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Today, the big furor is over Senator McCain stating he could not remember how many houses he owns… I wish I could be speechless at this very moment, instead I wish I was rich enough to be able to forget how many houses I do own. This is the candidate the conservatives want to support? … John McCain, simply, is too old to be President. Forgetting age, he is out of touch with the people in America who are suffering due to the current housing situation:
I’m a conservative, and while John McCain isn’t my dream candidate, I’ll take him over Obama any day. I’m not one of those I’ll-take-my-ball-and-go-home voters who just won’t vote if my favorite isn’t in the race. What’s more, I’m old enough to understand that the republic will survive four, or even eight years of Obama as president. It will even survive Obama and a Democrat-majority congress.
But there’s a lot of folks this time around who might go off the deep end if Obama doesn’t win. People have really invested in him as a person, not as a politician. Some of that glow is fading, a bit, but it’s still pretty strong. These folks are true believers, and if they don’t get their dreams fulfilled, they’re going to be very, very upset.
Yes, there was a lot of passion in 2000, and 2004 also. But that was passion against Bush, not passion for Kerry or Gore. Let’s face it; Gore is an annoying, lecturing bore, with a large streak of hypocrisy. Kerry is an opportunistic dilletante. No one really loves either of them as politicians; they were Not Bush, and that was enough.
But a lot of folks are FOR Obama, not against McCain. You can see it in the fundraising. Obama’s handlers are very good at promoting the Chosen One image, and that image resonates with his supporters. You talk to them, and they simply can’t imagine anyone not voting for him.
It’s going to be a fairly close election; even Minnesota, which three months ago was a Strong Obama state, is now rated a tossup. Barring some sort of major mistake by either candidate, it’s going to be a furious fall, as the two campaign planes zip back and forth along a line from Virginia to Minnesota, with a side trip to Colorado and New Mexico now and then. Undecided voter’s doorbells are going to be rung again and again, as both sides fight for those precious few votes.
Chances are, there won’t be a to-the-wire standoff like Florida in 2000. But it might come down to a few thousand votes in Ohio, or Michigan, or New Mexico. If it does, and Obama doesn’t win, there are going to be lots of charges of fraud. Never mind that the Democrats wrote the book on voter fraud (don’t believe me? look at the history). People will be in the mood to believe anything. And people who are angry, people who believe they have been cheated of hope, change, whatever–those people will be seething.
November could be very ugly.
Personally, I hope that whoever wins, wins by enough that recounts and court battles aren’t needed.
Well I was just watching a bit of a CNN a few hours ago when they announced that we will definitely hear Senator Obama’s pick for Vice President this week. I would probably not believe this statement if it wasn’t for the convention next week that I took off two days off of work to watch (Yes that is sadly true ). The problem is that with less than a week to go, even with all the speculation in the media and the blogosphere; I am nowhere close to gleaming the most likely possibility. The latest data from CNN’s Veepstakes:
The above screenshot indicates that Senator Biden is now the most likely choice according to the market but this is probably due to his trip to Georgia. Governor Sebelius is slightly below him but I imagine this is because she is a popular choice but not the most likely due to the Obama campaign stating they would not choose a female VP. So where does that leave us? I don’t know and like many people have said, it could be someone we don’t even suspect. With that in mind, watch the video below and leave your choice of most likely VP for Senator McCain and Senator Obama, the winner gets bragging rights:
Eli Pariser at MoveOn.Org released a new video entitled: “5 things you should know.” This video touches on a few issues that some liberals like myself need to know in order to ensure an Obama victory in the general election. Everyone who has visited this blog has questioned the use of polling so I won’t go over this point again but here are the 5 things you should know:
The Polls
The Smears
The Misperceptions
The Myths
Our Path To Victory
Please watch the video for more detail but personally my number 1 goal from now until the election is to correct the misperceptions people have about Senator Obama e.g he is Muslim, and some of the deliberate smears spread around in emails and in books, you will notice that I have included the Obama campaign’s recent release of a document debunking every smear in the two most recently released Obama books:
Senator McCain has been hemorrhaging republicans of late with a few GOP members actively supporting Senator Obama:
The group, called Republicans for Obama, is led by two moderate Republicans — James Leach, a former U.S. representative from Iowa, and Lincoln Chafee, a former U.S. senator from Rhode Island — along with Rita Hauser, a prominent fund-raiser for President George W. Bush.
This is no surprise to some politicians and conservatives who have experienced the complexities of Senator McCain’s flip floppishness in the past. You might ask what of PUMA? They are allegedly millions strong who will vote for Senator McCain if Senator Obama is nominated however thanks to the excellent investigative journalism at the DailyKos we find out the truth:
The truth? The overwhelming and unstoppable PUMA coalition that Bowers and other selected-not-elected leaders have repeatedly claimed numbers in the 2-2.5 million members range could only get together sixty people for the “conference” and, because they didn’t meet the 250 registrant requirement imposed by the Wardman, they had to move the conference to … get this … the Country Inn next to Dulles Airport in Sterling, VA. Is it any wonder they got way secretive and polished up their double agent decoder rings before this monumental event? Their “conference,” which was scheduled to be held at a picture-perfect symbolic location in the heart of our nation’s capital (the press woulda loved it!), had to be moved due to poor attendance numbers to a crappy, middle-of-nowhere airport hotel located approximately 30 miles away from D.C. proper.
This little excerpt does not do the whole article justice but do head over there if you have been worried about the PUMA’s like I have been. Now that I am less worried about Senator Obama’s problems with a minority of the Democratic Base, what about Senator McCain, how is he going to convince conservatives that he is really conservative? Yesterday I wrote about the USA Today game in which you could match your opinions with the respective candidates however the key thing to note is that Senator Obama and Senator McCain have similar policies on 3 issues.
Same-Sex Marriage
Global Warming
Immigration
It could be argued that Senator McCain effectively leans progressive on the issues of Global Warming and Immigration upsetting a lot of conservatives. I am not going to make that argument given the time constraints tonight but it can be said without hesitation that these stances reflect the big pool of independents in the general election. If Senator McCain can win these independents decisively then he just might take the election though the likelihood of that happening is slim at best. Rachel Maddow has the politicians take on ditching McCain:
). The problem is that with less than a week to go, even with all the speculation in the media and the blogosphere; I am nowhere close to gleaming the most likely possibility. The latest data from CNN’s Veepstakes:
