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Campaign Updates and Media Headlines 9/10/08

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Submitted by Caro on Wed, 09/10/2008 - 1:52pm
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McCain holds 5-point lead for second day; in past, such advantages have held for a while (On Politics, USA Today)
Two days in a row now, Gallup's presidential tracking poll has given Republican nominee John McCain a 5 percentage point lead over Democrat Barack Obama. The latest reading, according to Gallup: McCain, 49%; Obama, 44%. That's the same score as yesterday. And according to Gallup, history suggests McCain's lead could last for at least a while.

McCain Now Winning Majority of Independents (Gallup)
PRINCETON, NJ -- John McCain's 6 percentage-point bounce in voter support spanning the Republican National Convention is largely explained by political independents shifting to him in fairly big numbers, from 40% pre-convention to 52% post-convention in Gallup Poll Daily tracking… Regionally, Gallup finds solid gains for McCain in all areas of the country except the West, where his already fairly high support has held steady. However, the 9-point increase for McCain in the South on top of his previous 49% support level in that region makes the South now overwhelmingly pro-McCain, 58% to 36%.

Poll shows big shift to McCain among white women (Reuters)
A Washington Post/ABC News survey published on Tuesday found most of McCain's surge in the polls since the Republican National Convention was due to a big shift in support among white women voters… Before the Democratic National Convention in late August, Obama held an 8-point lead among white women voters, 50 percent to 42 percent, according to the Washington Post/ABC News poll. After the Republican convention in early September, McCain was ahead by 12 points among white women, 53 percent to 41 percent, that survey found.

Obama Doesn't Believe Polls Showing Women Voters Flocking to McCain-Palin (by Jake Tapper and Sunlen Miller at Political Punch, ABC News)
First, Obama expressed skepticism about the poll… Second, Obama said Palin had attracted a lot of attention and, among conservatives, excitement -- but he didn't think gender played factor… Obama said the race is far from over, and that issues would ultimately beat out personality… Obama did not address the question about whether he regrets not naming a woman running mate.

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Carolyn Kay
MakeThemAccountable.com

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Submitted by lambert on

And we've got pig/lipstick covered anyhow from better sources.

[ ] Very tepidly voting for Obama [ ] ?????. [ ] Any mullah-sucking billionaire-teabagging torture-loving pus-encrusted spawn of Cthulhu, bless his (R) heart.

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Submitted by scoutt on

During the primaries when the race was thinning out, I was still going back and forth between Obama and Clinton.
At that point, I would've been enthused about either.
Then the collection of sexists comments from the Obamas and his surrogates begin to create a clear picture to me. And after several screaming matches with friends of mine about what the f*ck did the unity schtick mean when he was inspiring his followers to be such hateful bullies - I knew something bad was happening.
The man has allowed, exploited and openly spewed misogynistic bile. Hope is the lipstick on hate. All of the backflips to justify his conservative stances and changes on positions tell me that many of his most ardent supporters don't care that he's supposed to represent liberal values.
It's a movement built on anger. The behavior reveals that it has nothing to do with hope.
I don't even know what they are angry about. The enraged Bush loyalists coalesced around "patriotism" and the "war on terror". What is it that drives the anger of the Obama loyalists?

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Submitted by Caro on

... and I wish I knew the answer. I wish I knew what drives the Obamabots' anger aagainst anyone who doesn't adore their Messiah. I wish I knew what drives sexist hate. I wish I knew what drives racist hate.

Most of all, I wish I knew how to stop that anger.

Rush Limbaugh and his clones, and now some people on the left, make an awful lot of money to stoke that anger, to keep it going and make it bigger. But all the latest studies show that anger causes heart attacks. So basically what they're doing is killing their audiences.

And the audiences are willing accomplices in their own deaths.

It's just amazing.

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Submitted by amberglow on

there's no time for the bubble to deflate, either--look how long it's taking Obama's to do so...

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Submitted by Valhalla on

is my guess. Originally, big bad Clinton was potential denier of their entitlement to have their way, to grab power and control in choosing the next president. It drove the incredible energy demonizing her. Then she suspended, and they were told they had to make nice (not very seriously), so all we old (worthless) (puma) b*tches became the deniers.

And now it's McCain and Palin. And Palin bears the brunt, not only because she's the actual spoiler if McCain wins, but because bullies always direct their anger at whom they think is the weaker party. (oops).

Ok, so no linky goodness or evidence to back any of that up (except maybe Father Pfleger's video), but I've been thinking about Lambert's comment the other day, that out of anger comes fighting for change (lazy paraphrase).

There's a difference, though, at anger against injustice and the anger of the entitled denied. The first is righteous, the second can be as strong if not stronger, but it's still the fury of the spoiled child's temper tantrum. It doesn't produce change, it just redirects itself at a series of available and convenient targets.

Anyway, thinkin' on it.

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