Posted on 10/13/2008 3:16:30 PM PDT by housedeep
Fox News/Rasmussen Reports polling this week in Florida, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio and Virginia shows a very stable race whose underlying dynamic strongly favors Barack Obama over John McCain.
FL O 51 M 46 OH 0 49 M 47 VA o 50 M 47 MO O 50 M 47 NC O 49 M 49
McCain’s campaign has sent an incoherent message about 0bama.
It has failed to define him.
What good is talking about William Ayers or ACORN if the campaign doesn’t use these associations to draw a conclusion about 0bama?
McCain needs to use not one, but rather the aggregate of 0bama’s influences in life to bring him into focus. Frank Marshall Davis, Jeremiah Wright, William Ayers, Saul Alinsky, ACORN, The Democratic Socialists of America, The New Party. What do they all have in common?
The answer: a dangerous, radical, far left ideology.
McCain must make this about ideology, and take 0bama’s associations as instructive. He should highlight that Saul Alinsky taught radicals to cut their hair, put on a suit, and take down the government from the inside, and 0bama was so versed in Alinsky’s tactics that he taught them to ACORN activists.
McCain’s ACORN ad reveals that 0bama taught for ACORN, but it never reveals the substance of what he taught.
The substance is what we need to understand 0bama. The substance is what makes it tangible.
McCain needs to call 0bama a wolf in sheep’s clothing. A clean-cut radical with very little papertrail infiltrating the system in order to destroy it.
Exposing 0bama’s radical agenda would be enough to ensure his defeat. It is what McCain must do.
sorry i screwed up the link.
Here is is:
The polls assume Obama is ahead by 6 nationwide. I think thats incredibly unlikely.
Well, McCain’s campaign manager is saying that we trail Obama by 6 points nationally, but who knows.
yes
and somehow i find these encouraging...
we all know what scottie likes to put in is results of the robo-dial....a 6% weight of Democrats.
We have three weeks to fix it. Sounds like McCain is finally going to give us some ammunition to work with on the economic front.
Lets hope it is enough.
A 527 would be better to do that.
Thats really a subtle “We believe its much much closer and possibly we are leading” and also a hopes to make the Obama Campaign feel somewhat Comfortable. Start measuring drapes etc etc
You know another thing that annoys me about Rasmussen? You have to be a “Premium Member” to see his internals.
Mahoney just sealed it for McCain in Florida. No way Obama will take it now.
I feel like I am living in some bizarro world.
Is it really possible that this Marxist could win the Presidency?
I remain unconvinced.
yes
and i dont think we have one premium member on FR.
i want to know what these state internals are.
Really?
Hey but listen up: If he’s still using that screwy 6% differential, it could mean we’re up!! I’m giddy.
But, alas, your exhortation has fallen upon deaf ears.
So where are they then?
LLS
I dont buy the polls and my guess is neither does schmidt. The numbers just don’t add up based on the sampling data. Also I dont believe Barack Obama is pulling 50 percent of the vote AT ALL. Noone has done that in recent memory and he sure isnt going to IMHO
It’s better for us to run to the end as if we are behind.
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