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QUOTE (southsideirish71 @ Sep 5, 2008 -> 09:48 AM) I actually know someone who was there, and talked to them this morning on a conference call. He one of our directors of Sales, and is a delegate from Minnesota. He liked the speech, as well as a lot of others. I thought the ending of the speech was great, the call to service. The only thing your constant ad hominem attacks on anything opposing Obama does is ad post count. That wasnt my opinion. I heard that on at least 2 other networks last night.

LMAO!! "Real McCain of Genius"

QUOTE (lostfan @ Sep 5, 2008 -> 09:25 AM) I dunno, McCain has a s***-ton of cash after the convention now. the point is that from a planning stnad point, they'd much rather pour that money into FL, OH, PA and some MO. But they have to now defend IN, VA, NC, NV, CO, NM, the Dakotas, and Montana.

QUOTE (Rex Kicka** @ Sep 5, 2008 -> 09:18 AM) Given that My Man Mitch is a Republican, it probably will go to McCain. However, there's a great opportunity to make McCain spend a lot of resources in a state he wouldn't ordinarily focus on. It's the Obama money headfake. McCain spend where he shouldnt.

QUOTE (Rex Kicka** @ Sep 5, 2008 -> 08:22 AM) You're running McCain's campaign. There's just eight weeks to go! You need to get to 270 Electoral Votes to win this election, and most polls are telling you that 165 of the 287 Electoral Votes the Republicans won in 2004 are relatively secure. Lots of states are threatening to turn blue, and Iowa and New Mexico look like they officially will. In the mean time: the following states are within the statistical margin of error. New Hampshire (4 electoral votes and the only state that could flip Red) Montana, North Dakota and South Dakota (3 electoral votes each) Nevada and Colorado (5 electoral votes each) Indiana (11 electoral votes) Virginia (13 electoral votes) North Carolina (15 electoral votes) Ohio (20 electoral votes) Florida (27 electoral votes) As McCain's campaign manager: where do you put your resources? Ohio and Virginia. Simple as that, if he looses either of those, he's as good as done. Based on all the recent polling, those starts are literally a tie. VA more than Ohio. The most recent VA polls dont show a "margin or error" tie, they show an ACTUAL tie. Ohio is similar with polls showing each with a small lead. So, a poll average tie. Below is a map of what i would call the "locked" states. They are leaning enough in one direction to call it for them now baring a major shift. As you'll notice by the bars on the bottom, all Obama would need to lock a win is Ohio. If not Ohio, then VA and CO (Co will most likely go to him anyways). He can also win with a VA and NH combo.

QUOTE (DABearSoX @ Sep 5, 2008 -> 09:00 AM) Good stuff.... The anti McCain Iraq Vet CNN kept showing didn't get accosted though...I thought it was funny that they would keep showing him b/c they didn't do that with anyone during the Obama speech that's an MSNBC move they were actually "pool cameras". Every network had the same feed.

QUOTE (DABearSoX @ Sep 5, 2008 -> 08:48 AM) Another negative for me was that he couldn't even control the crowd...Obama was in front of 75K and had more control over his listeners. And what was all the hub bub in the middle with the women in the purple shirt. Was she holding a liberal sign or something then got attacked? His two largest applause lines were Sarah Palin and POW. That's all anyone needs to know. He couldn't even excite his own fans.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Sep 5, 2008 -> 08:52 AM) I can't see Youtube at work but is this the Daily Show? yea. John Stewart compares "pre-palin" comments about experience and sexism then plays those SAME people turning around and praises Palin for her readyness. The main example was Rove who ripped into Tim Kaine's experience of 3 years as Gov and before that mayor of the 105th largest city. Then he played a clip of Rove praising Palin's experience.

CNN Senior Analyst and New Yorker magazine columnist Jeff Toobin:

QUOTE (mreye @ Sep 5, 2008 -> 08:41 AM) Save your time. Indiana is not going to Obama. A new poll shows McCain +2. I wouldnt be so sure. (To be fair, it's a pollseter I've never heard of before)

QUOTE (maggsmaggs @ Sep 5, 2008 -> 07:50 AM) It's sad that I barely survived without this site, but alas I did. I think I checked every 10-15 minutes just to see if it was back. ditto. I felt all alone.

There are reports a few delegates fell asleep in the stadium during the speech. Not figuratively fell asleep... literally fell asleep.

