Posted on 10/02/2008 7:20:03 AM PDT by tatown
Obama 49%, McCain 44% (+3 points from yesterday).
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2004, you had a sitting president in a time of war. If Kerry didn't reassure everyone that he would keep them safe, Bush would get the benefit of the doubt. Likewise, the evangelicals overwhelmingly supported Bush on the ground---a difference that in OH gave him the election.
McCain has floundered on every issue except oil---but that issue is fading. McCain's silly unwillingness to actually FIGHT has "Bush-ized" him. All he can do is sit an take it.
The NRA has 8 figures to spend!
Well, it’s time to drop the phony baloney bipartisanship crap and put on the steel gloves covered in broken glass.
Your very livelihood is at stake because Democrats in the Congress were in bed with the perps who were making millions at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. They blocked any sensible regulation of those two entities that were proposed again and again by the GOP in the Congress (ie McCain) and the administration. The top 10 list of congressmen who were bought off by Fannie and Freddie are all Dems. Who’s #1? Chris Dodd, Chairman of the Banking Committee, who could’ve done something to stop this. #2? Yes, you guessed it, the junior Senator from Illinois. Dodd’s been in the Senate for years. Obama’s been in the Senate for 140 days and he ends up with the second most campaign contributions from Fannie and Freddie. Now why did Senator Obama enjoy such support? Is he crooked or is he naive? One thing’s certain, my friends. America can no longer afford either Obama.
“Huge difference, and you know it.”
this time we have a Marxist-socialist bent on fascism running for POTUS.
It sure is a hugely different type of election this time around.
In the 85 polls from september to election day in 2004, Kerry only lead in 7 of them.
That is called a trend, the trend this year couldn’t be anymore different.
18-34 was 23% of the vote in 2004. Battleground had that age group at 18%, obviously they needed to correct it.
If all McCain has in his gun sights is shots at Obama, that does not look like enough.
Four years ago Pres. Bushes’ campaign hit this area hard and heavy. Some houses I went to had piles of campaign material stacked by the front door from several times getting hit.
The phones were manned and if a day went by and you didn't get a call or knock at the door it was very unusual.
I went into the Rep. office they opened TWO weeks ago,(Obama’s had one here at least 8 months) I volunteered to pound the pavement again and have yet to receive a call from them.
They only thing I can't understand is that McCain is polling state by state very well still.
Ugh, that's the Republican party I've become all too familiar with lately: living in a world completely devoid of any semblance of reality.
After a while, it gets old.
McCain is not nearly as good a candidate as Bush was, either time. I didn't agree with everything W said, but he at least had principles. McCain is all over the map.
At any rate, if you can't detect important structural differences in the election of 04 and the election of 08, neither I, nor anyone else, can help you.
If you cant stop yourself from crying about the MSM’s polls, too bad for you. Go make some calls for McPalin and be constructive.
Little hard to work for a candidate who won’t work for himself.
Creative — but the socialist tag now applies equally well to McCain through his vote for the bailout. McCain is tanking in the polls simply because he has abandoned conservative fiscal principles.
You need to play harball too, this is basically the last chance we have at a real national 2-party election. The demographics are changing and we are annexing 3rd world poverty = socialism & communism
Having let his chance slip, now if should finally wield hammers and tongs the MSM will portray it as an act of desperation, that he was goaded by frustrated conservatives, that he flipped-flopped, that he is casting about for a winning strategy. And the MSM will be more correct than usual.
Bush had a remarkable ‘Get out the vote” effort. However, I’m unsure that it started this early in 2004. I think it varies based on targeted locations.
Ummm, I don’t mean to be rude but you really don’t have any idea what your talking about.
I was a foot soldier for Pres. Bush during the last election. Your uniformed, and let’s leave it at that.
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