The Republican National Convention has given John McCain and his party a significant boost, a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll taken over the weekend shows, as running mate Sarah Palin helps close an “enthusiasm gap” that has dogged the GOP all year.
McCain leads Democrat Barack Obama by 50%-46% among registered voters, the Republican’s biggest advantage since January and a turnaround from the USA TODAY poll taken just before the convention opened in St. Paul. Then, he lagged by 7 percentage points.
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In the new poll, taken Friday through Sunday, McCain leads Obama by 54%-44% among those seen as most likely to vote. The survey of 1,022 adults, including 959 registered voters, has a margin of error of +/ 3 points for both samples.
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Perhaps the progressives should have taken their own longstanding advice and kept their noses out of the Palin womyn’s uteri…
(h/t STACLU)
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update: a cautious but cautionary flaming skull.
Question: how many elections will people like Marcotte lose her party before they decide to leave the salon while she’s off taking a wee wee, or fetching another bottle of red?
I’m sure Sully will be will face this with his usual aplomb…
Have a 2 day E roll , completely with large, black men, probing the depths of his colon-till his backside looks like the O! salute , and then resume breathlessly transcribing any salacious rumor involvin Palin proffered…
In other words, standard operating procedure since she was announced !!!
Your uteris is their uteris….hands off your uteris.
Double Mcain’s SS protection. The left is gonna go wild.
Anyone else getting off on the irony of Democrats/progressives/MSM/Feminists repeatedly decrying the Palin pick as a cynical attempt to woe women voters?
Comment by Bob Reed on 9/7 @ 9:24 pm #
Sully has been pounding the table for Biden’s health records like he doesn’t think anyone gets that he’s really after Palins’. New York Times broke his heart again today. Alas, he won’t stop until there is an OJ trial like DNA presentation…and we all know how that turned out
Andrew lost whatever sack he might have had a long time ago.
Topsecretk9, yes I am getting off on the delicious irony of watching leftists turn themselves inside out to try & smear Palin in exactly the ways they have always decried as foul, low and sexist.
I only hope that after the election, the Obamanators wake up feeling like all those 12 year olds in the Children’s Crusade
Poor Baracky peaked too soon. I’m really kind of glad.
Wooing women sometimes causes woe.
Woo Woo
Looks like nows the time to drop some money on Obama.
You mean Sully’s balls finally dropped? Next, you’ll be telling me that he’s growing scrotal hair and his voice is deepening. Riiiiiight.
Let me know when he discovers “girls”.
Oh, wait.
NTTAWWT….
Topsecretk9, I am loving watching the feminists fall on their swords. In fact, it’s actually made me excited at the prospect of returning to my liberal academic workplace at the end of the month. I had been bemoaning returning to the O!fest but now I’m looking forward to the fun. Not sure I’ll be able to contain my glee as I watch all the feminists fretting and sighing. (They really are a needy lot!) It’s great to be a (real) woman!!
Baracky’s media took the war off the table, and 95% of Baracky’s message is McCain is Bush. A huge number of millions of people saw McCain in that framing the other day, and ohnoes he didn’t look very much like Bush at all. That’s a mortal blow to Baracky.
So now it will be economy economy recession depression economy and also economy. But that meme peaked too soon too.
Poor Baracky peaked too soon.
I see Barack as kind of “The New $25,000 Pyramid”. The original 10K Pyramid was really popular when you had such a collection of second tier stars like Betty White and Gavin MacLeod. Times were simpler. But now here comes The New Pyramid and commercials that call it just “Pyramid” with guests like Jm J Bullock, Peter Scolari and Joe Biden and it’s just not believable anymore. Even with the new hi-tech set.
Have y’all seen this yet? (lovingly borrowed from the comments at neo-neocon)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yiurw9T5p_s
The most important thing here is that I am going to pull in roughly 150 bucks on bets against friends of mine who doubted my ability to see into the future.
