13 days to election

McCain is only up by 20% :)

one hell of a mess to clean up.

You have a lot of safe states listed there.

Apparently Iran is considering a strike vs Israel I don’t believe this at all. Very convenient for this to come up now with questions about Obama foreign policy and that other countries will “test” him. Meanwhile this went pretty much unreported in the media.

I’m interested to know if that demographic actually exists. There is what, 5-7% in each poll that don’t answer?

Now, you may be insane to actually admit you are undecided with this crowd – you’ll have enut and 4him spamming your e-mail with political ads for the rest of your life – but I’m honestly curious whether such a thing exists or if it is a media creation to get people to watch the news.

the online nickelodeon poll that had obama winning by only 1%

loan obama some wardrobe money?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081023/ap_on_el_pr/ap_poll_presidential_race

nuh-uh, no way…

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/10/22/study_coverage_of_mccain_much.html

I’m voting for Obama. I’ve followed his career for three years now after reading “Dreams From My Father.” It’s no secret that I’m pro-Obama.

But I also like John McCain. I respect him, I think he’s got some terrific ideas and I think he’d make a decent President.

All that being said (I did so for the sake of transparency): Does anyone else think that Sarah Palin has made John McCain unelectable?

Consider the fact that if McCain is incapacitated, Sarah Palin would hold the same office as Abraham Lincoln.

Let that simmer in your mind for a little bit.

Sarah Palin… Franklin Roosevelt.
Sarah Palin… Ronald Reagan.
Sarah Palin… Thomas Jefferson.
Sarah Palin… George freakin’ Washington.

And it has nothing to do with her being a woman. She is just anti-intellectual, and that kind of scares me.

Oh, and she also thinks that the Vice President is “in charge of the U.S. Senate so if they want to they can really get in there with the senators and make a lot of good policy changes.” Which is, you know, totally factually incorrect.

I just think that Palin would prove to be the biggest reason for a possible McCain loss.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/oct/23/mccain-lambastes-bush-years/

“Spending, the conduct of the war in Iraq for years, growth in the size of government, larger than any time since the Great Society, laying a $10 trillion debt on future generations of America, owing $500 billion to China, obviously, failure to both enforce and modernize the [financial] regulatory agencies that were designed for the 1930s and certainly not for the 21st century, failure to address the issue of climate change seriously,” Mr. McCain said in an interview with The Washington Times aboard his campaign plane en route from New Hampshire to Ohio.

“Those are just some of them,” he said with a laugh, chomping into a peanut butter sandwich as a few campaign aides in his midair office joined in the laughter.

same article as cahill linked

Mr. McCain said Mr. Biden has now as much as acknowledged that the world will be more dangerous if Mr. Obama wins the presidential election.

“We live in a dangerous world and Senator Obama’s running mate has just assured Americans it’ll be a heck of a lot more dangerous if you elect him president,” he said.

Mr. Biden predicted at a fundraiser Sunday that if elected president, Mr. Obama would face immediate challenge from a hostile power or terrorist group intent on testing the first-term senator.

“Mark my words. It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy. The world is looking. We’re about to elect a brilliant 47-year-old senator president of the United States of America. Remember, I said it standing here, if you don’t remember anything else I said. Watch, we’re going to have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy.”

Mr. Biden said Mr. Obama would have to make “some really tough” decisions when that occurs, adding emphatically: “As a student of history and having served with seven presidents, I guarantee you it’s going to happen.”

The Democratic vice-presidential running mate said he could envision four or five scenarios, citing the Middle East and Russia.

Mr. McCain called Mr. Biden’s comment “the most remarkable comment I have ever seen in presidential politics.”

“Now he is saying — if we elected Senator Obama as president of the United States we are going to have an international crisis in these very dangerous times with the economy in the tank?” Mr. McCain said.

At a press conference Wednesday in Virginia, Mr. Obama noted Mr. Biden’s words, saying that although “Joe sometimes engages in rhetorical flourishes,” his central point was correct and a reason to back the Democratic team.

“His core point was, the next administration is going to be tested, regardless of who it is,” Mr. Obama said. “The question is: Will the next president meet that test by moving America in a new direction, by sending a clear signal to the rest of the world that we are no longer about bluster and unilateralism and ideology?”

In a statement, McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds responded: “It’s not leadership for Barack Obama to promise to be straight with Americans, only to dismiss serious statements and concern from his own running mate as simple ‘rhetorical flourishes.’”

Mr. McCain said Mr. Obama’s giant fundraising total — he announced this weekend that he raised more than $150 million in September — is going to produce “a scandal.”

His campaign and the Republican National Committee have released the names of all his donors, including those who have contributed less than $200. That’s not required by federal election rules, and Mr. Obama has declined to release his small-dollar donors, leading to speculation that some donors are trying to circumvent fundraising laws.

