Obama rising in GOP states
A new series of polls in swing states show Democrat Barack Obama leading or within striking distance in three recently Republican states that could give him the White House.
In Indiana, Obama is tied with Republican John McCain among registered voters at 48 percent, though McCain leads 51 percent to 46 percent among likely voters, according to the CNN/Opinion Research Corp. survey released this morning.
In North Carolina, Obama leads 50 percent to 49 percent among registered voters, and is tied with McCain at 49 percent among likely voters.
And in Ohio, where victories in both 2000 and 2004 were key to President Bush's election, Obama leads 50 percent to 46 percent among registered voters and 50 percent to 47 percent among likely voters.
Obama also leads in New Hampshire -- 52 percent-44 percent among registered voters -- and in Wisconsin -- 51 percent-45 percent among registered voters.
The surveys were conducted Friday through Monday and have margins of error between 3 and 3.5 percentage points.
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Obama also leads McCain in Ohio with out of state two time voters, new registrant college student multi-state voters, dead voters, convicted felon voters, unrepentant domestic terrorist voters, bigoted anti-american racist minister voters, absentee ballot voters who will show up to the polls on November 4 and he holds 100% of the Ohio acorn vote...and he maintains that we should vote for him because of his ability to run an extraordinary campaign. Quite the qualification. Now that we have, however, a socialist financial system, a Marxist as President isn't such a bad idea..go Barry!
Obama/Ayers: Let's not overlook ANNENBERG! They served on the Annenberg
board together, overseeing the expenditure of millions of dollars. The
records are still "unavailable". Meantime, whenever Obama is criticized he
refers to his "fight the smears" website, which cites as its only source of
facts, the FACTCHECK.ORG website... which is run by Annenberg! Umm, what
does that say about credibility?
Obama/ACORN: ACORN is the very definition of a "community organizer" and
the ties between Obama and ACORN are abundant. ACORN has been tied to so
much voter fraud that they ought to be investigated under RICO! The tag
line to hammer home: ACORN: Where you're never too dead to vote twice!
And the Keating 5 as Obama's response to Ayers???
People forget the outcome of the Keating 5 investigations!
There were 5 Senators investigated. 4 Democrats, and 1 Republican, John McCain. Three Senators were determined to have acted improperly… Cranston (D), Riegle (D) and DeConcini (D). The other two Senators were found to have done nothing improper and received no censure. Senators John Glenn (American Hero & Astronaut) and John McCain (American Hero and POW) were both criticized for poor judgment for attending meetings, but neither was considered to have had significant involvement, and neither was deemed to have committed impropriety, violation of law or violation of Senate Rules.
The 3 Senators censured did not seek re-election and their years in elected office were ended.
Senator John Glenn sought and won re-election, serving until he retired in 1999. Senator John McCain has been re-elected thru his present term and run for the presidency.
Interestingly… Senator DeConcini was later appointed by President Bill Clinton in February 1995 to the Board of Directors of the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation.
It's great to see that McCain's flip flopping on issues and straight out lying is finally catching up with him. They say that the true measure of a man is revealed when under pressure. God forbid if McCain was elected and ran the country like his awful campaign.
"Obama/Ayers: Let's not overlook ANNENBERG!"
Right, ANNENBERG spent millions of dollars on terrorist activities? If so, it is an issue. Otherwise, SO WHAT?
Both Keating and Ayers are unimportant to this campaign.
godhelpus: the nationalized banking system is a courtesy of the mba president. Heckuva job!
Obama just had a rally on Sunday in Asheville, NC they started lining up at 6am, to get in at 12 noon-most of them were WHITE. Asheville is the capital of rural NC-what do you think that portends for old fart and Ms. Eskimo Pie---doom!
Hey you guys...pipe down. Rush Limbaugh is on again. You guys need to listen carefully for new material.
The GOP had their time at bat and *totally* ran this nation into the ground. Worst of all, they had idiots like you BEGGING for it. Too bad they didn't get to rob your Social Security (yet). They just stole the trillion dollars outright.
You elected President Obama way back in 2000, when you pulled the lever for 'president' Bush.
edeldoug said: "And the Keating 5 as Obama's response to Ayers???"
Good point, they're apples and oranges. Keating 5 is about McCain's own actions and judgement, whereas Obama is not even alleged to have had anything to do with the activities of the Weather Underground.
