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Obama and McCain make final pitch amid massive early turnout
Oct 31, 2008, 17:27 GMT
Democratic Presidential hopeful and Illinois Senator Barack Obama delivers a speech at a campaign stop in Columbia, Missouri USA, 30 October 2008. Missouri and its 11 electoral votes are being hotly contested in the last five days of the 2008 US presidential election. EPA/MICHAL CZERWONKA
Washington - As US presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama geared up for a final weekend of campaigning, volunteering and television advertisements, voters turned out in droves to cast their ballots early in states across the country.
Both campaigns claimed an edge in the early voting stakes in key battlegrounds including Florida, Nevada, New Mexico and North Carolina, as well as absentee ballots cast in other states.
David Plouffe, the campaign manager of Democratic nominee Obama, claimed more than 40 per cent of the total expected voters had already cast ballots in states that allow early voting. Higher turnout historically helps Democrats in presidential elections.
The two candidates continued to make stops Friday through a handful of so-called swing states that will decide the outcome of Tuesday's election. On Monday, Republican nominee McCain plans rallies in seven different states.
With opinion polls showing Obama maintaining a significant edge, McCain campaign manager Rick Davis predicted a 'comeback' in the final days as both sides ramped up their advertising and volunteer operations.
Davis said the Republican campaign expected to outspend Obama in the final week by more than 10 million dollars, which would turn the tables on the trend of the last few months.
Obama has raised unprecedented amounts in donations through the course of the presidential campaign - more than 600 million dollars - but a spending spree over the last two months across the country may have left Republicans with an opening in the final stretch.
But Plouffe announced that Obama's campaign would begin advertising in McCain's home state of Arizona, as well as North Dakota and Georgia - a sign of just how far Obama is trying to push into traditional Republican territory.
The move was rejected by McCain's advisors as a pointless attempt that would spread the campaign to thinly.
'We encourage them to please pick other states that we intend to win to spend their final campaign cash, and spread it out as much as they can,' Davis quipped.
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'jutte smorgasbord'
Lame... the first post was a genuine leak from the Obama campaign from a woman who was disgusted by what they are doing.
The most amazing thing about that lying turd is that you thought enough of it to repost it. Thanks for the spam.
Country First!!!
Good Luck John McCain and Sarah Palin.....Thank you for your vigor, your history making courage and your devotion to your Country!
''----BR----Raised In New York City--------
Country First!!!
Good Luck John McCain and Sarah Palin.....Thank you for your vigor, your history making courage and your devotion to your Country!''
Cheers from downtown!
Country First!!!
And this is why.
In any democratic society where political parties are fairly evenly matched, IT IS ALWAYS THE FLOATING VOTER who decides the result, without exception. Not open to discussion - FACT !
Committed party voters simply do not count, their vote is guaranteed and the parties have to concentrate on the FLOATER. It is a waste of time preaching to the converted.
A FLOATER is a person who has NO party allegiances and votes according to what they see and hear - they use their own judgement.
In this election, the candidates are so unique and actually poorly selected by their parties, that the percentage of floating voters will be very high.
The very issue of an old man and his awful VP against a black man has created a large divide amongst voters, especially with the backgrounds and profiles of both candidates being highly controversial.
Many millions of floaters will at this moment have decided to vote for Obama for various reasons and the Opinion Polls reflect this - wrongly as usual.
Many millions of these floaters will almost certainly switch their voting intentions at the ballot box. A last minute change.
REASON ? Being conservative, lack of confidence, suspicion, race issue, better the devil you know than the devil you do not and a hundred more different reasons.
RESULT ; McCain will definitely win with a satisfactory majority, entirely due to the unpredictable FLOATER.
On November 5th it will be PRESIDENT ELECT JOHN McCain.
PS - Not my choice, purely logical and intelligent analysis of the candidates profiles and behaviour, plus some knowledge of the mass voting patterns of populations.
Right dreamer. Remember one man's dream is another's nightmare. Like GWB's daddy said 'ain't gonna happen'.
I confess, I screwed up royally in managing McGrandpa's campaign and getting him and Pathetic to spout out lies and hate mongering. I'm so sorry. Give me another chance in 4 years, and I'll do the same for Pathetic.
I bought your country fair and square now vote the way I tell you damn it!
America needs to be humbled, brought down a peg and shown that it is no longer a sovereign nation. How many financial crisis's do I need to help bring about to teach you stupid bible thumpers who is boss?
Do what you are told, bitches... vote for Obama. Don't you know who you are dealing with here?
I got you morons to forget about:
Wright,
Ayres,
Dohrn,
Auchi,
Rezko,
Khaladi,
Cousin Ordigno,
Abassi,
Frank Marshall Davis,
Pfledger,
And my master Gerge Soros...
What is it going to take to close this deal you racists? Socialism is cool! It's the hot new thing! Everyone is doing it... And the Europeans will like us! You want to be liked by some snotty mime watchers, don't you? Sure you do. So what's more important, your freedom or being LIKED? Come on you insecure chattel, we don't have all goddamn day! Vote for this turd I have been polishing you bitter racists!
Listen... to... me... As hard as you can with your little mean brain:
You best vote for my husband or I will come to your motherfu*king house and cut you.
