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Obama for VP

I am no psephologist, but as the owner of one of those V-thingies, I have had a particular interest in the women in this election. Sadly, with one exception, they have shamed my gender and behaved in general as if they have one of those P-thingies instead.

Hillary – the Great White hope. Before this election got interesting I hoped and assumed that Hillary would trounce the republicans and we would see a woman in the White House. As an avowed feminist this was pleasing indeed and seemed to make this election a trailblazer for that reason alone. Anything to see the end of George the Imbecile, and what better way to turn the tables on neo-conservatism than to see a democrat woman as POTUS.

She is charismatic, confident, assured and knowledgeable. It turns out she is also rabidly ambitious and prepared to play dirty to that end. I was amazed at some of the stunts she pulled , the fake accents, the lies about her foreign affairs experience and worse, her preparedness to smear Obama when the Primary race got tight. Hillary believed that she had an entitlement to be back in The White House and she dragged it out to the bitter end, which was damaging for the party, and ultimately herself.

Then there’s the Stepford wives. Cindy McCain who has behaved like a handbag: an attractive accessory (if you like plastic), with not much content. She has conducted herself like all good wives from the 50’s should – well groomed, and silently supporting her man. Who knows what she really thinks? She represents a thankfully bygone era where a woman’s only public role was to be seen to support her man. Even when he has publicly humiliated her and called her a “Stupid C-nt”. If she had divorced him and spoken out against abuse of women she would be deserving of admiration. Instead she relies on his success for her identity. Not the kind of role model I want for my daughters.

And the First Lady – Laura . I actually feel sorry for her – after all she sleeps with George every night, so she is punished enough and in an act of sisterly solidarity I shall harm her no more.

My favourite anti-hero of this election is of course Sarah Palin. Not much I can say that hasn’t been said, and nothing anyone can say that betters Tina Fey. She will become a symbol of all that is loathed about the American Character – an arrogant, brash, ignorant, fundamentalist who does not have the intelligence to know that she isn’t. But she is also frightening – a juxtaposed “I can do anything” feminist persona overlaying a basic narrowness that is determined to undo some of the rights that women have fought and even died for – most particularly the right to choose whether to proceed with an unplanned pregnancy. This in my view makes her one of the most dangerous female politicians in the public arena today. Whatever your personal view on abortion is, it is not her right to impose hers on all American women. It’s bad enough that she’s doing it to Bristol.

Then onto the stage strides Michelle Obama. A woman of intelligence and style. A woman who clearly supports her husband but has her own views on matters of public policy. A mother and partner who has a successful career. A woman who can talk and think for herself. And an African American who must know first hand what it means to live in a country which has not reached it’s potential, but may in fact be about to. This is a role model for my daughters, and for all of us who aspire to see women in public life reflect the best of us.

Frankly – I wish she was VP.

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Awash in money, the Dems may turn this into a party tsunami.

Seven million dollars a day: That’s how much money the Obama campaign is raking in. Together with the eye-popping $150 million the campaign amassed in September, we are witnessing the equivalent of a collective scream from the voters. In the spirit of the Supreme Court ruling that declared political contributions are a form of speech, millions of donors to the Obama campaign are shouting that they’re mad as hell, and they’re not going to take it anymore.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/165507

New Poll Finds Stark Reversal on Perceptions of Palin

The declines in Palin’s ratings have been even more substantial among the very voters Republicans aimed to woo. The percentage of white women viewing her favorably dropped 21 points since early September, among independent women it fell 24 points.

More broadly, the intensity of negative feelings about Palin are also notable: 40 percent of voters have “strongly unfavorable” views, more than double the post-convention number. Nearly half of independent women now see her in a very negative light, a nearly three-fold increase.

May need to be registered
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/24/AR2008102402698.html?hpid=topnews

1003 Catrina Good one Catrina. isn’t it great to be following the destruction of the Repugs? 😆

News Radio played some of the coverage of Obama visiting his grandmother. Very good stuff. The trip won’t take anything away from the campaign, it just adds another dimension. Showing the human side of Obama.

Of 46 Republican fundraisers President Bush has attended this year, just four have been open to the media, and the president’s 27 percent approval rating may explain why.

