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Al Franken has challenged this ballot.

Yes, taxpayer dollars are being spent so that the state of Minnesota can decide whether this ballot should be counted or not. Franken would have you believe that it is unclear who this person voted for.

I have referred to this type of childish nonsense before as “due-process logic.” Technically, the voter did not follow instructions properly, so technically the ballot may be challenged, but the spirit of these laws is being ignored for personal gain. How many ballots that were filled out improperly, but that voted for Franken, do you suppose Franken has challenged? Franken is unconcerned with what should happen, but will use the rules to his advantage.

It is clear as day who this person voted for, but Franken isn’t interested. He just wants to win. Liberalism does not concern itself with the truth; it only cares about what it can prove or disprove using the loopholes and burdens of the justice system. If Al Franken can get 1000 ballots that voted for Norm Coleman disqualified because the voter didn’t use the approved shading technique outlined in the voting bylaws, he will get them disqualified gleefully.

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Republicans keep convincing themselves that even though they lost the election, the country is still a center-right country politically. Democrats are convincing themselves that since Obama was elected, and they increased their majorities in Congress, that it is impossible for the country to be center-right. So which is it?

Let’s analyze the Democrats premise. Does voting for a leftist for President mean the country has shifted to the left? Not necessarily. In a post George W. Bush political world, a certain percentage of the electorate will vote for a lawn chair before they’ll vote for a Republican in 2008. I liken this to not rooting for the Falcons because they once employed Michael Vick. Vick was the leader of the Falcons, much like President Bush is the leader of the Republicans, but no one blames the entire Falcon organization for his actions.

So has George W. Bush’s 8 years in office changed the core beliefs of the American people? Of course not. People that were against abortion aren’t now for it because of Bush. People that were for guns rights are not now against it. Those beliefs didn’t change substantially, as shown by polls on major political issues. So why did America vote for Barack Obama?

Because the country thinks Republicans “must be punished” for George W. Bush. The Democrat party has successfully sold the American people that line with the help of the major news networks, the Oscar-created mainstream status of anti-Bush propaganda films like Fahrenheit 9/11, and the inaction of Bush to defend himself. The Democrat party convinced a majority of Americans that voting for John McCain is a vote for George W. Bush. It was so convincing that Americans voted for Obama with excitement and hope for change. Americans ran excitedly to the polls to pull the lever for a man who himself has admitted he isn’t qualified. Those that didn’t run excitedly used every excuse in the book to justify voting for an unqualified, inexperienced junior senator with a terrorist for a friend. Palin derangement syndrome and the stock market plummeting in September assuaged the worries of electing Barack Obama. I have heard Republicans friends say that the thought of Palin being the close to becoming President scares them. I say to myself, “but voting for Obama doesn’t scare you at all…”
I’d like to inform liberals, now that Obama has been elected, that “failed policies of the Bush administration” and “Bush/McCain economics” must be replaced by the actions of Obama. When people question the qualifications of President Obama, answering their question with stuff like “Bush” or “failed policies” will quickly start to piss people off. The issue-by-issues polls have not changed substantially in 2008, so Obama is still dealing with a center-right country. The election of Obama does not disprove this. His election simply proves that people are willing to throw the issues aside when they’re angry with one party. If liberals don’t realize and accept this, they will make some big mistakes in 2009.

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No one else will say it. I’m saying it. Obama has won the election for President of the United States of America. He won it the second McCain lost Ohio and Pennsylvania. ITS OVER. As of 10pm EST, Barack Obama is the next president.

Now you liberals will get to see exactly what change means. George W. Bush was always leaving in January, now his seat will be filled by Barack Obama.

In Virginia, 92% of Blacks voted for Barack Obama. Only 60% of Whites voted for McCain. Who’s racist?

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Fox News is rooting for McCain, and all the other networks are rooting for Obama. Exit polls predicted a Kerry win, and they were wrong, so don’t listen to them. Also, listening to the results of each state breathlessly is a waste of time. Here’s how to simplify it.

Bush got 16 more electoral votes than needed to win in 2004, so Obama would have to get at least 16 of Bush’s states to win.

