By Jennifer Parker

Oct 22, 2008 7:22pm

Democrats Outpace Republicans in Early Voting

Republican campaign officials describe the Obama campaign’s ground operation with a mix of anxiety and awe.

Here’s how one top Republican campaign official put it today: "It’s a whole different game …it’s a new paradigm … it’s scary."

The Obama campaign is waging a so-called "high-tech" and "high-touch" ground operation in battleground states across the nation. They use the Internet, email, text messaging, and Facebook to identify and communicate with their voters.

These voters have poured record-breaking cash into the Obama campaign’s war chest, and in turn the campaign buys "boots on the grounds" and hires paid staffers to get out the vote.

In Ohio four years ago, then-Democratic nominee Sen. John Kerry was only able to have campaign offices in the top eight Democratic counties in Ohio.

Fast forward to 2008: right now Obama has an aggressive organization in every single county in Ohio, and they’re already starting to put votes in the bank with early voting.

Early voting — a growing national trend — is changing the way campaigns are conducting their get-out-the-vote efforts.

And that has some Republicans worried. Obama’s campaign has targeted early voters and first time voters including young people, low income voters and African Americans in a big way.

The McCain campaign is holding its own when it comes to early voting in Colorado and Florida. But Democrats are outpacing Republicans in early voting in Ohio, North Carolina, Iowa, and New Mexico.

Another plus for Obama? African American voters appear to be voting early and voting in great numbers.
In Georgia, 36 percent of the early voting electorate so far is African American.

That’s big.

In Iowa about 177,000 Democrats have returned absentee ballots as compared with almost 104,000 Republicans.
In New Mexico, Democrats lead Republicans in returned absentee ballots almost 41,000 to almost 26,000.

GOP voters outpaced Democrats account for 51 percent of returned absentee ballots in Florida on Oct. 20, and Democrats accounted for 34 percent.

Early voting has doubled in the last eight years. In 2000, about 14 percent of voters voted early, and 20 percent of the electorate voted early in 2004.

Experts predict that over 30 percent of voters — one-third of the electorate — will vote early in 2008 either in person or by absentee ballot.

Over 30 states now have some form of early voting, including key battleground states like Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, Iowa, Wisconsin, North Carolina, New Mexico, Nevada, Colorado, and Florida.

–George Stephanopoulos

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Posted by: Rich | October 22, 2008, 7:38 pm 7:38 pm

Seriously, please stop this: “ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos reports:”
We know who’s blog this is, you idiots.

Posted by: Noonan | October 22, 2008, 8:09 pm 8:09 pm

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/22/obamas-shoes-a-historical_n_136924.html

Posted by: Charity begins at home | October 22, 2008, 8:12 pm 8:12 pm

GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS WAKE-UP….
CHECK THE NEW POLL FOR 10/22/08
PLUS I REMIND YOU:
THE REDNECK FACTOR…..
THE BUBBA FACTOR…..
THE SILENT FACTOR….
DON’T BET ON YOUR FRIEND OBAMA….
The poll, which found Obama at 44 percent and McCain at 43 percent, supports what some Republicans and Democrats privately have said in recent days: that the race narrowed after the third debate as GOP-leaning voters drifted home to their party and McCain’s “Joe the plumber” analogy struck a chord.

