I don’t believe in polls. I don’t take polls; if I did I wouldn’t tell the truth. Just sayin’.

Don’t know if y’all have played around with the above, but my calculations have it resulting this way:

Obama-271
McCain-267

This is assuming McCain wins Ohio, but also assuming Obama won Minnesota. I found it somewhat difficult to get a good read on Colorado, Ohio, and Wisconsin. Minnesota would be the game changer in my scenario. I hope there is something to this…

ConMom on October 3, 2008 at 11:53 AM

I think Phil Gramm (Mr. Bogeyman) and someone else had a devastating article in The Wall Street Journal within the past three or four weeks that essentially said, “to picture a national economy under Obama, look at Michigan because it’s a hint of things to come.”

All this shows is that Franken is really not funny and Minnesota is a Racist state.

cmptrnerd on October 3, 2008 at 10:42 AM

Oh, Stuart Smalley is very funny. You evil spirited conservatives just don’t get the cerebral humor.

Right_of_Attila on October 3, 2008 at 10:52 AM

Minnesotans don’t want to be Wisconsinners; we already live in heaven so why should we hope for hell? ;)

Tell them to take some of those posters depicting Obama arm-in-arm with Kwame Kilpatrick. And mention that lousy Dem governor who’s created a microcosm of an Obama state there.

BuckeyeSam on October 3, 2008 at 11:45 AM

Will do! My major talking point is the great job that Jenny has done running our state economy into the ground. Want some more of the same? Vote BO! Use your brains knuckleheads and think above and beyond the feel-good, celebrity driven, empty-suit BO/Biden campaign. Well, I don’t always say knucklehead :)

Also, we pay income taxes to the City of Detroit (hubby works downtown)…so don’t even get me started on the Kwame fiasco. But I will look for that pic and keep it handy for future reference.

If he loses Nevada we are at a 269-269 tie and we will most likely see President Obama and Vice President Palin (if Lieberman votes with the GOP).

grdred944 on October 3, 2008 at 10:58 AM

You know, I might be able to live with that. I’m more excited about Palin than McCain. It would be interesting to see what happens if we got an Obama/Palin administration. It would certainly be an experiment. The country is strong enough to survive it.

It’s not what I want, though. I’m still praying for and expecting a “red surge” in October.

I hope that means we will see her here! Maybe with Romney?

I still think there is hope here.

ConMom on October 3, 2008 at 11:37 AM

Tell them to take some of those posters depicting Obama arm-in-arm with Kwame Kilpatrick. And mention that lousy Dem governor who’s created a microcosm of an Obama state there.

Where is the source of this? Try Barack Obama’s website. So much for unity.

carbon_footprint on October 3, 2008 at 10:54 AM

RNC needs an ad showing this kind of childish, creepy, and scary behavior. I’m still convinced that the middle 20% will look at Obama and his associations, his supporters, and his tactics and say, “These people are un-American. I’m not with them.”

Why wouldn’t AP headline an item like this with his ‘oy’? Just curious.

promachus on October 3, 2008 at 11:30 AM

Or use the obligatory moniker

I hope that means we will see her here! Maybe with Romney?

I still think there is hope here.

“I’m voting for Obama because of George Bush. I’m not really certain what Obama stands for, but running against Bush is enough.”

I’ve already talked 20% of these contacts out of support for Obama. It was rather easy. All I had to do was guide them to Obama’s website and show them his positions on policy. Once they knew his actual views, their confidence in him plummets.

You need a ground game to get this message out. It’s door to door battles. It’s debates at the grocery store. You need bodies to make the case. Obama’s ground game isn’t running a race to vote for Barack. They’re RUNNING AGAINST BUSH.

It’s so nice to finally meet ya! Can I call you Joooooeeee?