Carl Cameron: Optimism growing inside McCain camp
posted at 9:18 pm on November 3, 2008 by Allahpundit
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It won’t be easy but it is do-able. What’s got Maverick, Salter, and other senior aides suddenly so bubbly? Their internal polls, in all likelihood. Lead pollster Bill McInturff pronounced the race too close to call in a memo sent out late last week that claimed things were trending their way in the battlegrounds. They must have gotten more good news over the weekend. Someone had better tell Joe the Plumber because he’s sounding even more pessimistic than I am.
Stats wizard Nate Silver puts their odds at 1.9%. Click the image to watch.
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carbon_footprint on November 3, 2008 at 10:28 PM
I think Shep is stuck up your a5s…..
FiveWays on November 3, 2008 at 10:29 PM
Ed and Allah, I request a purge. I think the Boss is the greatest, and she doesn’t deserve to be dragged into this kind of nonsense.
BuckeyeSam on November 3, 2008 at 10:29 PM
My post didn’t show… is there a word limit?
redhead on November 3, 2008 at 10:29 PM
I have a feeling he could kill you just by thinking about it.
carbon_footprint on November 3, 2008 at 10:29 PM
LETS ROLL!
tdavisjr on November 3, 2008 at 10:29 PM
Well alrighty then Lets do it gotta get MacCuda in first then we will get 2012
driver on November 3, 2008 at 10:29 PM
HornetSting on November 3, 2008 at 10:29 PM
Looks as if you are trying to get banned. If you want this to happen quicker rather than later I suggest you mention that linking to huffington post is no favor to us because then our clicks would contribute to their income in the way of traffic to their site. Do this about more than 3 or 4 times. Then mention that conservatives who bash the man who won the republican primary, John McCain, are helping the opposition by trashing him while he is the only person who is us against the democrat, Obama. Keep up with what you are doing and do these things as well and you should get your wish.
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wise_man on November 3, 2008 at 10:29 PM
Boy! The troll farts are thick tonight!
FiveWays on November 3, 2008 at 10:23 PM
I know, I had to use a whole can of air freshener too!
sheebe on November 3, 2008 at 10:29 PM
Good heavens, man. If I ran for office I wouldn’t even vote for me.
I’d much rather suck up to the McCain administration for something cushy, like White House Jester – as long as they provided me with all the interns I could molest.
ManlyRash on November 3, 2008 at 10:30 PM
I second. She is not original, funny or entertaining whatsoever.
carbon_footprint on November 3, 2008 at 10:30 PM
I’ve been praying so I’m at peace with this election. A Mac presidency means me joyously have to fight him a third of the time.
An Obambi presidency means that the gloves come off and we fight ALL the time. Purity.
Mojave Mark on November 3, 2008 at 10:30 PM
Motion Carried. Flush.
HornetSting on November 3, 2008 at 10:31 PM
149 combat hours…many dead terrorists by my hand. My fellow fighter pilots do this day in and day out. Don’t worry about what the wimpy, girly trolls say. This country was built and will continue to grow from REAL Americans like you all. We will KILL all those that oppose the U.S.
tank_killer69 on November 3, 2008 at 10:31 PM
Way to go! I we can all get one extra vote for McCain/Palin we can do it.
neuquenguy on November 3, 2008 at 10:31 PM
Florida will go for McCain.
When Obama was in Florida today but referred to being in Ohio instead, he was resoundingly — not teasingly — booed.
The real story in the Jerry Nadler video is that Floridian Jews don’t trust Obama.
Terrie on November 3, 2008 at 10:32 PM
Sh1t. Steelers up 17-6.
Redskins win = McCain win.
lorien1973 on November 3, 2008 at 10:32 PM
Ouch! LOL
FiveWays on November 3, 2008 at 10:32 PM
See you would make a great polition
driver on November 3, 2008 at 10:32 PM
“I’m Typhonsentra, and I approve this message.”
Raise hopes, raise them as high as you can.
Typhonsentra on November 3, 2008 at 10:33 PM
No brainer: Dana Bash.
ManlyRash on November 3, 2008 at 10:33 PM
Awesome. I guess we get some chaff (presidentbush) with the grain (you sir).
carbon_footprint on November 3, 2008 at 10:33 PM
East coast rain on election day…..SWEET!