During the run-up to the 2004 election I was an active participant in an on-line discussion group which was almost evenly divided between Lefties and Righties (which rarely happens anymore). Us regulars had been meeting daily for several years to debate politics. As the election approached our debates had grown stale from daily repetition. Then, some of the social conservatives began framing the choice between Bush and Kerry in a new way: They began portraying a vote for Bush as a way to express what I’ll call (for lack of a better phrase) “redneck pride.”
As a West Coast urbanite who is fairly liberal on social and cultural issues that attitude didn’t resonate with me personally. Also, having engaged with these people almost every day for several years I knew these social conservatives to be sharp, sophisticated, urbane people. The emphasis on red state or redneck cultural values struck me as a kind of phony pose. I was completely caught off guard by the way this framing re-ignited their passion. They could argue the ins and outs of Iraq war strategy and politics as well as any TV pundit, but by election time their heart wasn’t really in it. They were just going through the motions, and so were the Lefties. As soon as someone framed the election as a referendum on cultural values, or a chance to give a shout-out for small town, rural, Western or Southern values the conservatives caught fire.
I think the same phenomenon is happening on the Right nationwide right now in response the the vicious Left-wing/MSM attack on Sarah Palin as a white trash hick. I’m beginning to get the sense for the first time that the Republican ticket might actually win in November, and if they do historians will note that DKos and the MSM (pardon the redundancy) awoke a sleeping giant.
Comment by Tim P on 9/7 @ 10:37 pm #
I wasn’t just talking about the left’s default smear machine mode, I’m talking about the Democrats/progressives/MSM/Feminists telling the “american people” that women are just pawns to be a appealed to because they are so emotional and irrational and are ready to be preyed upon, rather than you know what they said like 10 days ago were a thinking breed that “swayed” elections.
Recall, Democrats/progressives/MSM/Feminists used to tout the stupid dumb=bitches who brought orange slices to the soccer games. Soccer moms were smart! way back in 1992.
Eagleton meme lives! Brain farts will not be defeated!
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/
– I don’t blame them. DKos and Hamsher just want to recapture their other great political victory in Connecticut.
oops – direct link to Joe Biden – McCain’s #1 campaigner and candidate on the Democrat’s ticket.
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/09/oh-that-joe-n-5.html
How about a little rednecked momma’s pride and joy?
– Jess keep a-chompin that bone Lefties.
I predict Sullivan now commits suicide in a desperate attempt to draw attention away from his deranged, delusional and sickeningly offensive commentary.
BBH
I think they are in the midst of constructing a new McCain/Bush paper maiche’ “Kiss Float” to dog McCain with around the country as we speak.
– With their #1 running against our #2, amd attacking her unmasking the entire feminist actual “agenda”, and a person he has less experience than. I keep pinching myself as the days go by, having a hard time believing they are really that amateurish.
– Either Mel Brooks is scripting things for the Obama campaign, or the Architect has his wavemachine mojo on again.
– Rove, you magnificent Bastard!!!!
You know who’s happy about all this? Country music producers.
“…a new McCain/Bush paper maiche’ “Kiss Float†to dog McCain with…”
– That will be a good backdrop for the Obama/Carter “Kiss” giant mache’ flost to make its debute.
– Maybe they could choose at least one of the opportunities not to step on their own cranks, but I doubt it.
I didn’t know that Randy Andy had a sack…though he gave that up when he ‘switch sides of the plate’.
That chant at the RNC “Drill, Baby, Drill”…what about a chant for the natural Gas pipeline – “LAY THAT PIPE!”
– I still bet Biden is asking hiself wtf he got himself involved in.
I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas, but what I decided to do was to fulfill my profession which I entered before my husband was in public life.
giggle.
– I still bet Biden is asking hiself wtf he got himself involved in.
