Sad thing is that McCain could have actually won if he hadn’t pissed off so many conservatives with his ShAmnesty, too late now and he didn’t even get the latino vote. Shame, doubt we’ll see a Republican Congress or White House for decades if ever. Pushed too many powerful groups out of the big tent folks. Way too few big government, big spending, drive the economy into the ground voters to pull this off.

Steve Z on July 24, 2008 at 5:31 PM

One more of several good posts, this is a great day for some great posts.
Thanks,

I saw this at Power Line :

The Washington Post reports that John McCain has made significant gains in several battleground states over the past month. He and Barack Obama are now in dead heats, according to recent Post/Quinnipiac/Wall Street Journal polling, in Colorado, Michigan and Minnesota, while Obama continues to enjoy a sizable lead in Wisconsin.

Terrye on July 24, 2008 at 4:51 PM

I think your post is really important. It shows that McCain is targeting certain areas. Probing for a weakness, then attacking. Obama needs the whole country, McCain needs a several pivotal states.
For instance, McCain can’t win California, but Obama can lose it. That is why some of the polls are so skewered right now. They haven’t settled, and McCain is laying the groundwork for the swing states.
Who would have thought the liberal Colorado would begin to change, and when energy (vital to Colorado, because most everything is trucked or flown in or out) it will really bode well for McCain.
This Obama trip will be a great asset to McCain.

34% of Independents, who make up 19% of the sample, are still undecided. That’s 6.5% of the electorate, which could swing the election.

Made “serious changes” on issues: Obama 30%, McCain 18%. The “flip-flops” are starting to be known to the electorate. McCain has to hammer this, to prove Obama untrustworthy, by a bunch of Obama then vs Obama now ads.

Result of surge in Iraq: 61% said either major or minor improvements. Obama opposing it could hurt him.

On issues: Obama 50-32 on health care, 47-36 on economy; McCain 52-34 on war on terrorism, 47-39 on Iraq. But 75% want to drill for oil! What McCain needs to do here is link drilling for oil to the economy: more oil supply = lower fuel prices = lower heating bills = lower transportation costs to stores = cheaper everything.
Also American drilling = American blue-collar jobs.

Drilling “in a small area of ANWR” 56-38. The wording of the question is VERY important here! Other polls present ANWR as a huge pristine wilderness area full of caribou, and most people don’t want to drill there. But the reality is the drilling would be limited to less than 4 square miles, which is a relatively “small area”. Kudos to Fox News for this wording! McCain and the GOP need to use this wording as well.

Increasing Federal taxes on gas and oil: 82-14 against. Note to McCain: Tax holiday on gasoline is popular, dump cap&trade like a hot potato.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hp6Zx_fzpq8

Just reinforces the fact that McCain is not the first choice, he is the ONLY choice.
volsense on July 24, 2008 at 5:05 PM

That comment is really accurate, I think most of us feel that way.

A bigger worry is the 27% of all respondents who “don’t know.” That may mean that they can be convinced either way.

Big S on July 24, 2008 at 3:58 PM

Consider that, all told, 37% of respondents either think he’s definitely lied or think he may have lied about being a muslim.

I guess there is a poll out there for just about everybody.

MB4 on July 24, 2008 at 4:08 PM

Partial poll results as well.

It is embarrassing that Obama can be so shallow and actually run for president.

What are all of the cool kids calling this, “identity politics?”

Well Obama has a nice smile. And he speaks of “change.”

If our nation picks Obama, then be prepared more the most unqualified president in the entire history of the US. (after President Gerald R. Ford, I guess.)

heh, “Slip Sliding Away” simon&garfunkle.

Obama The Freeloader ‘08

Heh.

As gas prices have been rising since Jimmy Carter and never gone back to pre-Carter rates despite our ability to supply ourselves, because of the DNC imposed sacrifice of our population’s well being, no one likes this CHANGE. As per “we can believe in”, who needs faith to recognize that the price of gas, food and housing have quadrupled since Carter. Wages for highly skilled labor have not quadrupled since Carter. They’ve remained stagnant WHERE AVAILABLE! And the DNC is telling us that our hardships are NECESSARY and for our own good. THAT takes faith to believe in, because the facts prove all of their rhetoric to be false. Global warming takes faith to believe in because it is not an absolute truth; though it be fascistically enforced as imposed empiricism, global warming is without substantiating validity. The evidence and records prove the hoax. Just one example of everyone being sick and tired of Obama’s Change We don’t believe In.

peski on July 24, 2008 at 4:52 PM

Amazing, isn’t it?

Is that what the Obama administration would put over the gates of their civilian service camps, or would they just stick “Arbeit macht frei”?