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Obama now on track for Electoral College majority

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    USAFdude

    Excellent news. Hopefully, this election will be decisive in Obama's favor (and by extension, America's), without all the hoopla of the 2000 and 2004 elections, no "hanging chads" or "faulty voting machines". Right now, those options seem the only way the Republicans can pull this one off.

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    Lieutenant

    The underdog McCain is pressing supporters to fight on: “Nothing is inevitable here. We never give up. And we never quit.”

    Nice, short soundbytes. Wouldn't want the message going over your supporter's heads.

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    Helter_Skelter

    Obama now on track for Electoral College majority

    Hamas and Al Qaeda must already be planning victory celebrations.

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    smithinjapan

    Helter: "Hamas and Al Qaeda must already be planning victory celebrations."

    Uh-oh... I see some on here are buying into McCain's desperate rhetoric. Hahaha. Anyway, welcome President Obama! The world will be a better place as you try to open dialogue instead of simply dropping bombs.

    Looks like you're soon going to 'close the deal', like so many righties on here mocked you that you couldn't. Congrats.

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    SushiSake3

    Helter - Al quaeda are gunning for a mccain victory.

    http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iFK9c9KTpdbjhYyuWIlZyAuyqeJgD93VA3B80

    Must be tough for mccain to realize that his sworn enemy is one of his strongest supporters, :-)

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    Altria

    This is no big news - Obama has always held the lead among college-age voters.

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    SushiSake3

    Altria - "Obama has always held the lead among college-age voters."

    And every other voter demographic as well, by the looks of it - including the elderly and veterans.

    Must be tough for mccain to be losing out to a younger guy among his fellow OAPs and vet buddies...

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    skipthesong

    sushi: how about hoping that the link you provided is wrong, or do you want that?

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    Lieutenant

    This is no big news - Obama has always held the lead among college-age voters.

    Chug, vote, chug.

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    soldave

    "Obama has always held the lead among voters"

    Edited for accuracy.

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    Sarge

    "Obama has always held the lead among college-age voters"

    And among voters who believe the financial crisis was caused by Republicans and that if they make less than $250,000, er, $200,000 is it now, they will get a tax cut.

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    Lieutenant

    "Obama has always held the lead among voters"

    Yes those too.

    But now, back to college. Chug, chug, chug.

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    yabits

    According to a very extensive Pew Center poll, the only three groups that favor McCain are: 1) Those who identify themselves as Republican (duh); 2) white evangelicals; and 3) whites with no more than a high school education.

    Among those who have already voted, the Center found Obama carrying a 19-point lead. Voters who identify themselves as independent were found to favor Obama by 17 points.

    The only real question is how serious the carnage to the Republican Party is going to be come Election Tuesday.

    source: http://people-press.org/report/465/mccain-support-declines

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    Proffessor

    'President Obama'

    Signed, sealed and delivered.

    Congratulations!!

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    Helter_Skelter

    I see some on here are buying into McCain's desperate rhetoric.

    On the contrary, I wish McCain was buying into my rhetoric. He's more like McMilktoast. You don't wait until a week before the election to bring up the fact that Obama is a socialist. McCain had to be far more aggressive to overcome the MSM/Obama campaign.

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    Sarge

    "President Obama"

    "Signed, sealed and delivered"

    "Congratulations!"

    Proffessor, have you ever heard the phrase "Don't count your chickens before they're hatched"?

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    USAFdude

    Proffessor, have you ever heard the phrase "Don't count your chickens before they're hatched"?

    Looks like sarge has flip-flopped from his "Get ready for President McCain and Vice-President Palin" stance!

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    Nessie

    McCain will come in at the bottom of the electoral college class -- just like at his real college!

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    Nessie

    According to a very extensive Pew Center poll, the only three groups that favor McCain are: 1) Those who identify themselves as Republican (duh); 2) white evangelicals; and 3) whites with no more than a high school education.

    I imagine there's not a negligible overlap to those groups, either, particularly #2 and #3. If God had wanted us to go to college he would have put our brains on the outside, where we would see them.

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    Sarge

    USAFdude - You just made yourself look real silly with your 3:35 post. Go back and re-read the Proffessor's 11:40 post, then my 3:28 post.

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    USAFdude

    sarge - nope, I don't feel silly. I'm poking fun at your constant "Get ready for President McCain" drivel by underscoring the hypocrisy with which you slam Proffessor for his (totally correct) enthusiasm for Obama's impending victory.

    Sorry if it was over your head.

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    USAFdude

    PS, sarge - Not much point in re-reading Proffessor's 11:40 post when you (yet again) did a cut-and-paste job of it in your 3:28 post, now is there?

