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Should Obama Be Worried About Pennsylvania?

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Posted on Oct 21, 2008
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John McCain has often compared himself to (fictional) hometown hero Rocky Balboa, whose statue stands in Philadelphia, alongside those of our nation’s founders.

Real Clear Politics has Barack Obama leading in Pennsylvania by an average of 11 points, so why is John McCain betting on an upset there, of all swing states? It seems that Gov. Ed Rendell is among the Democrats who are nervous: He has asked the Obama campaign to send its big guns back to the Keystone State.

The McCain campaign claims to have internal polling data that show a tighter race in Pennsylvania than publicly released surveys.


CNN via Political Wire:

Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell has sent two separate memos to the Obama campaign in the past five days requesting that the Democratic Presidential candidate—as well as Hillary and Bill Clinton—return to campaign in Pennsylvania, Rendell told CNN’s Gloria Borger.

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By nrobi, October 22, 2008 at 3:19 pm Link to this comment

In Pennsylvania, the voters are not what they seem as in other states.  Punxsutawney, the place where the groundhog lives is one of the worst cities for the idea of racism and the KKK.
It was not too many years ago, that there were no black or Hispanic faces in the town of Punxsutawney. Rural Pennsylvania is a hotbed of racism and bigotry. Sen. Obama, would be wise to go to the smaller towns and villages of rural Pa. rather than the larger cities where he already holds the majority of the voters. In point of fact the campaign of Obama-Biden would be doing the country a service by reaching out to the small communities in Pa. as no candidate reaches out to the smaller communities after the primaries.
One must never forget that the smaller communities are the backbone of our country and it is there that candidates win or lose elections, as the voters in swing states don’t really live in the larger cities but in the rural communities.

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By rbloom, October 22, 2008 at 1:24 pm Link to this comment
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As I recall, Robert E. Lee also tried to win it by putting everything into Pennsylvania.

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By davidperi, October 22, 2008 at 9:45 am Link to this comment

Mark crispin Miller talks about voter fraud on http://www.democracynow.org on today´s (Wednesday´s) program.  You can hear it or view video. He is quite factual because he has written several books about voter fraud.

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By David Gerard, October 22, 2008 at 8:46 am Link to this comment
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MAN ON FIVE, Cook County, Monday—The McCain campaign is looking at an Electoral College strategy heading into the final two weeks that has virtually no room for error.

“Democrat voting fraud is famous since Tammany Hall,” says Republican strategist Karl Rove. “So we’ll win without votes.”

Voting machines have been remotely reset and the counts adjusted.  “Diebold have come to the party big time.” Touch screen machines for West Virginia early voting offer voters “McCAIN” or “REPLY HAZY, TRY AGAIN LATER.”

The rolls will be thoroughly checked for voter fraud. “If the typeface or font size is different on their driver’s licence, Social Security or the voter roll, that’s obvious blatant fraud. A typical Liberal knife to the heart of democracy.”

The party will check for dead voters as well. “We’re making the safe assumption that all registered Democrats are dead. If they’re not, we’ll correct that.” Governor Palin has long dealt with Democrat moose in Alaska. “You betcha!”

All residents of properties whose mortgages were underwritten by Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac will be assumed to have voted Republican. “We own the houses, of course we own the votes. It’s nonsense to say otherwise.”

Finally, under USA-PATRIOT, Obama supporters will be deemed associates of associates of terrorists. The offence will carry a penalty of one day’s imprisonment: November 4th.

Mr Rove is confident in the future of our democracy. “One man, one vote. That man being me.”

Source: http://tinyurl.com/5cc3ve

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By Back bencher, October 22, 2008 at 6:30 am Link to this comment
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The media has spent much time discussing the “race issue” But they seem to disconnect it from their polling process.

No one wants to be seen as a “racist” in this day and age, and surely no one wants to believe that race plays a big part in this years election process.

BUT

Is it likely that people say they will vote Obama, but in the privacy of the voting booth will vote their racial fears?

Obama better worry, and not just in Pennsylvania. New Hampshire residents have a tradition of lying to pollsters.

Many white voters in the South, particulrly in Virginia see Obama as a well dressed beter educated Al Sharpton… Thart’s threatening to them.

Were I a bookie, the spread on this election would be much thiner!

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