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- redcolumbine, on 09/01/2008, -29/+271This is, however, not a call for complacency. Remember that voting-machine fraud will be rampant, and voter intimidation and misdirection can be expected.
- dheaddy, on 09/01/2008, -27/+183Dear America,
Please do the right thing and vote Obama in. 8 years of Bush is enough for us too.
Best regards
The Rest of the World - keigwyn, on 09/01/2008, -15/+139Beware, Rove's "event" and the usual Republican October Surprise. Beware the Ides of October!
- inactive, on 09/01/2008, -20/+116Bloggers of every social network have to keep the pressure up, no matter what the MSM do - keep getting the message out there that Obama MUST, NEEDS to win!
- JenniferInMO, on 09/01/2008, -11/+72Yes, complacency is a huge danger. This Palin pick and all the soap opera drama surrounding her has absolutely killed the momentum and enthusiasm for Obama/Biden's message for unity and change. The day after McCain picked Palin the religious right reached out en mass and donated $7 million to his campaign. The Palin pick has energized the McCain's core.
And we will most likely face some kind of Rovesque October surprise. Obama has not seen negative ads and smears yet and it takes a positive message to be repeated more times than a negative one. We need to get energized again. Volunteer at a voter registration drive, help to canvass or make calls. If you can, donate, donate, donate. If you have a grassroots fundraising page on Obama's site please start promoting it like crazy. If you don't have one, please help me promote mine at: http://my.barackobama.com/page/outreach/view/main/ ... - staffell, on 09/01/2008, -20/+71If mccain is voted in, expect to see the apocalypse just round the corner.
- BXRWXR, on 09/01/2008, -20/+57Avoid distraction!
Eyes on the prize!
Obama '08! - inactive, on 09/02/2008, -12/+45What do you expect? The republican VP is a former beauty queen mayor of *****, Alaska who married a snowmobile racer.
- damndj, on 09/02/2008, -2/+33Election day can't get here soon enough. Tired of everything.
- inactive, on 09/02/2008, -25/+51Digg.com: A place where polls are discounted when they don't tell you what you want to hear. Yet, when they're in your favor, they're infallible.
I love it. - JenniferInMO, on 09/02/2008, -14/+39meirav:
Normally, I would go point by point and refute each and every one of your standard talking points with verifiable fact. No more. You are obviously determined to buy in on the neocon talking points, especially those that have become old, debunked over and over, ad nauseam and only repeated by frightened people and the Faux Network.
I am very sorry that the fear that you have bought into is more attractive to you than the possibility that we can be better. The only thing that could be worse than the past 8 years is 4 more of the same.
In your honor I pledge to donate $10 to Obama's campaign. I will donate that as well as $10 for any other person who inspires me as much as you have all at the end of the week.
Any one else who would like to honor meirav by donating on his behalf, please join me at my grassroots fundraising page on Obama's site:
http://my.barackobama.com/page/outreach/view/main/ ...
Thank you meirav, for reminding me of what I do not want for the next 8 years! I am truly inspired. - radix2, on 09/02/2008, -5/+27Dear America,
You first.
Best regards,
The rest of the world. - meirav, on 09/02/2008, -2/+23Or several of the barely blue swing states could swing red. It's only September and the election is in November.
That's a LONG time. - hojin994, on 09/01/2008, -21/+42EIGHT IS ENOUGH !!
(for those of you who watched his speech) - livefree12, on 09/01/2008, -15/+36Yeah, Obama MUST win. Don't even want to think about the other case scenario. It really freaks me out. We finally got someone worse than Bush: McPalin!!
- totorototoro, on 09/02/2008, -0/+20I never understood why national polls are reported with such importance-it has always been all about the battleground states. (As Gore and Kerry both found out )
- 180andback, on 09/02/2008, -6/+25Just because something is completely debunked doesn't mean people won't believe it. Look at religion.
- Mekhami, on 09/02/2008, -2/+21How naive.
- inactive, on 09/02/2008, -5/+24Even with the lead now, it is early still and it is of utmost importance that his supporters remain actively engaged in the process.
