Comments on: Palinmania: 60,000 turn out for event in Florida?

By: It’s All Coming Down to a Few Key States … | USA TERM LIMITS

It’s All Coming Down to a Few Key States … | USA TERM LIMITS — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 15:55:47 +0000

[...] Even the states (Mississippi, Louisiana, South Carolina) with black populations of over 30% would have to go 100% Obama and have nearly perfect turnout to offset the 80-90% of white southerners, who are the majority and will vote for the “architect of the Surge,” en masse. The “upper south” of Tennessee, Arkansas, and North Carolina is less than 20% black, so they’re safely Republican. And the “deepest south” of Northern Florida is very pro-military and pro-McCain/Palin. [...]

By: Pajamas Media » It’s All Coming Down to a Few Key States…

Pajamas Media » It’s All Coming Down to a Few Key States… — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 08:41:11 +0000

By: Send_Me

Send_Me — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 23:46:33 +0000

All of this comtempt and hate-speech you engage in…
grtflmark on September 22, 2008 at 10:29 AM

Such as?

By: Send_Me

Send_Me — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 23:32:18 +0000

grtflmark on September 22, 2008 at 10:29 AM

ad hom•i•nem (hŏm’ə-něm’, -nəm) adj. Appealing to personal considerations rather than to logic or reason

By: Y-not

Y-not — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 23:02:01 +0000

More signs of an enthusiasm gap from Ann Althouse's blog: http://althouse.blogspot.com/2008/09/petite-crowd-collects-for-michelle.html And that's in Madison, Wisconsin!

By: The Irascible Chef » Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid!

The Irascible Chef » Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid! — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 21:38:37 +0000

[...] 60,000 turn out for event in Florida? from Hot Air! Exhibit A in the case of why even I can’t get too depressed about that anti-Palin focus group in [...]

By: Cr4sh Dummy

Cr4sh Dummy — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 18:07:32 +0000

She’s treading into the messiah’s territory, awesome.

By: shiba03

shiba03 — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 16:55:57 +0000

I was there along with my parents, and there was not 60,000 people. More like 25,000 to 30,000. And the Republicans did not organize it well at all. We waited in line from 11:00am to 3:15pm and has soon as we got to the gate (we had tickets) they closed it down. So we had to find some place outside the area to sit and watch Sarah on the giant TV screen.
Her speech was good, but we had to leave in the middle of it, my mom wasn’t feeling well.

By: Steve Z

Steve Z — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 15:17:54 +0000

Whether the crowd was 60,000 or 25,000, I was wondering–did these people show up to hear Sarah Palin AND John McCain, or Sarah Palin speaking alone?

If she can draw crowds like that alone, she and McCain should campaign separately, as long as she can stay on-message, and not say anything different from McCain that the media might exploit as confusion within the ticket. But Palin definitely appeals to conservatives and women, whereas McCain has a stronger appeal to independent male voters. If they campaign separately, they could plan a strategy to appeal to conservatives in some areas, and independents in other areas, in order to forge the coalition they will need to win.

By: Calm Before the Storm

Calm Before the Storm — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 15:13:38 +0000

I’m amazed 2,000 people showed up to see Joe Biden.

If Joe Biden was at my front door I wouldn’t get up off of the couch to let him in.

Did those 2,000 people think Joe was going to hand them a bag of gold or something? It’s a given they are of low intelligence, since they’re Democrats.

NoDonkey on September 22, 2008 at 10:00 AM

The source of the number is suspect since it comes from the Obama/Biden campaign. Probably 200…

By: ThackerAgency

ThackerAgency — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 14:48:14 +0000

Witness Biden’s idea of dividing Iraq into 3 countries.

The idea wasn’t to set up 3 COUNTRIES. . . it was to set up 3 STATES. . . you know like we have 50 here that have to do what Washington DC says.

Uh huh. So it’s like a mini-totalitarian state and there is no freedom of choice because everyone is programmed to be under the control of the evil Big Village where there is nothing to do and from which there is no escape.

Buy Danish on September 22, 2008 at 10:01 AM

I hate to call names, but here, you are an idiot.

By: grtflmark

grtflmark — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 14:29:57 +0000

“Please refrain from using ad hominem fallacies: they do nothing to forward the dialogue here.

Send_Me on September 22, 2008 at 12:26 AM”

The only one engaging in ad hominem’s is YOU. What EXACTLY is your position in the Obama campaign hierarchy?