Wow!!! The first two posts by GOP members is really evident of how scared the Republicans are. Yeah Barack Obama being on "a board" with William Ayers who by the way is a University professor currently(so I gues that school and all of its students should be seen as traitors too right?) and turned himself in to the government in 1980 and was not convicted of anything is just as bad as the Keating 5(those people never did get their pensions back) or Sarah Palin's "Troopergate" showcasing her abuse of power.
Froth at the mouth all you want republical right-wing-nut parrots (godhelpus, edeldoug). The writing's on the wall. As Jesse points out, after almost thirty years of Attwater/Gingrich "lie enough and they'll believe it" tactics, the majority of Americans have finally gotten smart enough to see through them.
Face it... You guys and your lying ways are toast!
Anybody who voted for Bush in the last election or thinks Palin is a good candidate for vice president should not be allowed to vote. They're clearly "mentally challenged" and a well run democracy needs educated voters to survive.
I wonder what godhelpus IQ is. My guess is about 60 (they give you 40 for breathing)
"godhelpus": I heard on NPR (certainly no friend to the Right) that Obama organizers are registering homeless people to vote. The report referenced situations in which homeless people were provided alcohol and cigarettes in exchange for registering.
God help us indeed if this neophyte gets elected!
Why are "godhelpus" and "edeldoug" even reading Boston.Com, why aren't they reading the Washington Times or the Drudge Report ?? ...we're all tired of being subjected to all that bitter, radical and paranoid bs ??
Come November 5th, these two characters are in for a major surprise...hey, you can always watch the Tina Fey re-runs....see you in the voting booth.
Please educate us on the Keating 5 scandal that focuses on McCain. All I know is McCain was recieving over $100000 for his campaign. And it was another Savings and Loans scandal like we have today!
personally, i don't think it is McCain's idea to start attack Obama. The RNC realizes that they have spent all their money on him and he is still loosing. The republicans have given up winning back the House and Senate and instead have spent the last few months trying to help McCain, but so far it isn't working. Just wait until the week before the election, then things will turn really nasty. I wouldn't be surprised if there is actually an ad that goes on TV that calls Obama a terrorist. The republican's are getting worried. McCain might need to win every single battleground state to win the election. So far we have just had little battles, the war has yet to start. Too bad for McCain though that people can already start voting in many states.
I think Obama is rising in American States.
All Americans can see the difference in deportment between these two candidates. Republicans think they can pull the wool over our eyes again? They think Americans are stupid? They tricked Americans into voting for Bush by using fear tactics. Now that we are immune to fear tactics, the GOP wants to spread some propaganda and innuendo.
I've been calling Republicans "toe tapping Republican propagandist tools" for years now; now that's ALL Republicans have been reduced to. In the last 8 years or so Republicans have shown me that they will do anything and everything in their power to keep you from retaining an opinion based on the facts that their incompetence is comprised of. The Republican of today is an indefensible talking point repeating polarizer of nations, which in my mind no longer deserves quarter.
"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers" - Thomas Pynchon.
Nov. 4th - McCain/Palin "Thanks, But No Thanks"
Democrats get my vote...I decided this years ago.
"A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward."
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Jesus Christ was an advocate of the poor and the disenfranchised too!
godhelpus, Michael, edeldoug - ever heard of Iran-Contra ? Talk yourself out of THAT one.
AYERS is a DISTRACTION created by McCain!! I repeat, he is a DISTRACTION! McCain has no plans, no policies, no real strategies to address the economy, the war, or the poor state of health care and education in this country. OBAMA was not a close friend of AYERS! I know this because I am from Chicago-- and every real politician handles Ayers with kid gloves because he is too mirked up. He, like many, held a fundraiser-- why is this news? Obama wasn't his best man, nor a close confidant, nothing!!!
McCain is desperate and has resorted to hiding brass nuckles inside his boxing gloves to get the KO. It won't be enough!!
Per the big Obama lead, McCain=Bush. Voters know this. And Obama's lead will keep on growing. McCain/Bush will thankfully fade fast on Nov.4.
Obama was roughly 8 years old when Ayers, now at the University of Illinois at Chicago, was working with the Weather Underground, which took responsibility for bombings that included nonfatal blasts at the Pentagon and U.S. Capitol. McCain's vice presidential nominee, Sarah Palin, has said that Obama "pals around with terrorists."
In McCain's case, Singlaub knew McCain's father, a Navy admiral who had sought Singlaub's counsel when McCain, a Navy pilot, became a prisoner of war and spent 5 1/2 years in North Vietnamese hands.