This low approval rating and the fact that 75 percent of Americans say they feel bad about how things are going in the country offer insight into why Bush is staying out of sight on the campaign trail.

“When you are looking at an approval rating of 27 percent, that’s not necessarily the wagon you want to hitch yourself to,” says Mark Preston, CNN’s political editor.

Bush’s approval rating was 27 percent in a CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll released Tuesday.

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/24/bush.trail/?iref=mpstoryview

GOP heavyweights bailing on McCain campaign.

Republican nominee John McCain heads into the final week of a historic presidential election beset by a wave of high-profile GOP defections and the second-guessing and recriminations from ostensibly friendly quarters that losing campaigns attract like flies.

McCain still could pull out an upset on a last-minute wave of voter hesitation about Obama, much like Hillary Clinton came back in New Hampshire after the polls counted her out, but political professionals are putting their bets on McCain going back to Phoenix, not rising like one.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/10/24/MNU113NN0A.DTL&tsp=1

The Obama wave, by the numbers.

Here are some particulars:

— The campaign believes it can hold all the states John Kerry won in 2004, and that Iowa, New Mexico, Colorado, and Virginia (all states Bush won) may be in the bag. They like their position in Nevada, Ohio, and Florida, and believe they could also pull off wins in Missouri, Indiana, North Carolina, Montana, and West Virginia.

— Obama’s unprecedented groud organization claims 1.5 million active volunteers and 770 offices across the country.

— Those big crowds Obama keeps drawing? Well, they’re not just listening. They’re being put to work. Out of the roughly 120,000 people who came to see Obama and his wife this week in Florida, for example, the campaign says it got 40,000 volunteer shifts covered.

http://www.boston.com/news/politics/politicalintelligence/2008/10/the_obama_wave.html

Nevada.—Final voter figures released Friday by state election officials show more than 1.4 million Nevadans are registered to cast ballots Nov. 4—and there are 111,617 more Democrats than Republicans.

The final registration numbers show that the 624,995 Democrats account for 43 percent of all Nevada voters, while the 513,378 Republicans account for 36 percent. Another 229,039, or 16 percent, are nonpartisans and the rest are minor-party members.

The record-high total is 26 percent higher than registration for the 2004 presidential elections. That year, there were 4,431 more Republicans than Democrats registered in Nevada.

http://www.mercurynews.com/news/ci_10808776

Beijing has a tradition of sound relations with Republican presidents of the United States, but the latest China poll shows popular opinion bucking the trend with Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama becoming an “overwhelming hit” with ordinary Chinese.

The results of the online poll conducted on the China Daily website by the U.S. embassy here showed Obama enjoying a much greater lead over his Republican rival, John McCain, with the support of 75 percent of Chinese polled.

“Perhaps his age, energy and even complexion, which signify the U.S. dream, are more appealing to the Chinese,” Song Zhiyuan, who analysed the survey, told the ‘China Daily’.

http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=44432

The Georgia Senate race between incumbent Saxby Chambliss and challengers Jim Martin (Democrat from Atlanta) and Allen Buckley (Libertarian from Atlanta) has garnered national attention as Martin’s poll numbers have climbed in the past few weeks.

The fallout of the economic collapse, a number of votes that Chambliss cast recently (notably on immigration reform, an energy bill and his support of the giant bailout), and his particularly nasty campaign against Max Cleland in 2001 all play a part in Chambliss’ potentially blowing an 18-point lead kind of late in the game.

http://metrospirit.com/index.php?cat=1992409084010404&act=post&pid=12352410084610056

Politics pays off for Spanish TV

Greater access to candidates and an influx of ad revenue from political spots have boosted visibility — and the bottom line — for Spanish-language media in this year’s presidential race.
Jorge Ramos, Univisión’s news anchor, claims he has conducted more one-on-one interviews with the 2008 presidential candidates than any other anchor in the mainstream media. So far, he has interviewed Barack Obama twice and John McCain three times. Four years ago, he only got a couple minutes — once — with Democratic hopeful John Kerry.

Earlier this month, Ramos flew to Waukesha, Wis., to interview McCain, who gave him 10 minutes. But when his time was up, McCain agreed to 10 minutes more.

