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- muzedude, on 09/22/2008, -9/+19Didn't Obama just say that whoever wins Florida wins the race? That's O.k., I didn't want B.O. to win anyway.
- kinoff, on 09/22/2008, -9/+17it gets better and better for us.
it just gets worse and worse for them.- shinybeast, on 09/22/2008, -3/+1You haven't been looking at the polls, have you?
- Charlotte_Web, on 09/22/2008, -1/+4Polls can be made to say ANYTHING the pollster wants; it's all about who they sample and how they ask the questions. They are often used to DRIVE public opinion rather than report on it.
You may be putting TOO MUCH faith in polls.
When Palin draws a crowd of 60,000, while a Daily Kos poll puts her down 21 points, which are you going to believe? Reality or an obviously fabricated poll?
- Charlotte_Web, on 09/22/2008, -1/+4Polls can be made to say ANYTHING the pollster wants; it's all about who they sample and how they ask the questions. They are often used to DRIVE public opinion rather than report on it.
- shinybeast, on 09/22/2008, -3/+1You haven't been looking at the polls, have you?
- ironpirate, on 09/22/2008, -7/+15Don't believe the liberal lies......
- Poobah6, on 09/22/2008, -6/+11I wonder how many Biden could draw?
- eh123, on 09/22/2008, -4/+4He could draw the entire hair club for men.
- shinybeast, on 09/22/2008, -3/+3Funny, I thought drawing big crowds was a "bad thing" according to Republicans. Please make up your minds.
- Charlotte_Web, on 09/22/2008, -1/+1Not since Al Gore have insomniacs been so excited about a VP choice!
- dandan111, on 09/22/2008, -5/+7THE VILLAGES -- Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin told wildly cheering, flag-waving, chanting supporters that John McCain is "the only great man in this race" and promised Sunday he will fix the nation's economy if voters give the GOP four more years in the White House.
"He won't say this, so I'll say it for him," the Alaska governor said in an almost confidential tone at the close of her first Florida stump speech. "There is only one man in this election who has ever really fought for you. John McCain wore the uniform of his country for 22 years -- talk about tough."
The Villages, a vast, upscale planned community north of Orlando, has about 70,000 mostly adult residents -- many of them military retirees -- who vote reliably Republican in statewide races. Tens of thousands inched along roads into the picturesque town square of the complex, where they stood in sweltering heat for about four hours as local GOP officials and a country band revved up the crowd.
"Sa-Rah! Sa-Rah!" they chanted at every mention of her name, applauding loudly and waiving tiny American flags that were distributed -- along with free water bottles -- by local volunteers. The fire chief estimated the crowd at 60,000.
Admiring throngs mobbed the Palin family's arrival and departure, snapping souvenir pictures. Autograph seekers thrust campaign signs, caps with the McCain-Palin logo and copies of magazines with her face on their covers, and the Palins responded warmly.
Palin, her husband and three of their children arrived in Orlando but spent a family day at Disney World, she said as she introduced her entourage to the enthusiastic crowd. She joked about similarities and differences of the two states at opposite corners of America, but was all business when she focused on the need for a large voter turnout in a hotly contested state with 27 electoral votes.
Recent polls have given the McCain-Palin ticket a single-digit edge but Florida is clearly up for grabs. Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., campaigned from Jacksonville to Miami late last week and the Democrats have mobilized a massive volunteer effort statewide. McCain, who led the Jan. 29 state primary with a big boost from popular Gov. Charlie Crist, has strong support in the vital I-4 corridor and across North Florida, where conservative southerners tend to register as Democrats but vote Republican in statewide races.
In a theme Palin would pound home, GOP Chairman Jim Greer Greer said Obama and his running mate, Delaware Sen. Joe Biden, have records of voting for higher taxes and have said on the campaign trail that they would increase regulation of financial markets.
"John MCain and I are going to take our case for reform to every voter in every background and every party, or no party at all," said Palin. "We're going to Washington to shake things up."
She said "John McCain warned Congress that we needed to do something before these problems became a crisis," but that Washington -- including Obama and Biden -- did not act for months as financial giants teetered and toppled.
"Americans are caught in kind of a perfect storm between high taxes, high gas prices, greed on Wall Street and a shortage of courage in Washington," she said. "But we need new leadership in Washington -- we need serious reform on Wall Street."
Palin, whose son shipped out for Iraq this month, made a point of asking veterans and military members in the crowd to raise their hands for a round of applause.- youliveinfear, on 09/22/2008, -0/+1Indeed, give the GOP 4 more years to fix the economy that they broke. Just like giving these failed CEO's millions of dollars, let's continue to reward failure.
- ugottabejoken, on 09/22/2008, -9/+4 * If you grow up in Hawaii, raised by your grandparents, you're "exotic, different."
* Grow up in Alaska eating moose burgers, a quintessential American story.
* If your name is Barack you're a radical, unpatriotic Muslim.
* Name your kids Willow, Trig and Track, you're a maverick.
* Graduate from Harvard law School and you are unstable.
* Attend 5 different small colleges before graduating, you're well grounded.
