Give me a break….have you forgotten how all the polls said John Kerry was in the lead before the 2004 election? All the media were in the tank for him and couldn’t help but point out how he was going to win.

And what happened?

If the Obama camp is so confident that he is winning, then they wouldn’t be trying so hard to steal this election from McCain. Their actions speak louder than their words.

They are obviously so nervous that they are suppressing votes. Next they will sue to keep overseas military ballots from being counted for whatever reasons….

This race isn’t over. It is far from over. I refuse to fall in line with your way of thinking because I did back in 2004….and found it a waste of time.

I take your point. Look, we’re happy the gloves are off; it fires us up. Well Dan’s point is we need to stay fired up until Nov 5th and we need to work hard to win.

Turn out, Turn out, Turn out!

I accept the polls as accurate. Yet we also have seen wild swings in matters of days this cycle. Certainly the expotential growth of alternative forms of media accounts for the ability of elections to change on a dime.

The odds are with Obama. But they aren’t insurmountable odds, and the profusion of information may make this election less analogous to previous ones. In other words, the thing could change tonight. That likely won’t happen, but the traditional mainstream media gatekeepers won’t be able to keep a lid on it if Obama blows it.

we need to continue campaigning, polishing our ranks, undertake grassroot promotion and education and so much more.

The Dems have been campaigning even after 2006 midterm election while all the reps are so SILENT. In fact, the resigned attitude of the republicans is dated back 2006.

We are now the minority party. We need to expand our base…unite our people.

We don’t want to end like Eastern Europe.

Long time lurker, first time poster.

I’m terrified that we’ll look back on this week as the week McCain lost the election. The decision to go negative now looks like a desperate ploy. It should have been done months ago–why weren’t we discussing Ayres and Wright in August?? Now with the economy being a very real issue McCain looks out of touch. He should hit hard tonight where people need to hear him–what will he do to fix this mess? And not focus on Ayres. It is a losing strategy.

…from what the Big Brobama has in mind for the U.S.

Which country is more dynamic right now? Poland? Lithuania?

Or France?

Red staters, I have a question about conservative support for Sarah Palin. I get that conservatives agree with her policies, her political instincts, her values, and her commitment to traditional conservative causes. Those all seem like great reasons for people to support her (and by extension, the top of the ticket). But what I don’t get is how you can argues that she is qualified for the position. If the Democrats had chosen a 20 month governor, former mayor of a small town with no foreign policy or national security experience, would your argument have been: “Yeah, she’s got sufficient qualifications. We just disagree with her policies?”. Seriously?

experience for President Nice try I’ll give you an E for Effort

just listening…go back over to the DKos and spew your filth over there. Do you REALLY want to get into a pi$$ing match about qualifications? If you do:

Bring.It.On.You.Will.Lose.

Name one thing Your Chosen One has accomplished in his life.

2 books whining about the color of his skin.
130+ votes present in the Senate
Wasting $100M running the CAC indoctrinating Chicago youth in the radical ways of Ayers

And the one piece of legislation he has sponsored in the US Senate, the Global Poverty Act, would tax Americans to the tune of $850B over the next 13 years, directly transferring American wealth to the Marxist cesspool of Africa, in addition to the $60B+ the Bush adminstration has already wasted.

Do you really want to talk about THAT?!?!

As for the polls, I have about as much faith in them as I could pick up and throw Bawney Fwank. I’m in VA and there is no way Obama is up by 11. Did you see the sample of that poll? Over the past 4 elections, Ds and Rs have been basically split with Rs up by maybe 3 in voter registration identification. That recent poll sample had D indentifcation up by 9 over Rs. I’m convinced that the polls are in cahoots with the MSM to suppress GOP voter turnout and make it appear that this thing is over. It’s not…no by a longshot.

Look, we got hammered in 1964 and the net result was a resurgence in Republican principles because Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater stood for something true and stayed classy.

We got killed in the House and Senate post-Watergate and came back when Reagan refocused the party on core philosophical principles.

The likelihood is that McCain will go down, but the far more troubling likelihood is that he is going down without a message. He has decided to focus his campaign on attacking Obama personally, which may be justified on the facts of who Obama is but which sows no long term seeds of Republican principles.

McCain would do us, and himself, more good by focusing less on William Ayres and more on why Republican principles of government are right.

As it stands, Democratic and press attacks on reducing government red tape, free trade, allowing workers to choose union free workplaces freely, balancing environmental urges versus having a functioning economy are going unanswered. As it stands, McCain will lose, and leave nothing behind that can be used to rebuild toward 2010 and 2012.

In the long run, it’s not about personal narratives. It’s about views of what government can and should do, and policy decisions that flow from that. Following short sighted advice (and perhaps spurred on by his own lack of core conservative beliefs), McCain has abandoned all serious talk of policy and philosophy to the Democrats. It will cost us.

Rallies do not more than motivate the base, which is crucial; they provide tons of local media opportunities. Candidates will be the lead story on the evening news and they will be on the front page of all the local newspapers the next morning. If they have some time, they can do a ten minute sit down with a local reporter or call a local talk radio for a half an hour.

Others have noticed McCain’s weak campaign schedule, but the campaign is finally letting Palin loose. They cannot worry that she may overshadow McCain. This was her schedule today:

Jacksonville, Florida
The Jacksonville Landing
Doors open: 7:00 am (EDT)
Pensacola, Florida
Pensacola Civic Center
2:30 pm (ED)
Greenville, North Carolina
Minges Coliseum
East Carolina University
Doors open: 5:00 pm (EDT)

This is tremendous. Between McCain and Palin, they campaign should be doing multiple rallies every single day the rest of the way. They don’t have to be joint; each has enough star power on their own to generate energy. Obama does not have that luxury.

I’ve been a supported of John McCain since his 2000 bid. It is painful for me to think how much better we’d all be off now if he had gotten the nod over W. But I guess I’m old school, because the tone John is taking in the last weeks of this election actually reduces his appeal to me. I feel really let down about his campaign admitting they have to go negative in order to have a chance.

It should a complete single random sampling.

The assumption for the composition constitutes the bias of the sampling.

Recall the late Peter Jennings of ABC in some confusion on election night in 1994 describing the results as a national “temper tantrum.”

Let us hope the results will be so confusing to the polls and pundits on the Left that they will be using the same phrase again to describe the booting out of incumbent majority Dems!

Of course if McCain closes like Ford did and Dole did, he would still come up short because as long as you’re closing, you’re still behind.

And honestly, while I think that McCain should certainly win over Barack Obama, I can’t help but think that this is what the GOP gets for nominating an economic illiterate like McCain over the brilliant, articulate turnaround specialist Mitt Romney. You know, someone who actually knows the economy inside out and would have Barack Obama spinning in circles in debates on all matters – but especially on those relating to the number one issues – the economy.

And the GOP wouldn’t be pulling out of Michigan and would be performing much more dominantly in the west.

If McCain falls short this time, hopefully the GOP will wise up and nominate the eminently superior candidate next time.

resurfaced, probably with some help from the usual suspects, during the last few weeks of the election.

Dole had another problem. The government shutdown in 1995 was hugely unpopular with independents and the Dems had a serious chance of retaking Congress. However, the eruption of Clinton fundraising scandals made people more favorably disposed towards divided government.