Posted on 10/25/2008 1:23:41 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
The conventional wisdom, which I share, is that Barack Obama will win this election, perhaps by a healthy margin. But Democrats are nervous wrecks; they're having nightmares that defeat will be snatched from the jaws of victory. To add to their misery (and guard against complacency), here's how that horror film could play out:
In the end, the problem was the LIVs. That's short for "low-information voters,"
the three fifths of the electorate that shows up once every four years to vote for president but mostly hates politics. These are the 75 million folks who didn't vote in the primaries. They don't read newsmagazines or newspapers, don't watch any cable news and don't cast their ballots early. Their allegiance to a candidate is as easily shed as a T shirt. Several million moved to Obama through September and October; they'd heard he handled himself well in the debates. Then, in the last week, the LIVs swung back to the default choice: John McCain. Some had good reasons other than the color of Obama's skin to desert him; many more did not. In October, a study by the Associated Press estimated that Obama's race would cost him 6 percent. The percentage was smaller, but still enough to give the presidency to McCain.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...
I am so sick of it.
Obama loses 6% of racist whites but gains 95% of racist blacks. Crunch these numebers.
LOL...
LIV = A voter who watches Rev Wright; gets disgusted; is unreachable by the propagandists at Newsweak/MSDNC; and votes McCain.
They are starting to cover their assess for the failure of juiced up polls
Well, at least they are having doubts about Hussein’s chances. That’s refreshing.
There’s an excuse every time.
Gore lost because “the election was stolen.”
Kerry lost because he was “swiftboated.”
And if Obama loses it’s because of “deep-rooted racism.”
There are black judges, black congresscritters, black professors, black CEOs, black billionaires, black managers and bosses, etc.
People are pretty used to seeing black people in positions of power in this country. So, I doubt racism will be apart of an Obama loss (if he loses).
I hope Americans read this crap from Alter and start a backlash big enough to force these race baiting maganzines like Newsweek out of business.
Don’t worry about it. The “Mainstream Media” has been significantly whittled away and is not so mainstream anymore. Magazines and newspapers are folding and laying off armies of journalists. The NY Times stock price is little more than junk this week. People get information for free on the internet.
Guys like Jonathan Alter are in a panic that they are losing their monopolistic stranglehold on disseminating information. When Jonathan Alter gets his pink slip will anyone even notice he’s gone?
>They don’t read newsmagazines or newspapers, don’t watch any cable news and don’t cast their ballots early.<
They get their news from talk radio & the internet and are not brainwashed by PRAVDA.
So even if McCain wins, he loses (in the elite view).
Sore losers 8 years later.
I love America, so I’m voting for the one American candidate for commander in chief on the ballot... McCain! Calling me a racist is as un-American as one can get.
Why are we always called racist?
I don’t give a hoot why 0bama loses, as long as he loses.
I was going to say did we ever think our news media would become a copy of the old USSR. I guess I have forgotten how this propagandists and liars were in prior elections.
I do think they are pulling out all the stops this time including Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal and Fox News. Either Saudi/UAE bondholders, his second wife from China & TV rights from the ChiComs threat or Obama threatening the Fairness Doctrine.
Undecideds? My guess is there may be a lot of scared people who are not saying anything except in the privacy of a voting booth. They saw what happened to Joe the Plumber.
A lot of people are afraid of Obama winning and getting on the wrong list.
Hannity said last night that he thinks his radio show will be taken off if Obama wins.
LOL, your post is almost word-for-word what I posted here a while ago.
That is definately going to be the narrative.
But, these are the only choices we have, hearing that Obama lost because of racism, or hearing for 4 bloody long years that any disagreement with him is due to racism.
Too bad Obama is a leftist who has surrounded himself with anti-american, anti-white racists of all colors. Otherwise he might have made a change for the better in this country.
I'll take any vote for McCain because America's future depends on defeating the socialist totalitarian democrat thug. Once we are on secure ground we can delve at our leisure into the infantile thought processes of the twisted sickies from Newsweak and related orifices.
Alter’s a putz. Low information voters indeed. What did Reagan say? and I believe Barnum before him. “It isn’t what people know that is the problem; it’s what they know that isn’t true.” Many of the O-bats are filled with information that isn’t true.
NY Times debt was also just downrated which is a big deal.
People wonder why. NY Times and Washington Post (NewsWeak) own a lot of TV stations. Obama is shoveling tons of ad money into them probably using Saudi/UAE credit card money “donations”.
NewsWeak’s ad pages and content are pretty thin. They may try to go web only in the future but they will totally die then.
Warren Buffett is a creep. He is the largest shareholder in WA Post and has made out very well during the market implosion. See Wells Fargo picking up Wachovia for a song. Buffett also owned a lot of Freddie Mac during the Clinton Admin.
Obama can’t be that nervous. The NYT says he has already written his inaugural address and is going through resumes for his staff, etc. either his internals are really good or he is confident he can cheat his way to a win.... he did ask for the voter fraud investigation to be pushed to after the election.
Bull *Bleep*. LIV works to Obama's advantage.
Last week CBN News interviewed four different Obama voters and three European journalists on why they like Obama.
Nothing but "Hope and Change" from any of them. Not one of them could state policy.
Then they interviewed several McCain voters, who at least could state that they thought McCain would be better on national security, the budget, the economy, taxes and spending.
