It’s All Over
Except for the voting. And the investigations. Roundup:
That it’s over, a week and a half out, doesn’t mean we get to know just yet who wins. Who’s winning right now is irrelevant, though I suspect whoever is going to win is probably determined already and not likely to change before Nov. 4. It appears to be leaning Obamaward, but we’ve learned that the polls don’t mean anything. Zogby, who recorded an Obama gain last week, reports now McCain is tightening. RCP’s polling average gives Obama 7.7, within a point or so of where he’s been for the past month.
Mark Levin has a must-read at The Corner about the fostering of a cult-like image around Obama, the conservatives who have fallen for it and its fostering by the bulk of the national media. He talks about “a recklessness and abandonment of rationality that has preceded the voluntary surrender of liberty and security in other places,” which sounds like the anti-Bush rhetoric of the last eight years, except that Bush was fighting a very real enemy, no one lost their civil liberties, and the Geneva Conventions were not violated. So does Obama, who has been attempting to conceal his radical roots, has proposed precipitously abandoning Iraq while negotiating with Iran from a position of weakness, and famously wants to share the wealth, intend radical change, attended by PC police? Who knows. Who he is and what he wants has been somewhat obscured by the glow, and Levin notes,
… my greatest concern is whether this election will show a majority of the voters susceptible to the appeal of a charismatic demagogue.
Riehl is dismissive of the Beltway faux-con switches and points to this American Thinker article on the little reported phenomenon of Dems for McCain, which cites other reasons why it is premature to assume an Obama win.
About the media’s Obamist tilt … kind of embarassing when it gets so bad the Ivans notice. Ace.
Here’s what happens, by the way, when someone does anything but fawn at the Obama campaign. FOX, with vid and other links: Florida TV station cut off:
Barack Obama’s campaign killed all interviews with a Florida TV station after Sen. Joe Biden, the Democratic vice presidential nominee, faced tough and critical questions from a reporter at the Orlando station, the Orlando Sentinel reported .
During a satellite video Thursday, WFTV’s Barbara West quoted Karl Marx and asked Biden how Obama’s comment to “Joe the Plumber,” about spreading the wealth wasn’t being Marxist.
“Are you joking?,” Biden asked.
West replied, “No.”
Later in the interview West questioned Biden about his comments that if Obama wins the election next month, he would be tested early on as president and wanted to know if Biden was implying America was no longer the world’s leading power.
“I don’t know who’s writing your questions,” Biden asked her.
The Obama camp then killed a WFTV interview with Biden’s wife Jill, according to an Orlando Sentinel blog.
“This cancellation is non-negotiable, and further opportunities for your station to interview with this campaign are unlikely, at best for the duration of the remaining days until the election,” wrote Laura K. McGinnis, Central Florida communications director for the Obama campaign, according to the Sentinel.
Dick Morris at the New York Post on what McCain needs to do. More or less what he is doing. Here’s Morris’ supporting history, which is the more relevant part of this piece:
For Harry Truman in 1948, the presidential race shifted dramatically in the final week, and it’s happened three more times in the past 30 years. In 1980, Reagan came from eight points behind to a solid victory by winning his sole debate with Carter in the last week of October. In 1992, Clinton, who had fallen behind in the polls because of the pounding he was taking over his liberalism and propensity to raise taxes, surged ahead of Bush when Special Prosecutor Lawrence Walsh announced that he was indicting Defense Secretary Casper (Cap) Weinberger, an indication of Bush’s possible complicity in the Iran-Contra scandal. And in 2000, Bush’s three-to-four point lead in the polls was erased over the final weekend when reports surfaced that he had been cited for DWI 20 years before and had not revealed the fact to the public. Bush still won the election, of course, but Gore won the popular vote by half a point.
By it being over, as I stated at the outset, I don’t mean it’s decided, that the undecideds … that vast pool handwringers who at this late date apparently remain unable to make up their minds, yet will determine who governs us … have necessarily decided yet.
It is going to be decided, as it always was, in the privacy of the voting booths, where for whatever reasons, from racism to religious bigotry to presidential demeanor to perceptions about the economy and national security and our place in the world, each voter chooses a column. But barring dramatic, unforeseen events, developments or missteps of the sort Morris describes, there is nothing that the candidates themselves or the media’s reporting on the campaign will change between now and Nov. 4.