”No candidate can enter the White House without passing through Univisión and other Spanish-language media. They know it,” said Ramos.

http://www.miamiherald.com/business/5min/story/738963.html

My humour is wasted on you lot. So I’ll stick to the prosaic:

Intrade Market Odds have pushed out again for The Kid 86.5 to 13.3 for the Wrinkly One.

RCP national average is now up to 7.9% for Obama.

And what about that Nate Silver? In a somewhat counterintuitive move, 538 has dropped Obama’s win percentage to 94% – a drop of 2% in a day! Stick to baseball figures Nate.

Ferny @ 1006
LOL!

Catrina @ 1003
I admit, despite the gaffes, I like Joe Biden.

And thanks to Chris B for the Bachmann report. The people at Daily Kos have lent much support to her opponent. I hope she gets creamed.

This from Electoral Vote.com. Bachmann has been abandoned by the RNC. Looks like the RNC thinks she’s gone. I’m paraphrasing something I read on Daily Kos – but what I love is that instead of running around like headless chooks when this vile woman sprouts her b.s., Democrats have mobilised with hundreds of thousands of dollars to support her opponent. This really is a great campaign by the Democrats.

The NRCC has abandoned three Republican-leaning House districts and left the incumbents there to fend for themselves. What this means is that the NRCC believes the seats are lost and there is no point on wasting scarce resources on them. The incumbent Republican representatives left high and dry are Marilyn Musgrave (CO-04, PVI R+9), Michele Bachmann (MN-06, PVI R+5), and Tom Feeney (FL-24, PVI R+3).

Under the motto: “You’re damned if you do and you’re damned if you don’t” The NRCC has a problem on its hands. The social conservatives have lashed out at the NRCC for dropping Musgrave and Bachmann like hot potatoes. Leaders like Tony Perkins call it cutting and running. He and some others want to fight for extreme conservatives like these two women until the last dog dies. The NRCC sees this as a triage operation: abandon hopeless causes irrespective of ideology to try to save more moderate Republicans who have a chance.

F. Grover at 1006:
“LOST: ONE NARROWING.
DEARLY SOUGHT AFTER AND BELOVED. REWARD OFFERED. IF FOUND PLEASE CONTACT JOHN MCCAIN. THANK YOU.”

My humour is wasted on you lot. So I’ll stick to the prosaic

Gee Ferny, that’s too bad. Your precious spontaneous wit cast unacknowledged, like pearls before cyber swine but it brought a smile to my dial.
🙂
But don’t quit after one dud review; Demosthenes didn’t. Lost and Found notices in the abstract can be as difficult to get one’s head around as is road-kill on the Ventura Highway.

“alligator lizards in the air” in the song are references to cloud shapes

Nebulous as dream weaving with rainbow threads, mah man.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ventura_Highway

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=KnhKcCwZwl8

Bounty hunter from Abstactions Inc. lobs on Bomb-Bomb’s campaign HQ doorstep. Knocks. “Schmuckens” Schmidt opens door…..

“Yeah!?”

Bounty hunter holds up dead Narrowing by dreadlocks; the sudden jolt causing it to drip an extra few percent.

“Sir, you should never go out in a public air-space without your narrowing restrained on a leash. This one’s cut up real bad, I’m afraid….

Now……’bout that re-ward……”

I love music, have a little bit of musical ability, but I loathe musicals – with one or two exceptions. I loved Les Miserables. Loved the story – it made me cry. And I loved the music. Some clever people have adapted one of the Les Mis songs for Barack. It’s great.

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=W3ijYVyhnn0

Never mind the narrowing.
Perhaps we could have a “tightening” instead. 🙂

An Arizona State University pollster said Wednesday it is conceivable Barack Obama could win Arizona, John McCain’s home state.

“It is a tightening race,” said Dr. Bruce Merrill, professor emeritus at ASU’s Cronkite School of Journalism. “There is a possibility of the (Democrats) pulling it out.”

http://www.abc15.com/content/news/election/story.aspx?content_id=a4afbb90-3eb8-4a44-b9a4-276995cb0b47

1021
Ecky, my comedic faith in my Ticster Comrades is restored.
I rather liked the one earlier (borrowed from the late jack Egerton’s ‘support’ for Bill Hayden) re the mental breakdown.