Did you all notice the red star on Ayers shirt last night when the BOR guy tried to interview him? At the DNC site where they sell Obama gear, the inside of the “O” in a red star... wonder why no one has ever asked about Obama using the red star so prolifically?
It’s really time to FIGHT back.
I am going to dump their magazines in the garbage can in the ladies room when I go to the store tomorrow.
I have e-mailed everyone about this 0 zero nothing person and no one seems to care. So like in the French Recolution, the underground will fight back in little ways but we can hurt them.
Recolution=revolution
I'm so sick of this race card playing “ post racial candidate”
He calls himself “black” but has a white mother. He was raised by her and her parents. He grew up Aryan and pretends to be “black”
His father was from Kenya and not from the gold coast. About as far away as Spain is from Russia.
Luo’s are Nilotic people. They are dark skinned Hamitic Caucasoids closer genetically to “white” people than Negroids.
He is a total fraud
And if 0bama wins and the American public discovers who he really is, the media will say that they, too, were misled to cover their butts.
McCain will win because of Socialism. Obama is a socialist and wants to destroy the American way of life.
This is not a Black or White issue.
What? Alter, you're a moron!
LIVs favor Democrats. Your basic LIV thinks the President is Republican and Congress is Republican and the president controls the economy, which is in depression. Therefore, vote Democrat!
Your basic LIV never heard of Obama's allies, Ayers, Dohrn, Klonsky, Reszko, Raines, Johnson, Dodd, Frank, and the rest.
Your basic LIV doesn't have a clue how things really work! But he's not happy and just wants change.
It hasn't been widely publicized but Buffett is a BIG contributor to abortion-rights groups. IMO this is why he supports Obama.
Yeah. . and Carter lost to Reagan because . . . DUH.
I was a LIV and voted for Carter the first time he ran. Horrors. Never been a LIV after that mess.
You're right.
If McCain wins it will be because people ask themselves, "How much do we really know about this Obama guy?"
But the Low Information Voters probably won't realize that and will just vote for "change."
I've considered buying a printer. I want to print out a graph showing the value of the NYT & mail it to the paper's editor every single day.
“They don’t read newsmagazines or newspapers, don’t watch any cable news and don’t cast their ballots early”
In other words, someone who can’t be swayed by our bash McCain/Palin, don’t say anything bad about Zero/Biden biased coverage.
“Hannity said last night that he thinks his radio show will be taken off if Obama wins.”
I agree with him.
So will any of the conservative radio hosts, along with many of the religious shows.
“The NY Times stock price is little more than junk this week.”
Let’s say that again.
The NY Times stock price is little more than junk this week.
You HOGs gotta start talkin that Moonbat Lingo.
McCain is the first presidential candidate to run against his opponemt AND THE ENTIRE MSM of the USA ( and Europe).
The American people know this, and will reverse the MSM propaganda machine.
EFF the MSM. McCain is gonna win and it has them all like rabid dogs bitting themselves in angst.
THATS A SURE SIGN WE ARE WINNING, BIG!
CRANK IT UP JOHN, CRANK IT UP.
Look for a lot more from these little orphan annie fascists.
They try to direct Americans how to think. The MSM needs a load of buckshot for violating their 1st amendment privileges, afforded the press.
MAC is about as racist as my Irish Setter, who will take a doughnut from anyone, no matter what his skin color.BUT WE MUST VOTE FOR MAC!!!!
Yes, it bears repeating! :D
Ah yes, another guilt-ridden, gated-community/private school white liberal.
Hey Jonathan, show the world you’re not a hypocrite and go “diversify” Harlem. After all, if you’re going to engage in such childish rhetoric, go practice what you preach.
I dare you.
I found a good way to annoy a co-worker who’s a total koolaid drinking hack: purposely mis-pronounce the name Obama like O-Bama (as in the last part of Alabama).
For some reason this really ticks off libtards.
Dang, I am such a racist L-I-V!
That's fine with me! The people claiming that are the real racist & bigots. There is no doubt in my mind anymore that there is not a truthful mainstream press anywhere!
So, whatever they call me I will wear with a badge of honor because I want nothing to do with people like them! Whomever they are for I am against. Whatever they say I will believe the opposite. I will avoid their lying chattering because I can.
Thanks, Jonathan Alter, et al, for 'enlightening' me.
BTW, may Newsweek go the way of the NYT's and other liberal rags, down the toilet.
Soon!
Not to change the subject but how can I post a photo?
Call me any name you please, but I STLL voted (early) against the Socialist, Pro-infanticide, Black Liberation Theology pimping, terrorist associating, inexperienced, flip-flopping, lying, antisemitic, tongue-tied, "you knowing", American hating, empty suit hypocrite.
So YOU'RE the one who put me out of work, and cost me my first house!
You learned your lesson; and I learned mine back around the same time, concerning 'third party protest votes'.
Of such is the Conservative movement made.
It is famously said that "a Conservative is a Liberal who has been mugged."
In reality, a Conservative is anyone who refuses to be mugged a second time.
NEWSWEEK (and Jonathan Alter) are unfit for toilet tissue.
Because in spite of overwhelming evidence to the contrary, enough good-hearted people allow themselves to be manipulated by the traitorous pukes to give traction to the lie.
If you don't care what the maggots call you, their tactic becomes moot.
F'em.
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