KCB on November 3, 2008 at 10:33 PM
Rove’s map was simply a reflection of a poll of polls. The Red/Blue turnout wasn’t based on his personal analysis.
XWing5 on November 3, 2008 at 10:34 PM
See how it works? Girly, efemete troll goads you…ignore them.
tank_killer69 on November 3, 2008 at 10:34 PM
Can we have a blizzard too please?
neuquenguy on November 3, 2008 at 10:35 PM
Remember, though, that in 2004, the Redskins lost, yet Bush still won.
JenWestin on November 3, 2008 at 10:35 PM
Sorry Lorien………… we vote = McCain win.
I played football for too many years to believe in any of the superstitions anymore…….. it’s just a game, and by the way, it’s not over.
Seven Percent Solution on November 3, 2008 at 10:35 PM
Looks like those homeless ACORN voters will be nice and clean when they vote for Obama twenty-five times each.
FiveWays on November 3, 2008 at 10:35 PM
A swarm of locusts?
HornetSting on November 3, 2008 at 10:35 PM
Barry about to cry for Virginians?
SouthernGent on November 3, 2008 at 10:35 PM
Geez, Maybe I’m nuts, but it seems so very CLEAR to me. Karl Rove is a true, true patriot (all but presidentbush here and a few other trolls will agree) and an absolute genious!.
This is Psy-ops of the greatest order. Pizz you people off (I’m including myself here)…get you mobilized, and then, at the last minute say, “X” ‘turned the tide’, now the electoral map shows, oh, golly McCain wins! He’d be Oh-so-happy to do a “my bad” on Wednesday, b-cuz he loves this Country, so doesn’t care if it’s said he called it “wrong”…this time, he ain’t workin’ for a candidate so can do his head games to his heart’s content.
I said earlier on a different thread that Fox would come out with one more positive poll…they did (toss up states) and was pooh-poohed by many.
Boy, I guess I am just flippin deluded????? Anyone else see anything here? Manly???
I am still psyched about a Mc-’Cuda win tomorrow.
Chewy the Lab on November 3, 2008 at 10:35 PM
I’ve been to WCH, Ohio to a 4-H pig auction. :)
Oink on November 3, 2008 at 10:35 PM
Told my sister she better not be voting for Obama – she was raised better than that.
She’s voting McCain or facing the wrath of her little sister and I’m bigger than her!
gophergirl on November 3, 2008 at 10:35 PM
I always suspected: You all can check out his eyebrows, and the way he ‘vogues’. He needs to come out and just get it over with it
Fox won’t care; I don’t care: I’ve thought he was Krap since Katrina……..
Janos Hunyadi on November 3, 2008 at 10:36 PM
neuquenguy
Won’t matter…McCain wins 42 states…done deal
tank_killer69 on November 3, 2008 at 10:36 PM
ah 72 times
driver on November 3, 2008 at 10:36 PM
The best I could manage by way of a kill count are the squirrels that were too stupid to move off the road in time. To date: 22,913 driving hours and 1,470 dead squirrels.
God bless you. I salute you, sir, and your service to our country. Any man who kills terrorists has top billing in Manly’s book of heroes.
ManlyRash on November 3, 2008 at 10:36 PM
I just got my first call from a NObama man. Won’t say the words I used. Hung up on his a&& too. Never had a call like that. Actually have not seen political commercials either. Guess they think that since Ca. is such a Liberal State. There is not need. Only the local election propositions that is all I saw on TV.
sheebe on November 3, 2008 at 10:36 PM
Someone mentioned this clip from Hannitty and Colmes
Near the end of the Clip Sean Hannitty gives as shout out to this blog.
William Amos on November 3, 2008 at 10:36 PM
You might be onto something there.
carbon_footprint on November 3, 2008 at 10:36 PM
Did Michelle take her clothes off again?
FiveWays on November 3, 2008 at 10:36 PM
What is it with you and all those dead squirrels?
HornetSting on November 3, 2008 at 10:37 PM
Yikes. I’ll keep that in mind and behave myself.
ManlyRash on November 3, 2008 at 10:37 PM
The Redskins lost in 2004 too, if I remember correctly and W still won. I hate the Redskins but was sort of inwardly rooting for them (silly superstitions.) I thought they ended up losing. It was like the first time in a while that that particular predictor didn’t hold.
