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The McCain campaign, besides many other states, has been pouring a lot of resources into the once-reliable red state of Virginia. Sen. McCain and Gov. Palin have made many personal stops there along with deploying surrogates to hold rallies around the state.
The report from Yahoo News:
NEWPORT NEWS, Va. – John McCain, struggling to hold onto Republican states, asked supporters Saturday to help him keep Virginia from tipping to Barack Obama. The Democrat was moving from west to east in his own final push to Election Day.
“We need to win Virginia on the fourth of November. With your help we’re going to win,” said McCain, who coughed and sounded hoarse at a chilly rally in this conservative region with a large military presence.
Virginia hasn’t voted for a Democrat since Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964, yet polls show Obama leading in the state. McCain contended Obama would seek tax increases as president, and he issued a familiar declaration contrasting himself and his foe: “He’s running for redistributor in chief, I’m running for commander in chief.”
McCain ally Lindsey Graham, a senator from South Carolina, accused Obama of spending more time writing his memoirs and running for president than serving in the Senate.
“He’s got a new book out. ‘How I Stood up to the Left,’” Graham said as he introduced McCain. “It’s in the fiction section and it’s a very quick read.”
McCain was headed to a rally in northern Virginia before flying to New York, where he was scheduled to appear on “Saturday Night Live” with host Ben Affleck, an Obama supporter. McCain had eight states on his final three-day itinerary, which ends with a midnight rally Monday in Arizona — where Obama was running television ads.
“We want to win everywhere,” Obama said of his decision to air commercials in his opponent’s state.
Report on McCain and Obama in Virginia from WVEC in Richmond, VA:
The latest round of Virginia polls from RealClearPolitics shows the race tightening. Obama had been leading every poll by 7 or more points. Three recent polls only show Obama up 4, while one gives him a 9 point advantage.
Some other recent polls, not averaged in here, gave Obama +1 and +2 as well.
Meanwhile, Sen. Obama is spending more time out west in states which I would have thought were the states he didn’t need to spend much time in. The continued report from Yahoo News:
Obama planned final get-out-the-vote rallies in Nevada, Colorado and Missouri for Saturday. He was to campaign in Ohio all day Sunday, including a Cleveland rally with singer Bruce Springsteen, then hit Virginia and Florida on election eve.
“We are four days away from changing the United States of America,” Obama told voters Friday night in Indiana, one of about a half-dozen Republican states that remain up for grabs.
McCain’s campaign argued that the Arizona senator was closing the gap in the final days and was closer than reflected in public polling. Privately, McCain’s aides said he trailed Obama by 4 points nationwide in internal polling.
It’s interesting to me that Obama would bother spending time in Nevada when polls, apparantly, show him up by a good 7 to 8 points on average. The same almost holds true for Colorado where he seems to be leading handily in the polls. The state of Missouri I can understand since it’s about dead even at this point, so any campaigning within the state helps.
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A Plea For John McCain:
Please Obama, McCain is your grandfather
Don’t stretch him like your peer
Look how weak and exhausted he has grown
Trying to campaifn against you
If he dies before the end of your first month presidency,
It’s murder
If he dies within the first year of your presidency,
It’s man slaughter
If he dies after the first year of your presidency,
He’s the victor
However, don’t leave him to ruin America.
Pats–That is in bad taste
I know Bill. McCain is struggling to keep the momentum but you can see that he’s tired. He’s old and the GOP should know that. If they pretend not to know, let Obama show some humanitarian concern. THe old man can not even observe Hallowe’en with his family.
He’s not campaigning to win now but to maintain the old Republican states. This is not fair for a man who has done so much for his country and now asking to be compensated for his deeds.
Pats–It was in poor taste.
Ok, I’m sorry
Just saw that Obama-supporter Lorne Michaels was forced by his bosses at General Electric to invite John McCain onto SNL. McCain advisor Martin Eisenstadt leaked that GE – which gives over $1.2million to Republican candidates (including convicted Sen. Ted Stevens and lightning rod Michele Bachman) – pressured Michaels to invite McCain onto the show. Sounds like a real-life version of something Alec Baldwin might do to Tina Fey on “30 Rock!” Here’s the link:
http://www.eisenstadtgroup.com/
These two traitors need to be tried and convicted for violating their oath to uphold the Constitution as senators. It just shows how little the media cares about the law of the land. The media is under the direct control of the Council on Foreign Relations, which, like the Federal Reserve, establishment of the UN, and Bretton Woods Conference, was established in the utmost secrecy because the American people would have been outraged and acted decisively against such plans. McCain and Obama prefer to listen to the Council on Foreign Relations, with its agenda of world government, rather than listening to the American people, who elect them. They’re both involved in the treasonous organization, but you don’t hear that on even “conservative” shows.
That is one of the most ridiculous claims to relevance I’ve heard in awhile. Thanks for that Chris Schwinger. These senators running for president have really dropped the ball. Not. Gimme a break. I have no idea what they think about the country, like all the other senators out there.
Just saw Mccain on SNL. Awesome. I wish that reasonable comic version of him had been the leader of the campaign. Too bad they couldn’t organize enough to appeal to the segment of the electorate which responds to humility and the wisdom to self-deprecate on TV. I like the Mccain I saw there. He seemed smart and aware of his own BS. Too little, too late.
http://www.youtube.com/wa.....di4onAQBWQ
ouch!
EricF:
Since Coal and Nuclear are off the table, I guess we’ll have to go back to whale blubber to keep the lights on. What Obama doesn’t understand because he is too stupid is that by taxing the coal industry they won’t go bankrupt! They will just jack up their rates and pass it on to the consumers and businesses. WAKE UP PEOPLE!!!
Mike A, how else do you explain this affront to our constitutional rights?
http://www.youtube.com/wa.....ytifiIpoLc