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AMERICAblog: Only 1,000 people show up to see McCain in Florida

  • paulbot5 · 1 year ago
    They are not afraid they have diebold
  • tlsintx · 1 year ago
    not this time...

    there are new Secretaries of State in Ohio and NM and several other swing states this year...no more Katherine Harris and Ken Blackwell bullshit
  • hawkseye · 1 year ago
    Repub Secy of State and Atty General in Colorado, and Repub legislature in Florida could cause problems.
  • HereinDC · 1 year ago
    How many were bused in school kids?
  • annatopia · 1 year ago
    HAHA

    /nelson
  • Talos · 1 year ago
    So...how many of the 1000 were bussed in school kid captives?
  • Styve · 1 year ago
    You beat me to it! I bet few in the crowd of 1000 were old enough to vote!
  • Milli · 1 year ago
    Hopefully none. Torturing children is just wrong.
  • ProgressiveTroll · 1 year ago
    IF all the votes were actually counted correctly, this thing would be a major blowout. We will now have the chance to get this voting crap corrected. We have to do it! Stand up! Yes we can!
  • osage · 1 year ago
    The election will be called my midnight CST because Obama/Biden will have won in VA and PA, which means McCain/Palin could take NC, FL, OH, IN, MO, ND, MT, CO, NM and NV and still lose. While everyone seems to focus on the expected high Democratic voter turnout, I believe of even greater significance will be the high number of Republicans and undecided voters who will simply stay home rather than vote for a McCain/Palin ticket they aren't genuinely comfortable with. McCain/Palin could get the same number of votes that Bush got in 2004 and still lose due to increased Democratic voter turnout. However, I believe McCain/Palin will get significantly fewer votes than Bush did and lose by a landslide.
  • Brian · 1 year ago
    I agree.

    I keep having discussions with people at work. They say they're worried Obama will lose, and I think they think I'm naive for believing there has been a fundamental shift in the country - away from the radical right, back toward the center.

    But there is just no question in my mind that Obama is going to win big. This election isn't 2004 or 2000 - it's 1932 or 1860.
  • osage · 1 year ago
    The fears of election fraud and or stealing the election would be real if this was going to be a very close election like Bush/Gore or Bush/Kerry with equal or fewer numbers of Democrats turning out, but that isn't the case this time. Election fraud would have to be of titanic proportions to make a difference and that would be highly noticeable and would not go unchallenged. I beleive that had Gore or Kerry raised holy hell and insisted on a highly visible legal challenge of voting counts that Democrats wouldn't still have to worry about the stealing of this election. The fact that Republicans will have a comparatively low voter turnout will obviate an election "close" enough for Republicans to plausibly steal.
  • PeteWa · 1 year ago
    To a republican, the smell of McCain's full Depends is the smell of victory.
  • vkobaya · 1 year ago
    I smell victory,'' said state Rep. Kevin Ambler.

    Indeed! The McCain victory reeks, reeks, reeks to high heaven. Especially that McCain wins by such comfortable double digit margins even in places like South Central Los Angeles and the Castro District in San Francisco. The stench is so foul, even lethal to new born infants and the elderly.
  • hawkseye · 1 year ago
    Even Gabby Hayes could draw a bigger crowd than that.
  • SgtHudson · 1 year ago
    And Gabby Hayes is dead!!!
  • skeptic · 1 year ago
    I think that what this guy is smelling is weed that he has been sucking on.
  • texasbob · 1 year ago
    I think the "tax cheat" part is what makes him a bona fide Rethuglican. That, plus being stupid.
  • devlzadvocate · 1 year ago
    That wasn't victory he was smelling. He was just downwind from the porta-potties. That smell can be confused for the smell of a republican victory.
  • devlzadvocate · 1 year ago
    Or was Michelle Bachmann in the crowd?
  • hawkseye · 1 year ago
    O.T.
    I am moved to tears by the patriotism of people willing to stand in line for eight hours in order to vote. They all deserve a medal of freedom and thanks from the bottom of our hearts.
  • grandma · 1 year ago
    Amen !!
  • PattyP · 1 year ago
    I wonder if it smells like napalm in the morning.
  • ErnestTee · 1 year ago
    Good thing he smells it, because it's hard to see it with this crowd.

    Smell it, he's sitting in it.
  • BCPipes · 1 year ago
    Coal? The October Surprise? Coal? 'Zat it? Really?
  • unrepentant_expat · 1 year ago
    A thousand people. I guess they wanted to see the wreak.
  • Laura-In-CC (fka Doodlebug) · 1 year ago
    OT, but the Reno Gazette-Journal just reported that the Nevada Chairman for Obama's campaign died yesterday at age 44.

    "U.S. Sen. Barack Obama's Nevada campaign director Terence Tolbert died of a heart attack last night. Tolbert, 44, was a motivating force in the campaign.

    "He was so passionate about his work," Assemblywoman Sheila Leslie said this morning. "I'll never forget when we launched the campaign after the primary and he talked about he did the same grunt work that the people on the ground did. He really believed it. I really admired that a great deal.""
  • PattyP · 1 year ago
    Oh man. That's so sad.
  • KenyaJ · 1 year ago
    LOL! I can see Raymond James Stadium from my office window, but I forgot to try to catch a glimpse of the rally. I guess I wouldn't have been able to see it anyway.
  • Dave of the Jungle · 1 year ago
    Mr Magoo drove his campaign right over the cliff.
  • Rufus · 1 year ago
    Gabby Hays had a Master's degree, yet played an old cowboy without teeth.