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    skipthesong

    enthusiasm for Obama's impending victory." I must be missing something, why or how can anyone have so much enthusiasm for any repub or dem victory? And now he says he'll have repubs in his administration? Well, why the hell even have these so called parties?

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    Sarge

    This just in:

    Obama: "My youth and inexperience would make me an awful president. To be perfectly honest, I'd be worried about putting me in charge of the most powerful military in the world because I'm not any good when it comes to making important decisions."

    Hee hee! Read all about it in theonion.com!

    And, seriously, Dolphins owner Wayne Huizenga has said he wants to sell the team before Obama raises the capital gains tax:

    "I'd rather give it to charity than to him."

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    ImperiumMundi

    police in many major American cities are preparing for possible post-election violence next tuesday.

    it's not mccain voters they worry about.

    wed 29 october latest rassmussen poll on the candidates' grasp of economics and positions on taxes have obama pod people worried.

    mccain has regained the lead he held before the financial crisis started.

    quote:McCain also has gained ground as the candidate to trust on economic issues. Forty-eight percent (48%) now trust the Republican hopeful more than the Democrat while 47% hold the opposite view. This is the first time McCain has led on the issue that has hurt his campaign since September 17. One month ago, Obama held a nine-point advantage when it came to economic issues.

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    yabits

    Helter Skelter writes: "McCain had to be far more aggressive to overcome the MSM/Obama campaign."

    Sounds like something Republicans could crochet into their crying towels. Oh, the prospect of seeing the Republican sore-losermen this year is just too much to anticipate. They are absolutely wonderful at rationalizing things before they get into recrimination.

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    Madverts

    "the fact that Obama is a socialist"

    Really skelter? I thought he was a democrat.

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    Madverts

    Heh, in fact do any of the JT right wing radicals actually know what socialism is?

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    taniwha

    Heh, in fact do any of the JT right wing radicals actually know what socialism is?

    And would they care?

    About Obama. As he is now apparently "on track" to an election win, it should be no more than prudent to consider what his presidency will bring to the US and indeed the world. While the speeches of both candidates and their running mates tell their supporters for the most part what they want to hear, it is far more insightful perhaps to listen to what is being said by those they will call to serve in their administration.

    The current US Defense Secretary Robert Gates has been widely rumoured to be assured of staying in the job should Obama take office. On Tuesday Gates gave a speech on nuclear policy to the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (CEIP). It serves as a clear warning of what lies ahead. He said that conditions in the world today are such they parallel those that existed just prior to WW1. Significantly he listed those US friendly states that by choice have no nuclear weapons, he listed 6, Japan and Germany were not among them and the omittal was not explained.

    Gates went on to argue that the US must include nuclear weapons in what has become known as the Bush doctrine of pre-emptive strike. In other words, that there must be a proviso that the US first-strike could include the large-scale use of nukes. Gates followed this astonishing threat - to all not willing to stand with it - with the call to substantially increase funding of nuclear weapons programs. As many of us also know, because this last was far more widely reported by the mass media, Gates also called for the establishment of a separate and central command for "nuclear policy and oversight" including a new dedicated headquarters office at Kirkland Air Force Base.

    Gates speech far more than any by Obama or McCain for that matter indicates strongly that following the outcome of the 2008 presidential election, the US ruling elite intends to pursue a foreign policy far more aggressive than that in place at present. This will happen no matter whether its will be a Democrat or a Republican administration.

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    Sarge

    According to the latest projections, Obama now has 6000 Electoral College votes.

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    yabits

    Madverts,

    Don't you find it ironic that all these seeming foes of socialism omit the fact that, as soon as capitalism found itself in dire circumstances, it ran to adopt socialistic solutions to address the problems?

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    ImperiumMundi

    as soon as capitalism found itself in dire circumstances, it ran to adopt socialistic solutions to address the problems?

    capitalism. has a mind of its own? from where i sit it looked like both the major parties voted for the so called bailout.

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    Good_Jorb

    It should read;

    as soon as capitalist(Bankers...) found themselves in dire circumstances, they ran to adopt socialistic solutions to address the problems?

    It's correct to, after years of consumers getting ripped off and being told by(bankers...) it is the natural way of the marketplace or let the market works its self(see deregulation here). So called bailouts indeed(corporate welfare more like) and yes both parties voted for it but the irony of it is one of them is saying that Obama is Socialist and is going to turn the USA into a Socialist state, when it already turning that way.

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    yabits

    from where i sit it looked like both the major parties voted for the so called bailout.

    LOL!! The architects of the bailout, as well as those having their hats out to receive it are/were arch-capitalists. The folks in Congress who voted up or down are merely clerks who sign the checks.

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    yabits

    Yes, Good Jorb, it should have read "all those who professed to believe in capitalism and preached its virtues to others as the best of all systems" now run to socialistic solutions to save their collective behind.

    Oh, the irony....

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