Okay, someone needs to talk me down!....I'm getting worried.....Iowa, Pennsylvania....I sense a fake "Bradley Effect" scenario coming on.....not to sound conspiritorial but it would be feasible for these states to be stolen and then blame it on this so called "Bradley Effect". Why go there then? I guess it could happen in any state...but this just seems way out of reason.
sukabi1
· 1 year ago
Ummm, I wouldn't use their terminology... the "Bradley Effect" is a red herring... best to call it what it is... vote suppression, rigging and out-right theft.... http://www.bradblog.com/ has been covering the shennanigans.
cmpnwtr
· 1 year ago
Come on, get a grip. Don't give the McCain campaign more credit than they deserve. These people are lurching around, making it up as they go along. The Bradley effect is bogus. Take a deep breath and count to a 100. Iowa and Pennsylvania are run by Democratic governors. The electoral process is not going to be "stolen" there.
anokie
· 1 year ago
Thanks, it was a combo of watching Rachel Maddow and she interviewing Robert Kennedy, Jr. about voter suppresion. She did suggest to read an article in Rolling Stone mag. which I'm going.
cmpnwtr
· 1 year ago
These bogus leaks and incoherent strategy. This campaign has to be imploding, lurching mindlessly from one gimmick to the next.
sukabi1
· 1 year ago
funny you should say that... the first link I posted describes an article that's to be published in Sunday's NYT on McCain's campaign.... insiders talking....
Rob Mule
· 1 year ago
Governor Palin, we have a seasonal question in this chill weather from a 3rd grader who wants to know "Have any of your children's names been inspired by Santa's reindeer or Snow White's dwarves?"
Steve_in_CNJ
· 1 year ago
i thought they were named after crayola crayons
PeteWa
· 1 year ago
I bet McBush couldn't agree with this decision any more than he disagrees with it!
therepguy
· 1 year ago
Sending Palin to Iowa will surely seal the deal, turning lost into dead!
therepguy
· 1 year ago
Might it be that the American people have had it with hate mongering?
WDemDem
· 1 year ago
Oh good lord,keep them the hell out of here! I was all set to go see Obama on Thursday, and of course very disappointed that I can't. And now this?? The corn won't grow back next year from their poison.
RevDrBillyBob
· 1 year ago
After they go to Massachusetts, they should go to San Francisco. Send Palin to the Castro District.
houstonray
· 1 year ago
Sarah or Todd?
WDemDem
· 1 year ago
HAHA! Five minutes in the District and Todd is all ours!
devlzadvocate
· 1 year ago
He may be planning to launch an attack into blue states. He has lots of good reasons. We are socialists, communists, pro-tax and we are all celebrities.
tduffy2
· 1 year ago
After he runs through New York, let him stop in good ole NJ.
Rob Mule
· 1 year ago
And not content with ruining innocent Wall Street tycoons with our profligate minority home loans, we make suspiciously small campaign contributions from a sense of yearning to breathe free even with our average +/- incomes...
debrazza
· 1 year ago
These people are morons.
And no, there is no Bradley Effect. If you watched Maddow tonight, she interviewed Gov. Wilder himself and he pointed out quite clearly that people like Harold Ford had polled exactly where they ended up.
The only effect that the McCain campaign is shooting for is the black muslim terrorist effect, which has not yet materialized in the polls. But perhaps some Rev. Wright ads will do the trick.
devlzadvocate
· 1 year ago
What about the "McCain Effect"? You just fuckin' lose it.
mlwjones
· 1 year ago
It's all based on internals from the Nickelodeon Kids online poll, I think.
houstonray
· 1 year ago
Ha, great quote from the upcoming NYT article about the inside of the McCain campaign:
----- Having interviewed several of the Senator's chief aides, Draper details the process by which McCain ultimately chose his running mate (New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg was surprisingly high on the list). And the decision may have been even more impulsive than initially thought. Gov. Sarah Palin, who had never been on the VP shortlist, was advanced at the last minute by Schmidt and Rick Davis, and was picked after a less-than-hour-long chat in with McCain at his ranch in Arizona. ---------
You reap what you sow Mr. McCain...you betcha!
devlzadvocate
· 1 year ago
Couldn't select Bloomberg. He's from NYC. Anti-American.
aquarius2
· 1 year ago
Sure she was the very BEST Republican for the job LOL LOL!!!
