in housing prices will make a profit from the bailout unlikely. "I think you definitely lose money on this $700 billion structure," Whitney said. "There's no idea where house prices bottom, and as a result how can you make money on this transaction

Note to Paulson: The Key to Passing the $700 Billion Bailout Is Insurance September 26, 2008 09:58 AM ET | Michael Barone | Permanent Link Contrary to widespread expectations in Washington and on Wall Street, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson's financial bailout/rescue package was not agreed to at the White House meeting that started at 4 p.m. Thursday. The meeting included the congressional and committee leaders of both parties and the administration's top financial officials, plus two presidents—George W. Bush and either Barack Obama or John McCain. What's the problem? An agreement modifying the Paulson plan in significant ways seems to...

Scottsdale, AZ., Sept. 24, 2008 - According to Automotive News' Chrissie Thompson, Bill Heard Enterprises, the country's top Chevrolet dealer group, is closing the doors at all of its 13 dealerships at the end of business today, according to a person with knowledge of the situation. The company notified the stores' general managers at 2 p.m. today, the source said, who spoke anonymously because he was not authorized to speak.

WAZIRISTAN- NY Times editor Bill Keller, and CEO Arthur "Artie" "Little Pinch" Sulzberger have been honored with enshrinement in the International Criminal Gang of Bastards. "We are proud to enshrine our newest members into our organization." reported ICGOB President and Founder Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf. He added there were, "no drones in the Waziristan area, and Bin Laden is alive and well," in apparent delusional rant accompanying the announcement today. "Our newest members earned this honor, by leaving no doubt they were leading a leftist propaganda movement. Propaganda is what we need to make the socialist, facist, marxist world revolution a...

Senators Isakson/Chambliss, I am writing to express my hope that you will oppose ANY federal bailout of wall street, including government purchase of private mortgage loans and asset backed securities. The implementation of this plan would result in the immediate insolvency of numerous banks and financial institutions across the country as the marking to market of these assets would create a massive hole in the capital base of these banks. Under the alternative of not bailing out these institutions, many will still fold. However, allowing them to fold on their own will allow PRIVATE industry to come in and buy...

GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) - Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama moved to claim the mantle of fiscal responsibility in a roiling economy, vowing on Monday to slash federal spending on contractors by 10 percent and saving $40 billion. Urging members of his own party to be just as fiscally tough as the most conservative Republicans, Obama said the $700 billion economic bailout plan proposed by the Bush administration and congressional leaders is forcing a renewed look at federal spending.

Senate Democrats issued a counterproposal to the Treasury Department's $700 billion Wall Street bailout plan Monday that would give the government a stake in firms unloading troubled assets under the plan, and limit the pay of corporate executives involved. There would also be assistance to homeowners and localities to prevent foreclosures, and more oversight of the Treasury's actions, under the proposal released by the office of Connecticut Democratic Sen. Christopher Dodd, chairman of the Senate Banking Committee.

By Kristen Soltis [Editor's Note: We are pleased to add yet another contributor to the Pollster.com lineup. Kristen Soltis is currently the Director of Policy Research for The Winston Group, a Republican affiliated public opinion research and strategic consulting firm in Washington, D.C. Welcome Kristen!] The debate over party ID and whether or not weighting for party ID is appropriate has raged on for years, with a very thorough treatment by Mark Blumenthal and others that raises good questions about whether or not party ID is stable at the individual level. Recent media polls with wide ranging spreads between Republicans...

The Republican Convention shifted the battle field for this election from the empty "Change" mantra, to a neutral field that is undefined as it stands now. The "Country First" moniker is an excellent start, but now is the time to define the issues debate for the remainder of the campaign. Either define the issues and make the opponent play on your field, or have the opposite done for you. Here is my version of "The McCain Plan" we'll call it "The Cocktoasten-McCain Plan" (the title in and of itself is an attention grabber) 1. Victory in the war and rebuilding...

WASHINGTON - The former Fannie Mae accountant who raised questions about the mortgage giant’s bookkeeping said Wednesday that he took his concerns directly to chief executive Franklin Raines in 2002 and asked him to investigate. The disclosure by Roger Barnes, who left Fannie Mae last November, came as Raines and chief financial officer Timothy Howard defended the company’s accounting and told Congress that regulators’ allegations of earnings manipulation represent an interpretation of complex rules.