PD Mason Dixon poll - dead heat, high undecideds
Submitted by Tim Russo on Sat, 03/01/2008 - 9:11pm.
Obama down by 4, within MOE. With 9% undecided. That's a big undecided number, which tells me that someone is losing supporters to the undecided column before those same voters switch. Gee, wonder who might be losing support? Starting to look like Wisconsin to me, which was a dead heat the weekend before the election, and a 17 point landslide on election day.
Resume is too thin for this year
Submitted by Mark246 on Sun, 03/02/2008 - 12:06am.
Thomas V. DiBacco of the Orlando Sentinel writes:
"Obama's resume is thin -- and that's obvious when supporters have to talk about his record at law school, a strategy appropriate for first-year job seekers but scarcely for presidential candidates. His eight-year career in the Illinois Senate is lackluster, marred by voting "present" 129 times, thereby avoiding the difficult choice of "yes" or "no" on proposed legislation.
Even his 70 percent vote margin in his 2004 U. S. Senate bid cries for a downgrade. He defeated a GOP nobody, perennial candidate for public office, Alan Keyes, who took over the candidacy after the real winner of the primary stepped aside as a result of a sex scandal.
Obama's speaking ability is exceptional only if the denominator of expectation is low. Shouting is scarcely an oratorical plus, nor are the "ands" and "uhs" that punctuate Obama's often rambling extemporaneous remarks.
Nor do campaign stops provide concise specifics about his proposals, more akin as they are to celebrity, touchy-feely, anything-I-say-is-OK performances. His safe-harbor, oratorical retreat ("and that's why I'm running for president of the United States of America") is overused and overvalued. As for Obama's lifting sentences from other speakers, at a minimum that illustrates laziness."
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/opinion/views/orl-dibacco2608feb26,0,7365559.story
Resume
Submitted by generica on Sun, 03/02/2008 - 10:12am.
You're woefully uninformed on the present vote. Do a google. As for the rhetorical argument, you're welcome to your opinion, but the vast majority of voters seem to disagree. Even the HRC supporters will grant him his rhetorical ability.
Obama rocks my world! or Billy Dee Williams for President!
Submitted by Schmennis on Fri, 05/23/2008 - 5:31pm.
"Uh,
But I do want to say,
Uh,
Something about yesterday, You know after eight years, I did not think I could be surprised about anything George Bush says. But I was wrong. Yesterday,
Uh,
George Bush was before the Israeli parliament,
Uh,
To help commemorate the 40th anniversary of Israeli independence, that’s a wonderful occasion,
Uh,
A time for celebration,
Uh,
But instead of celebrating and offering some ideas about how to move,
Uh,
The situation. The President did something that Presidents don’t do. And that is launch a political attack targeted toward the domestic market,
Uh,
In front a foreign delegation."
Yeah this guy is a word smith extraordinaire! Lucky he has a few speech writters.
Does Harvard have remedial speech classes?
Maybe he's better at math.
"Uh" seems to be Obama's way of looking "cute".
Astroturf
Submitted by anneeliz on Sun, 03/02/2008 - 12:11am.
Somebody was asking what astroturf is? That, my friend, is astroturf. The same post will be on all sorts of political blogs, perhaps specifically OH and TX, maybe with different handles. My favorite was on political wire when two different people made the exact same (nonsequitor) comment in the same post.
Hillary's sock puppets hard at work again
Submitted by MarkieBee on Sun, 03/02/2008 - 2:23am.
Dibacco's comments show his laziness. Had he looked at Obama's 139 (not 129, Dibacco - NOTE TO SENTINEL EDITOR'S: accuracy is fundamental to journalism) present votes out of more than 4,000 that Obama cast in his eight years in Illinois, he'd see that Obama's present votes accounted for 0.33 percent of his total. Because he voted present ONE-THIRD of ONE PERCENT of the time, Dihacko calles his record "lackluster?" Also, Obama defeated the guy the GOP put in front of him. Is it his fault that another GOPer couldn't keep it in his pants? Is DiBacco so utterly clueless about the difference between a stump speech and a policy speech? Perhaps he will stop being intellectually lazy and listen to one of Hillary's stump speeches and see if she gets into any more specifics than Obama. I have and she doesn't. I'm still waiting for the specific of Hillary's health care plan that tells us all what penalty we're facing if we don't buy her mandated plan. Seems to me that's a pretty HUGE component of her plan. Why hasn't she told us what the penalty is DiBacco? I know, because it's not politically expedient - just like it wasn't politically expedient to vote NO on the Iraq War vote.
Me Thinks...
I hate to be too optimistic, but I agree with your conclusion. Ohio seems a lot like Wisconsin.
I also saw Obama at a town hall in Parma, Ohio. He rocked that crowd. The more events he does like that, the better chance he is going to have.