XWing5 on November 3, 2008 at 10:37 PM
ManlyRash
I have been reading your posts for months…praying they would open this blog. You are a true American…bless you and bless this country…
Veteran, perhaps?
tank_killer69 on November 3, 2008 at 10:38 PM
Seriously, in the blatantly egotistical words of Obambi, “that was taken out of context” – except in his and Obiden’s case, it wasn’t taken out of context – ever. Karl Rove was responding to what he perceived to be a weak McCain rejoinder/missed opportunity.
You keep going away and then coming back. Do you work a ferris wheel somewhere?
AubieJon on November 3, 2008 at 10:38 PM
I’m in SoCal. I’ve seen the 527 Wright ad (”too risky”) and a couple of Obama ads. They’re still running the deceptive tax one with the “endorsement” from the Heritage Fdn. Slime balls.
Y-not on November 3, 2008 at 10:38 PM
Spoken like Patton! I’m with ya.
Alden Pyle on November 3, 2008 at 10:38 PM
ESPN said their record is 17-0 in predicting the election.
lorien1973 on November 3, 2008 at 10:39 PM
I hope you understand that most of us don’t respond to you because you just showed up here with no reputation whatsoever. We realize that you are as over the top as you are because if things go as you hope, you get to rub it in. When Obama loses, you will simply disappear out of embarrassment. That is called “cowardly” and “intellectually dishonest”.
If you do end up sticking around, believe me, eventually you will have to make opinions that you aren’t so sure about…..and that is when your comeuppance happens. So, if you are serious about being a member here at Hot Air, choose your behavior wisely, because all of us here live and die by our opinions and we don’t run home to mommy when things don’t go our way.
csdeven on November 3, 2008 at 10:39 PM
Wright ad in swing state NM. It was perfect.
HornetSting on November 3, 2008 at 10:39 PM
It dates back to childhood when I once got a beating while a Rocky & Bullwinkle cartoon was on television. As aq result I also suffer from acute Alcesophobia (irrational fear of moose) and if I hear someone with a goofy voice asking me to watch as he pulls a rabbit out of his hat, I pee myself.
It’s not easy being Manly Rash.
ManlyRash on November 3, 2008 at 10:39 PM
Carl Cameron is a perky little gnome, isn’t he?
Fortunata on November 3, 2008 at 10:40 PM
Too complicated, and way too polite for them.
“It’s private”, and walk away, with confidence, while ignoring them.
Entelechy on November 3, 2008 at 10:40 PM
They could drop in for spot checks to see if we have the new fluorescent bulbs installed or to see what our thermostat is set on. Of course they’ll want to check out the pantry to make sure we’re eating right since the government will be picking up our healthcare bill.
I’m with you all… the National Security Force is spooky. It could mean ANYTHING! Like hello, we’re here for your guns!
Oink on November 3, 2008 at 10:41 PM
Obama wants to do what every authoritarian socialist wants. The National Socialists (NSDAP-Nazi), International Socialists (Bolsheviks) all required a party militia (Waffen SS/MVD) as a counter to the military. The reasons are obvious and the scariest thing is that a significant portion of people would be happy to join.
Conservatives need to retake the educational system or it WILL HAPPEN, sooner or later.
sharrukin on November 3, 2008 at 10:41 PM
He won’t be.
He’ll be the President-elect.
Sorry. Couldn’t help myself.
ClintACK on November 3, 2008 at 10:41 PM
1.9% eh? So you’re saying there’s a chance?
scrounge on November 3, 2008 at 10:41 PM
Did you see the obama and mccain interviews on ESPN? I think Berman is a McCain fan.
lorien1973 on November 3, 2008 at 10:41 PM
Allah said if anyone has a troll problem just email him and he will remove the troll.
I just sent allah several stories so dont want to wear out him with another email
Email is here and just send their sn and comment to him.
tips@hotair.com
William Amos on November 3, 2008 at 10:41 PM
Doubting the silent majority is like doubting God… Sorta. You can’t trot out a time-bomb, like Barry, without freaking out the happy suburban traditionalist.
Seems like Oreilly and others don’t get Mi Maulkin, because she takes things seriously for a change, as intellectuals are supposed to. And, Oreilly is a stupid boomer. So, what do you expect his reaction to be? Oreilly hates Coulter too, though Ann is perhaps as much a participant in the cult of self as Bill. Come to think of it, Oreilly is a flat out misogynist.
anti-boomer on November 3, 2008 at 10:41 PM
I got attacked by a rooster at the tender age of four, but you don’t see a string of dead roosters in my path. How do you feel about Russian women named Natasha?
