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I too will be voting on Saturday so I don't get slammed.
I'm voting Saturday. The polls close before I get off work everyday this week.
I too will be voting on Saturday so I don't get slammed.
and son I guarantee that at least 6% of that 10% voted for Senator John Sidney McCain!!!!
In Texas maybe.
son!!!! joey you make me laugh!! so funnyyyyyyy. you are going to be crying all night long on Nov 4th and watching re-runs of your Lord Baracks speeches on youtube screaming "why!!!!???? this was the year of our Messiah!!!!!"In Texas maybe.
You won't be posting in the political forum after Nov. 4.
I'll still be here no matter what. I've said all along that this race is not over and that Obama IS the underdog. While I like what I see in the polls the only one that matters is the on on Nov. 4. It won't be the first election where the candidate of my choice does not win...or the last. It happens.
Trolls don't die that easily.
Wow.
What a ride this has been.
I swear we are going to see a massive jump in ER admits on Nov 5. All those politcal analysts are going to get the DT's.
Can you believe we're almost into the single digits regarding days before the election?
One thing that you can't help but notice in the corporate media is how they keep trying to paint the race as artificially close and how begrudgingly they are with information that shows this race as anything but close. They must be terrified about poor ratings. I promise you if Obama was down 3 -4 points in the polls we'd be seeing so many stories about the cell phone gap, the youth turnout, and AA turnout.
Anyway, I don't think they have to worry miuch on the ratings front. People are going to watch to see this unfold regardless of the margin of victory. Its historical.
That reminds me... gotta mail off my absentee ballot!
Just curious Manny. How effective do you think Obama will be as CiC, assuming he wins on election day? Do you think we'll remember him more as a Hoover (we could even name the housing industry, "Barracks") or a Truman? Or neither? Will his ethnicity be a lasting legacy, or will he just be remembered as another President for the plans and ideas he had?
I think, if nothing else, he could represent the idea that Americans CAN stand up and make an unprecedented change in our political views. While it's true that to really start changing things, we need a 3rd (or 4th or 5th) legitimate party to run for office, the fact is that Obama came from virtually nowhere to beat one of the most assured in bents in history, even if Hillary wasn't technically an in bent. He also is indicative that more and more Americans are starting to care about politics again -- which is incredibly important, perhaps more so than anything else in this campaign.
Sadly, it also shows how incredibly divided our media has become. This obviously is not the first time that it's been said, but America needs to call for more objective reporting. Will that happen? I doubt it. But the most interesting thing about this election, in hindsight, will be how the American (and world) mass media portrays the Obama presidency. America is in dire need of a leader to step up, end our debt, and forecast a message of peace throughout the world. It took Europe 8000+ years to get to a state of relative peace... if this country can do the same in ~300, I think that would stand as a remarkable achievement, even long after this nation has ceded it's complete economic, scientific, and military dominance of the world.
I think Barack will do just fine but he or McCain will inherit some major issues that will need to be resolved and it won't be easy. But I do think he'll surround himself with a much better administration than Bush did.
Man I had a long response laid out but I lost it due to blue screens. I'll type it up later when I'm not on my crappy laptop.
Polls Show McCain Leaning Into a Headwind
By Dan Balz
A big batch of battleground polls came out early Thursday and brought almost universally bad news for John McCain. The Republican nominee's path to the presidency is now extremely precarious and may depend on something unexpected taking control of a campaign that appears to have swung hard toward Barack Obama since the end of the debates.
There were eight polls produced by the Big Ten Battleground Poll group. Obama not only leads in all eight states by hefty margins but has improved his standing since the last time the group surveyed these states.
The numbers are startling.
Obama leads by 12 points in Ohio,
by 11 points in Pennsylvania and
by 13 points in Wisconsin.
In Michigan, where McCain's campaign has pulled out, the lead is 22 points.
In Indiana, a strong red state, the Obama lead is 10 points, which is larger than in other recent polls.
Quinnipiac University released polls of three battlegrounds that it has been surveying regularly this cycle:
Ohio, Pennsylvania and Florida. Obama leads in all three.
In these surveys, Obama's lead in Pennsylvania is 13 points.
In Ohio, which is a must-win for McCain, the lead is a whopping 14 points.
The one bright spot for McCain, if you can call it that, is Florida, where Obama's lead is just 5 points and slightly narrower than it was the last time Quinnipiac surveyed the Sunshine State. But that's not really a bright spot. McCain can't afford to lose Florida any more than he can afford to lose Ohio.
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/the...l?hpid=topnews
I've been working the Early voting all this week...that's why I haven't been on the forum much.
Austin is the most liberal city in the state and if the African American/youth/minority turnout is similar in other liberal areas to what I have seen so far...Obama's ed.
The African American demographic that is supposed to be turning out for him isn't turning out for him in Austin so far...not even in East Austin.
When we work East Austin it's slow and relaxing...
When we work the more conservative areas of Austin it is a non-stop slam.
If this is the way turnout is going in other areas of Austin...I don't even know if Obama will win Austin..and I'd be truly ing amazed if that were to happen.
Austin?
As in Austin, Texas?
This will somehow " " Obama in exactly what way?
Inspite of Texas being a Red State Austin is really liberal one of the most liberal cities in the country...Kerry stomped Bush in Travis Co in 2004. 56% of the vote to 42%.
If turnout is similar in other liberal strongholds to what I have seen so far(most specifically a decided lack of African American and Hispanic turnout)...Obama has got some serious issues.
Are you from Detroit?
IF you are you probably think Texas is a bunch of cactus' and we all stand around steers in our cowboy hats...
Austin is not like that at all...it's very liberal.
The Kool-aide must taste really good today.
The Black vote has been turning out in record numbers during early voting in other states. I don't know how well your experience at your polling location in Austin (in state that has no chance of going blue, no real GOTV effort, and very little ad money) indicates what is happening across the country.
It goes without saying, but whottt projects everything through the narrow prism of his own bias. The idea that a majority of Americans don't see things the way he does is unimaginable to him.
Yes, I am from Detroit Metro Area...No, I make no assumptions about Texas or Texans. Second largest state in the union tells me there are a lot of different people there , with different views right off the bat.
I just meant that Austin, Texas is only an indicator for Austin, Texas (maybe Texas in general, but no further).
Texas being a wholly red state. Therefore, not much of a surprise, IMO, nor of any implication in regards to BHO's electoral chase.
Thats all.
McCain was up 54% to 44% in the last poll taken here in Texas.
Obama has no chance of taking Texas. None, nada.
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