Posted by: MY ONLY VOTE | October 22, 2008, 8:26 pm 8:26 pm

Subject: death of the newspaper media
Would the Last Honest Reporter Please Turn On the Lights?
By Orson Scott Card
Editor’s note: Orson Scott Card is a Democrat and a newspaper columnist,
and in this opinion piece he takes on both while lamenting the current
state of journalism.
An open letter to the local daily paper — almost every local daily paper
in America:
I remember reading All the President’s Men and thinking: That’s
journalism. You do what it takes to get the truth and you lay it before
the public, because the public has a right to know.
This housing crisis didn’t come out of nowhere. It was not a vague
emanation of the evil Bush administration.
It was a direct result of the political decision, back in the late
1990s, to loosen the rules of lending so that home loans would be more
accessible to poor people. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were authorized
to approve risky loans.
What is a risky loan? It’s a loan that the recipient is likely not to
be able to repay.
The goal of this rule change was to help the poor — which especially
would help members of minority groups. But how does it help these
people to give them a loan that they can’t repay? They get into a
house, yes, but when they can’t make the payments, they lose the house —
along with their credit rating.
They end up worse off than before.
This was completely foreseeable and in fact many people did foresee it.
One political party, in Congress and in the executive branch, tried
repeatedly to tighten up the rules. The other party blocked every such
attempt and tried to loosen them.
Furthermore, Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae were making political
contributions to the very members of Congress who were allowing them to
make irresponsible loans. (Though why quasi-federal agencies were
allowed to do so baffles me. It’s as if the Pentagon were allowed to
contribute to the political campaigns of Congressmen who support
increasing their budget.)
Isn’t there a story here? Doesn’t journalism require that you who
produce our daily paper tell the truth about who brought us to a
position where the only way to keep confidence in our economy was a $700
billion bailout? Aren’t you supposed to follow the money and see which
politicians were benefiting personally from the deregulation of mortgage
lending?
I have no doubt that if these facts had pointed to the Republican Party
or to John McCain as the guilty parties, you would be treating it as a
vast scandal. “Housing-gate,” no doubt. Or “Fannie-gate.”
Instead, it was Senator Christopher Dodd and Congressman Barney Frank,
both Democrats, who denied that there were any problems, who refused
Bush administration requests to set up a regulatory agency to watch over
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and who were still pushing for these
agencies to go even further in promoting sub-prime mortgage loans almost
up to the minute they failed.
As Thomas Sowell points out in a TownHall.com essay entitled “Do Facts
Matter?” ( http://snipurl.com/457townhall_com ): “Alan Greenspan warned
them four years ago. So did the Chairman of the Council of Economic
Advisers to the President. So did Bush’s Secretary of the Treasury.”
These are facts. This financial crisis was completely preventable. The
party that blocked any attempt to prevent it was … the Democratic
Party. The party that tried to prevent it was … the Republican Party.
Yet when Nancy Pelosi accused the Bush administration and Republican
deregulation of causing the crisis, you in the press did not hold her to
account for her lie. Instead, you criticized Republicans who took
offense at this lie and refused to vote for the bailout!
What? It’s not the liar, but the victims of the lie who are to blame?
Now let’s follow the money … right to the presidential candidate who
is the number-two recipient of campaign contributions from Fannie Mae.
And after Freddie Raines, the CEO of Fannie Mae who made $90 million
while running it into the ground, was fired for his incompetence, one
presidential candidate’s campaign actually consulted him for advice on
housing.
If that presidential candidate had been John McCain, you would have
called it a major scandal and we would be getting stories in your paper
every day about how incompetent and corrupt he was.
But instead, that candidate was Barack Obama, and so you have buried
this story, and when the McCain campaign dared to call Raines an
“adviser” to the Obama campaign — because that campaign had sought his
advice — you actually let Obama’s people get away with accusing McCain
of lying, merely because Raines wasn’t listed as an official adviser to
the Obama campaign.
