McCain might skip his own election-night party NEW YORK – John McCain's election night watch party might be missing John McCain. Instead of appearing before a throng of supporters at the Biltmore Hotel in Phoenix on the evening of Nov. 4, the Republican presidential nominee plans to deliver postelection remarks to a small group of reporters and guests on the hotel's lawn. Aides said Thursday that the arrangement was due to space limitations and that McCain might drop by the election watch party at some other point. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081023/ap_on_el_pr/mccain_election_night
Really, what better way to show you're on the side of plumbers everywhere? When I think small business, I don't think of Super 8 or Sleep Inn. Nope, I think immediately of "Biltmore."
There may be something to this. The last 7-10 days where Obama travels before November 4th could be telling. If he has complete confidence of winning his election, Obama might spend time in Oregon and maybe even Texas. Oregon is solid Obama but has a very competitive senate race. Texas is solid McCain but Noreiga has a puncher's chance of beating Cornyn. Obama could also travel to blue states where GOP House incumbents are within reach.
It would be nice just to get rid of all the republcans even though I do like Jindel,Bob Barr, and a little for Ron Paul.
The Republicans will return to power when they snap back to reality out of their time-warp. The sooner the better. From tpm today: • Gallup: Obama 51%, McCain 44%, with a ±2% margin of error, compared to a 51%-45% Obama lead yesterday. • Rasmussen: Obama 52%, McCain 45%, with a ±2% margin of error, unchanged from yesterday. • ABC/Washington Post: Obama 53%, McCain 44%, with a ±3% margin of error, compared to a 54%-43% Obama lead from yesterday. • Hotline/Diageo: Obama 50%, McCain 43%, with a ±3.4% margin of error, compared to a 48%-43% Obama lead from yesterday. • Research 2000: Obama 52%, McCain 40%, with a ±3% margin of error, compared to a 51%-41% Obama lead from yesterday. • Zogby: Obama 51%, McCain 41%, with a ±2.9% margin of error, compared to a 52%-40% Obama lead yesterday. Adding these polls together and weighting them by the square roots of their sample sizes, Obama is ahead 51.6%-43.1%, a lead of 8.5 points, compared to the 51.5%-43.1% Obama lead from yesterday.
McCain has a slight lead on Obama in early voting in Colorado -- these are actual votes, not a poll. This news comes after a mammoth vote early campaign in the state by Obama. Democrats typically vote early there in higher proportions than Republicans. http://www.9news.com/news/article.aspx?storyid=102386&catid=339 All of this comes at a time when the average of all state polls in CO has Obama up by 5+ points. John Elway endorsed McCain today. These are interesting times we live in, friends PO HO HO
This the only time in the history of this site I will agree with you. What people dont realize is these polls are a full crap and they always have been. Kerry and Gore were both up by 10% with a couple weeks to go in the eclection. Also we must realize its Electoric College votes that matter. You can be killing in votes but all you need are the bigger states not the most votes. Thats basically what these polls do is survey total votes.
I looked at the link, and must have missed where it says that McCain had an early lead. All I saw was that it was tight, but that more Republicans have mailed in their ballots, while more Democrats have turned up at the polls. So even that when you might have Republicans voting for Obama there is no way to tell who has a lead from those early votes. You need to read the article better next time.
Umm, what? http://www.realclearpolitics.com/bush_vs_kerry_hth.html More than 50 national polls were taken in October, 2004. Kerry led in five of them, or less than 10 percent. Likewise, Gore trailed Bush by about 4 points in the poll average around a week before the election. http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/821/ Can anything happen? Of course. Nothing is a done deal until the voting is over. But this idea floating around that Obama's lead now is comparable to Kerry or Gore's standing the prior two elections is just lunacy. He's 10-15 points ahead of where they were! Also, the polls were remarkably accurate. The final RCP poll average was Bush +2.0... the final result? Bush +2.4. That's pretty damn good.
