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Rasmussen Poll for Saturday, Oct 11

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:07:49 GMT

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The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Saturday shows Barack Obama attracting 52% of the vote while John McCain earns 45%. This is the first update based entirely on interviews conducted after the second Presidential debate and it shows virtually no change. On Tuesday morning, just before the debate, Obama was leading 52% to 44%.

In fact, the race has remained quite stable for more than two weeks. This is the sixteenth straight day that Obama’s support has ranged from 50% to 52% while McCain has been at 44% of 45%

Currently, Obama has the edge in every state won by John Kerry four years ago. However, of the states won by George Bush, McCain is trailing in four and five others are considered a toss-up. As a result, Electoral College projections now show Obama leading 248-163. When “leaners” are included, Obama leads 300-174

Rasmussen Markets data shows Obama is given a 77.9 % chance of winning in November

Tags: obama, mccain, politics, election, poll

Betty White on Politicians

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 18:09:19 GMT

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clipper's remarks: She's a wild old broad!

Clip Source: www.crooksandliars.com

(h/t Jane Hamsher at FDL) I thought some of you might need a good laugh amidst all the insanity. Betty White appeared on Craig Ferguson's show and had a few things to say about John McCain, Sarah Palin and Barack Obama. *Probably NSFW*

CAN Obama legally run for President?

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 15:43:49 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Interesting case against Barack Obama.

Clip Source: www.facebook.com

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NOTE: We only had 36 hours to produce this video, so it doesn't have the usual Illuminati polish. However, it reveals the single greatest threat to Obama's campaign. In "October Surprise", Molotov Mitchell interviews the plaintiff in a stunning federal case against Barack Obama. ...

Republican Accusations

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 15:30:21 GMT

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clipper's remarks: As the brief clip demonstrates, instead of the "sordid" characterizaiton spewed forth by the Repubs, the errors appear to be inconsequential.

This is what panic and lack of leadership can do to a campaign. The McCain campaign is showing its true colors and the majority of Americans are not saluting them.

Clip Source: www.columbiatribune.com

Blunt links ‘sordid’ ACORN to Obama

Gov. Matt Blunt sought yesterday to link Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama with accusations of fraudulent voter registration in Missouri and other states by an organization that advocates for poor people.

Blunt, a Republican, called ACORN an organization with a "sordid history" of voter fraud in Missouri.

Jeff Ordower, the Midwest director of ACORN, said state law requires every organization registering voters to turn in every application card that has been completed to prevent selective registration. Ordower said ACORN turns in cards in three categories - those that are complete, those that are incomplete and those that are questionable. He said that policy was not followed in turning over cards in Kansas City.

Ordower said there were 85 duplicates and 35 with bad addresses out of 53,000 registrations.

Missing the old McCain

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 15:24:06 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Funny and scary at the same time.

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

Dear Old Golden Dog Days

I miss August. August was neat. The Dow was over 10,000 and nobody had ever heard of Sarah Palin.

Remember how we used to joke about John McCain looking like an old guy yelling at kids to get off his lawn? It’s only in retrospect that we can see that the keep-off-the-grass period was the McCain campaign’s golden era. Now, he’s beginning to act like one of those movie characters who steals the wrong ring and turns into a troll.

During that last debate, while he was wandering around the stage, you almost expected to hear him start muttering: “We wants it. We needs it. Must have the precious.”

Remember when the McCains wouldn’t talk about the fact that their son was in Iraq? Oh well.

Palin has been pressing the line that people don’t really know “the real Barack Obama,” and who could make the argument better than a woman who we’ve already known for almost six weeks? Really, she’s like one of the family.

Rednecks 4 Obama

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 14:46:28 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Love it!

I am in full support of anyone using their brain no matter their educational background, sex, race, gender, or physical abilities.

Clip Source: rednecks4obama.com

“We Hunt, Fish, Drink Beer and Support Barack Obama”

Clip Source: rednecks4obama.com

There is an official Rednecks for Obama section in www.barackobama.com, and there are a couple of great websites! (www.rednecksforobama.com) But, Tony Viessman, 74, retired Missouri State Highway Patrol Lieutenant hadn't seen these. He just knew why he, a self-proclaimed "half-redneck", strongly supported Barack Obama. He knew the same old politics of the republican party trying to claim any democrat candidate would "take away your guns". And, he knew the significance of the redneck vote in Missouri. And, he knew how badly this country needs Barack Obama as president. He took action!

Further excited by Obama's answers to difficult questions in that hot auditorium, Tony and Les headed to Union Missouri, Obama's next stop. As they held the banner outside the auditorium, the motorcade came to a complete stop. Barack Obama stepped off the bus and ran over to thank Tony and Les, and to hear their story

Tags: redneck, obama, beer, hunting

Carbon Credits = Global Tax

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 14:22:54 GMT

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Clip Source: www.aim.org

Barack Obama’s Global Tax Proposal

AIM Report | By Jonathon Moseley | August 14, 2008

The Hidden Agenda

Obama’s Global Poverty Act is in fact a stunning and sweeping step toward socialism and one-world government. When we look beyond the seductive title, and read the actual contents, we discover that Obama and Biden are setting America up for imposition of a global tax, controlled by the United Nations. For the first time, the U.S. could be forced to adopt a global tax at the behest of an international body. The planned amount is 0.7% of America’s Gross National Product (GNP) or $65 billion per year, in addition to America’s current foreign aid budget.

Palin abused powers

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 13:42:19 GMT

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clipper's remarks: No surprise!

Clip Source: www.guardian.co.uk

Body blow for McCain as Palin found to have abused powers

John McCain's election campaign last night suffered the body blow which Republicans had been bracing themselves for when his vice-presidential candidate, Sarah Palin, was found to have abused her powers in pursuit of a personal feud with her former brother-in-law.

At the end of the 10-week investigation into the so-called Troopergate affair, Palin was found to have breached the ethics rules which govern her conduct as governor of Alaska. The findings, delivered by an investigator who had been hired by the Alaskan state legislature before she was picked as McCain's running mate, are certain to lead to questions over his judgment, and to queries and challenges as to her suitability for national office.

With McCain struggling to overtake Barack Obama in the polls, however, and less than four weeks before the election, the report's findings could barely have been worse for the Republicans.

Media's Double Standard

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 13:16:34 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I've noticed that the mainstream media still handles McCain with kid gloves. I wonder why that is...? OK, he was a POW, captured by an "enemy" of our government. But why should that give him a one-upmanship over Obama... as far as fair reporting is concerned? Maybe corporate media has more to gain under republican rule or maybe it's just that they fear a McCain attack because they've taken note of how McMean and his Cold-Hearted-VP pick's, mean-spirited, hateful innuendoes launched against Obama have stirred the "Republican base of loathing", to get "physical" with any contrived foe. I believe it's both but they've got the case of the willies when it comes to the ornery right-wing mentality, knowing they might band together and threaten not to buy the goods their sponsors hawk!

Clip Source: mediamatters.org

Media Matters: The media's enduring pro-McCain double standard

It isn't surprising that the conventional wisdom is that the news media have turned on Sen. John McCain. After all, decades of attacks from conservatives have conditioned reporters to believe that they are biased against Republicans -- even when there is scant evidence in the reporting to support such claims. And the McCain campaign has launched an all-out assault on the media, complaining relentlessly about the coverage its candidate has gotten.

McCain historically has been the recipient of the most favorable media coverage of any politician in modern American history

The truth

John McCain says "jump," the media still ask, "How high?"

they uncritically quote McCain campaign attacks on Sen. Barack Obama for things McCain himself has done.

When a campaign does something like this, the media often point out the hypocrisy, and the attack backfires. But those rules don't apply to John McCain.

media have sided with

McCain

Ayers and ACORN

Tags: mccain, palin, politics

Why polls are underestimating Obama's chances

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 12:23:43 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Ezra Klein posts correspondence with Princeton political scientist Larry Bartels about why current polls are underestimating the support Obama will receive in the election.

Clip Source: www.prospect.org

First, there is a fairly strong tendency for late shifts in preferences to favor the incumbent party when the economy is strong and the out-party when the economy is weak; that makes Sen. Obama's position stronger than it looks in current polls.

Second,

given the pattern of new registrations and the apparent strength of the two campaigns' voter mobilization efforts, Sen. Obama seems more likely to benefit than to lose support from unexpected turnout.

Third, the possibility that undecided white voters may, in the end, be unable to bring themselves to vote for Sen. Obama on racial grounds makes his position somewhat more precarious than it would otherwise be. It is very difficult to estimate the importance of the racial factor (that is, the extent to which racial antipathy is not already reflected in current polls), but my guess is that this is less important than the other two factors, both of which seem likely to work in Sen. Obama's favor.

Tags: ezra klein, barack obama, john mccain, larry bartels, survey, poll, polls, elections

He's Being Judged On The Content Of His Character....

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 11:45:57 GMT

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clipper's remarks: just now finally focusing on the details of Barack Obama. To the extent that his being black was ever supposed by anyone to be "scary" to white voters, that's now disappeared for all but the most entrenched, most irredeemable outright racists.

Here's my message, then: America, you need not feel guilty for being afraid of Barack Obama. It's not racist to doubt his character and experience and judgment. It's not racist to conclude that they're lacking. He has already proved that a black man can run an entirely viable campaign for the presidency of the United States. Every one of us who looks forward to a post-racist, post-racial society — one in which we've ended racial discrimination because we've stopped discriminating on the basis of race — can be proud. But we can also refuse to vote for Barack Obama for reasons unrelated to race, and we can do so without feeling any guilt whatsoever.

In his own mangled metaphor from the second debate, Barack Obama is still "green behind the ea

Clip Source: hughhewitt.townhall.com

before Obama had clinched the nomination and solidified what the pollsters now paint as a monolithic voting block among black Americans, there were arguments about whether Obama was "black enough."

Now, however — while simultaneously arguing that Obama is heading for a "landslide" — Obama's admirers are pre-testing the meme that "if he loses, it can only be because of racism."

But contrary to Klein's wistful thinking that voters will see "steadiness" in Obama's phlegmatic and professorial personality, what more and more voters are actually coming to recognize is that he's a young man, an inexperienced man, an untested man, a leftist man, a pro-government man, a tax-raising man, a spending-raising man, an overconfident and smug and elitist man, a reckless man who underestimates our enemies, and — therefore, based on the combination of those qualities — a very dangerous man.

His race simply has nothing to do with the growing doubts about him in the still very large number of voters who are

Tags: obama, inexperience, untested, leftist, pro-government, tax & spend, overconfident, smug & elitist

Alaska Ethics probe says Pain abused her power

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 09:30:03 GMT

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clipper's remarks: McCain and Palin are trying to bullshit people, saying that this is a partisan attack, but the public record shows their lie.

The probe was started before there was even a hint of a rumour that McCain was going to tap Palin as his VP pick. The committee was bipartisan. That means there was no partisan agenda involved in it.

McCain/Palin; they keep lying, and lying, and lying, and lying, and lying... <drum beat in the background>

Clip Source: www.reuters.com

Alaska ethics probe says Palin abused her power

CHILLICOTHE, Ohio (Reuters) - An Alaska ethics inquiry found on Friday that Gov. Sarah Palin, the U.S. Republican vice presidential candidate, abused her authority by pressuring subordinates to fire a state trooper involved in a feud with her family.

The finding cast a cloud over John McCain's controversial choice of running mate for the November 4 election. On the day it was published he reined in an aggressive strategy against Barack Obama that had failed to cut into his Democratic rival's lead.

