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Looks great to me but do you have the link so we can read it? Thanks!Quote:
Originally Posted by DogtorEvil
Thanks! Great site.Quote:
Originally Posted by DogtorEvil
thank db2. The person who runs the site is a numbers geek. But, he's also a lib.Quote:
Originally Posted by TYLERTECHSAS
[/SIZE]Democrats on Capitol Hill fear Obama fallout
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/6c2f69ce-8...077b07658.html
Democratic jitters about the US presidential race have spread to Capitol Hill, where some members of Congress are worried that Barack Obama’s faltering campaign could hurt their chances of re-election.
Party leaders have been hoping to strengthen Democratic control of the House and Senate in November, but John McCain’s jump in the polls has stoked fears of a Republican resurgence.A Democratic fundraiser for Congressional candidates said some planned to distance themselves from Mr Obama and not attack Mr McCain.
“If people are voting for McCain it could help Republicans all the way down the ticket, even in a year when the Democrats should be sweeping all before us,” said the fundraiser, a former Hillary Clinton supporter.
“There is a growing sense of doom among Democrats I have spoken to . . . People are going crazy, telling the campaign ‘you’ve got to do something’.”
Concern was greatest among first-term representatives who won seats in traditionally Republican districts in the landslide of 2006. “Several of them face a real fight to hold on to those seats,” the fundraiser said.
Tony Podesta, a senior Democratic lobbyist, said members of Congress were “a little nervous” after Mr McCain shook up the race with his choice of Sarah Palin as running mate and intensified attacks on Mr Obama.
“Republicans have been on the offensive for the past two weeks . . . You don’t win elections on the defensive.”
The campaign manager for a first-term Democratic congressman from a blue-collar district in the north-east rejected suggestions that Mr Obama had become a liability. He said his candidate would reach out to Republicans and avoid attacks on Mr McCain.
Obama's electoral map
Today: McCain 289, Obama 249
http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/
So true. Americans better think long and hard when we start letting the world determine who we elect as our President.Quote:
Originally Posted by DogtorEvil
I guess that we might as well not hold the election since it's a foregone conclusion that McCain will win. What with those electronic voting machines with no paper trail and all.
Nothing wrong with foreigners having an opinion about Presidents or candidates. AS I recall, Richard Nixon was more popular overseas than here just before he resigned.
No there is nothing wrong with having an opinion. When that world opinion influences who we choose as our president, I think there is something wrong with that.Quote:
Originally Posted by saltydawg
just a couple of months ago it was a foregone conclusion that Barackish was going to win (by 100+ electoral votes no less).Quote:
Originally Posted by saltydawg
Having that speech in Berlin to me just came across as arrogant. I was talking to myself as those europeans yelled and yelled saying "You don't have a vote in this election." Yet the media was fawning all over it like it meant something.
I think that same site had Kerry leading Bush the entire time as well.
I'm pretty sure it probably did. The guy that runs the site is a lib. He will err on the side of calling a state blue well after it looks like it is actually red.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ken_Horndawgs
One of the things that was mentioned over the weekend, was that Big media and the "old guard" major newspapers in the north east wanted Obama to be the next president. They did not really investigate or publish many of his associates or hold him to the same level of criticism and scrutiny that they did of other democratic candidates and certainly not of the level they did to republican candidates. Nothing really came out publically in main stream media until after the super tuesday elections, which by then, Obama had built up such a lead over Clinton that she could not over take him. If you look at his primary election results after Super Tuesday and when you started to hear things in the mass media regarding his background and his policies in more detail, he did very poorly in the following elections and Hillary did very well. My point is that if the media had treated him the same as all of the other candidates, he would not be the democratic candidate for president now.