But seriously – how could The Kid only be 94% certain of victory! 538 should be ashamed at giving him such small odds!

New Colorado Poll:
Obama 52
McSlime 40

Also, it seems that the supposed story of a McCain supporter being mugged and assaulted by an Obama supporter is a hoax THAT was pushed by the McCain campaign team, some of the dumb media have been caught with their pants down.

I’ve been thinking about Joe Biden’s “gaffe”, and am starting to think it might not be so “bad” after all. Do you think a red blooded Yank,or butternut, or Okie is going to go round saying “Oh me , oh my, those pesky iranians and Russians are going to try us out if we vote for the niggra.. we’d better vote for the other guy” : or will they say “FU comrade, I’ll vote for whom I like, and if you want a fight, then bring it on!”
I’ve never thought Biden was dumb, and you don’t survive 30 years in politics being careless.
BTW, as a grammatical purist, I couldn’t put a solecism like “for WHO I like”even in the mouth of butternut. I leave that for the likes of Ron.

“Bounty hunter holds up dead Narrowing by dreadlocks; the sudden jolt causing it to drip an extra few percent.”

Ta for that too Ecky. LOL!!
You are indeed a rare and precious wit! ‘Twill be good to share the laughs with you on the 5th.

I’ve been having a little natter with a US seller I just bought an item from on eBay. I noticed they hail from Ohio and so I did as any decent person would do and told them to make sure they vote for Obama.

Well, he replied – “I already voted – the wife and I do the absentee – this way we can vote from home and take our time.
He has our vote – hope he does a good job.”

And then added:
“I’m glad the election is so close – the ads are driving everyone crazy.”

Naturally I thanked him on behalf of the entire world for his – and his wife’s – vote.

It may be unkind of me…..
but I want utter and complete humiliation for the Repugs.
I want Bush and his minions to be remembered not only as the ones who destroyed America (and a large part of the world) but their own party too.
I want McCain to spend his few remaining years recalling the devastating cost of selling his own shriveled soul.
And I want that idiot Palin to be an object of pillory and ridicule, too stained by her iconic and monumental stupidity to ever be considered for any office (including Governor, or tuckshop convenor) again.
Oh…and I want the fundamentalists – of all religions – to go to hell and sizzle there.

RANT ENDS

1025 KatieLou Brilliant KatieLou. They just keep on outdoing themselves. Just when you think you’ve seen it all.

1026 paddy I notice they said if they turn out. Instead of when the turn out for the Hispanics and under 30’s. 😈

Ferny 1032

I second your rant and i double second your last line about religious fundamentalists of all kinds.

Here Here

Ferny Grover at 1032,

I may be mistaken, and do forgive me if I am going too far here, but I get just the faintest impression that you are, how can I put it, not totally at ease and comfortable with the thought of a GOP victory?

1038 kerneels
I am a staunch civil libertarian and believer in democracy – but a GOP win would lay all that asunder and reduce any belief I have in justice to dust and ashes.
Moreover, any remnants of faith the world has in America would blow away in the wind and they would become a pariah, objects of scorn and pillory, shunned by their allies as much as their enemies.
No wonder bin laden is rooting for McCain!

Don’t know if this has been reported yet, but Newsweek has just released a new poll showing Obama 12 points ahead.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/165570?tid=relatedcl

Like I said yesterday, I doubt we will see much narrowing. There’s even a good chance of Obama extending his lead, especially after that hoax mutilation. It’s just another dirty trick associated with McCain and yet another nail in his political coffin.

#1032: FG – You are not alone with your sentiments about the Repuglies, Neocons, and Christian Fundamentalists. It would be a good thing for the U.S. and the for the world to have these groups dealt a hard blow, politically, that is. The message of rejection needs to be loud and clear. And it’s looking like Obama might just do that.

Ferny et al., as far as I’m concerned, since we’re dispensing eternal damnation, the flock can can walk, but the scum that fleece them can fry in aeternum!

And the Jews’ Passover was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem, And found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers of money sitting: And when he had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the changers of money, and overthrew the tables; And said unto them that sold doves, Take these things hence; make not my Father’s house a house of merchandise.”