No matter how much lead Obama gets, we can not sit back and just have faith that he will win.
The world can not endure another term of the failed Bush policies that Mccain has stated clearly that he intends to continue.
We, the people, deserve better then what Bush has done for us. We deserve better then what McCain will do to us.
It's time to take America back for the people.
Vote to change our course.
Vote for our future.
Vote for us, the people of America, instead of Big oil and the fraternity of "good ole boys" currently exploiting our country. - JenniferInMO, on 09/02/2008, -5/+23Normally, I would go point by point and refute each and every one of your standard talking points with verifiable fact. No more. You are obviously determined to buy in on the neocon talking points, especially those that have become old, debunked over and over, ad nauseam and only repeated by frightened people and the Faux Network.
I am very sorry that the fear that you have bought into is more attractive to you than the possibility that we can be better. The only thing that could be worse than the past 8 years is 4 more of them.
In your honor I pledge to donate $10 to Obama's campaign. I will donate that as well as $10 for any other person who inspires me as much as you have all at the end of the week.
Any one else who would like to honor meirav by donating on his behalf, please join me at my grassroots fundraising page on Obama's site:
http://my.barackobama.com/page/outreach/view/main/ ...
Thank you meirav, for reminding me of what I do not want for the next 8 years! I am truly inspired. - rationalist, on 09/02/2008, -0/+17Visual77, read Obama's program for transparency in government, citizen participation and his support for open source, open data, net neutrality and eliminating the restrictions and fees imposed by the Bush administration on FOA requests.
He wants to open up not just the final bills, but the actual "sausage-making" process of writing them, wiki-style.
His chief advisor on these issues is Prof. Lawrence Lessig, founder of Creative Commons and chief champion of open source. Lessig actually decided not to run for Congress so that he could focus on advising and supporting Obama's campaign.
If you really care about these things as you say you do, you owe it to yourself to actually do some homework and become an informed voter.
Obama is the most pro-open candidate we have ever had. - niradg, on 09/01/2008, -11/+26Remember, Obama actually only needs 269 (tie will almost certainly go to him). He has 260 right now (NM, IA, MI, MN are basically his). To get to 269, he could win just Colorado, or New Hampshire and Nevada (less likely). He could also just decide to put the bulk of his resources into either Ohio or Florida, making it impossible for McCain to win.
- inactive, on 09/01/2008, -4/+19I have to admit that I did kind of forget about October. But don't you think that the myth that McCain isn't crazy will be debunked by then?
- JenniferInMO, on 09/02/2008, -1/+15I guess I will donate another $10 in your honor. I should donate more since you used John McCain's pet name for his wife. You have inspired me to further Obama's cause and to do it in your name.
- Bith8654, on 09/02/2008, -2/+16But since the Republicans aren't supposed to unite the nation it's ok if they win by 51%?
- Krisgi, on 09/02/2008, -12/+26I think there´s a pretty good chance that we all wake up on November 5th and discover that McSame, Cindy, Sarah, First Dude Todd, Bristol, Willow, Piper, Hyper, Trig, Track, Truck, Trounce and Tramp (just my guess as to what Sarah´s next children and grandchildren will be named) were just a really horrible nightmare. Whew...
Of course, Karl Rove, IS the Boogie Man and always will be... but a little fear is good for Americans. It keeps us on our toes. - DaveClarkOne, on 09/02/2008, -4/+18Voter intimidation? Where are you voting? Russia? Obama will win in a walk, but I agree it's no excuse for complacency. McCain is angry and too old and Palin is woefully inexperienced.
- BertEatsDirt, on 09/02/2008, -4/+18Dear willdiggforfood
Your government is actually a rather powerful player on the world stage. Your choice of government affects much much more than the land within your borders, so I'm sure you'll be understanding when I ask you to stick your hipocritical support of national sovereignty up your bum bum and humbly request you don't elect any more people who believe that God tells them to invade other countries.
Sincerely,
The rest of the world. - UntoldGood, on 09/01/2008, -6/+20If it looks like mccain will not be voted in... expect a man-made apocalypse just before the vote.