You would never tolerate such weasely nit-picking from a Republican.
If you who produce our local daily paper actually had any principles,
you would be pounding this story, because the prosperity of all
Americans was put at risk by the foolish, short-sighted, politically
selfish, and possibly corrupt actions of leading Democrats, including Obama.
If you who produce our local daily paper had any personal honor, you
would find it unbearable to let the American people believe that somehow
Republicans were to blame for this crisis.
There are precedents. Even though President Bush and his administration
never said that Iraq sponsored or was linked to 9/11, you could not
stand the fact that Americans had that misapprehension — so you pounded
us with the fact that there was no such link. (Along the way, you
created the false impression that Bush had lied to them and said that
there was a connection.)
If you had any principles, then surely right now, when the American
people are set to blame President Bush and John McCain for a crisis they
tried to prevent, and are actually shifting to approve of Barack Obama
because of a crisis he helped cause, you would be laboring at least as
hard to correct that false impression.
Your job, as journalists, is to tell the truth. That’s what you claim
you do, when you accept people’s money to buy or subscribe to your paper.
But right now, you are consenting to or actively promoting a big fat lie
— that the housing crisis should somehow be blamed on Bush, McCain, and
the Republicans. You have trained the American people to blame
everything bad — even bad weather — on Bush, and they are responding as
you have taught them to.
If you had any personal honor, each reporter and editor would be
insisting on telling the truth — even if it hurts the election chances
of your favorite candidate.
Because that’s what honorable people do. Honest people tell the truth
even when they don’t like the probable consequences. That’s what
honesty means . That’s how trust is earned.
Barack Obama is just another politician, and not a very wise one. He
has revealed his ignorance and naivete time after time — and you have
swept it under the rug, treated it as nothing.
Meanwhile, you have participated in the borking of Sarah Palin,
reporting savage attacks on her for the pregnancy of her unmarried
daughter — while you ignored the story of John Edwards’s own adultery
for many months.
So I ask you now: Do you have any standards at all? Do you even know
what honesty means?
Is getting people to vote for Barack Obama so important that you will
throw away everything that journalism is supposed to stand for?
You might want to remember the way the National Organization of Women
threw away their integrity by supporting Bill Clinton despite his
well-known pattern of sexual exploitation of powerless women. Who
listens to NOW anymore? We know they stand for nothing; they have no
principles.
That’s where you are right now.
It’s not too late. You know that if the situation were reversed, and
the truth would damage McCain and help Obama, you would be moving heaven
and earth to get the true story out there.
If you want to redeem your honor, you will swallow hard and make a list
of all the stories you would print if it were McCain who had been
getting money from Fannie Mae, McCain whose campaign had consulted with
its discredited former CEO, McCain who had voted against tightening its
lending practices.
Then you will print them, even though every one of those true stories
will point the finger of blame at the reckless Democratic Party, which
put our nation’s prosperity at risk so they could feel good about
helping the poor, and lay a fair share of the blame at Obama’s door.
You will also tell the truth about John McCain: that he tried, as a
Senator, to do what it took to prevent this crisis. You will tell the
truth about President Bush: that his administration tried more than once
to get Congress to regulate lending in a responsible way.
This was a Congress-caused crisis, beginning during the Clinton
administration, with Democrats leading the way into the crisis and
blocking every effort to get out of it in a timely fashion.
If you at our local daily newspaper continue to let Americans believe —
and vote as if — President Bush and the Republicans caused the crisis,
then you are joining in that lie.
If you do not tell the truth about the Democrats — including Barack
Obama — and do so with the same energy you would use if the miscreants
were Republicans — then you are not journalists by any standard.
You’re just the public relations machine of the Democratic Party, and
it’s time you were all fired and real journalists brought in, so that we
can actually have a news paper in our city.