sukabi1
· 1 year ago
There's another article in the New Yorker about how the "idea" of Palin came to be fostered.... and the amount of time McCain actually spent deciding on her... but THIS has to be my favorite part of the article:
McCain had met Palin once, but their conversation—at a reception during a meeting of the National Governors Association, six months earlier—had lasted only fifteen minutes. “It wasn’t a real conversation,” said the longtime friend, who called the choice of Palin “the fucking most ridiculous thing I’ve ever heard.” Aides arranged a phone call between McCain and Palin, and scrutinized her answers to some seventy items on a questionnaire that she had filled out. But McCain didn’t talk with Palin in person again until the morning of Thursday, August 28th. Palin was flown down to his retreat in Sedona, Arizona, and they spoke for an hour or two. By the time he announced her as his choice, the next day, he had spent less than three hours in her company.
houstonray
· 1 year ago
COUNTRY * FIRST
ROFLMAO!
henrythefifth
· 1 year ago
Far be it from us to stop them from this type of idiotic campaigning!
Go to Iowa, please!
David_in_Toronto
· 1 year ago
Don't get me wrong, I love Iowa; I even lived there for three years. But It's not that important a state electorally, and it's far more pro Obama than other states. Why is he there? White people?
canuck55
· 1 year ago
I would like to suggest that they spend the following week campaigning on Little Diomede Island because, all together now, you can see Russia from there!
freshpaint
· 1 year ago
I will welcome McCain and Palin if they want to campaign in my neighborhood in Illinois. I will even find a tire swing for them. I warn them, tho, we may put them to work phoning into Ohio for Obama or assembling buttons like everyone else here.
They can come and stay as looooonnggg as they like. A couple of weeks at least. Pity McCain doesn't know how to use the computer. We could use a few folks to do data entry.
canuck55
· 1 year ago
It's obvious, McCain is going to Iowa because Riverside is the future birthplace of James Tiberius Kirk and McCain is such a hard-core Trekkie.
houstonray
· 1 year ago
Nice catch there!
1970cs
· 1 year ago
What is McCain thinking. If he wen't to Rhode Island where he is only down 17%, he could cover the whole state by himself just using the bus in one day. It makes more sense than Iowa actually.
Rob Mule
· 1 year ago
The McCainiacs have been faked and psyched out by the Obamanauts. The 1/2 hour all network teevee buy leak and resulting coverage is a good example...Kinda of like Ronnie Raygun's defense budgets freaking out and ultimately bankrupting the pre glasznost Ruskies. As daytime cable plays crutch to McGaffe's cripple, one wonders how the overdone medium would have played the Obama grandmother story if the candidate had decided not to visit Hawaii???
Happy_Housewife
· 1 year ago
Western Iowa (Sioux City, Council Bluffs, etc) is heavily Republican, and will vote McCain/Palin anyway. They might be hoping to pick up some Nebraskans and S. Dakotans, but they are heavily GOP as well.
Middle Iowa (Des Moines) is Obama territory, as is Eastern Iowa. Ironic they would choose Hy-Vee hall though. Hy-Vee is the big supermarket chain in Iowa, and it is - get ready to be shocked - employee owned. (Socialism rears its ugly head again!)
vwcat
· 1 year ago
Hey, yeah, send them to Illinois. they can play at the Boone cty Fairgrounds. waaayyyy out in the middle of nowhere.
An_American_Karol
· 1 year ago
Maybe McCain confused Iowa with Idaho?
Joneses
· 1 year ago
Please don't associate McCain/Palin to Star Trek. In Trek Star's world they would have called them socialists and dealings with aliens - LOL
Anyways I am a true blue Trekker.
nsr
· 1 year ago
Looking at some other states at Pollster, It's funny how McCain/Palin are chasing polls that are no longer relevant. Palin was recently in NH, which stopped being in play some time ago. They were in FL after it caved, and VA after it fell into Obama's lap, and McCain is still talking about taking PA, which hasn't been close for 3 or 4 weeks now. Maybe they made their plans when things didn't look so bad, and didn't expect it to collapse like it has.
There is one thing about Pollster's national trend, though-- McCain has definitely stopped the slide that started at the convention. And OH and FL have slipped back into toss-ups.
KISSman
· 1 year ago
Being down 10+ in a state doesn't seem mean much to the McCain camp. Just look at their renewed focus on PA.
I just think McCain has run out of geographical options. Something now has to flip in order for him to win -- and that, of course, assumes he wins every toss-up state left on the map. Because of that, I suppose they have to spend time in places that don't appear to be that favorable to them.
If I were McCain and I needed PA as badly as they do, I'd just throw the anchor over in that state and spend the final week there. Of course, if you are Obama, you then head to PA to make sure it stays blue.