This conversation is not helping my kids.
If anyone wants to encourage people to get out and vote for their candidate, I'm not so sure your long tirades aren't really wasted here. LOL
..this is Barak!...wuz up?....oh, hello Tony...I told ya not t call me here playa...not until it's ovah!'
'what?....a pardon?....in yo dreems kraka....what?...what files?....if there were files, I'd a shred thim ba now!...ooooh..be carfa playa...got a lot o home boys up there in prison....they'll shank ya Tony...shank ya for a pack o cigs!....an they cin ALL git a pardon...ya know?'
'..now chill brotha...I cavalry is on th way....ya git yurs...ain't no doubt sucka....store's gonna be open soon an daddy is dealin....s' git ya ho's lined up and git readah....daddy'scumin out!
This is the way the GOP conducts a political campaign nowadays;sinking deeper and deeper in the quagmire of absurd comments:
afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5j8jBwieTO8bQ3YH-VZt2F1hKts6Q
The GOP always happy to attack the hollywoord celebrities has deemed it usefull to invite one of them to spout ridiculous statements that have no relation to the elections what so ever .What are they even thinking.
Once more they think you are idiots ,right?
The McCain camp is out there with their ads regarding Rev. Wright again. How stupid and lame. These attack ads have pulled McCain down big time.
The part they show of Rev. spouting off was not his usual sermon, as a member of the church will tell you, and right afterward he was gone!
Maybe as he aged, his intelligence failed, just like what is happening to McCain. 72 and holding - I don't think so.
Elderly people will probably vote for McCain. Older military will vote for McCain both for the wrong reasons. I wonder how many moral majority people would vote for him if they really paid attention to his early
life of multiple affairs while his handicapped wife sat at home, one being with Cindy. That shows him to be deceiving and dishonest and out for himself.
Vote for McCain and you'll also give the woman who put ALAS in Alaska the chance to screw up the whole country
And it sounds like she's got her sights set on a higher office. She will probably go the way of all past VPs, whether elected or not. They never manage to do any more with their political careers.
''Vote for McCain and you'll also give the woman who put ALAS in Alaska the chance to screw up the whole country''
And you are voting for someone who stole Chicago blind and left it a mess.
Palin had a 93% approval rating in Alaska. Obama's Chicago is statistically more dangerous than Baghdad.
you say: 'Palin had a 93% approval rating in Alaska.'
The figures I saw said 80%. Of course that was before she was found guilty, by her peers, of misusing her powers a Governor. The last Alaska approval rating I saw, showed her somewhere down the sewerpipe. So, 80% becomes microscopic, which becomes 90% to a Republican't. The operative word, in any case, is HAD, as in used to be, was, past tense, but no longer. I can't believe how many fools are out there.
how a pretty face will fool so many people. She can say anything, and they fall for it. Well, it would be a completely different story if she was fat and ugly. She reads a good script, but when she wanders away from it, she is doubling talking so disgustingly, she, herself gets confused. She might know something about Alaska, but that's all she knows, and that has been proven over and over.
Amen to that!!!
Obama gives a great talk in his infomercial - McCain's on SNL. Sounds about right.
what McCain will do if his thumbs wear out, my friends?
Wondering....what McCain will do if his thumbs wear out, my friends?
Wondering what barack will do if your knees get sore.
low class comment from the right.
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Please vote for McCainOct 31st, 2008 - 18:06:57
THE PRESS IS PROTECTING OBAMA.
The John McCain campaign is demanding that the Los Angeles Times release the videotape of Barack Obama toasting former PLO spokesman Rashid Khalidi, at a party attended by radical Palestinian activists and former Weather Underground terrorists Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn.
In an article by Andrew C. McCarthy on the outrageous journalistic malpractice of the Los Angeles Times: The Los Angeles Times’s Strange Notion of Journalistic Ethics.
Even if you accept for argument’s sake the bunk about honoring the “source’s” supposed wishes, the newspaper wouldn’t need to release the tape in order to give us a more comprehensive account of what happened that evening. So it’s not that the Times is simply withholding the tape. The Times is trying to suppress the story. Not the story as Wallsten spun it back in April. The full story.
The full story couldn’t be more relevant. Barack Obama says he is a staunch supporter of Israel. The importance of the Khalidi festivities isn’t simply that Obama lavished praise on a man who was an Arafat apologist — although that is troubling in itself. What also matters is that many speakers (no doubt including Obama’s good friend Khalidi himself) said extremely provocative things about Israel and American policy.
While that went on, Obama apparently sat there in tacit acceptance, if not approval. He didn’t get up to leave. He wasn’t roused to a defense of his country. He didn’t deliver a spirited condemnation of Islamic terror. He just sat there. And when it came his turn to speak, he spoke ... glowingly ... about Khalidi. He was clearly comfortable around the agitators and, equally crucial, they were clearly comfortable spewing their bile in front of him — confident that they were certainly not giving offense.
Why would the Times think it’s not newsworthy to tell us in detail what Obama sat through and chose not to refute? He says he supports Israel, but shouldn’t we get a peek at what he actually does when Israel is under attack? After all, he wants to be in charge and soon the attacks may be more than just verbal.
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