"John's father asked me for advice about what he ought to do now that his son had been shot down and captured," Singlaub recalled in one of two recent interviews. "I said, 'As long as you don't give any impression that you care more about him than you care about any of the other prisoners, he won't be treated any differently.'"
Covert arms shipments to the rebels called Contras, financed in part by secret arms sales to Iran, became known as the Iran-Contra affair. They proved to be the undoing of Singlaub's council.
In 1987, the Internal Revenue Service withdrew the tax-exempt status of Singlaub's group because of its activities on behalf of the Contras.
Elected to the House in 1982 and at a time when he was on the board of Singlaub's council, McCain was among Republicans on Capitol Hill expressing support for the Contras, a CIA-organized guerrilla force in Central America. In 1984, Congress cut off CIA funds for the Contras.
Months before the cutoff, top Reagan administration officials ramped up a secret White House-directed supply network and put National Security Council aide Oliver North in charge of running it. The goal was to keep the Contras operational until Congress could be persuaded to resume CIA funding.
Singlaub's private group became the public cover for the White House operation.
Secretly, Singlaub worked with North in an effort to raise millions of dollars from foreign governments.
McCain has said previously he resigned from the council in 1984 and asked in 1986 to have his name removed from the group's letterhead.
"I didn't know whether (the group's activity) was legal or illegal, but I didn't think I wanted to be associated with them," McCain said in a newspaper interview in 1986.
Singlaub does not recall any McCain resignation in 1984 or May 1986. Nor does Joyce Downey, who oversaw the group's day-to-day activities.
"That's a surprise to me," Singlaub said. "This is the first time I've ever heard that. There may have been someone in his office communicating with our office."
The renewed attention over McCain's association with Singlaub's group comes as McCain's campaign steps up criticism of Obama's dealings with William Ayers, a college professor who co-founded the Weather Underground and years later worked on education reform in Chicago alongside Obama. Ayers held a meet-the-candidate event at his home when Obama first ran for public office in the mid-1990s.
Obama was roughly 8 years old when Ayers, now at the University of Illinois at Chicago, was working with the Weather Underground, which took responsibility for bombings that included nonfatal blasts at the Pentagon and U.S. Capitol. McCain's vice presidential nominee, Sarah Palin, has said that Obama "pals around with terrorists."
In McCain's case, Singlaub knew McCain's father, a Navy admiral who had sought Singlaub's counsel when McCain, a Navy pilot, became a prisoner of war and spent 5 1/2 years in North Vietnamese hands.
"John's father asked me for advice about what he ought to do now that his son had been shot down and captured," Singlaub recalled in one of two recent interviews. "I said, 'As long as you don't give any impression that you care more about him than you care about any of the other prisoners, he won't be treated any differently.'"
Covert arms shipments to the rebels called Contras, financed in part by secret arms sales to Iran, became known as the Iran-Contra affair. They proved to be the undoing of Singlaub's council.
In 1987, the Internal Revenue Service withdrew the tax-exempt status of Singlaub's group because of its activities on behalf of the Contras.
Elected to the House in 1982 and at a time when he was on the board of Singlaub's council, McCain was among Republicans on Capitol Hill expressing support for the Contras, a CIA-organized guerrilla force in Central America. In 1984, Congress cut off CIA funds for the Contras.
Months before the cutoff, top Reagan administration officials ramped up a secret White House-directed supply network and put National Security Council aide Oliver North in charge of running it. The goal was to keep the Contras operational until Congress could be persuaded to resume CIA funding.
Singlaub's private group became the public cover for the White House operation.
Secretly, Singlaub worked with North in an effort to raise millions of dollars from foreign governments.
McCain has said previously he resigned from the council in 1984 and asked in 1986 to have his name removed from the group's letterhead.
"I didn't know whether (the group's activity) was legal or illegal, but I didn't think I wanted to be associated with them," McCain said in a newspaper interview in 1986.
Singlaub does not recall any McCain resignation in 1984 or May 1986. Nor does Joyce Downey, who oversaw the group's day-to-day activities.
"That's a surprise to me," Singlaub said. "This is the first time I've ever heard that. There may have been someone in his office communicating with our office."