* If you spend 3 years as a community organizer, become the first black President of the Harvard Law Review, create a voter registration drive that registers 150,000 new voters, spend 12 years as a Constitutional Law professor, spend 8 years as a State Senator representing a district with over 750,000 people, become chairman of the state Senate's Health and Human Services committee, spend 4 years in the United States Senate representing a state of 13 million people while sponsoring 131 bills and serving on the Foreign Affairs, Environment and Public Works and Veteran's Affairs committees, you don't have any real leadership experience.
* If your total resume is: local weather girl, 4 years on the city council and 6 years as the mayor of a town with less than 7,000 people, 20 months as the governor of a state with only 650,000 people, then you're qualified to become the country's second highest ranking executive.
* If you have been married to the same woman for 19 years while raising two daughters, all within Protestant churches, you're not a real Christian.
* If you cheated on your first wife with a rich heiress, and left your disfigured wife and married the heiress the next month, you're a Christian.
* If you teach responsible, age appropriate sex education, including the proper use of birth control, you are eroding the fiber of society.
* If , while governor, you staunchly advocate abstinence only, with no other option in sex education in your state's school system while your unwed teen daughter ends up pregnant, you're very responsible.
* If your wife is a Harvard graduate lawyer who gave up a position in a prestigious law firm to work for the betterment of her inner city community, then gave that up to raise a family, your family's values don't represent America's.
* If you're husband is nicknamed "First Dude", with at least one DWI conviction and no college education, who didn't register to vote until age 25 and once was a member of a group that advocated the secession of Alaska from the USA, your family is extremely admirable.- eh123, on 09/22/2008, -2/+4Keep copying and pasting that silly little comparison in every marginally pro-Palin article. It's getting you nowhere and amusing us all.
- ugottabejoken, on 09/22/2008, -1/+1Florida Leaning Towards Barack Obama Because of Sarah Palin!!
Six weeks ago, the St. Petersburg Times convened a group of Tampa Bay, Florida voters who were undecided about the presidential election. Their strong suspicion of Barack Obama suggested it was a group ripe for John McCain to win over and to put him over the top for Florida.
Not anymore. This Florida group has swung dramatically, if unenthusiastically, toward the Democrat Barack Obama. Most of them this week cited the same reason: John McCain’s running mateSarah Palin.
“The one thing that frightens me more than anything else are the ideologues. We’ve seen too many,” said 80-year-old Air Force veteran Donn Spegal, a lifelong Republican from St. Petersburg, who sees John McCain’s new running mate as the kind of “wedge issue” social conservative that has made him disenchanted with the Republican party.
“I’m truly offended by Sarah Palin,” said Republican Philinia Lehr, 37, of Largo, Florida a full-time mother with a nursing degree who voted for PresidentGeorge Bush in 2004. Like Sarah Palin, she has five children and she doesn’t buy that the Alaska governor can adequately balance her family and the vice presidency.
“You’re somebody’s mom and what are you going to do, say, ‘Excuse me, country, hold on?’ … She’s preaching that she’s this mom of the year and taking that poor little baby all over everywhere. And, you know, what she’s doing to her 17-year-old daughter is just appalling.” Lehr said she’s bothered by the way Palin’s pregnant daughter has been brought into the national spotlight.
Skeptics like these in Florida are ripe to put Barack Obama over John McCain in Florida and ultimately the entire election. While the pick of Sarah Palin is playing well for conservatives, it is the undecideds John McCain needed and his campaign stunt did not work.
http://sarahpalindirt.com/
- ugottabejoken, on 09/22/2008, -1/+1Florida Leaning Towards Barack Obama Because of Sarah Palin!!
- MercedRocks, on 09/22/2008, -3/+1Lame.Go nut go. None of what you said makes sense.The guy has ZERO experience like that nutjob George Bush, look where that got us.
- eh123, on 09/22/2008, -2/+4Keep copying and pasting that silly little comparison in every marginally pro-Palin article. It's getting you nowhere and amusing us all.
- WoofThis, on 09/22/2008, -5/+9This election will be remembered for John McCain's choice of Sarah Palin for vice president. It was a masterstroke in American politics.
- shinybeast, on 09/22/2008, -4/+4Actually, it's a stroke that a lot of people are worried about because it means the grossly unqualified Palin will be the president.
*shudder*
- shinybeast, on 09/22/2008, -4/+4Actually, it's a stroke that a lot of people are worried about because it means the grossly unqualified Palin will be the president.
- Charlotte_Web, on 09/22/2008, -7/+11And diggers just promoted a Daily Kos poll claiming Palin's popularity was DOWN by 21 points!
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!- shinybeast, on 09/22/2008, -6/+4Yeah, down 21 points with the people who matter, not the baseheads who were going to vote McCain anyway.
- Charlotte_Web, on 09/22/2008, -3/+4On the contrary; Daily Kos voters don't matter one bit to the Republicans; those folks are so far left that they would never vote Republican.
I have no doubt that Research 2000 is asking leading questions to get the desired results. They are COMPLETELY biased.
Newsweek, who I'm a little more willing to trust, gave Palin a 48% favorability rating. That's damn good, despite the "drop".