—-John 2:13-16

The TV preachers were all over the news last week, fighting desperately with the forces of Satan and the shame of their own kind. It was a crisis for The Holy Church, they said, and also for their revenue stream. The devil himself had somehow got his hands on God’s throttle and the boat was running out of control, aimed for the rocks at top speed. The wages of sin had taken a sudden upturn.

All the big boys went public, locking arms in a phalanx of righteousness that included almost everybody in The Business exept Pat Robertson and his one-time protege the dirty little degenerate Jim Bakker and his wife Tammy, a confessed dope addict………

The Bakkers were doomed and Robertson was laying low, as far out into the weeds that he could crawl without abandoning all hope for his 1988 presidential ambitions….But now, creeping up from the smoking ruins of the once-holy PTL Club like some hair-shirt golem from a Baptist vision of Hell, was the shrewd and pious Rev. Jerry Falwell, a long-time foe of the Bakker/Robertson combine and current religious advisor to Vice President Bush, another 1988 candidate.

Lonely George had found trouble again. He has the instsincts of a dung beetle. No living politician can match his talent for soiling himself in public. Bush will seek out filth wherever it lives—going without sleep for days at a time, if necessary, and when he finds a new heap he will fall down and wallow crazily in it, making snorting sounds out of his nose and rolling over on his back and kicking his legs up in the air like a wild hog coming to water…….

There was no joy in Mudville, but the great eyes of the network cameras were focused south, as it were, on the preachers who were acting like a gang of baboons.

The newspapers called it a “holy war”, a snake’s nest of greedheads and crazy-rich preachers fighting savagely among themselves for TV rights to the Jesus market.

Hunter Stockton Thompson

March 30, 1987.

pp 227-228, “The Scum of the Earth” from Gonzo Papers Vol. 2.
Generation of Swine, Picador.

Hear Hear Ferny. Hope the fundies rot in their hell. Along with George and John Howard.
Oh, and Phillip Ruddock.
prick.

Link re the hoax racist report about a black man carving a “B” in a female McCain supporter’s face.

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=03fcGelz8Hw&eurl=http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/10/25/1743/8921/84/641645

What I didn’t notice until I read it on Daily Kos, is that the “B” is backwards ‘coz she did it to herself while looking in the mirror. LOL

That’s about the only thing that’s funny about this disgusting racist act. And both McCain and Palin bought into it, so it aint no isolated asshole.

1041

Terrorist strikes on four American cities. Russia rolling into Eastern Europe. Israel hit by a nuclear bomb. Gay marriage in every state. The end of the Boy Scouts.

All are plausible scenarios if Democrat Barack Obama is elected president, according to a new addition to the campaign conversation called “Letter from 2012 in Obama’s America,” produced by the conservative Christian group Focus on the Family Action.

The imagined look into the future is part of an escalation in rhetoric from Christian right activists who are trying to paint Obama in the worst possible terms as the campaign heads into the final stretch and polls show the Democrat ahead.

Christian right intensifies attacks on Obama

1047
Focus on the Family were founded by Dr James Dobson – a family therapist/counsellor – as a means to assist couples in their relationships and with raising kids. All very harmless and he was actually quite sensible in the beginning – then he was appointed by Reagan to some presidential committee on the family and he became more and more rabid and extremist. Now he’s one of the wingnut leadership – so extreme he wouldn’t even endorse McCain.
The fundies still love him and Focus on the Family is promoted here via the baptists and other conservative churches. They have an Australian arm and work in churches and schools. They tend to downplay any political views or even their links with Dobson. Website here:
http://store.families.org.au/default.aspx?cat=0

Early-voting trends appear to favor Barack Obama. Yes!

In North Carolina, which hasn’t gone for a Democrat for president since Jimmy Carter in 1976, almost a million people have voted, and Democrats outnumber Republicans by 2 to 1.

In North Carolina, early voting shows Obama’s party in the lead. Of the 930,516 people who have voted early, 56% are Democrats and 27% Republican. Blacks account for 21% of North Carolina’s registered voters but make up 28% of those who’ve voted early.

In Georgia, which hasn’t chosen a Democratic presidential candidate since Bill Clinton in 1992, African Americans are voting in disproportionately high numbers. Of the 967,210 people who’ve voted early, 35% are black, state data show. By contrast, blacks constituted only about 25% of the total that voted for president in 2004.

