Posted on 10/21/2008 9:46:02 PM PDT by Red Steel
MOON TOWNSHIP, Pa. — John McCain is not letting go of Pennsylvania.
This state might seem a dubious place for the Republican to be spending his time with less than two weeks before Election Day. He is trailing Barack Obama by double digits in polls
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In other words, the McCain campaign is betting that Obama's support may be soft,
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McCain, on the other hand, continued to hammer Obama for his remark to Joe Wurzelbacher, an Ohio plumber, that he wants to "spread the wealth around." McCain said Obama would rather redistribute wealth than create wealth.
"The McCain-Palin tax cut is the real thing," McCain said, including his running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. "We're going to double the child deduction for every family. We will cut the capital gains tax. And we will cut business taxes to help create jobs...
McCain and his allies also seized on remarks made by Obama's running mate, Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware
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"We don't want a president who invites testing from the world at a time when our economy is in crisis and Americans are already fighting in two wars," ... "What is more troubling is that Senator Biden told their campaign donors that when that crisis hits, they would have to stand with them because it wouldn't be apparent Senator Obama would have the right response."
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"We don't believe any of the naysayers who believe Pennsylvania is out of reach," said Rick Davis, McCain's campaign manager. He pointed out that Obama had one of his largest crowds during the primaries in Pennsylvania — about 32,000 people — and he still lost the state by 10 points.
"Don't believe the press when they tell you you're going to lose a state," Davis said. "The polls are all over the map."
(Excerpt) Read more at seattletimes.nwsource.com ...
Somebody post the Braveheart pic!!
Seems like McCain doesn’t have to campaign in Pennsylvania as long as he has Murtha there driving droves of voters to the other team.
PING! Another piece supporting what you’ve been saying for weeks!
As a former Main Line (Philly ) boy I can say
NO WAY WILL MY PEOPLE VOTE FOR THIS MARXIST SOCIALIST COMMIE ISLAMIC PLANT !
NO WAY!
PA FOR McCain Palin all the way
Shock ACORN in Philly !~
I’ve been thinking there’s a chance in PA for a very long time. The folks of PA let their thoughts of obama be known when Hillary kicked his azz.
Gov. Ed Rendell thought earlier that Obama couldn’t win PA. I hope he was right.
Murtha is doing a great job pulling those Hillary supporters back to Obama!
Huh?
Sorry, Russell is leading in the polls easily.
Murtha is persona non grata in PA these days, Lets see his constituents are:
1. Cold blooded killers
2. Racists
3. Rednecks
4. His party’s leader thinks those same people are fools.
McCain has a better shot at PA than Bush did. Internal RNC polls are telling him so. Hense the multiple visits to PA.
The strategy seems to be different from 2004. Bush was winning the exurbs and had strong hispanic support as well as of course evangelicals.
McCain is depending on Sarah for the evangelicals, and the elderly and reagan democrats instead. McCain has run stronger in Ohio than Florida and Virginia/North Carolina recently. Western Pennsylvania is basically the same as rural ohio, and Obama lost the pittsburg and eastern PA blue collar areas to Hilary during the primaries.
We’ve seen Obama play defense there even going as far as to cater to an all-black crowd in philadelphia to ensure turnout.
We’ll see how it goes but PA seems like the only likely pickup for McCain atm. I would’ve said he had a good shot at Wisconsin since it was so close in 2004, but I’m pretty sure voter fraud from Illinois and Minnesota will make Wisocnsin go blue.
Its a tough battle. I don’t see it happening unless somehow a big foreign policy issue happens within days of the election.
Either a Bin Laden tape or Israel doing some shennanigans.
Historically people tend to vote differently for President than for the Congress. Remember in 2004 the GOP held congress and many people like a divided government, so I think Kerry benefited from that. Bush almost got beat and we did not carry PA. This time, with the RATS in charge of congress, many people might think it is safe to vote for McCain than vote the RATS down ballot.
Murtha and Biden’s comments could also be driving up the Bradley effect...which could explain Obama’s sudden rise in the polls in that state.
People may be afraid of being labeled racist, so they lie and say they support Obama.
I do not believe people vote that strategically. It just happens that mono-party control of both branches usually causes overreach.
LBJ for example and then Carter. The democrats pulled it off before the 70’s due to the fact that the parties were not ideaologically “pure.” The southern conservative democrats and republicans were actually a majority of congress for the last 50 years. In 1994 we saw Republicans take over from Southern Conservative democrats.
Now though, the margin of the democrats in the house are not necessarily dependent on blue-dog democrats.
And that should make all of us very, very scared.
It will tough to overcome the 150% to 250% voter turnout in North and West Philly.
“Its a tough battle. I don’t see it happening unless somehow a big foreign policy issue happens within days of the election.
Either a Bin Laden tape or Israel doing some shennanigans.”
Israel already did us “the favor” earlier today. They publicized the fact that their Prime Minister just called all the cabinet secretaries togther and asked them to come up with multiple “Iran agressive” scenarios one of which WILL happen if and when Obama is elected.
CNN spent 15 minutes on it from 5-5:15 p.m. or so (that’s the dinner hour for the elderly, even elderlu jewish people in Florida and cities in Cleveland, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, etc.).
The piece was VERY sober and honestly it made me very afraid for the Israelis and it made me sad that we would do anything to make them fearful...it was upsetting to me.
But, it did send a clear message to all Americans who love Israel as I do.
God bless Israel, her citizens are certainly “sweating this one out” along with all of us.
I can't blame them at all. America is their greatest ally and the fear of us electing a Muslim scares the heck out of them. I don't think Obama will win, but we can't blame them for being prepared.
I don’t blame Israel for getting prepared for what happens at our election. I thank them for advertising it to us in advance because only with a cold slap of reality will some people WAKE UP! and vote McCain-Palin.
I agree.
Have you seen this?
America’s Choice Now - WOW! In his own words, 0bama seals his fate!
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