I do too. I could tell when he assured voters in Florida that if they were looking for :
“I’ve got to tell you, I’m tired,” Biden continued. “Let me tell you. If you’re looking for a very sophisticated, Harvard graduate who went to Columbia undergrad and was president of the Law Review, he’s totally intellectual. Baby, you ain’t seen nothing yet. This guy is steel. This guy is steel, and I assure you that.”
that he was in for the free drinks.
that he was in for the free drinks. at this point
Redneck pride? Retards in Oklahoma (apologies to real retards for the Okie sliming) feeling affinity for retards in Alaska? Really. That’s just warms my Southern-fried gas.
Sounds more like hick-tarded White Pride. I just have a tin ear the call of Hicks Unite!
You’re going to get the boot. Face it.
TSK9, how about some T. Palin to go with your HRC quote?: “If I’d had a crystal ball a few years ago, I might have asked a few more questions when Sarah decided to join the PTA. It wouldn’t have mattered, though; when my wife starts talking about reform, corruption and making government work for the people, it’s just best to get out of the way.”
Yuengling porter or lager or both?
I had a hair for Red Stripe tonight.
I normally drink Yuengling off the tap though.
lager
Sdferr
And wouldn’t be a hoot if Sarah said “I actually like to make cookies…when I’m not going after corruption”
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PLEASE, if you are in Obama panic mode pullllease whatever you do, do NOT go to democraticunderground. com, they are in need of a difibullator in a big way
heh
–Clinton Insider: “We’re not going to be anyone’s attack dog against Sarah Palin”
â€â€Ace
Mission declined.
I hate to keep making this point, but Obama’s spectacularly failed his first attempt at diplomacy.
I just read that Willie Brown piece on Gov Palin. That is one smart Democrat right there. Are any of his pals listening to him?
sdferr
intheknow88’s comment on the chron was pretty funny —
By the way, there’s a new dining tip for people going out in Oakland.
Be sure to order soup.
That way when the robbery starts, you can slip off your jewelry and drop it into soup so the robbers won’t see it.
This article appeared on page B – 1 of the San Francisco Chronicle
Gotta love Willie Brown – he doesn’t go anywhere where a chauffeur won’t take him and a young, plastic breasted 20 something blonde not attached to his arm.
(I’ve seen first hand many, many nights when he was CA speaker)
actually, it needs to be bolded…I love Willie Brown
y the way, there’s a new dining tip for people going out in Oakland.
Be sure to order soup.
That way when the robbery starts, you can slip off your jewelry and drop it into soup so the robbers won’t see it.
Because lots of Hmong live in Oakland is what he is saying, I think.
(cross-posted from Pub)
This is about the Rasmussen polls, which show a closer race. Note that Rasmussen DISCLOSES how they weight the number of Democrats and Republicans in their polls. Here’s what they say about their daily Presidential tracking poll:
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/election_20082/2008_presidential_election/daily_presidential_tracking_poll
“Looks like nows the time to drop some money on Obama.”
Good idea, thor. Got, say, $1,200?
Thor doesn’t understand this redneck thing, does he? I don’t care for the term, because I usually applied it to less able whites living outside of urban areas. Dogs tied the porch and cars up on blocks.
But, what Palin really represents are people who like to live out in the country. Who hunt and fish and don’t really much care for city types (a class they prolly stereotypes to the same extent that they are stereotypes.) There are no dogs tied up under the porch, but instead lovelingly taught to hunt. Their cars are in EXCELLENT shape, as are their yards. They are handy and talented. Jack of all trades. They get up in the wee hours to fish or hunt. They KNOW things, just different things.
It doesn’t have anything to do with hicks, or smear campaigns or well timed one-liners. For people like me it has to do with someone on either ticket who doesn’t call D.C. home and/or isn’t a g’damn lawyer.
Oh, come now, Eben. Joey Hairplugs rides the train!
I’ve gotta say, this is some damned good schadenfreude. The 2008 vintage may go down as the best year evah!
