Obama’s Lead Cut to Four in New Hampshire

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[beagleone]

While I try to visit New Hampshire at least once or twice a year, I am unfortunately 10,500 miles southwest of your position.

[hopespringseternal]

When you insinuate that someone who disagrees with you wants to take away the right of a racial minority to vote, you are pulling the racism card.

Congratulations, you are now qualified to be a "journalist."

[Allegra]

Oh, shove it, you jerk. You're the one who's acting like a journalist. You're twisting my own words to suit your nasty agenda just like the media does.

You've just qualified to be a complete a-hole. I'm sick of all you bitter, angry whiners who use this board to take out your frustrations with your own shortcomings. Then, when you find you can't intimidate the people you'd like to, you resort to tactics only someone as lame as you are would fall for.

You know damn good and well why I posed that question and what the context was. You can't be that stupid. No, instead you choose to treat me as if I am. You and your equally anatomically challenged cohorts were advocating removing an entire demographic's right to vote because they tend to trend liberal. All I asked you was if you wanted to take away other demographics' votes for the same reason. Stop acting like an idiot.

I'm sick with fever and aches right now, I'm sick of all you whiners, I'm sick of you nasty, underachieving and bitter men making your stupid cowardly attacks and I'm sick of the lack of manners around here.

Go pound sand, loser and stop taking it out on me just because you can't find a better job than ringing up people's sales at Starbucks. It's not MY problem and all your whining and yipping isn't going to make it my problem. Grow up.

[andy58-in-nh]

There is a big article on the front page of the Boston Globaloney today championing a poll that purports to show Obama ahead by fifteen points in New Hampshire.

I kid you not. It's a small sample (750 "likely" voters, whatever that means by today's expansive standards) and more importantly, they do not disclose the party breakdown of the voters polled. The only way this could be true would be for Obama to have a huge lead among Independents and for the Democrat advantage in voters to be significant as well.

This is nonsense on stilts, and a fine example of how the news media are using biased, tendentious polls to depress Republican turnout. Vote!

[Maelstorm]

Bump McCain is gaining. Palin is coming back to Virginia tomorrow. Whoohoo!

[Abe XVI]

Anecdotal my wife does NOT like McCain. Know why? Is it because of his policies? no, she doesn’t care for him because “he has a temper”. You call this clear thinking?

I once heard Bill Clinton explaining how people formulate their voting decisions. Very interesting. Clear thinking ( logic ) is just one of an infinite number of variables involved.

Many of those variables are of a most superficial and subconscious nature. And very personal and subjective and at times inexplicably irrational.

If policy and clear thinking were so important, it would be hard to explain why John McCain is the republican nominee. Obviously some other factors came into play.

As an example of irrationality I would cite my innate aversion to Mitt Romney. While I am aware and respectful of his accomplishments and successes and harbor no doubts as to his competency, there is something about him that I just don't like. Just don't trust.

On the other hand, I found Huckabee such an appealing personality that I was willing to overlook some aspects of his governing record that were questionable from a conservative perspective. Go figure. The two most orthodox conservatives, Hunter and Thompson just never displayed enough charisma to gain any traction, so policy, again, is set on the back burner.

Having said all that, I agree that in the case of McCain vs. Obama, policy should take precedence over all other factors, and the most liberal voting senator of all must be summarily rejected. That is reason enough. He has a leftist pedigree, and no matter what McCain's flaws, real or merely perceived, he is the only candidate worth supporting.

Having a bad temper is just a personality quirk. People blow up, act stupid and then it is over. Given McCain's personal history it is no surprise that he might have some personality flaws. But that is merely hearsay. I've never seen him display a temper and he's been very public for a number of years. In fact, he comes across as a quite reasoned and patient man. When he said "no ma'am" to that woman who said she was scared because Obama was an Arab, I was impressed by his instinctual rejection of an ignorant racist remark. He was calm and even-keeled when I would have said, "You're an idiot."

I think it helpful to understand all the reasons and non-reasons that people use to help them decide how to vote. While clear thinking should ultimately prevail, it might be helpful to at least acknowlege and appreciate what is a very personal and subjective decision.

I don't think it can be generalized that all women or men make decisions in one fashion or another. In Chris Buckley's case Obama's temperment and intelligence trump conservativism. There are not a few conservatives that think Palin was an example of extraordinarily bad judgement. Getting votes is a very tricky and complicated business and it would be most productive if rather than demeaning other's criteria, understand what lens they are looking through so as to be better able to persuade.

Sorry for the long post.

[freema]

Kickin’ ass and takin’ names!

I hope you’re feeling better.

Glad to see in another post that everybody’s voting up a storm there.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2115733/posts?page=19#19

Allegra, if you’ve got any Virginian’s with you, you might want to let them know there’s some voting trouble there. It’s not necessarily fixed, yet.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2114015/posts?page=56#56

[VigilantAmerican]

Just got back home to Fairfax County (it’s midnght Sunday night/Mon.); didn’t want to miss any more time volunteering on the campaign, nor did my family and I want to miss the Sarah Palin rally tomorrow morning! Plus, as you already know I intend to phone & pay a visit to a certain bureaucrat if necessary...

[hopespringseternal]

Wow, it is certainly easy to press your buttons.

[101voodoo]

Thanks for the input.

I cannot refute anything you say because right or wrong feelings play a part in all we say and do. However there comes a time when the “me” of a decision making process must be subjugated to the “us”, as is the case in this election when a decision may not just affect one individual but all of us here in America.

All I would ask of any individual is to look at the available information and weigh it logically. When people simply refuse to consider anything that is contra to their initial position or belief there is a problem. It does not help that the sources that the great majority of citizens get their news from refuse any mention negat5ive news for their chosen candidate.

People are lazy and many if not most have been indoctrinated in the slow and insidious way of the left. This is not anyhting new since we have been warned over and over again of the incrementalism of the Lefts policy agenda.

It was Aesop who said, “Untied we stand, divided we fall” and no more true statement was ever made. There is only one way this country can be taken down and that is from within. The left is well on the way to doing this and unless we stop them we all will be much the worse off for the foreseeable future.