FL (27, Bush)
PA (21, Kerry)
OH (20, Bush)
NC (15, Bush)
VA (13, Bush)

CO (9, Bush)
IA (7, Bush)
NM (5, Bush)
NV (5, Bush)
NH (4, Kerry)

Obama is going to win California, and McCain is going to win Texas. Not interesting or relevant. You only need to pay attention to the states above. If McCain loses Florida or Ohio, or a combination of multiple smaller states like Virginia and Colorado, he loses. If somehow Obama loses Pennsylvannia, he will probably lose the election.

Reagan and Carter were tied in the polls 2 days before the election, and Reagan won by 8.5 million popular votes and 440 electoral votes. The poll director of the Eagleton Institute of politics has some insight.
“Although the poll shows a clear advantage for Obama, a closer look at the data reveals that much of the lead stems from a disproportionate share of traditional Democrats among early voters.  The poll, for example, samples 50% registered Democrat voters, only 30% Republican voters.  Also, women comprise 60% of the early voter poll sample, while blacks comprise 16%.  Both figures exceed the expected share of the overall pool of likely voters for the two demographic groups, and these groups tend to vote for Democrats.”

So watch those swing states to see if they switch from the Republican column to Democrat, or vice versa.

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Obama said something today that should piss off everyone. He was talking about the high profits of Exxon Mobil this quarter, over $14 billion. Obama actually said, “That’s your money.” Senator Obama, NO IT ISN’T. Exxon Mobil offered a product, gasoline, at a price and millions of Americans chose to buy it. The money belongs to Exxon. Obama believes or wants you to believe Exxon’s money belongs to everyone. That is Marxism. Unadulterated Marxism.

Comments like this are typical of Obama, and he made similar, idiotic comments of demagoguery in his Wednesday infomercial before the final game of the World Series.

• he’ll create “5 million clean enery jobs that can never be outsourced”

Unless he’s gonna create 5 million new government jobs, the President has ZERO authority to regulate the actions of a private entity. So either he wants to expand his own powers, or he thinks government isn’t big enough. Not to mention the statistical fact that domestic jobs have also been increasing despite outsourcing. Outsourcing does not reduce American jobs, as counterintuitive as that is.

• “I will tap our natural gas reserves”

Yet another example of his assumption at your ignorance of the powers of the President. If he wants to help others tap our natural gas reserves, perhaps he could try to get some legislation passed that got the environmentlists out of the way of private companies that have the ability to tap the reserves.

• Claims he will use veto line-items in the budget that he considers earmarks or wasteful

He’s just flat-out lying. The President does not have line-item veto power. He will either let these items through as every president before him has done, or he will be overridden by Congress, who won’t let him veto every single budget.

• He’ll “remember soldiers are sons and daughters” as President

The President of the United States is Commander in Chief of the most powerful military in the world. Obama’s job would be to protect 300 million sons and daughters. Decisions must be made quickly and unemotionally, and any president who hesitates to send a son or daughter to die to protect ten other sons and daughters, 100 sons and daughters, 1000 sons and daughters, does not have the temperance or maturity to lead this country.

• “In six days, we can choose hope over fear and unity over division…”

Obama is currently at 49.9% in the polls, 1% less than George W. Bush got in 2004. I guess Bush had more unity.

• “John McCain and Sarah Palin they call [spreading the wealth around] socialistic. You know I don’t know when, when they decided they wanted to make a virtue out of selfishness.” (from a speech 2 days after the 10/29 infomercial)

They appear to have made selfishness a virtue around the same time you made socialism popular. I hate to use a presently overused cliche, but Obama is trying to put lipstick on socialism and call it something else. Socialism and Marxism have definitions; they have concrete meanings, as does capitalism. Obama does not get to modify their definitions simply because a large portion of the country are easily pleased by demagoguery and class warfare.

Folks, he’s not even hiding it anymore. I know you want out of Iraq now, but at what price?

A new Rasmussen poll shows McCain has regained the public’s trust on the economy and taxes. McCain lost this poll after the collapse of Lehman Brothers, and the sharp decline of the entire market shortly thereafter. McCain is preferred by voters 47% to 45% for Obama on taxes. McCain also leads 48% to 47% on the economy, and 45% to 44% on Social Security. McCain is still down in the generic voting polls.

All the talk of hope and change and “failed policies of the last 8 years” were blown out by 4 words: spread the wealth around. Not that you should celebrate if it sinks Obama’s campaign; John McCain thinks that Wall Street should be punished. You’re not gonna punish them by taking their money, are you John?

