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wowimthere Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-20-08 11:22 AM
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Obama! Just keep doin' what you do!
Polls! Pundits! Media! All of you have been wrong about Obama. He's proven all of you wrong. And get this... he's going to keep proving all of you naysayers, liars, egotistical prognosticators wrong. The Obama campaign has taken the wind out of many a sails and they're not done yet. Remember when Clinton had her win in the bag? "it will be over after super tuesday." Remember Giuliani? How about Romney? McCain should just drop out. All of these musings. WRONG! And yet we quickly forgot how our mediocre class of mis-informers led us astray. Pundits and media whores have sold the American people a bill of goods. The media understands that everything they've been wrong about is forgotten by the next election cycle and they can feed the American people more bullshit... ad-nauseum.

The polls... the pundits... the media... put it out there for public consumptions. One thing they didn't get. Obama had it all figured out before he decided to run for president. He did his homework. If anyone knows what's going to happen; it's the Obama campaign. They know exactly how this election is going to play out. It doesn't matter what happens between now and election day... Obama's campaign knows the numbers. It's in the math.

Polls? Ha!
Pundits? Whatever!
Media? If that's what you call it!

All of them have been wrong about Obama. When Obama had the primaries all sewed up after winning those slew of caucuses and primaries the media knew it was over and yet they all encouraged Clinton to stay in.

No matter what your media and polls say, one thing that can not be erased. This country doesn't want the next 8 years to resemble the last 8. That is the bottom line. McCain is Bush. The country knows it. Neo-Cons and the media are the only ones who want to keep putting lipstick on the pig.

Obama, to his credit is going to do this his way. And he should. He's been right about everything, right down to the margin of victories and losses in the Democratic Primaries. So why listen to the polls, pundits, media?

Obama is telling us all we really need to know.

Obama! Just keep doin' what you do!
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dkf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-20-08 11:24 AM
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1. Hillary hadn't gone negative yet. Once she did, she started doing better.
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FrenchieCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-20-08 11:26 AM
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3. Hillary was a Democrat....and Obama didn't really attack her.......
Edited on Wed Aug-20-08 11:27 AM by FrenchieCat
This will not be the same thing.

Plus Hillary was ahead in all of the polls in the states that she was favored. 20 point leads everywhere........
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wowimthere Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-20-08 11:32 AM
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7. who won in the end though? Obama. He knew what he was up against and everyone else did too.
But he won.
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dkf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-20-08 11:34 AM
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9. Because he racked up enough votes with his big MO after Super Tuesday.
If the General had taken place over time, then Obama would be doing wonderfully today, because he would have banked all that earlier mo. But it all comes down at the end.
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oviedodem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-20-08 11:24 AM
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2. I hate to say it but he is going to have to do something different b/c
this country in general does not have common sense. If it did, Bush would NEVER have been elected. Kerry and Gore were far superior and look what happened to them.
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wowimthere Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-20-08 11:31 AM
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5. it's not so much the country... it's the people in charge of the voting processes... Ohio just did
something that goes a long way toward correcting this problem. Election workers can not take the voting machines home. Others will follow.

In 2000 and 2004, the elections were stolen by a handful of people. And the media paved the way for perception. Perception creates reasoning but once those roadblocks are gone, the perception falls apart. If Dems run the gamut on senate and congressional seats, Obama will win. The people who control the processes for the senate and congressional races are the same people who control the presidential race.
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npincus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-20-08 11:26 AM
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4. President Kerry agrees wholeheartedly.
Sure, why not wait 2 weeks to respond to McCain's "celebrity" ad, when it can fester and get played on cable media ad nauseum w/ *crickets* from Obama.

If you or others don't think he needs to come down on McLoser much harder since McLoser's been scoring with gutterballs, you are kidding yourself.

Hillary, the frontrunner, thought she would coast to the nomination. (Obama better sharpen his game. Repubs are the masters at dirt and winning presidential races through filthy tactics- they just can't govern.)

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geek tragedy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-20-08 11:32 AM
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6. Just like Dukakis was awesome! n/t
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wowimthere Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-20-08 11:33 AM
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8. Dukakis didn't have a W term preceeding him.
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wowimthere Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-20-08 11:43 AM
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10. i like when Obama laughs and asks people to calm down about what will
happen if they swift boat him. He's not worried and nor am I.
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