[Hang'emAll]

Posted multiple times but a must read for today.

[Yo-Yo]

What about 2002? In 2002, in a historical upset (President’s party loses seats in the off year election), Republicans performed well and made gains in both the House and Senate.

That's obviously because of 9/11/2001. Other than that, this is a good article.

[randita]

MUST READ

Pennslyvania has been grossly misreported on this election cycle. During the Democrat primary, union bosses approached Hillary Clinton and said, “Promise us you will not put Obama as your Veep and you will have our support.” The moment Obama become the nominee was when he lost Pennslyvania. Obama has been spending money like a drunken sailor in the state, blasting the state full of advertising, but it isn’t working. The famous Philly machine won’t be at Obama’s disposal as the governor, Rendell, is a Clinton supporter , and he has been hinting at Pennslyvania going red by the mysterious leak of the Obama internal campaign poll of PA being +2 a couple of weeks ago and publicly asking Obama to come back to the state as well as saying that things are ‘tightening’ there. The evidence that PA is going red should be with how the safe Democrat seats are becoming suddenly competitive. Rendell is a Democrat and doesn’t want to lose house seats which is another reason to ask Obama to come back.

[merry10]

Okay, I really really like this and want to send to my friends but who IS this person Sean Malstrom? He is from the gaming industry??? what’s his background?

[DustyMoment]

Interesting insights and makes a lot of sense.

[HighlyOpinionated]

As I have said, we are a Nation founded by Entrepreneurs not by softies with their hands out. In fact, many who were sent to the Georgia colony came directly out of debtor’s prisons. It wasn’t that they were shiftless, they couldn’t find jobs that paid enough to pay their taxes and provide for their families. So when they hit Georgia, they hit it running and began their own little Cottage Industries.

And Cottage Industries grew into Major Manufacturing Corporations as a matter of course. Why have ten men each making one item a week when ten men doing specialized jobs could make twenty or thirty or more items in a week?

Unfortunately, FDR created an entire “classification” of persons known as “The Welfare Class.” This gave the elitists someone to look down on and in their turn, anyone with a dollar looked down on anyone who didn’t have a dollar (but did have a hand out looking for a handout).

But it was not always so. And THAT Spirit of America is what Sarah Palin brings to the table. You start small and you gradually build up and with hard work you’ve gone from hockey mom to Governor ‘the hard way.’

I’m a Dixiecrat or Blue Dog Democrat. I want my party back from these Socialists or else I want them to add the word “Socialist” to the Democrat Party and the rest of us Democrats need to start a “third” Party. Pelosi and Reid and Murtha and Dodd and Franks and Rangel are NOT Democrats. Just because someone calls himself a certain word doesn’t mean he has the attributes of that word. Pelosi can call herself a virgin all she wants, but we all know she’s been rode hard and put away wet by the looks of her.

[Designer]

The only two people who are running for President,

I stopped reading right there.

[CAluvdubya]

The point of these election posts is to reveal the reality on the ground is very different than the reality in the ‘political analysis’

Boy, this makes me feel better.

I sure needed to read this today...perfect timing (and I hope this runs true!)

GO McPALIN!!

[kralcmot]

glad the posting police have let this one slip by

BTTT

Absolutely the best election article I have read so far. It covers everything....its a long read, but I stayed with it to the end.

I recommend this for all FReepers

Copy it an post it to your desktop so you can send it to anyone who wants to understand what happend on this day in history, Nov 4, 2008..

[truthandlife]

Sean is the Jay Cost of 2008. Please read this to be encouraged about today. “Broken Glass Conservatives” will get us to where we need to go tonight.

[Yardstick]

Wow — this is good stuff.

[zimfam007]

Yes I second that... it is a LONG read, but worth every minute. I have been saying a lot of what he says in this article, especially in reference to the "who and where" people are getting polled and what they are... better yet, what they are NOT saying to the pollsters. I WILL NOT watch the pundits on TV this evening b/c I cannot wait to wake up tomorrow morning to see the bewilderment, confusion and exasperation on their faces.

[SunkenCiv]

In my second post about the election, I told you to keep an eye on Iowa for if Obama comes back here, a state he should have locked at this time, he is toast. Well, Obama is back in Iowa which means he is toast. If it is competitive in Iowa (it was very competitive in 2004), that means that McCain is running as well as Bush or better and has FL, CO, IN, NC, OH, NH, and VA all comfortable. McCain going to Maine suggests Obama is performing worse than Kerry