Iowa voted for President Bush in 2004, but the Obama campaign hopes to win the state. Early voting figures bode well for that. About 51% of the 277,909 Iowans who’ve voted early are Democrats, compared with 28% Republicans .

http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/front/la-na-earlyvoting25-2008oct25,0,6474497.story

Predictably, Matt Drudge(that right wing hack) fell for the hoax “McCain supporter gets assaulted” story, but sadly so did some supposedly more credentialed political commentators!
It goes to show how dumb is the MSM!

This from the same article

Examining the “demographic profile of early voters in North Carolina, Georgia and Florida, we’re seeing a larger percentage of Democrats than one might expect,” said George Mason University’s Michael McDonald, who specializes in voter turnout. “We’re seeing a larger share of African Americans than we would expect. These points taken as a whole do tell us indeed that the people who’ve voted so far are more likely to be Obama supporters than McCain supporters.”

http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/front/la-na-earlyvoting25-2008oct25,0,6474497.story

Chris: G’day!
Good news on the early voting! Let’s hope it means North Carolina is going blue, maybe even Georgia too!

Democrats headed toward big gains in House, Senate.

Democrats are on track for sizable gains in both houses of Congress on Nov. 4, according to strategists in both parties, although only improbable Southern victories can produce the 60-vote Senate majority they covet to help them pass priority legislation.

A poor economy, President Bush’s unpopularity, a lopsided advantage in fundraising and Barack Obama’s robust organizational effort in key states are all aiding Democrats in the final days of the congressional campaign.

“I don’t think anybody realized it was going to be this tough” for Republicans, Sen. John Ensign, chairman of the party’s senatorial campaign committee said recently. “We’re dealing with an unpopular president (and) we have a financial crisis,” he added.

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5g35XH15p5qior68F5rWS5Uflg4VwD941CTR81

Let’s hope Michelle Bachmann is one of those Republican house members shown the door on November 4!
I’m amazed at the continuing disaster that is the McCain/Palin campaign! Just when I think they can’t fuck up any more, there’s a new stuff up!

I have a confession to make. This may come as a shock, but here it is:
I AM ELITE AND I’M FUCKIN’ PROUD!

Geezus – when I grew up we were encouraged to work hard and be the best we could be. My parents had very little; my dad died when I was 10, but my mum encouraged me to reach for the stars regardless. I was the first one in my family to ever go to uni. Now it’s apparently a black mark to achieve. Now ignorance is valued as the mark of an everyman/woman (note Palin); intelligence despised – something to be hidden (witness the dumbing down of Hillary during her campaign forays into certain states).

I only mention it cos I’m still reading the ‘elitist’ thing being hurled at Obama and his supporters. It puzzles the hell out of me why that tag would ever be one of derision – except perhaps by the lazy and incompetent who find some comfort for themselves, some consolation for their lack of achievement. What’s even MORE puzzling is that it’s being hurled by the conservatives – the bastion of privilege. And then I remember that here in Oz it was always the Left who valued and promoted education and the Right who wanted to keep the uneducated in their place and made damn sure that tertiary education was always out of reach of the great unwashed like me.
And yes I do understand the difference between ‘elite’ and ‘elitist’. I just don’t think those who hurl ‘elitist’ as an insult do.
You bet I’m fuckin’ proud!

GOP incumbents suddenly in danger.

A surge in Democratic turnout and an increase in Democratic registration has opened the door for upsets in once-safe Republican Congressional and legislative districts throughout Florida.

Orlando Congressman Tom Feeney, a former speaker of the Florida House and one-time running mate of former Gov. Jeb Bush, has become the poster child for the declining fortunes of the Republican Party in Florida.

In 2002, Feeney carved a Congressional district for himself from a Republican-leaning swath of Orlando. Now, after three terms in Congress and a barrage of bad publicity, the National Republican Congressional Committee this week pulled plans to advertise on Feeney’s behalf — proof of their concern that he could lose his seat to Democrats on Nov.

What a lot of experts don’t take into account is a lot of new voters may only vote for one party. Just follow the ticket.
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics/florida/story/739150.html

1057 Progressive Hi Progressive, Exactly. The worse things get over the next week and a bit the better for Obama. At this late stage even if Obama was pictured in bed with another man. Everyone would think it was the Repugs up to dirty tricks. 😈

Woman admits making up McCain sticker attack, police say.