- Jekkonidae, on 09/02/2008, -4/+17And where you get dugg down for telling the truth!
Also love it! - randyzaia, on 09/02/2008, -6/+18a better indicator is the intrade market - currently has 60/40 obama to win.
- meirav, on 09/02/2008, -2/+14“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State."
-- Joseph Goebbels - Sfenton, on 09/02/2008, -4/+15As much as I want to agree with you about McCain winning, you came off as a racist.
- RyeBrye, on 09/02/2008, -6/+17I haven't looked at the state-by-state polls, so this could be correct. It is interesting to note, however, that in the recent Zogby poll, McCain / Palin lead nationally, as well as in the recent CNN poll. Only in the Gallup daily poll does Obama lead in a national poll... and the numbers show a pretty-much dead heat.
Of course, if it was all about the national aggregate numbers, Romney would be the Republican nominee - sugarazor, on 09/02/2008, -9/+20Kerry LOST points in 2004. Obama went up at least 8 points, but by all means, keep talking out of your ass.
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iZ98mObN7ahlFvy ... - BotchaMcCoola, on 09/02/2008, -3/+14McCain doesn't need any of that to lose. He has supported Bush in delivering a hundred times more damage to our great Country than the 911 criminals. And who knows how severe will be the consequences to come. Don't foget he also supported harm to his country with the Vietnam War earlier.
- Bith8654, on 09/02/2008, -1/+11The only flaw in that logic is that it seems that because of the storm, the best coverage on the RNC will be from the Daily show. Even Fox New's coverage was pretty much limited to a few sentences scrolling on the bottom of the screen.
- Rixar13, on 09/02/2008, -15/+25Neocons will destroy our country if Obama fails to win. Obama - Biden 2008
- booyahbitch, on 09/02/2008, -1/+11Here, Here! I just donated $25
- JSager, on 09/02/2008, -5/+15As opposed to what? The mainstream media? Give me a break.
- Yookji, on 09/02/2008, -1/+11Obama has high chances of winning. Political betting sites have a far better history of predicting election results than polls or pundits, and Obama is leading by $0.2 for a $1 bet.
http://iemweb.biz.uiowa.edu/graphs/graph_PRES08_WT ... - pdurod, on 09/02/2008, -8/+17I can't wait to see a commercial where Obama, shows up to "straight-talk express" with a tire gauge.
Obama will be our next President! - darkciti2, on 09/02/2008, -2/+11/sarcasm
- rationalist, on 09/02/2008, -2/+11JHB800, you win the Golden Sockpuppet for Most Simultaneously Incorrect Yet Self-Referential Post On The Innertubes.
- JenniferInMO, on 09/02/2008, -1/+10Sorry meirav, I looked at the wrong user name. I was directing the above comment to l3ol3
- xekko, on 09/02/2008, -2/+11You really do have no idea about Europe, do you?
- duckley, on 09/02/2008, -1/+9Current RCP Poll of Polls shows Obama at 48.8%, his highest rating ever. McCain trails at 44.3%, well below his highest rating.
And the CBS News poll out yesterday shows Obama with an 8 point lead over McCain.
So, DealCracker, your numbers are just plain wrong. - rsylvest20, on 09/02/2008, -4/+12What are you talking about? Gallup poll had Obama at an 8 point lead at the end of the week
And in case you havent realized from all the news coverage and initial polling/reactions, the choice of Palin gave McCain basically no boost. The only poll that showed an increase for McCain was yesterdays CNN poll (4 point gain) which Obama was still up 49-48
arlok789 = WRONG. - owanderhoffe, on 09/02/2008, -1/+9like like like what?
- darkciti2, on 09/02/2008, -4/+12It's up to the Republicans to convince We The People that they should keep their job in the White House.
I'm thinking 8 years of failure means, "YOU'RE FIRED!"
If I ***** up at my job more than 2 times, I'd be fired. These jackasses have ***** up countless times over 8 years == THEY'RE FIRED. -
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