I felt so alone last night during the McCain speech. I think TPM may have blocked my e-mail (jk). I was e-mailing them every 4 minutes becuase I had no one to vent on. lol On a side note: Wednesday night right before I went to bed I jokingly thought to myself... "damn. If I ever want to run for office and maybe president someday, I'm gonna have to hire a hacker to shutdown SoxTalk. Too much dirt on there". I wake up the next morning, go to work, pull up Soxtalk... and it's gone! Irony!! lol

QUOTE (farmteam @ Sep 4, 2008 -> 12:04 AM) I definitely felt mocking (and then the crowd laughing at) the Community Organizer stuff was a bit classless. I'm more surprised that there hasn't been a lot of talk about her comment about Obama only caring about prisoners' rights (can't remember the exact words). To me, it sounded like she was saying prisoners don't have rights if the U.S. government doesn't want them to. It was something along the lines of that Obama is more interested in giving terrorists in Gitmo rights than he is in fighting terror. "Al Qaeda terrorists still plot to inflict catastrophic harm on America ... he's worried that someone won't read them their rights?" I think it was Rudy who also said a similar line.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Sep 3, 2008 -> 10:52 PM) I know, I know... too easy. In all honesty, it cracks me up because all these libs want to talk about the GOP spin machine. s***, these libs can rip apart anything faster then the GOP machine can even start up. we're better organized

Oh nice. CNN (Larry King Live) is going to let 3 women fight back against Palin. Nice move.

QUOTE (jackie hayes @ Sep 3, 2008 -> 11:31 PM) I don't like that approach, because he's not running on his co experience. She mocked the very idea of being a community organizer. I would show the work that organizers are doing TODAY, particularly in the inner city, the people who are doing the work and the results that are happening in America now. Say, look, these are the people who she says have no responsibilities. These are the people she was laughing at. Is this the sort of activity we want our American leaders mocking? What she said didn't just ridicule Obama -- that should be clear, and it can't become a mere feud. I think you can do both. They need to punch the Obama art though to blunt direct attacks on him.

AP Fact Checks Palin and rips her apart

Obama senior adviser on CNN right now starting the community organizer push back.

QUOTE (whitesoxfan101 @ Sep 3, 2008 -> 11:25 PM) I cringed when the crowd lauged. Making fun of a community organizer, especially one from an area where it's important, is just not good. At best, it looks ignorant and it worst, it looks almost racist. I really didn't like her doing that, but I've already make that pretty clear. The dems will jump all over that if they know what's good for them. Here's how I'd roll this out. Draw "positive" to "negative" contrasts. What i mean is point to Obama running a voter registration drive... then contrast that by saying that her towns bylaws say the mayor is a figure head (or something to that effect). Maybe find something on her talking about th local moose population.

QUOTE (Steff @ Sep 3, 2008 -> 11:22 PM) We have community organizers in Plainfield, Naperville and Aurora. The tasks may be different, but the title is the same and some make nice coinage for doing so out this way. thanks for the info. I've never really dealt with one in this area. Might exst, but I've never seen one other than the "let's clean the neighborhood" type stuff you see every year.

QUOTE (jackie hayes @ Sep 3, 2008 -> 11:19 PM) It seems rather dangerous to mock an entire group of people who work in the service of the community at low pay. That sounds kinda, uh, honorable. The Dems could really do a lot of damage on this, if they play it right. Focus on community organizers and people who they've helped recently -- not on Obama's CU experience. It could be a thing of beauty. My girl, Nora O'DOnnell, just said on MSNBC that over the past few days people have asked her "what is a community organizer?". Now is a GREAT time to introduce Obama the Organizer and show just how out of touch Palin and the GOP are for mocking community organizers. Remember, the crowd LAUGHED when she mocked community organizers

QUOTE (jackie hayes @ Sep 3, 2008 -> 11:11 PM) Is there such a thing in Schaumburg? I mean, in Obama's case, it was a job, paid for (iirc) by a coalition of church groups. As I understand it, it basically involves working towards community needs that no one person/church can fulfill on its own. Perhaps sometimes helping kids get to school, but moreso trying to arrange a way to ensure they get to school regularly. I would think the local government in Schaumburg would handle most of that. I'm just not sure it would be helpful to have such a person in a suburb, with people so much more dispersed. You actually kind of made my point. Here a "community organize" may be nothing more than a volunteer working to clean up the lawn. but n the south side it's very different. Here it might be more of a organizer of community events.

wow. Harry Reed called Palin "shrill". Not good. not good.

QUOTE (whitesoxfan101 @ Sep 3, 2008 -> 10:02 PM) That's fair to say. I thought it was great, but I enjoy sarcasm and dry humor so I'm biased. as do i, just not in politics... from either side.