All I know is that it's sure nice to finally watch a presidential election where the Republican is the one having to protect his states and not the other way around.
feeba
· 1 year ago
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Saturday, Chicago. Campaigning in Hyde Park/Kenwood (where my sister will be glad to shower them with Obama buttons and where Obama happens to live, several blocks from my sister) and South Shore where I, and Michelle Obama, grew up. (We went to the same grade school. Maybe McCain could stop there.)
Cleveland, Ohio, 11th district, where I live now. Went for Kerry by 70%. Will go for Obama by 80%.
Sunday: New York! Time to campaign in the Bronx! Then on to Washington D.C. to campaign out in the real neighborhoods, you know, the ones where black people live. They'll be lining the streets in joy to welcome their retrurning hero.
ourhoney
· 1 year ago
McCain, being sneaky as usual, is taking advantage of Senator Obama going to Hawaii to see his seriously ill grandmother. So, he thinks he will take advantage of Obama being gone and go to Iowa. McCain needs to watch out. Sarah is already stabbing him in the back by disagreeing with him on some issues. She is a slick sister. I pegged her right the first time I saw her on August 29,2008. These old men, like Pat Buchanan, J. Lieberman and McCain, need to stop salivating over this woman. She is not "all that". She is only a "pitbull attack dog" with lipstick. She is an opportunist and God help us if she ever learns enough to become President.
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And no, there is no Bradley Effect. If you watched Maddow tonight, she interviewed Gov. Wilder himself and he pointed out quite clearly that people like Harold Ford had polled exactly where they ended up.
The only effect that the McCain campaign is shooting for is the black muslim terrorist effect, which has not yet materialized in the polls. But perhaps some Rev. Wright ads will do the trick.
----- Having interviewed several of the Senator's chief aides, Draper details the process by which McCain ultimately chose his running mate (New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg was surprisingly high on the list). And the decision may have been even more impulsive than initially thought. Gov. Sarah Palin, who had never been on the VP shortlist, was advanced at the last minute by Schmidt and Rick Davis, and was picked after a less-than-hour-long chat in with McCain at his ranch in Arizona. ---------
You reap what you sow Mr. McCain...you betcha!
ROFLMAO!
Go to Iowa, please!
They can come and stay as looooonnggg as they like. A couple of weeks at least. Pity McCain doesn't know how to use the computer. We could use a few folks to do data entry.
The 1/2 hour all network teevee buy leak and resulting coverage is a good example...Kinda of like Ronnie Raygun's defense budgets freaking out and ultimately bankrupting the pre glasznost Ruskies.
As daytime cable plays crutch to McGaffe's cripple, one wonders how the overdone medium would have played the Obama grandmother story if the candidate had decided not to visit Hawaii???
Middle Iowa (Des Moines) is Obama territory, as is Eastern Iowa. Ironic they would choose Hy-Vee hall though. Hy-Vee is the big supermarket chain in Iowa, and it is - get ready to be shocked - employee owned. (Socialism rears its ugly head again!)
Anyways I am a true blue Trekker.
There is one thing about Pollster's national trend, though-- McCain has definitely stopped the slide that started at the convention. And OH and FL have slipped back into toss-ups.
I just think McCain has run out of geographical options. Something now has to flip in order for him to win -- and that, of course, assumes he wins every toss-up state left on the map. Because of that, I suppose they have to spend time in places that don't appear to be that favorable to them.
If I were McCain and I needed PA as badly as they do, I'd just throw the anchor over in that state and spend the final week there. Of course, if you are Obama, you then head to PA to make sure it stays blue.
All I know is that it's sure nice to finally watch a presidential election where the Republican is the one having to protect his states and not the other way around.
Most of the states require an absentee ballot request to be made by October 24th. You can click on this link and request your absentee ballot.
www.StateDemocracy.org
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Saturday, Chicago.
Campaigning in Hyde Park/Kenwood (where my sister will be glad to shower them with Obama buttons and where Obama happens to live, several blocks from my sister) and South Shore where I, and Michelle Obama, grew up. (We went to the same grade school. Maybe McCain could stop there.)
Cleveland, Ohio, 11th district, where I live now. Went for Kerry by 70%. Will go for Obama by 80%.
Sunday:
New York! Time to campaign in the Bronx!
Then on to Washington D.C. to campaign out in the real neighborhoods, you know, the ones where black people live. They'll be lining the streets in joy to welcome their retrurning hero.
is a slick sister. I pegged her right the first time I saw her on August 29,2008.
These old men, like Pat Buchanan, J. Lieberman and McCain, need to stop salivating over this woman. She is not "all that". She is only a "pitbull attack
dog" with lipstick. She is an opportunist and God help us if she ever learns enough to become President.