Bail was set at $50,000 Friday night for a GOP campaign worker who made up a story about being attacked by a man angered by a John McCain bumper sticker on her car.
Ashley Todd, 20, of College Station, Texas, has been charged with filing a false police report, a misdemeanor, a police report said.
Todd, who is being held at the Allegheny County Jail in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, did not enter a plea when she appeared in court Friday night. She did not post bail.
She is scheduled to appear in court again October 30, when she is expected to enter a plea.
If she posts bail, Todd must be evaluated at a behavioral clinic.
“This has wasted so much time. … It’s just a lot of wasted man hours,” Assistant Police Chief Maurita Bryant said at a briefing.

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/24/mccain.sticker/?iref=hpmostpop

Further to GhostWV’s alarming story about what might happen to the Boyscouts if Obama wins (I think we need to pay attention to this – it may change your views)…
” A 6-3 liberal majority Supreme Court that results in rulings like one making gay marriage the law of the land and another forcing the Boy Scouts to “hire homosexual scoutmasters and allow them to sleep in tents with young boys.” (In the imagined scenario, The Boy Scouts choose to disband rather than obey).”

😆

“The Democratic Party took in $36 million in the first two weeks of this month with Sen. Obama’s help, while the Republican Party and Sen. McCain raised $41.4 million. Including funds in all their committees, the Republicans had $149.5 million left in the bank for the final days of the race, compared with $98.5 million for the Democrats.”

Michelle Obama urges supporters to vote.

With Election Day just over a week away and Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama leading in the polls, his wife, Michelle, took to the airwaves Saturday to urge supporters to turn out Nov. 4.

Though he has built leads reaching into the double digits in national and key battleground polls, Sen. Obama (Ill.) has urged supporters over the past two weeks to keep working hard, telling them that a victory over Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) is not assured.

http://thehill.com/campaign-2008/michelle-obama-urges-supporters-to-vote-2008-10-25.html

Ferny @ 1060

The right has been very adept at framing the debate in the past. We need to take back the word “elite” and frame it in a positive way – and not just in a defensive way. I know it shouldn’t be necessary to do this, ‘coz I agree being an elite is a good thing, especially in a President, but, still, the right has been pretty successful in the past. So I think we should all start talking about people receiving an elite education as a great thing. And also about achievers (in whatever endeavour) being among the elite etc, etc. The word “liberal” is another word that has successfully been framed by the right into a bad thing. We should be proudly saying we’d like to make society more liberal, because, for example, diversity and freedom are good things to have.

I haven’t read the book, but George Lakoff wrote about this stuff in “Don’t Think of an Elephant”.

Obama still strong in Ohio.

The newest Public Policy Polling survey of Ohio finds the race pretty much the same place it was three weeks ago. Barack Obama leads 51-44 in the state, a one point improvement since he led 49-43 early in October.
Some of the key things driving Obama’s lead in the state are:
-A 48-36 lead with independent voters.
-A unified party. Obama is up 86-10 with Democrats. Earlier in the summer he was having some trouble winning over former Clinton supporters in Ohio but that has
subsided.
-A good performance with white voters. McCain leads just 49-46 among them. Ohio’s black population is large enough that McCain would need to win whites by at least ten points to take the state overall.
-Overwhelming support from his core constituencies of black and young voters. He’s up 89-8 with African Americans and 64-28 with voters under 30.

http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/pdf/PPP_Release_Ohio_1024938.pdf

Ferny

Loving your rants.

You are metamorphising from the quiet, respectful ex-seminarian into the Oz Rude Pundit right before our eyes lol

Democrats hoping to land some very big fish.

The threshold of 60 in the Senate would require Democrats to run the table on its best hopes, but the Republican brand in this country has not been this badly tarnished since the Watergate era.

Some analysts feel it is time to ditch even that commonly held perception.

“You can practically smell the fear in this country,” says Samuel Popkin, a political analyst and author who also works as a polling consultant for The Economist. “This is worse than Watergate. By a lot. Watergate was a terrible thing that got blamed on one guy. It didn’t ruin the Republican brand on matters of defence, taxes and foreign policy.

