Well Obama's heater is over - it's 49-45 with Obama holding a 4 point leading, not as good as yesterday's 50-44. But I still think it's the economy, stupid.
Doomers blog made me realize that I should have been telling people how to register to vote as part of my blog posts. It's a hell of a lot easier than you would think, and the Obama campaign has set up a sweet online tool which will help you register, switch to mail in ballot (skip the lines!), find your polling location and more! It only takes a couple minutes and this year is way too important to sit at home when such a small effort on your part will get you registered with a mail in ballot.
You get a fun preview of Crazy McCain statements and funny Obama retorts and then you'll see some new polls which had me going "HELL YEAH!" Click the play button =)
Almost forgot, should probably show gallup:
Dark green is Obama, light green is McCain. Notice Obama hit 50 after his convention, then crashed quickly during the RNC and the initial Palin frenzy. Then McCain had a huge convention bounce peaking @ 49, and then started a slow downfall until the economy got bad and Obama sky rocketed on what I guess we'd call an "economy bounce", leaving us at 49-44 Obama. This could even out again or it could be the big turning point where Obama holds strong. It was about this time in the election season when Bill Clinton took his solid lead over bush senior and held it through the election. Who knows!
This is part of that Republican strategy of Lie, Lie, Lie, and when you're proven to be lying, keep fucking doing it. If you didn't already know, the "Bridge to Nowhere" that Palin keeps saying she rejected was something she actually supported. According to Factcheck.org:
Palin may have said “Thanks, but no thanks” on the Bridge to Nowhere, though not until Congress had pretty much killed it already. But that was a sharp turnaround from the position she took during her gubernatorial campaign, and the town where she was mayor received lots of earmarks during her tenure.
Despite all the news organizations pointing out that she's LYING, she still goes out there and says it in her stump speech. WTF? They must think we're all idiots. If someone lied to you, you went and found out it was a lie, and you came back and told em you knew the truth and they just kept lying and lying and lying, I think you'd be pretty pissed off. You'd at least look at them as some sort of pathological liar, lunatic or complete scumbag. Anyway, here's a fun clip of her telling her lie... over, and over, and over again.
She's also either lying about energy or has no clue wtf she's talking about, as she's recently claimed that Alaska provides 20$ of all the lower 48's energy... which is WRONG. Again, according to FactCheck.org:
Palin claims Alaska "produces nearly 20 percent of the U.S. domestic supply of energy." That's not true.
Alaska did produce 14 percent of all the oil from U.S. wells last year, but that's a far cry from all the "energy" produced in the U.S.
Alaska's share of domestic energy production was 3.5 percent, according to the official figures kept by the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
And if by "supply" Palin meant all the energy consumed in the U.S., and not just produced here, then Alaska's production accounted for only 2.4 percent.
All the things that seemed "good" about Palin originally are turning out to be lies, and the things that are true scare me (anti-abortion, scarily religious, doesn't believe in global warming). I hope more people are seeing through her BS. The polls seem to indicate that they are.
Again, another reason I like Obama, cause he does ads like this:
Rather than lying ads like this:
Factcheck.org rips McCain's ad apart here saying 'A McCain campaign ad claims Obama's "one accomplishment" was a bill to teach sex ed to kindergarten kids. Don't believe it.' And if you do a bit of research you'll see pretty much every major news source calling the above ad a lie.
Plus, the funniest line of the campaign so far:
Also, can any conservatives who read this please do me a favor and post in the comments with URL's to right wing blogs and so on. I mean, I like to read huffpost - what's the right wing equivalent? What's the right wing daily kos? I wanna know so I can read those too. Trying to stay up on both sides and I realize I haven't given enough effort to checking the far right out. Brian, I am particularly hoping you'll help out here. Thanks
I know I'm late but I was outta town and way too busy to blog, but I'm back and catching up by reading a weeks worth of news in one day, and I found a clip that shows why I like Obama:
Btw, if McCain is so damn healthy why is he hiding his health records? Seems pretty fucked up to me =
And a fun read:
She said "nucular." Twice.
I realized three things tonight. For one, if you are a McCain/Palin/Bush voter, you and I do not have a difference of opinion. We have a difference in brain power. Two, she really is as ignorant as I feared. And, three, she really is kinda hot. Basically, I want to have sex with her on my Barack Obama sheets while my wife reads aloud from the Constitution. (My wife is cool with this if I promise to "first wipe off Palin's tranny makeup." I married well.)
Now, I want to be clear and speak directly to those of you who LOVED that Palin interview. You're an idiot. I mean that. This is not one of those cases where we're going to agree to disagree. This isn't one of those situations where we debate it passionately and then walk away thinking that the other guy is wrong but argued well. I'm not going to think of you as a thoughtful but misguided person with different ideas who still really cares about the country and the world. No, sorry, not this time. This time, if you watched those interview excerpts and weren't scared out of your freakin' mind, then you're mentally ill, mentally disabled, or mentally disturbed. What you are NOT is responsible, informed, curious, thoughtful, mature, educated, empathetic, or remotely serious. I mean it.
But I like to think that anyone can change.
Stop voting for people you want to have a beer with. Stop voting for folksy. Stop voting for people who remind you of your neighbor. Stop voting for the ideologically intransigent, the staggeringly ignorant, and the blazingly incompetent.
Vote for someone smarter than you. Vote for someone who inspires you. Vote for someone who has not only traveled the world but who has also shown a deep understanding and compassion for it. The stakes are real and they're terrifyingly high. This election matters. It matters. It really matters. Let me say that one more time. This. Really. Matters.
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