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Originally posted by kosmicjack
reply to post by HunkaHunka
Shacks and trailers. It's unbelievable how people will latch onto wedge issues and vote against their economic interest.
Originally posted by vor78
Originally posted by kosmicjack
reply to post by HunkaHunka
Shacks and trailers. It's unbelievable how people will latch onto wedge issues and vote against their economic interest.
I say the same things all the time about inner city voters. They pull the lever for Dems every election cycle and every time they go back to the polling booth, they're still living in economic squalor.
Neither party truly cares about the poor in this country, at least not beyond how they can manipulate them into voting for them.
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio – In a bold move brimming with confidence, Democrat Barack Obama broadened his advertising campaign on Friday into two once reliably Republican states and further bedeviled rival John McCain by placing a commercial in the Republican presidential nominee's home state of Arizona.
Obama's campaign, capitalizing on his vast financial resources and a favorable political climate, announced that it was going back up with advertising in Georgia and North Dakota, two GOP states that it had teased with ads earlier in the general election campaign but then abandoned.
In what could be a final ignominy for McCain, Obama campaign manager David Plouffe said the campaign would also begin airing ads in Arizona, a state McCain has represented in Congress for 26 years. Plouffe said the race has tightened in Arizona, Georgia and North Dakota. A recent poll from McCain's home state showed the two candidates in a statistical dead heat.
In a slew of states, "the die is being cast as we speak," he said. "Sen. McCain on Election Day is not just going to have to carry the day, but carry it convincingly."
Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama will hit Georgia’s airwaves for the next four days in an attempt to capture what his campaign believes is an up-for-grabs state.
“As we look at Georgia, if we win it, we’ll win it narrowly,” David Plouffe, Obama’s national campaign manager, said Friday. “When we look at Georgia, we think we see a pathway there. The organizing there has never stopped and the turnout among African-American voters has been quite high.”
In Georgia, however, he said they see an opportunity.
It’s a state, he said, “where we think we have far superior ground operations and where we’re playing alone… “
Obama’s campaign has more than 30 field offices in Georgia, more than 50 paid staff and 4,800 trained volunteers. McCain has not run any television ads in Georgia, his nearest campaign office is in Tallahassee, Fla., and he has no paid staff in the state. His campaign says he has “tens of thousands” of volunteers in Georgia.
Recent polls have shown the race to be anywhere from a dead heat to McCain holding a 5-point lead. The state has not voted for a Democrat for president since 1992.
I truly believe that here in the south is going to be a few surprises, now in the military base where my husband works, don't you dare even hint that Obama will be wining the elections.