1. Base united and energized with Palin pick.
2. Strong support from both Independents and Democrats.
3. Obama’s money advantage is shrinking. Party money combine with campaign money makes the money race extremely close.
4. During primaries Obama tended to poll better than he performed except in blowout situations. McCain tended to perform better over even with polls.
5. The youth vote is fickle, the senior vote is not. While no one knows who will turn out in the end, stats say the person who has consistently voted over the years will show up on election day, while first time voters don’t have a strong turn out record.
6. The debates are coming. Question and answer is McCain’s strong suite, and not Obama’s.
7. Volunteer efforts are improved. State volunteer info – Phone from home volunteer info.
8. Energy – Winter’s coming and as Dems stall on the energy bill, and people have to pay for heating oil, gasoline, and electricity; the ‘do everything’ approach of Republicans, already popular, will likely gain more traction as the days get shorter and colder.
9. McCain is a closer. Looking at the primaries as a guide McCain was behind almost the entire election except for election day. Obama, on the other hand, had a burst at the beginning, but had trouble closing out the race even when the numbers were decisively in his favor.
10. The VP picks. Palin brings excitement and energy, no one pays any attention to Biden except when he sticks his foot in his mouth.
There are four more reasons:
1- It is asking a lot from people to vote for somebody who was or is associated to Wright, Ayers and Rezko.
2- As in 2004, war and economics.
3- Objectively, McCain is better than Obama.
4- Obama is playing hide-and-seek.
By: BA on September 21, 2008
at 10:25 am
then there is the fact that noone wants to vote for a sexist egotistical lying hypocritical socialist moron who gives a good speech.
By: sam*i*am on September 21, 2008
at 11:28 am
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By: Positive Signs for the McCain Campaign « Blogs for McCain on September 21, 2008
at 9:24 pm
It has come to light that some of Obama’s advisors were CEO’s of the failed Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
His donations, from Fannie Mae, over the years for his campaign have been over $100,000.
Obama achides Mccain about lobbyists on his campaign staff and then it was disclosed that he accepted money from Fannie May execs. A change we can believe in…..not !
Obama seems hypocritical !
It’s interesting that the chairman of the senate banking committee Chris Dodd received about $165,000 from Fannie and Freddie. His committee is supposed to conduct oversight ohfthe financial institutions. Sleeping at the switch there Dodd ?
Whre was Obama when McCain supported a bill which may have headed off this financial crisis ?
By: Paul on September 22, 2008
at 12:00 am
If Republicans, Democrats and Independents stick together and work very hard until election night, we may be able to defeat one of the most divisive and scary charlatan old-style, ruthless politicians in modern US history.
He has accumulated 140 lies and false statements and unbelievably still growing, while simultaneously turning to negative, smear merchant campaign tactics that he says he so loathes. He has changed postion on so many issues that I don’t think he even remembers. He has broken his promises, called on his supporters to harrass any oppostion (weren’t these tactics in the beginning of the Nazi Movement?) has quickly evolved into a professional flipflopper, grossly decieved the public about his involvement with terrorists like William Ayers and his wife, Mrs. Dorhn along with other corrupt individuals and instituion(s), has demonstrated indecisive tednedencies in foreign policy emergencies, was tremendously helped in the IL state senate where he didn’t know whether to vote “yes” or “no” and instead voted ‘present” over 130 times, hasn’t taken a strong stand against sexist remarks by his surrogates, wants to raise taxes by hundreds of billions of dollars on a fragile economy, wants to talk to the crazy men in Iran and Venezuela, and is the most liberal ticket in recent memory, in my opinion.
Go McCain-Palin 2008!
By: Denny on September 22, 2008
at 4:38 pm