HornetSting on November 3, 2008 at 10:42 PM
oh, come on… I thoguht I was going to get a peacefull night sleep…..I kept waking up last night after watching “The Thing” and now this?
neuquenguy on November 3, 2008 at 10:43 PM
Gather around kids. Let’s stroll back in time and watch Shep and Geraldo doing their finest Drama Queen shtick evah!
Shep and Geraldo during Katrina coverage!
FiveWays on November 3, 2008 at 10:43 PM
And you ARE a n
iceass.I’m still waiting for an answer on my earlier question:
When there is an open registration at HotAir, are there threads posted for you KOSkiddies and DUmmies that inform you dolts to come register here and start spewing juvenile nonsense, or do they inform you directly via email?
LegendHasIt on November 3, 2008 at 10:43 PM
There is a blogger on here that signs off with “Let’s Roll”
Indeed…let’s roll…we have been for 20 years (Kuwait) and Hell is filling up with the scum that are terrorists.
Realize we have been at war with Islamic Radicalism since Iraq invaded Kuwait. We have been killing these POS. This is no different than the Nazi’s or the USSR. The trolls think they can talk their way out of it…but the only thing they understand is kinetic solutions (that’s bombs for you liberals and trolls).
tank_killer69 on November 3, 2008 at 10:44 PM
That civilian national security force crap scares the sh1t out of me. Can’t believe that it hasn’t gotten more media coverage……Oh yeah, I forgot…never mind.
KCB on November 3, 2008 at 10:44 PM
I don’t have what it takes to be in the military, TK. For one thing, I get really nervous when people start shooting at me – which, needless to say, is a real handicap in the heat of battle.
Worse yet, I can’t pee when other men are standing around me and the lack of stalls in the barracks would cause my bladder to explode which would really piss off the drill sergeant.
I leave the defense of this nation to men of a far finer calibre than I could ever hope or dream to be. Men such as yourself.
ManlyRash on November 3, 2008 at 10:45 PM
Is it only for MNF? Because if it’s not, the Redskins lost in 2004 on October 31st. I just looked it up.
MobileVideoEngineer on November 3, 2008 at 10:46 PM
Lorien – They did indeed say that, so I went and looked it up at Snopes. ESPN was mistaken. It was true for all elections from ‘36 – 2004, when the Redskins lost to the Pack and the incumbant won anyway (GW). Not that it matters, but I had to prove I wasn’t crazy (I mean, I haven’t even started drinking yet.)
;)
XWing5 on November 3, 2008 at 10:46 PM
Don’t forget 2010 — when we take back the Congress.
ClintACK on November 3, 2008 at 10:46 PM
URGENT!
PBS has an online poll posted asking if Sarah Palin is qualified.
Apparently the left wing knew about this in advance and are flooding the
voting with NO votes.
The poll will be reported on PBS and picked up by mainstream media.
It can influence undecided voters in swing states.
Please do two things — takes 20 seconds.
1) Click on link and vote!
Here’s the link: http://www.pbs.org/now/polls/poll-435.html
2) Then send this to every McCain-Palin supporter you know, and urge
them to vote and pass it on.
The last thing we need is PBS saying their viewers don’t think Sarah
Palin is qualified.
MrLynn on November 3, 2008 at 10:46 PM
Done, done and done.
Several of our new KO’s Kiddies will hopefully be history soon.
BacaDog on November 3, 2008 at 10:46 PM
Beat me to it MVE
XWing5 on November 3, 2008 at 10:46 PM
I orgasm involuntarily. Thanks a lot, Hornet. Now I have to change.
ManlyRash on November 3, 2008 at 10:46 PM
I threatened a very small man today to vote McCain or face a beat down.
Chalk up another one for Johnny Mac!
mylegsareswollen on November 3, 2008 at 10:47 PM
I’m clinging to my guns and my religion, tighter now than ever before.
There’s a fork in the road, the path to socialism vs. the path to evergrowing freedom.
I choose freedom.
Stand with me America.
