when is the palin bounce willie99 is carrying on about going to happen 10/6 edition

[gtc08]

Gallup: Obama 50 McCain 42, previous Obama 50 McCain 43
Rasmussen: Obama 52 McCain 44, previous Obama 51 McCain 44
Hotline: Obama 47 McCain 41, previous Obama 48 McCain 43

<table class="rcp-widget"><tbody><tr><td class="header column1">Election 2008</td><td class="header column2">Obama</td><td class="header column3">McCain</td><td class="header column4">Spread</td></tr><tr><td>RCP National Average</td><td>49.3</td><td>43.3</td><td>Obama +6.0</td></tr><tr><td>Favorable Ratings</td><td>+20.2</td><td>+11.6</td><td>Obama +8.6</td></tr><tr><td>Intrade Market Odds</td><td>66.8</td><td>33.1</td><td>-</td></tr><tr><td class="header">Electoral College</td><td class="header">Obama</td><td class="header">McCain</td><td class="header">Spread</td></tr><tr><td>RCP Electoral Count</td><td>264</td><td>163</td><td>Obama +101</td></tr><tr><td>No Toss Up States</td><td>353</td><td>185</td><td>Obama +168</td></tr></tbody></table>
wheres that bounce again?

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[punter]

Cant hardly swing a dead cat without hitting a bounceing Palin.

 

[Dafinch]

Charles Kraut-Hammer normally wouldn't say something positive about the Dems with a gun to his head, and even here he makes a few snide remarks, but even HE believes McNutt is McToast...

[FONT=times new roman,new york,times,serif] Hail Mary vs. Cool Barry

By Charles Krauthammer
Friday, October 3, 2008; Page A23

[FONT='Times New Roman','serif']Krauthammer's Hail Mary Rule: You get only two per game. John McCain, unfortunately, has already thrown three. The first was his bet on the surge, a deep pass to David Petraeus who miraculously ran it all the way into the end zone. [FONT='Arial','sans-serif']View Only Top Items in This Story​

[FONT='Times New Roman','serif']Then, seeking a game-changer after the Democratic convention, McCain threw blind into the end zone to a waiting Sarah Palin. She caught the ball. Her subsequent fumbles have taken the sheen off of that play, but she nonetheless invaluably solidifies his Republican base. [/FONT]
[FONT='Times New Roman','serif']When the financial crisis hit, McCain went razzle-dazzle again, suspending his campaign and declaring that he'd stay away from the first presidential debate until the financial crisis was solved. [/FONT]
[FONT='Times New Roman','serif']He tempted fate one time too many. After climbing up on his high horse, McCain had to climb down. The crisis unresolved, he showed up at the debate regardless, rather abjectly conceding Obama's mocking retort that presidential candidates should be able to do "more than one thing at once." (Although McCain might have pointed out that while he was trying to do two things, Obama was sitting on the sidelines doing one thing only: campaigning.) [/FONT]

[FONT='Times New Roman','serif']You can't blame McCain. In an election in which all the fundamentals are working for the opposition, he feels he has to keep throwing long in order to keep hope alive. Nonetheless, his frenetic improvisation has perversely (for him) framed the rookie challenger favorably as calm, steady and cool. [/FONT]
[FONT='Times New Roman','serif']In the primary campaign, Obama was cool as in hip. Now Obama is cool as in collected. He has the discipline to let slow and steady carry him to victory. He has not at all distinguished himself in this economic crisis -- nor, one might add, in any other during his national career -- but detachment has served him well. He understands that this election, like the election of 1980, demands only one thing of the challenger: Make yourself acceptable. Once Ronald Reagan convinced America that he was not menacing, he won in a landslide. If Obama convinces the electorate that he is not too exotic or green or unprepared, he wins as well. [/FONT]
[FONT='Times New Roman','serif']When after the Republican convention Obama's poll numbers momentarily slipped behind McCain's, panicked Democrats urged him to get mad. He did precisely the opposite. He got calm. He repositioned himself as ordinary, becoming the earnest factory-floor, coffee-shop, union-hall candidate. [/FONT]
[FONT='Times New Roman','serif']In doing so, he continues his clever convention-speech pivot from primary to general election. In a crowded primary field in which he was the newcomer and the stranger, he rose above the crowd on pure special effects: dazzling rhetoric, natural charisma, and a magic carpet ride of transcendence and hope. [/FONT]
[FONT='Times New Roman','serif']It worked for two reasons: Democrats believe that nonsense, and he was new. But now he needs more than Democrats. And novelty fades. [/FONT]
[FONT='Times New Roman','serif']Obama understood that the magic was wearing off and the audacity of hope wearing thin. Hence the self-denial perfectly personified in his acceptance speech in Denver. He could have had 80,000 people in rapture. Instead, he made himself prosaic, even pedestrian, going right to the general election audience to project himself as one of them. [/FONT]
[FONT='Times New Roman','serif']Ordinariness was the theme. His self-told life story? Common man, hence that brazen introductory biopic that shamelessly skipped from Hawaii grade-schooler to Chicago community organizer with not a word about Columbia and Harvard. His riff on American concerns? All middle-class anxieties. His list of programs? All pitched as his middle-class remedies. [/FONT]
[FONT='Times New Roman','serif']He's been moderate in policy and temper ever since. His one goal: Pass the Reagan '80 threshold. Be acceptable, be cool, be reassuring. [/FONT]
[FONT='Times New Roman','serif']Part of reassurance is intellectual. Like Palin, he's a rookie, but in his 19 months on the national stage he has achieved fluency in areas in which he has no experience. In the foreign policy debate with McCain, as in his July news conference with French President Nicolas Sarkozy, Obama held his own -- fluid, familiar and therefore plausibly presidential. [/FONT]
[FONT='Times New Roman','serif']Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. famously said of Franklin Roosevelt that he had a "second-class intellect, but a first-class temperament." Obama has shown that he is a man of limited experience, questionable convictions, deeply troubling associations (Jeremiah Wright, William Ayers, Tony Rezko) and an alarming lack of self-definition -- do you really know who he is and what he believes? Nonetheless, he's got both a first-class intellect and a first-class temperament. That will likely be enough to make him president. [/FONT]