The Alaska inquiry centered on whether Palin's dismissal of the state's public safety commissioner, Walt Monegan, was linked to her personal feud with a state trooper who was involved in a contentious divorce with the governor's sister.

The inquiry found that while it was within the governor's authority to dismiss Monegan, Palin violated the public trust by pressuring those who worked for her in a way that advanced her personal wishes.

Tags: palin, lies, ethics, vp, abuse, monegan

McCain Denounces Pitchfork-Wavers

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 08:54:10 GMT

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Clip Source: www.time-blog.com

McCain Denounces Pitchfork-Wavers

"I respect Sen. Obama and his accomplishments." People booed at the mention of his name. McCain, visibly angry, stopped them: "I want EVERYONE to be respectful, and lets make sure we are."

there's a "difference between record and rhetoric, and I plan to talk about his record, respectfully... I don't mean that has to reduce your ferocity

"I'm scared to bring up my child in a world where Barack Obama is president."

"you don't have to be scared to have him be President of the United States." A round of boos.

the best of both world: Crazy base-world gets to bring up Ayers and whatever else, really, and he gets to say, "Be respectful." But I think he means it.

UPDATE: Indeed, he just snatched the microphone out the hands of a woman who began her question with, "I'm scared of Barack Obama... he's an Arab terrorist..."

"No, no ma'am," he interrupted. "He's a decent family man with whom I happen to have some disagreements."

Tags: mccain, obama, palin, rallies, politics, anger, rage, terrorist, claim

Candidates Mull ‘Evil Empire’

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 07:25:26 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Hmmm, people who in live in glass houses... should not throw stones

Clip Source: times.spb.ru

Candidates Mull ‘Evil Empire’

NASHVILLE, Tennessee — The U.S. presidential candidates assailed Russia in their latest debate, with Democrat Barack Obama saying Moscow had engaged in “evil” behavior and Republican John McCain saying it was “maybe” an evil empire.

In Tuesday’s debate, the two candidates were asked the barbed question, “Do you think that Russia under Vladimir Putin is an evil empire?” and were asked to reply “yes” or “no.”

Both stopped short of saying “yes” or “no” but made plain that they have problems with Russia.

“I think they’ve engaged in an evil behavior, and I think that it is important that we understand they’re not the old Soviet Union, but they still have nationalist impulses that I think are very dangerous,” Obama said.

“Maybe,” McCain answered, adding, “If I say yes, then that means that we’re reigniting the old Cold War. If I say no, it ignores their behavior.”

The "Great Wall Street Heist" of 2008

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 07:21:55 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Reagan added: “I hope John McCain will not shrink from pointing the finger of blame where it belongs – at Barack Obama, who fed greedily at the trough of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac while their top people, including two of his own campaign associates, were flim-flamming the American people. It’s a Democratic scandal from beginning to end, and the American people deserve to know it.”

Clip Source: www.newsmax.com

The runaway government bailout of Wall Street at taxpayer expense is nothing less than "robbery,” according to Michael Reagan.

Newsmax columnist told the 5 million listeners of "The Michael Reagan Show" on Friday that their pockets and those of their fellow Americans were being picked clean by the panic-driven bailout.

"Democrats Franklin Raines, Jim Johnson, Jamie Gorelick, Penny Pritzker, Chris Dodd and Barney Frank are robbing the American taxpayer, and Republicans in the House and Senate had been tapped to drive the getaway car," said Reagan.

“In a political system where well-paid Democrat operatives can enrich themselves at the expense of the American people with zero downside, there is no incentive to behave properly, when the taxpayer will bail you out. Enough is enough, bad decisions have consequences and those consequences ought to include indictments and jail time for those who cashed in."

Tags: democrats franklin raines, jim johnson, jamie gorelick, penny pritzker, chris dodd and barney frank, barack obama