Comments on: Will Rogers Wouldn’t Recognize the Dems in Missouri

By: woid

woid — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 04:41:30 +0000

Peterr…

Excellent. When our two kids were in the womb, my wife and I started telling them (via her belly button) “Democrats good. Republicans bad.” Can’t start too early.

The Obama call you got might not have come from Missouri at all. I’ve been phone banking here in California, and we’ve been using the identical script to call people in swing states, including Missouri, as well as Nevada, North Carolina, and Florida. The organization of the campaign is just spectacular.

I’m hoping that the ground game will elevate Barack by a couple of points over what the polls are saying. (That, and the unsurveyed by most polls cell phone users.) That would give us Missouri and possibly a few other formerly red states. If you want to be REALLY optimistic, it’s not out of the question for Barack to approach or even surpass 400 electoral votes.

Let us pray.

By: Peterr

Peterr — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 00:01:21 +0000

From April through August, the Pollster.com trend line had McCain up by about 7 points. The fact that it’s tied now is not a good thing for the GOP.

We’ll see if Obama can pull it out . . . but I’m guessing he will.

By: marshen

marshen — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 23:49:41 +0000

They just showed Obama at a rally talking about his grandmother, so sad. He did his best to honor her and work it in to the stump speech at the same time. What strength he has, just amazing!

By: bdub78

bdub78 — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 23:31:09 +0000

Great story. I too have had quite a bit of contact from the Obama campaign and am excited about the organization. I personally will be spending all day in the north part of the City of St. Louis as a part of the Voter Protection Program as a vote challenger (a total misnomer, as we have been instructed not to challenge a single vote). If you think that is impressive, wait til you get a load of what they will be doing on election day.

I hope Peterr is right, but I am not so confident about Missouri going for Obama. Here is hoping!

By: lesserdevil

lesserdevil — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 23:18:47 +0000

This must be one of those socialist terrorist supporter sites John McCain told me so much about. You even involved your son…

Okay. I had to stop the snark before I got sick. Your post made me laugh. Obviously you raised him right if he’s hanging up on wingnuts.

By: Raven

Raven — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 23:09:04 +0000

Maya Angelou: What I’ve encouraged voters to do is to vote for the person I am extolling, and also don’t expect that if your man or woman gets in, that all things will be rectified immediately. It’s taken us a long time to come to this place of weariness and almost hopelessness.

So because Obama gets in or McCain gets in, it’s not going to be repaired overnight. The economy is not going to be repaired, the schools — the disaster in our schools — will not be repaired overnight. Nor will the social conversation be repaired overnight.

However, I would encourage every voter to say to his or her candidate, go in and do it, and you will not do it alone. I will help. You have to get up off that sofa or off that couch and give something to the country — even if it’s one hour every other week to an old people’s home — I will read, go into the children’s ward and read, or give to your church or your synagogue or your mosque. … Offer something to the country. So you don’t just sit there.

By: tw3k

tw3k — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 23:07:39 +0000

guess i’m the 4th kinda person. the one that grabs the fence and touches ya.

By: SouthernDragon

SouthernDragon — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 23:06:57 +0000

Yep.

By: Quebecois

Quebecois — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 23:06:26 +0000

Cool kids, he gets it.

You’ve teached him well, CSNY would be proud.

By: Raven

Raven — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 23:05:48 +0000

Like this one?