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[Dafinch]

McCain has abandoned his campaign in Michigan, the state that, according to fivethirtyeight.com, was the second most likely Kerry state for him to carry (he trails by 8.7% there, not much different than how much he trails in the national popular vote). But the Repub Michiganders don't sound too pleased, do they?:missingteope::nohead::aktion033:toast::WTF::discuss:



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October 05, 2008
Categories: Michigan
Mich GOP county chair calls McCain move "complete crock of crap"


Al Ribeiro, until now McCain's Michigan state director, had the unenviable task of sending out an email to Republicans in the state explaining as delicately as possible why they were pulling out.

"With 30 days before the election, the campaign must decide where it can best utilize its limited resources with the goal of winning nationally and ensuring John McCain is our next President,' Ribiero explained in an message Saturday, adding that McCain hadn't given up on the state and urging activists to keep working.

One county chair wasn't buying -- and he let Ribiero and a large list of other Michigan Republicans know in a scalding email reply.

"If you are going to end visits to the state by McCain/ Palin, do it," urged Jack Waldvogel, Chairman of the Emmet County GOP in a message obtained by Politico. "Just don't formally announce that you are 'pulling out' of Michigan, and then come back two days later asking the base core of support to 'keep working.' What a slap in the face to all the thousands of people who have been energized by the addition of Sarah Palin to the ticket. I've been involved in County Party politics and organization for 40 years, and this is the biggest dumbass stunt I have ever seen."

Waldvogel added later in the message: "He has given up on our State? What a total and complete crock of crap. Again, I think McCain owes the Republicans and the People of Michigan a HUGE APOLOGY. SOON!"

Having to pick and choose which states to compete in is always difficult and bound to leave bruised local feelings, but Michigan is used to being a target state and McCain had lavished attention there since wrapping up the nomination. And Palin's public second-guessing of the move in the days since the decision was made has only angered Michiganders more.

"How on earth are we to get people to work for McCain here, when he has already, publicly, in the media, given up on Michigan?" wondered Waldvogel. "We feel abandoned, we are disappointed, and we are heartsick to know that we aren't important enough for him to fight for."

He signed off his message: "Yours in Republican? efforts"


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[DonDotta27]

GTC, simple question do you have a job or a girlfriend or any friends

 

[DonDotta27]

Another question do you even know how the polls come up with their percentages.

 

[gtc08]

GTC, simple question do you have a job or a girlfriend or any friends

ive never had a girlfriend. ive never seen a naked woman. i never go outside the house. ive never had a job. ive never even seen titties. my best friend is my cat. i have no human friends besides a doll i talk to. when i wake up in my basement in my moms house i wonder what that giant orange ball is in the sky. when i step outside the pecuilar object blinds my eyes and i run into the bathroom and immediately pour water on my eyes, trying to get rid of the pain. i haven't left my home since i was 5 years old and sleep with a night light by my bed.

there, you happy?

 

[DonDotta27]

No im not trying to start a fight. But why must you always start threads about willie and tocco. Do you actually have fun cyber fighting, you will never meet either of them.

 

[3peet]

Just spoke with a friend of mine out in Pennsylvania. There's a rumor going around that he's about to bail on Penn also.

Can anyone confirm this??

 

[barman]

GTC, simple question do you have a job or a girlfriend or any friends

I think most of us would be willing to wager at least a Unit on NO for this posed 3TeamParlay

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