“This is more like Hoover.”

That is a reference to Herbert Hoover, who was wiped out in his re-election bid in 1932 after presiding over the Great Depression. Democrats took firm control of Congress that year as well.

http://www.thestar.com/World/Columnist/article/524421

Goooooooooooo Ferny, maintain the rage! LOL

Our fine fronded friend, it’s good to see you getting revved up for the demise and complete humiliation of the Goppers, the end of Bush and the Reaganista, the neoconservatives and the fundamentally retarded.

We salute you!

From newsweek…

“(SALEM, N.H.) Former Massachusetts Gov. William Weld, a Republican, endorsed Democrat Barack Obama for president on Friday, citing the senator’s steady leadership, good judgment and ability to unify Democrats, Republicans and independents.

“Sen. Obama is a once-in-a-lifetime candidate who will transform our politics and restore America’s standing in the world,” Weld said in a statement.

“We need a president who will lead based on our common values and Sen. Obama demonstrates an ability to unite and inspire. Throughout this campaign I’ve watched his steady leadership through trying times and I’m confident he is the best candidate to move our country forward,” he said.

Weld joined other prominent Republicans endorsing Obama over GOP nominee John McCain in the campaign’s final weeks, including former Secretary of State Colin Powell, former Minnesota Gov. Arne Carlson and Scott McClellan, former press secretary to President Bush.

Weld was governor of Massachusetts from 1991 to 1997. Before that, he was U.S. attorney for Massachusetts under President Reagan and was later led the criminal division of the Justice Department.”

Chris, I’m sure you’ve had a gander at electoral-vote. The tally is getting perilously close to 400…:)

Democracy waits: Why early voting has meant long lines.

During the first four days this week, a record 628,000 voters cast ballots — 53 percent of them Democrats and 31 percent Republicans, according to state statistics.

Turnout in South Florida has been so high — with waits of two hours or more — that congressional Democrats said they may file a lawsuit to extend the hours.

Including absentee ballots — which tend to tilt GOP — more than 1.5 million Floridians had voted through Thursday.

Lines are expected to be long today, as people flock to vote on their day off.

Didn’t someone tell us there wasn’t any evidence that there would be huge turnouts for the vote?
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/state/orl-earlyvote2508oct25,0,6658513.story

Yeah, Let ‘er rip, Ferny. There’s nothing more liberating than giving oneself permission to pillory* the loathsome. It’s very therapeutic. GOPper & Allied are putresence personified; political tar pits that make La Brea a comparative puddle. Justice demands that at the very least, they be publicly mocked at every opprtunity for the wanton destruction they have dispensed upon the planet, its species and the underclasses of the Land of the Free; Home of the Brave.

*n.b. correct usage
:mrgreen:

This chappie teaches maths at Harvard and never taught at Phoenix U. or Pat Robertson Law School. He moonlights as a musical satirist so he can put a little aside each week to maintain his shtick as an elite shit-stirrer.

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=HAwhC_btAUU

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=3f72CTDe4-0&feature=related

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Lehrer

Hi Blindoptimist – I realise that I actually can’t quite believe that this is really going to happen, and what it really means.
After the absolute hold over all aspects of our lives – the media, the institutions , the criminal justice system, the political process itself the Neoconservatives are going to get what they so richly deserve – a total whipping. And it has come about by the uprising of everyday citizens who appeared for so long to be duped by the spin and bullshit that was our daily serving of news and opinion. This is democracy finally raising itself from the torpor it hs been in for most of my adult life.
It iis so much more than a political election. And yes, I find it hard to trust that in 10 days or so it will actually happen. Bated breath until then… and then Holy Fck- the place will go off!!!

Tom Lehrer. I have his version of “They’re coming to take me away” and “The Masochistic Tango”. The latter is very funny. Good taste EC.

What I think is most significant is not just that Obama is winning, but the sense in which we are seeing regime change of seismic intensity. The whole corrupt and dishonest Republican edifice is tumbling down, even before the election has been held. In a way, the election will be the last act in these epic: the moment in which the past really will be swept away and we can look the future in the face.

The phrase “shock and awe” is forming a smile on my face. I think that is it: conservative destruction on a stunning, irreversible and unforgettable scale.

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