- Charlotte_Web, on 09/22/2008, -3/+4On the contrary; Daily Kos voters don't matter one bit to the Republicans; those folks are so far left that they would never vote Republican.
- shinybeast, on 09/22/2008, -6/+4Yeah, down 21 points with the people who matter, not the baseheads who were going to vote McCain anyway.
- patpl22391, on 09/22/2008, -4/+7Awe inspiring. According to Digg she was just some fringe right wing lunatic.
- patpl22391, on 09/22/2008, -5/+3She doesn't need "The Decemberist" to open for her either.
- ugottabejoken, on 09/22/2008, -9/+4Florida Leaning Towards Barack Obama Because of Sarah Palin!!
Six weeks ago, the St. Petersburg Times convened a group of Tampa Bay, Florida voters who were undecided about the presidential election. Their strong suspicion of Barack Obama suggested it was a group ripe for John McCain to win over and to put him over the top for Florida.
Not anymore. This Florida group has swung dramatically, if unenthusiastically, toward the Democrat Barack Obama. Most of them this week cited the same reason: John McCain’s running mateSarah Palin.
“The one thing that frightens me more than anything else are the ideologues. We’ve seen too many,” said 80-year-old Air Force veteran Donn Spegal, a lifelong Republican from St. Petersburg, who sees John McCain’s new running mate as the kind of “wedge issue” social conservative that has made him disenchanted with the Republican party.
“I’m truly offended by Sarah Palin,” said Republican Philinia Lehr, 37, of Largo, Florida a full-time mother with a nursing degree who voted for PresidentGeorge Bush in 2004. Like Sarah Palin, she has five children and she doesn’t buy that the Alaska governor can adequately balance her family and the vice presidency.
“You’re somebody’s mom and what are you going to do, say, ‘Excuse me, country, hold on?’ … She’s preaching that she’s this mom of the year and taking that poor little baby all over everywhere. And, you know, what she’s doing to her 17-year-old daughter is just appalling.” Lehr said she’s bothered by the way Palin’s pregnant daughter has been brought into the national spotlight.
Skeptics like these in Florida are ripe to put Barack Obama over John McCain in Florida and ultimately the entire election. While the pick of Sarah Palin is playing well for conservatives, it is the undecideds John McCain needed and his campaign stunt did not work.
http://sarahpalindirt.com/- MercedRocks, on 09/22/2008, -1/+4Hmm, yawn.
- ObamaIsCarter2, on 09/22/2008, -7/+9When limp-wristed liberals get cornered their natural reaction is to lie & have PMS-style tantrums...it's only a sign of their pure desperation!!
- MercedRocks, on 09/22/2008, -7/+9OMG, a rare pro-McCain article and STILL pro-Obama nuts cant leave it be. Theres 5 pro-Obama pieces on the HP, is is too much to ask to have ONE pro-McCain?
Probably so. Leftists are always good at silencing their opposition, just ask Mao and Stalin, they killed 100,000 times more then the dunce Bush could ever DREAM of in his retarded NeoCon sleep. - welliwonder, on 09/22/2008, -7/+5Jesus... this woman with the mind of a toddler may just get it... we may be doomed...
- demicritter, on 09/22/2008, -1/+1I'd say you only doom yourself by believing the democrat lies
- silverbulletky, on 09/22/2008, -2/+6Obama drew a crowd of 20,000 in a town of 671,588 (according to Wikipedia).
Sarah Palin drew a crowd of 60,000, in a town of about 75,000 (again, according to Wikipedia).
Total percentages (approximate):
Obama: 2.9% of the people
Palin: 80% of the people- Charlotte_Web, on 09/22/2008, -2/+5I'm glad you pointed that out. I live in Charlotte, where Obama spoke yesterday. Charlotte has a larger percentage of blacks living here than just about any other major metropolitan city. Charlotte also has a liberal majority (Mecklenburg County went to Kerry in the last election, despite the fact that the state went to Bush).
Charlotte is young, educated, urban, and progressive.
On any other day, 20,000 probably would have been a respectable number for a turnout. And the rally was held in the middle of downtown, which is very accessible.
If Obama can't draw 50,000 here in Charlotte, something is definitely wrong. Obama has been to NC three times, and is working hard to switch us from a red state to a blue state. I don't think it's gonna happen.
- Charlotte_Web, on 09/22/2008, -2/+5I'm glad you pointed that out. I live in Charlotte, where Obama spoke yesterday. Charlotte has a larger percentage of blacks living here than just about any other major metropolitan city. Charlotte also has a liberal majority (Mecklenburg County went to Kerry in the last election, despite the fact that the state went to Bush).
- DuggDowner, on 09/22/2008, -7/+3McCain and his camp are already known to lie about crowd sizes. I'm sure this number will come down when reality catches up to the lie.
- Charlotte_Web, on 09/22/2008, -2/+4You may want to read the article before you shoot your mouth off. The fire chief made that estimate, not the McCain camp.
- demicritter, on 09/22/2008, -0/+3The dem's are in serious PANIC MODE! hahahahahaha
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