Posted on 10/10/2008 5:10:16 AM PDT by jmaroneps37
Some polls say John McCain is falling behind. I will believe these polls when I see headlines screaming :
“Catholics, Evangelicals, and Whites abandoning McCain to support Obama”
The media is reporting there’s a “ fight among Catholics over which party to support.” They offer wishful thinking, but no proof to support this claim.
The last Catholic voter numbers said McCain led 57/36 among this group that will be 26% of voters. Where are the new “bad Catholic” numbers for McCain?
Where are the “new” poll numbers of Evangelicals ( 15% of voters) showing shrinking support for McCain and Sarah Palin?
Where are the “new” White male (43%) poll numbers showing Obama even keeping pace with the 36% Al Gore and John Kerry got?
If the Obama “surge” is because of a major swing of women toward him, what about the 28% of Clinton backers still supporting McCain?
If Obama has “all” Independents, where are the numbers?
Last week two polls had McCain ahead with Independents (26%) by 15 and a third had him down 5.
Of course there’s Black voters, but there has not been a single poll showing Obama actually getting the 95% from Blacks he needs. Where are the stories talking about Obama’s shortfall in this column?
We don’t hear this much, but Obama needs huge and almost impossible increases in Black turnout and 95% support from Blacks plus holding all White voters Kerry got to win. Have we seen a single story in the last three months talking about this obstacle? Where are the survey results that Obama is getting better than the standard 92% of the Black vote that any Democrat gets?
If Barack Obama really believed he is winning big, would he buy the half hour?
His private polls might be telling him otherwise..
(Excerpt) Read more at Collinsreport.net ...
Obama may be thinking the following:
1. Run up the score - a 300 pt. electoral college would be a heck of a mandate for his Presidency.
2. Do not make the same mistakes as Gore/Kerry - keep pouring it on until after election day - he has got the money so spend it - don’t leave a dime in the bank.
McCain is running a Dole style campaign against one of the greatest incumbant head winds in history. He is not a very good candidate and is only advantage is that, after all is said and done, Obama is no Bill Clinton. Clinton would be up by 20 points with the same set of circumstances.
As a Catholic all I can say is anyone who calls himself such and votes for the man child has been asleep in the pew for the last 20yrs.
(As an aside, last Sunday at Mass their was a non-partisan handout in the vestibule on the positions that each candidate takes on issues of importance to the Catholic Church. Anybody who took 5 minutes to look at this handout would realize who the Church thought was the better candidate and I'll give you a hint: It wasn't the false messiah.)
What a dumb proposition.
The larger the margin of win, the larger mandate for pushing his agenda.
The larger the margin of win, the bigger the coat tails for getting a super majority in congress.
If he has the cash, he should spend it and get his message out to as large an audience as possible.
Using this event as proof O’Bama is losing is one of the largest examples of denial by some FReepers in a long time.
It's strictly image...
He's relaxed when he gives a "practiced speech" with a big friggin' monitor. No one listens to what he really says...It's the tone and nothing more than empty rhetoric.
I find it ironic that the guy who pushed campaign finance reform is getting taught a lesson on how to pervert the process even more.
GOP are afraid to fight and get dirty, it is a country club mentality going against a street fight artist. The attacks seem to be a very cautious effort which fail to hammer at a huge target in Obama. Ayers, but let us keep our distance.
Get rolled over by where you can score the most points at, the debates. But no, the GOP agrees with hyper controlled debate formats that plays into a deceivers hand.
Because he can. Because he has so much illegal money. Because he wants to sew it up. Because he wants a super duper mandate. Because he wants even more attention. Have to go now, but I could give more answers.
Rassmussen and Gallup never reveal their internals of percentages. They say targets but never say if they meet those targets or are overstretching them.
Susa has been way over sampled.
PPP is way way way ridiculously oversampled.
I always think it funny that MSM puts out, Obama needs to be at least 10 ahead to counter bradley effect and voila within 3 days Gallup is there.
Go figure.
Coach’s comment created an equal and opposite reaction, Political Physics 101. Telling.
Truer words...
And no one is going to watch this. A half hour? Most people cannot stand listening to these guys (any of them) for more than a minute or two.
Except the talking heads, who will all be watching with their pants down at their ankles.
He’s buying the 1/2 hr to dare McCain to spend money on tv instead of GOTV.
He wants a landslide and he is working very hard in Florida....it’s going his way right now...every other commercial is of Obama.
To give the image of inevitability.
To project power and capability to do it.
There are lots of good reasons to do it.
yeah but that also has the opposite effect, saturation pisses people off too, its like give me a break, just shut up mentaility. It can turn voters off too. That happened in the primaries, he annoyed people with too much advertising.
Speaks volumes on Nobama’s future economic policies.
Will spend like there’s no tomorrow.
I agree that many of us are in denial, myself included. I can’t fathom the Obama has a strong chance of becoming our next president. There seems to be a perfect and “arranged” storm of circumstances that surround this election. The background economic stories are all trumpeting out the sound of the stuff that is being thrown against Obama. Several posts in other threads are saying that the stock market is tanking because of a potential Obama presidency. I would not be surprised that this is all orchestrated so that if he does win, that everything will miraculously recover, or lead to a new type of economy - not communism, but some form of Socialism that is more acceptable/palatable to even us. When desperation hit (family, kids, hunger), even a good percentage of Freepers will slip to the other side. This to just re-enforce the view of the work that he is their saviour. Some people are throwing the term that he is the “anti-christ”. Not sure about that...since supposedly the anti-christ is born outside of the US(unless someone can prove that he was born in the middle-east). He may simply be the next step in that progression...
Neverless, after this ramble, I will still do my part and vote...I am confident that God doesn’t have a plan “B”. In earthly terms, we may be having a rough time, but this is all part of His plan to bring us closer and to rely on Him.
The markets are clearly not happy about the propect of an Obama presidency.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.