Joe the Plumber was able to ask a more hard-hitting relevant question than all the debate moderators combined. Now we have the big question: which incompetent, unqualified liar do we vote for? Barack, the socialist, possibly racist, incompetent, unqualified liar, or John, the global-warming-believing, fiscally moderate, incompetent, unqualified liar? Obviously John, but don’t tell me you’re excited about it.

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See the videos at mypetjawa where Obama agrees he shouldn’t be running… at least before he started. I’d love to see him asked about his comments…

“That’s not the man I knew.” Barack thought he knew Barack, but after seeing these comments perhaps he’ll have to disassociate himself.
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Wednesday, Barack Obama has a half-hour ad playing before the World Series Game 6 on 3 networks. If he is able to win, he will follow up his use of free speech in a free marketplace to make it illegal to do what he just did.

Press Secretary Michael Ortiz outlined Obama’s position on the Fairness Doctrine:

“He considers this debate to be a distraction from the conversation we should be having about opening up the airwaves and modern communications to as many diverse viewpoints as possible,” Ortiz added. “That is why Sen. Obama supports media-ownership caps, network neutrality, public broadcasting, as well as increasing minority ownership of broadcasting and print outlets.”

The airwaves are OPEN. There is no restriction on who can own a radio station, especially not based on the race of the prospective owner. I suppose the Senator thinks that having affirmative action forced upon the world of radio would make it more “fair” in some way.

He wants to have “network neutrality.” In America, people have the right to not be neutral. If there were only 4 channels, I could see maybe regulating the content, but there are substantially more than 4. AM radio stations, FM, Network television, cable television, sattelite radio, and the near infinite number of websites make limiting the content or partisanship of any of these media moot.

Reinstituting the fairness doctrine would certainly deem Senator Obama’s 30 minute special as “unfair” and unequal time for only one point of view. Perhaps the fairness doctrine might require Obama to give 15 minutes of his 30 to Senator McCain in the relentless pursuit of fairness. Even though Senator Obama told Philly fans he is rooting for them, and Tampa fans he is rooting for them, I guarantee he’s rooting for Tampa to extend the series just one more day. Wouldn’t want Philadelphia to reduce viewership too early by winning the thing on Tuesday.

An ABC/Washington Post poll has Obama running away with an 11 point lead. CNN/Opinion Research says his lead is 5. AP/Gfk has Obama up by only 1, a virtual tie.

The reason is pollsters don’t just ask questions and report the results. They weight the results based on how the electorate is made up. If they poll 1000 republicans and 500 democrats, by chance, they can’t just report the results. They’re not representative, because their aren’t twice as many republicans as democrats. The problem that arises is figuring out the exact makeup of the electorate.

Obviously, the pollsters disagree on the makeup of the electorate. 11 point difference between one poll and another show that someone is severely inaccurate. You also have to pay attention to what kind of poll it was. There are registered voter polls and likely voter polls. Big difference. So how do you know who is telling the truth?

The poll that most accurately reported the results in 2004, Investor’s Business Daily, has Obama leading McCain 44.8% to 43.7%. 1.1% lead, which is within the margin of error, and obviously the 11% undecided left over certainly will have an effect. Unfortunately, their guess at the makeup of the electorate could be wrong too, as the candidacy of Obama may have changed it a point or two. Basically, the only poll you might be able to believe is the election results on November 5. Even then, issues with ACORN etc. will certainly make for a long holiday season.

Gore won the popular vote in 2000, so a national poll is a bit irrelevant anyway. I would pay attention to swing state polls. Pennsylvania, Ohio, Florida, Missouri, New Hampshire, Virgina, North Carolina. McCain appears he will get Ohio and Florida as Bush did, but will probably lose North Carolina. McCain needs to hold onto a bunch more states, OR win Pennsylvania. If McCain wins PA, Obama is in big trouble. Watch Pennsylvania, the state Obama and Murtha have stated the residents “cling to their guns and religion.”

Watch the video yourself… gosh, what would you call this switch of position?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDVUPqoowf8

Why this isn’t being run day in and day out on every network by the McCain campaign is beyond my comprehension. Perhaps they’re holding onto it for another week or so…