All of this comtempt and hate-speech you engage in to try and distract from the fact that Sarah draws 60,000 people and Biden can barely draw 2,000.

Pitiful.

By: Buy Danish

Buy Danish — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 14:01:26 +0000

Dude, you have to go there to understand. If something big happens there, you HAVE to attend. It’s a mob mentality. There are tons of restaurants open all hours, but everybody eats dinner at 5:00 – just know it in advance.

ThackerAgency on September 21, 2008 at 10:07 PM

Uh huh. So it’s like a mini-totalitarian state and there is no freedom of choice because everyone is programmed to be under the control of the evil Big Village where there is nothing to do and from which there is no escape.

By: NoDonkey

NoDonkey — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 14:00:13 +0000

I’m amazed 2,000 people showed up to see Joe Biden.

If Joe Biden was at my front door I wouldn’t get up off of the couch to let him in.

Did those 2,000 people think Joe was going to hand them a bag of gold or something? It’s a given they are of low intelligence, since they’re Democrats.

By: Anna

Anna — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 13:50:09 +0000

I would love to take my daughter and go to a McCain/Palin rally! I doubt they’re coming back to Virginia anytime soon, though.

I’m glad people are fired up over her, even if it’s for the ‘wrong’ reasons. I don’t care at this point why people are voting for McCain/Palin, just that they’re not voting for Obama/Biden. That’s a presidency I don’t think we’d recover from in my lifetime – and I have my kids’ futures to look out for.

By: right4life

right4life — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 13:38:31 +0000

I come from a Republican state where brains actually count.

too bad you don’t have any.

By: right4life

right4life — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 13:37:43 +0000

Teddy was an author, a worldwide traveler, a man of exceptional intelligence and knowledge who graduated at the top of his class at Harvard

yeah he used to go on safari and kill a lot of animals, so? as far as graduating the top of his class in harvard…well the messiah went to harvard, so that is a disqualifier as far as I am concerned.

Her only claim to another language might be speaking in tongues at her fundamentalist church

and whats wrong with that? nothing like a little religious bigotry from the ‘tolerant’ wacko left. do you bow at the alter of darwin?

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Locking up Florida | Think Forward — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 12:23:38 +0000

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By: David’s Blog of Common Sense » 60,000 Turn out to see Palin

David’s Blog of Common Sense » 60,000 Turn out to see Palin — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 12:20:37 +0000

[...] So what makes Sarah Palin so special? She has something to offer, something different, someone who isn’t a part of the “Washington Collective.” She is shaking things up and that is what people want to see. It has even been dubbed by some “Palinmania.” [...]

By: csdeven

csdeven — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 11:39:40 +0000

O/T….

60% are constitutionalists.

Should McCain make the appointments to the SCOTUS an issue?

By: csdeven

csdeven — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 10:44:13 +0000

we lose our perspective that the real battles are for Congress
Send_Me on September 22, 2008 at 1:28 AM

Tell that to the terrorists.

Many of have domestic and foreign policy issues in perspective.

By: Buckaroo

Buckaroo — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 07:34:59 +0000

“Adjoran on September 22, 2008 at 3:09 AM”

foks, this could well have a positive impact, but it is hardly an OMG GAMECHANGING BOMBSHELL!

/sleazy politician uses sleazy operatvie to do sleazy things — stop the presses …

By: Obama-Connected PR Firm Violating Federal Election Law? « The Rhetorican

Obama-Connected PR Firm Violating Federal Election Law? « The Rhetorican — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 07:15:09 +0000

[...] RELATED: Looks like the anti-Palin ad was widely ignored in Florida. [...]

By: Adjoran

Adjoran — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 07:09:16 +0000

Over at The Jawa Report, Dr. Shackleford links the allegedly “viral” and “grassroots” smear videos against Sarah Palin to people and firms closely related to the Obama campaign.
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Apparently the hundreds of MSM “reporters” assigned 24/7 to digging up dirt on Palin since McCain announced her selection aren’t enough . . .
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Interestingly enough, the PR firm involved hasn’t shown up on any disclosure forms yet . . .

By: promachus

promachus — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 06:51:08 +0000

granted, Team Maverick’s crowd estimates have been “problematic” in the past, although this one comes from a fire chief on the scene, not the campaign;

Where was this pessimism when the ONE inflates his Berline Rally numbers by a factor of ten?