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2008-05-07 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by Steve White 2008-05-07 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 R We looking at recount in Indy???

Posted by anonymous2u 2008-05-07 02:05|| 2008-05-07 02:05|| Front Page Top

#2 Retired dectective Mark Furman and prosecuter Marcia Clark could explain this apparent Indiana - North Carolina anomaly to us I'm sure.

Posted by Besoeker 2008-05-07 04:55|| 2008-05-07 04:55|| Front Page Top

#3 Obama increased his lead by 6 delegates, and the fact that he can't close the deal is irrelevant, so Hilly should just drop out, now, gracefully, throw her full support behind Messiah Obama, and go on to defeat the Bush-clone-McCain.

I'm surprised smn has not already said this. Maybe he/she was up late watching the returns?

Posted by Bobby 2008-05-07 06:35|| 2008-05-07 06:35|| Front Page Top

#4 MSNBC:
In North Carolina, an estimated one-third of all ballots were cast by black voters, and Obama claimed support from roughly 90 percent of them. Clinton won 60 percent of the white vote. Only Democrats and unaffiliated voters were permitted to vote in North Carolina.

But nearly half of voters in both states said the controversy over incendiary sermons by Obama's former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, was very or somewhat important to their vote. In Indiana, nearly three-quarters of those who said it was important voted for Clinton though those who said so and voted for Obama may have signaled approval of his handling of the situation.

In both states, whites and blacks were about as likely to call the situation important. But whites were much more likely to vote for Clinton if they said so. Black voters made up a third of the North Carolina Democratic electorate but were only about one in seven in Indiana.

Latest National polls of likely Democratic voters
Date ........ Poll ........... Obama Clinton
4/30-5/4 Ipsos Poll ......... 40 ... 47
5/1-3 .... USA Today Poll 44 ... 51
5/1-3 .... CBS News Poll 50 ... 38

Posted by ed 2008-05-07 08:23|| 2008-05-07 08:23|| Front Page Top

#5 Geez Ed, is this saying that the USA & CBS polls are 14% out of phase for the same time period???????

Anyone out there still think that polls mean anything?

Oh, BTW, if it's racist for whites to vote for Clinton; is it racist for Blacks to vote for 'bama?

Posted by AlanC 2008-05-07 10:07|| 2008-05-07 10:07|| Front Page Top

#6 No, Obama speaks for most blacks. It is approaching insanity for whites to vote for Obama however. First, he is a socialist. At best, he will expand the giveaway programs with an obvious favor toward black city folk. Why this is necessary or what good comes from it escapes me, but it will solidify his standing as the black Messiah. We need a president who takes leadership in the real problem area. We need a secure borders, anti-Islam, energy solutions kind of president.

(crickets)

For those who don't get to hear Mark Levin, yesterday, in his monolog he states that McCain is not going around the country campaigning with other Republicans....McCain has no coat tails. McCain is all by himself, not a leader, not a team player, just an ego, a hard headed, self rightious jerk who has no clue of what the people want. Levin is right, what kind of man is this ? We laughed at John Kerry who thought he was a veteran of war. Well, now we have a fool who thinks he is the great leader. Napoleon, no doubt.

Posted by wxjames 2008-05-07 10:30|| 2008-05-07 10:30|| Front Page Top

#7 McCain isn't campaigning with other Repubs right now because the Repubs down ticket still are going through their primaries.

If McCain campaigned with them now, he'd be accused, correctly, of taking sides. That would cause hard feelings.

Once the primaries are over and the Repubs down-ticket are set, I expect McCain to be out there with them, to the extent that he's wanted.

Posted by Steve White">Steve White 2008-05-07 11:47|| 2008-05-07 11:47|| Front Page Top

#8 McCain is a RINO who was basically picked by Dems and Independents voting in the early Republican primaries and later by the OMGABH (OMG anybody but Huckabee)Republicans. For him to be elected would require the public to clearly see Obama as the socialist he is and pick McCain as the lesser of two evils - not likely. The Republic survived Jimmy Carter and can, probably, survive Obama.

Posted by RWV 2008-05-07 12:18|| 2008-05-07 12:18|| Front Page Top

#9 Graduated public school mid 90's - this very scenario of crossover voting was all but encouraged by many government teachers.

I see advantage to McCain not campaigning, "Why fight the pigs for leftover slop." He can quietly go about under the radar, build a some plans, and let the d's write the material for him, then weigh his vp choice based upon his opponent. Even if he was out campaigning in force the TV has dedicated so much air time to the d contention that it would be very difficult to get word in edge wise. When the d's embarass themselves in Denver (damned if they do damned if they don't) then get'em knock the d's off balance and cost them at least a month to recover.

Posted by swksvolFF 2008-05-07 17:53|| 2008-05-07 17:53|| Front Page Top

#10 The best blurb for why McCain must get my vote, which I saw at another blog:

"This is the message that non-Ivy League white Americans must hear: you will be shafted by the racist blacks surrounding Barry Obama and his guilt tripped white elites. They are going to royally stick it to you. They perceive you to be dirt and deserving of being filthed on. You must vote for the less than perfect John McCain purely for reasons of self preservation."

Posted by no mo uro 2008-05-07 21:10|| 2008-05-07 21:10|| Front Page Top

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