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I’m looking for some clear breaks during the debates. |
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You can probably even narrow it down further if you want. You can probably assume which of these states will stay in the column, and which ones are the real tossups, the ones the opponent has to flip to win. I mean lets be real, MI and PA are probably going Obama for example.
States like CO for example, are the real battlegrounds within the battlegrounds |
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Yeah, the debates may change things. Obamanation doesn’t think well on his feet. He won’t have his teleprompter. |
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If you guys are not factoring in the financial meltdown you are kidding yourself. Polls or no, I think the Democrats will be mostly successful in blaming it all on the "republican policies of the last eight years", and that will mean a fatal 2 to 3 percent shift away from McCain.
Only if McCain gets very aggressive and tags Obama on his ties with Freddie Mac and Fannie mae will he be able to fight this. |
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Many of the battleground states are in the heartland. My wife and I talked about this, and our hope that residents of those states will vote their conscience. How do people in those states feel, we wondered? (We’re live in rural New York, and are conservative.) A bumper sticker we just bought sums up our feelings:
"I believe in small government, free markets and God"
We found it on zazzle.com, searching for "Small Government."
Let’s hope that idea prevails in the election!
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KyleN is correct.
The financial crisis has the focus but standing behind that is the non-recession recession. Both are being blamed on the Republicans.
And Obama is making gains because of it. It will also likely mean a slaughter for incumbent Republicans in Congress, again.
McCain and Republicans need to make sure people remember who’s run Congress for the past two years. But, Mr. "Reach Across the Isle" probably won’t do it like he should. Its up to others to do it.
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If what WizBang has written about the national polls is applicable to state polls in his post linked to below, then Mr. Obama may not be leading since the polling internals give a larger Democratic lean than has been historically correct based on actual voting. I also know of many elderly Democrats who have always voted Democratic that will not so vote this election for president. WizBang also has a good point about the trolls who are making the Democrats looks bad. The new ACORN revelations will not help either. (http://wizbangblog.com/content/2008/09/19/how-liberal-trolls-are-working-to-get-mccain-elected-president.php) |
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I realize it’s just an anecdotal observation in the middle of flyover country - but I’ve driven past several union halls recently (Teamsters, Bricklayers, other AFL-CIO trade unions) and while they have big signage for state and local democrats I’ve only seen one Obama sign and that was very covertly placed between two other local candidates signs. I wonder about the depth of support for Obama amongst non-Progressive Democrats (Bradley effect anyone). |
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I also know of many elderly Democrats who have always voted Democratic that will not so vote this election for president. My mother (72) is one of those. She told me last week. That will be the first time she has not voted for a Democratic presidential candidate since 1984, and only the second time ever. (All this with no prodding from me. I’ve learned not to discuss politics with her, because the fact that Democrats are better has been a matter of faith/fact/whatever with her for her whole adult life.)I mean lets be real, MI and PA are probably going Obama for example. Shark, I think you’re probably right about MI, though I’m not so sure about PA. (Bradley effect anyone) That’s one of the biggest wildcards. Plus the fact that in the current topsy/turvy political and economic world, polling is a real challenge. Plus the polling organizations’ cell-phone-effect problem and the supposed corrections they make to compensate.
The Democrats certainly ought to be dominating, given conditions in general and their in-the-tank media support. But on the negative side, they have gaffe-a-minute Biden, and a presidential candidate that encourages supporters to persuade independents by "getting in their face". What a maroon.
How all these opposing factors will balance out is really impossible to guess. Some will predict one way or the other, but it has about the same skill rating as predicting a coin flip. |
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The financial crisis has the focus but standing behind that is the non-recession recession. Both are being blamed on the Republicans.
Yeah, I noted that:Obviously some of the leaners could come back into play, especially with the problems on Wall Street dominating the news. We’ve seen Obama go up in the polls nationally. However my point is that really doesn’t matter unless the same effect is seen in the tossup states.
Picking up another 1,000,000 votes in CA and a percentage point in the natinal polls while losing ground in, say, MI, doesn’t do him a bit of good. |
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Something I have been thinking on - speaking of the "Bradley Effect."
It’s highly unlikely that a Republican - Unless they are of the Jeffords/Snowe/Etc type - would vote Democratic. Period. Ergo, their votes are lost to Obama no matter what.
So ...
If Obama is defeated because of "racism" it will be because of the racism of white DEMOCRATS who can’t bring themselves to vote for a black guy.
Hmmm.
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Sean Oxendine, writing over at The Next Right, has cast doubt on the supposed cell-phone effect. If there’s a problem, it’s not apparently causing the polls to be less favorable to Democrats.
He’s also said that, to the extent that there is a Bradley effect, it’s about voters who self-identify as "undecided" when really they aren’t. But yes, Gonzman, you’re not alone when you say that it would be Democrat voters who would be called into question on this one. Well, them and independents. I can’t wait for Democrats to start calling all of them racists. |
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The polls have been wrong since 2000. They over represent democrats and under represent republicans, so a dead heat in the polls is actually a republican win. |
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