Capital Mess on November 3, 2008 at 10:48 PM
Off topic, Oink: Ohio is kind of a fascinating state. I’ve lived here off and on for 30 years, since high school. I’ve lived in the Cincinnati suburbs when in town, and it’s easy to forget how rural the state really is.
When I was a junior in HS, I was fortunate enough to attend a program sponsored by the Veterans of Foreign Wars–Boys State. I can assure you that it had nothing to do with that community organizing horsesh*t that informs Obama. Twelve hundred of the most decent 17-year-old guys you’d ever want to meet. And so many of them were from small towns and were far more familiar with 4-H and Future Farmers of America than Saul Alinsky. If you’d have run McCain and Obama in a mock election with that group, you’d have had a shutout in McCain’s favor.
Let’s hope the same sentiment prevails tomorrow.
BuckeyeSam on November 3, 2008 at 10:48 PM
ManlyRash
No…you underestimate yourself and the millions of folks out there. It takes courage to stand up to the bastion of liberal hate that is directed at the military. Your focus and cheerleading during this campaign is testament to you patriotism and courage. Fight the good fight and don’t let anyone dissuade you. That is courage.
tank_killer69 on November 3, 2008 at 10:48 PM
PBS poll
Yes–51%
No–47%
KCB on November 3, 2008 at 10:48 PM
BTW
Good work on the PBS Poll, guys :)
Capital Mess on November 3, 2008 at 10:49 PM
That weird correlation died in 2004, when Kerry didn’t win despite the Redskins’ loss.
ClintACK on November 3, 2008 at 10:50 PM
I just had a damn Osama supporter creepin around my yard. At 9:30 at night.
I told her I am voting for Mccain to defeat communism and kindly told her not to be on my property again
their working overtime in central pa and they know it is out of reach.
Pa Goes red. Dems are voting mac in a strong way. The bas,Dems,and independants will carry us to victory.
Vote and take everyone you know until the polls close. Keep the propaganda box off and lets WIN THIS!!!!!!!!!!
triple-p on November 3, 2008 at 10:50 PM
BTW it is Steelers 16 they missed a PAT. – That always comes back to kick you in the Ass – This is soooooo hard, I am by law a Steeler Fan, had to take off my sweatshirt with the logo and put on my Nationals shorts cause they are the closest I get to fan wear for the Skins.
by law I mean, hubby born in da Burgh, so hence the adherence to the legalities.
InTheBellyoftheBeast on November 3, 2008 at 10:50 PM
No problemo
I ACORNED it. I voted early and I voted often.
FiveWays on November 3, 2008 at 10:50 PM
The only reason that poll is so close is that the /b/ (4chan) people have been spamming it off and on for a month.
carbon_footprint on November 3, 2008 at 10:50 PM
ManlyRash
We don’t watch each other pee…we are real men!
tank_killer69 on November 3, 2008 at 10:50 PM
Thunderstorm (with lightning!) due here tomorrow in Seattle. Won’t stop me from voting McCain!
Beledibelle on November 3, 2008 at 10:51 PM
That is one of the finest compliments I have ever received and I am honored by it. For that, I award you the Manly Rash Seal of Approval. Wear it in good health.
ManlyRash on November 3, 2008 at 10:51 PM
VOTE!!…it is your God given right!!!!
tank_killer69 on November 3, 2008 at 10:51 PM
Tell me you guys don’t say “pee”?
neuquenguy on November 3, 2008 at 10:52 PM
For fun I went to Hillbuzz – those girls are working hard for pianolegs and they are glad to have us along to help defeat BHO.
InTheBellyoftheBeast on November 3, 2008 at 10:52 PM
If McCain pulls this off, I’m hiding out at Erica Jong’s house.
Consoling Lefty starlets.
sulla on November 3, 2008 at 10:52 PM
I’m paranoid – ever since that incident with the baby alligator in the toilet. Let’s not go there.
ManlyRash on November 3, 2008 at 10:52 PM
PBS poll: Palin qualified – 51%. Holding her own. I guess the other 49% have the next 4 years to figure out the truth.
Peri Winkle on November 3, 2008 at 10:53 PM
did HA make it harder to post links in comments now?
jp on November 3, 2008 at 10:53 PM
For some reason Dems don’t like to get wet. I’ve been hoping for a Tuesday rain all week. (Virginia boy)
KCB on November 3, 2008 at 10:53 PM
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