This election is not in the bag. So everyone take a deep breath. The GOP machine has another 30 days to create an atmosphere of fear & loathing. Do not underestimate these guys. Please, no negative waves. This is not the time to be cocky and smug. This is a time to vote and pray if you believe that will help. The comeuppence will come soon enough , but for the time being, be cool like Barack has been. He is one cool customer compared to the frightened acting out older candidate. Oh and by the way regarding Iraq and General Petraus, who said that generals are always right. I think this guy is totally wrong similar in many ways that Macarther was regarding Korea. He blew it and cost this nation thousands of lives. Generals are not always right. Harry Truman had the guts to fire him. This president follows his generals blindly. Vote Obama so that this war will end ASAP and another 32 americans wont die in the next 24 hrs alone. Enough is enough. Everybody stay cool and vote and get your nieghbors butt out there too.
This election is not in the bag. So everyone take a deep breath. The GOP machine has another 30 days to create an atmosphere of fear & loathing. Do not underestimate these guys. Please, no negative waves. This is not the time to be cocky and smug. This is a time to vote and pray if you believe that will help. The comeuppence will come soon enough , but for the time being, be cool like Barack has been. He is one cool customer compared to the frightened acting out older candidate. Oh and by the way regarding Iraq and General Petraus, who said that generals are always right. I think this guy is totally wrong similar in many ways that Macarther was regarding Korea. He blew it and cost this nation thousands of lives. Generals are not always right. Harry Truman had the guts to fire him. This president follows his generals blindly. Vote Obama so that this war will end ASAP and another 32 americans wont die in the next 24 hrs alone. Enough is enough. Everybody stay cool and vote and get your nieghbors butt out there too.
If McCain cant catch a terrorist (Ayers) who is living in the US, how the hell will he catch Bin Laden in the mountains of Afghanistan. How come a terrorist gets to be a Professor at a University. Did Obama make him the Professor, or did the Govt. do that. Why hasnt Bush captured the terrorist. And this is the party that touts national security as its major plus point!
McCain/Palin are tripping big time. They must think the American people are really stupid, to not make these obvious conclusions. I hope they get thrashed badly in the elections
when the republicans are nervous and out of ideas, they play the swift-boat game...watch them between now and election day
The GOP is about to reap what it has sown. Not only Indiana and North Carolina, but also Montana and Missouri will go for Obama, and Mississippi will be close. Just watch, the train is rolling...
Guys, Im sorry.. my post is a fabrication..just like getting a rise out of you..Like a good swift boater, I toss a grenade and then just watch the shrapnel fly...I get too much joy out of watching your heads spin..made it all up..Oh, this just came across the AP...Who did Barry work with as a "community organizer"?:
LAS VEGAS -- Nevada state authorities are raiding the Las Vegas headquarters of an organization that works to get low-income people to vote.
A Nevada secretary of state's office spokesman said Tuesday that investigators are looking for evidence of voter fraud at the office of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, also called ACORN.
No one was at the ACORN office when state agents arrived with a search warrant and began carting records and documents away.
Secretary of State spokesman Bob Walsh says ACORN is accused of submitting multiple voter registrations with false and duplicate names.
The raid comes two months after state and federal authorities formed a task force to pursue election-fraud allegations in Nevada.
godhelpus
John McCain's campaign released a list of 100 former ambassadors endorsing the GOP presidential nominee. Second on the list is Leonore Annenberg, currently the president and chairman of the Annenberg Foundation , the same Annenberg Foundation where Barack Obama and William Ayers sat in the room a whole six times together!
Yo Crash, 'sup? Clarification: Annenberg Foundation and The Annenberg Project are two different entities. The Project, however, was partially funded by the Foundation. No one has suggested that Leonore Annenberg, a 90 year old woman and friend of Ronald Reagan, ever planned to bomb the same targets as al qaeda...nice try dude..
Survey of National Polls: Saturday October 12th:
US: Obama 51, McCain 42 (Gallup 10/08-10)
US: Obama 50, McCain 40 (Hotline 10/08-10)
US: Obama 50, McCain 45 (Rasmussen 10/08-10)
US: Obama 52, McCain 40 (Daily Kos 10/08-10)
US: Obama 48, McCain 44 (Zogby 10/07-10)
US: Obama 52, McCain 41 (Newsweek-10/8-9)
US: Obama 46, McCain 39 (Fox-10/8-9)
US: Obama 51, McCain 41 (Gallup 10/07-09)
US: Obama 51, McCain 43 (GWU 10/06-09)
I just love to see all racists, zenophobic Republicans tremble in their boots at the thought of Obama winning the presidency ... Hillary doesn't seam so bad now?
Now repeat after me ... P r e s i d e n t O b a m a ... get used to it!