“History is a clear indicator. Senator Obama has unleashed a force which we will pay a very heavy price for sometime in the future if not now, because it’s very unlikely we can track down and document the contributions that he refuses to reveal,” said Mr. McCain, who co-authored a bipartisan bill to overhaul campaign fundraising laws.

wasnt there already some questions about obama taking money from foreign nationals?

the story is actually a pretty good read…

in chicago a pet fish got a voter registration material lol

The only “agent of change” Princess ever supported was the person who refreshed the water in her fishbowl. Now Lake County election officials want to investigate out how the dead goldfish received voter registration material.

Paperwork sent to a “Princess Nudelman” likely came from the “Women’s Voices, Women Vote” project, said Lake County Clerk Willard Helander, a Republican, who said she has spotted problems with nearly 1,000 voter registrations this year.

“I am just stunned at the level of people compromising the integrity of the voting process,” Helander said Monday. She wants to require some voters to show IDs at the polls if she finds that problems, including nonexistent addresses and questionable signatures or registrations, are clustered in certain precincts.

Beth Nudelman of Buffalo Grove, who owned the fish, said Princess may have ended up on a mailing list because the family once filled in the pet’s name when they got a second phone line for a computer.

“There was no fraud involved,” said Nudelman, a Democrat and supporter of presidential candidate Barack Obama. “This person is a dead fish.”

In August, Women’s Voices, Women Vote sent nearly 1 million mailings to Illinois households using a list that mistakenly included some pets, said Sarah Johnson, a spokeswoman for the not-for-profit Washington, D.C.-based group that seeks to encourage more voting among single women.

The mailing list, purchased from a commercial vendor, included names from warranties, magazine subscriptions and other sources where people may have filled in a pet’s name, Johnson said. The group attempted to screen out the obvious ones.

Palin’s $150K wardrobe will be going to charity, just as I predicted in the other therad.

Really, the smart thing for the RNC to do would be to say that after the election they plan to auction the dresses off for charity. All the rich white women who love Palin will gladly shell out more than cost to get her dress.

http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/10/22/mccain-palins-wardrobe-donated-charity/

No mention of the rich white women buying it at auction though.

http://www.usnews.com/blogs/capital-commerce/2008/10/23/would-obama-dems-kill-401k-plans.html

and it’s only the people on that side that do things like this…

http://www.drudgereport.com/

http://www.ibdeditorials.com/Polls.aspx?id=309635713550536

IBD/TIPP Tracking Poll: Day Eleven
McCain has cut into Obama’s lead for a second day and is now just 1.1 points behind. The spread was 3.7 Wednesday and 6.0 Tuesday. The Republican is making headway with middle- and working- class voters, and has surged 10 points in two days among those earning between $30,000 and $75,000. He has also gone from an 11-point deficit to a 9-point lead among Catholics.

obama: 44.8
mccain: 43.7
undecided: 11.6

it’s wrong. but so are the polls that have him up 14 pts.

his lead is probably between 6pts and 10 pts. when you average the 13 and 14 pt polls with the 2 1 pts polls you get 7 pts.

that’s about where all the OTHER polls are.

link

tricky tricky

i must ask, does noriega have any chance against cornyn? i really dislike cornyn.

Gotta love early voting.

I didn’t create this. I got it in an e-mail and I just thought I’d add some entertainment value to this thread :)

"Everyone knows that Barack Obama has created the biggest money-machine of any politician in American history. But it is becoming increasingly evident that Obama’s money-machine is largely fraudulent and therefore criminal. One can imagine a world in which newspaper reporters think it’s a serious matter when a Presidential candidate tries to buy an election with illegal and fraudulent contributions. That, of course, is not the world that we live in. Have you seen Sarah Palin’s shoes?"

http://www.powerlineblog.com

"As the Powerline reader has noted, if "John Galt" of "Ayn Rand Lane" attempts a contribution at the McCain campaign, it gets rejected. Which is just as well. If the Republican candidate’s website were intentionally set up to facilitate fraudulent donations, it would be on the front page of The New York Times. But, as it’s King Barack the Spreader, we can rest assured the crack investigative units will be too preoccupied with Governor Palin’s shoes over the next two weeks." Mark Steyn

To a black Obama supporter?

http://www.thepittsburghchannel.com/news/17789356/detail.html

Think you might have seen it on a few front pages?

i didn’t wanna make a whole new fanpost for this… but after the U.S. futures fell so far as to trip the all stop breaker last nite, today might be the day of the final big sell off, or it might be the day we see the djia drop more than 1000pts…

http://money.cnn.com/2008/10/24/markets/stockswatch/index.htm?postversion=2008102406

basically, the thought is, everyone has finally had it with this market… hedgefunds are finally starting to pull the remainder of their funds out of equities and the global selloff, along with weak earning reports… for all those that said the “cascading crash” was over, its going to get worse before it gets better…