What Palin really represents, (and it’s why democrats are so frightened by her), is the true American spirit of self-reliance and self-government.
Redneck pride? Retards in Oklahoma (apologies to real retards for the Okie sliming) feeling affinity for retards in Alaska? Really. That’s just warms my Southern-fried gas.
Sounds more like hick-tarded White Pride. I just have a tin ear the call of Hicks Unite!
I nominate Thor to spearhead O!’s white male voter outreach initiative.
That spirit still resonates, it’s what people want for themselves and want in a leader. And it gets in the way of dependence and “cooperation” and notions that able-bodied people are due a share of a pie that others made, and which progressives hope to slice up and dispense with their special powers of fairness.
“I hate to keep making this point, but Obama’s spectacularly failed his first attempt at diplomacy.”
It’s a very good point, worth noting more than once.
That’s what his Whitey-reassurance secret mansion tour was, to let the right kind of white people know he’s not a Chuck D 1989 kinda actually scary black guy, but a pet “radical” of the proper establishment-bred sort. And it did do that. But something else, too.
Just think: If not for that one confused youngster playing journalist by reporting what she instinctively knew was some news — so naive — the clingers would never have known what was in those speeches. They’d have known, sure, but they wouldn’t have been able to point right at it.
That leak started some wheels turning, I think. At the very least, the Palin pick pointedly refers to it.
Completely OT, but I would rather lose to the Bears at home than in the Super Bowl.
Sucks about Brady.
“That’s what his Whitey-reassurance secret mansion tour was, to let the right kind of white people know he’s not a Chuck D 1989 kinda actually scary black guy, but a pet “radical†of the proper establishment-bred sort. And it did do that. But something else, too.”
Classic. So true, too. They (whitey) should have known, however, as there was no flava flav hanging around Barack. Maybe Michelle?
That’s a great video panther girl. When I read the left had a video morphing McCain into Bush I thought someone should make a video comparing Obama to Carter. Well someone did and it was very effective, I thought. Of course I’m so old I can remember those times.
Please, please forgive me. I voted for Carter. I was young and stupid. At least now I’m no longer young.
The legend lives on from the Gray Lady on down
To the network they call “Fair and Balanced.â€Â
The MSNBC, it is said, never gives up her dead
When the skies of September turn gloomy.
With a load of delegates – 2,500 or more
Than the Barack Obama weighed empty
That good ship and true was a bone to be chewed
When the gales of November came early
The ship was the pride of the Democrat side
Rising out of the machine in Chicago
As big ships go it beat out Team Hillary so
With a campaign and the Veep well seasoned.
Concluding some terms with a couple of special interest groups
When they left fully loaded for Cleveland
And later that night when the ships bell rang
McCain announced Sarah Palin.
The Kos and the Dish made a tattletale sound
Claiming that McCain was insane
First it was Trig, and then it was Bristol,
This would finish the old man off early.
Gustav came late and the GOP convention to wait
And bets were being taken when she would drop out
But when the Governor spoke to the assembled folk
The Dems were in the face of a hurricane Palin
When supper time came the old Veep came on deck
Saying I hear that life starts at conception
At 7AM when Intrade caved in
Biden said fellas it’s been good to know ya.
Then Captain hit a shoal called “New Pennsylvania”
And the Dem ship and crew was in peril
And later that night when Mac’s polls went out of sight
Came the wreck of the Barack Obama.
Andrew doesn’t have a sac, it’s a neutered metrosexual.
All you Carter voters are lucky that we have a loving and forgiving God.
Now, the fact that the giant was sleeping is a story in itself. You mean to tell me that most Americans are so bone-headed and/or complacent that they were ready to let a marxist into the White House? O!’s policies would poison American culture and the lives of their children for decades to come–and they were prepared to sit by?
Shame.
That sound was compressed air leaving the no longer power glutes.
Wear and tear on the elderstatesmen/queen takes a ugly turn about this time in life.
Bitterness is to be expected.