It’s all over but the investigations and the court cases. Even after America votes, there will remain the question of the result. We still don’t know to what extent ACORN’s massive manipulation … apparently echoed within the Obama camp, more cleverly and legally in the McCain camp according to the following report … and the subsequent legal actions will influence the race and potentially throw it into a 2000-style limbo.
At the same time that a congressional leader is asking President Bush to intervene in Ohio’s election, more than a dozen state staff members for Democrat Barack Obama canceled their registrations and ballots yesterday amid questions about their residency.
But out-of-state staff members for Republican John McCain’s campaign, whose eligibility to vote also has been questioned, have not done so on grounds they meet state requirements of having lived in the state long enough and intending to become permanent residents.
House Minority Leader John Boehner of suburban Cincinnati asked Bush yesterday to direct the Justice Department to order Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner and other elections officials to verify new voter registrations under the federal 2002 Help America Vote Act.
“Unless action is taken immediately, thousands, if not tens of thousands, of names whose information has not been verified through the HAVA procedures mandated by Congress will remain on voter rolls during the Nov. 4, 2008, election; and there is a significant risk, if not a certainty, that unlawful votes will be cast and counted,” Boehner told the president.
Plain Dealer, Bush forwards Boehner’s request to DOJ.
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Topics: pols
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 10:51 am on Sunday, October 26, 2008
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October 26th, 2008 at 11:10 am
The Biden interview shows how amazingly thin skinned the Democrats have become over the years due to white glove treatment from the press. I think it’s also an excellent preview of how an Obama administration will behave. Question The One or his minions, and you shall be punished.
Where is the outrage in the liberal press over this? A television station is being punished by the Obama campaign for daring to ask tough questions. Are you really going to stand for that? Do you not realize that you could be next?
October 26th, 2008 at 1:38 pm
Indeed, although I’d suggest that when the Russkies note that your press has become Pravda, it’s worse than embarrassing. The doom and gloom and desperation on the blogosphere is depressing, and doesn’t reflect what I see here on the ground, you know, in real life. You can call Pennsylvania a blue state until, well, you’re blue in the face, but take out Filthadelphia and (to a lesser extent) Pittsburgh, and Pennsylvania is as deep red as it gets. From what I see, I think we’re going to see what nobody is talking about: A massive Republican turnout at the polls. And if I’m right, the election results could be quite interesting.
October 26th, 2008 at 3:33 pm
I’m with RWP!
October 26th, 2008 at 4:10 pm
If Nixon’s silent majority decide to show up, Obama gets crushed. If they don’t, he can win. A lot of the PUMA’s have been intentionally lying to pollsters saying they were voting for Obama and the word apparently went out recently that its time to stop that charade so a McCain poll “surge” can be manufactured.
October 26th, 2008 at 4:32 pm
“You can call Pennsylvania a blue state until, well, you’re blue in the face, but take out Filthadelphia and (to a lesser extent) Pittsburgh, and Pennsylvania is as deep red as it gets.”
Hey, Rightwingprof: please don’t trash Philadelphia. The city got cleaned up quite a lot over the last two decades, largely due to Ed Rendell who was a decent mayor despite being a Democrat. I would love to see John McCain win this state, and I think he has a small chance to do so. However, the state has gotten a lot more blue in the last 12 years. As in many states the cities are heavily Democratic, but here there’s enough population in those cities to overwhelm the more rural areas in the “T”. In most red states there are heavily Democratic cities, but they aren’t enough to overwhelm the Republican voters outside the cities.
Let’s focus on trying to get everyone out to the polls. If the base turns out and we can carry enough independents and sensible Democrats this race is winnable.
October 26th, 2008 at 7:20 pm
Worth noting also the free pass Katy’s Diner most famous “customer” gets on sexism. “I don’t know who’s writing your questions.” Imagine the hand-wringing and feigned outrage if McCain had used that kind of line on a female anchor.
October 26th, 2008 at 10:00 pm
“It is going to be decided, as it always was, in the privacy of the voting booths…..”
As I’ve noted elsewhere: The only poll worth reading is held on election day.
And, oh, yeah: “Fat lady. Sings.”
(with a tip o’ the hat to Rebecca)