Posted by: John K. Watts | October 22, 2008, 8:33 pm 8:33 pm

John K. Watts – Get over it. I didn’t even bother to read your blog. Go write a dictionary. Obama 08

Posted by: Tanyyya | October 22, 2008, 9:03 pm 9:03 pm

I’m a republican and I am voting Obama. YEAH!!! Let’s go people. Let’s show them some real numbers!

Posted by: George | October 22, 2008, 9:05 pm 9:05 pm

Yes, George. Bill Clinton still thinks Hillary’s plan a year ago, targeting banking and mortgage, rather than spreading $300 billion to give some of you poor, less-educated people $600 cash to “stimulate” the economy, tanking the stock market by 50%.

Posted by: Atom | October 22, 2008, 9:06 pm 9:06 pm

John, the financial crisis consists of more than freddie mac and fannie mae. Not to mention the fact that these organizations donated to membersof BOTH parties, which you and other Repubs seem to omit. The two above mentioned organizatons only make up 20-30 percent of the sub prime mess……….there are dirty hands of BOTH parties. And let’s not forget that the other financial institutions involved in this mess were greedy.
Your “facts” are all one-sided and fail to give the full picture.
One party is not responsible for the mess in it’s entirety.

Posted by: seansatx | October 22, 2008, 9:06 pm 9:06 pm

When people decide to separate themselves from a standing governing body, they ought to give their reasons.
All people are entitled, but not limited to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Governing bodies are formed to ensure these rights with the power derived from the people themselves.
When a governing body fails to ensure the rights, the people have the right to modify or abolish it, and form a new governing body as they see fit to ensure these basic rights.
This should not be taken lightly, but when the grievances are sufficiently egregious, it is the people’s right and duty “to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.”
These are the founding principles which gave rise to our great country.
Unlike other nations, we are a mix of cultures, races, temperaments, and means. Nationality in these United States cannot be determined by DNA test, similarity of our outward appearance, or accent. Our discrimination from others is defined by our belief in God given rights and the powers “we” grant to the government to protect them.
We are a free people with a government of, by and for the people. However, the clarity of purpose that gave birth to our country has been diluted and diminished. Too often those who “represent” us feel ordained to control rather than represent the people, control in a fashion that they believe is best. They are a voice to the people rather than a voice of the people. Government has become the beast that the people have to support at the expense of their safety and happiness when our core principles demand the opposite.
Within the next two weeks, citizens have a choice to make on who they believe would be best to lead one of the three pillars of our government. Barring some extraordinary event, the fellow citizen who will take that responsibility next January will be Barack Obama or John McCain.
Qualification is easily evaluated. Both are natural born citizens. Both have attained the age of thirty five years. Both have been a resident in the United States for at least fourteen years. They are both qualified according to the Constitution of the United States. It is the balance of qualities that are less objectively evaluated.
Neither candidate is without flaw. Indeed, the number of perfect citizens within our ranks could fit in a phone both with room to spare. But, what has each done with their mistakes and imperfections? Which candidate believes that government needs to be secondary to personal freedom and responsibility? Which candidate has demonstrated leadership and the experience of making decisions that affect other peoples’ lives … without the luxury of debate? Which candidate is more likely to stand for principles that differ with external affiliations or influences? Which candidate considers the position of leadership as one of privilege and duty more so than entitlement?
Barack Obama may very well be the best to lead our country beyond 2008. But the series of decisions he has made in his life, the manner in which he has contested this and past contests, the dishonesty and lack of candor about aspects of his associations and past activities, all raise serious doubts about his judgment. His relatively short history of executive decision making ability does not exclude him, but neither does it demonstrate this capability for the future. Finally, his vision is best described by the policies he wishes to enact. Few could deny that he believes an expansion in the role of government is needed. Yes, Barack Obama may be the best to lead our country. But, he may also be the worst leader we’ve had since before 1776. That is possible and the risk is greater with a legislature from the same ideology.
John McCain is also not perfect. The distinction comes when comparing how he has dealt with his mistakes and challenges. He has been forthright and honest. He readily admits that he is an imperfect servant. But, he understands that he is a servant to the will of the people. I have watched him on the floor of the Senate opposing and berating fellow members who chose to impart their will on spending the people’s money rather than letting these appropriations see the full light of day and be subject to debate the people expect. John McCain has dismissed the influences others cherish and cater to in deference to his duty. He has allied with those of apparently polar opposite ideologies when a greater good could be served. He believes in our system of government and has risked life and limb to protect it. These are all demonstrated acts not rhetorical promises easily broken. John McCain believes, and he has demonstrated throughout his career, that government has a limited role and ultimate power resides in the people.
For me, the choice is clear. For others, the choice is theirs. But, with the state of the world today, I would implore any who intend to cast a vote to do so based upon a careful assessment of the facts and your hopes for the future. Betting your life savings, your well being, your children’s future, on less devalues the great worth you have been endowed with by being a United States citizen.

Posted by: Garry | October 22, 2008, 9:11 pm 9:11 pm

seansatx,
if Zero had not ridiculed Hillary Clinton’s solution to use that $300 billion a year ago to rescue banks and mortgage lending, it might, just might, have avoided the stock market meltdown.
Congressional leadership was so happy to do anything to promote their Affirmative Action candi, they brushed aside HRC’s proposal and went along with Bush and Zero-bama.
Now, you got your retirement account, if you have any, down 50%.
Good luck, blind Zero supporters.

Posted by: Atom | October 22, 2008, 9:16 pm 9:16 pm

I agree in my small town in Florida, the lines were huge. As a republican I voted for the best team and that is NOT McCain/Palin. I will never forgive myself for voting for this women who has become a joke and is clueless. The truth is that Sarah Palin is not fit for this VP position. Its a sad judgement call on behalf of McCain. Thats why folks are coming in big numbers supporting Obama/Biden. I even saw trucks with confederate stickers and Obama stickets side by side. Folks Americans are rejecting Palin.

Posted by: Mike | October 22, 2008, 9:19 pm 9:19 pm

You forgot Oregon. We’ve been voting by mail for several years now. Ballots arrived last weekend. While tecnichally not “early voting,” my partner and I have already voted. Too late to influence our opinions now.

Posted by: Roberto in Oregon | October 22, 2008, 9:20 pm 9:20 pm

MY ONLY VOTE WROTE:
GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS WAKE-UP….
CHECK THE NEW POLL FOR 10/22/08
PLUS I REMIND YOU:
THE REDNECK FACTOR…..
THE BUBBA FACTOR…..
THE SILENT FACTOR….
DON’T BET ON YOUR FRIEND OBAMA….
The poll, which found Obama at 44 percent and McCain at 43 percent, supports what some Republicans and Democrats privately have said in recent days: that the race narrowed after the third debate as GOP-leaning voters drifted home to their party and McCain’s “Joe the plumber” analogy struck a chord.
__________________________________
Well the fact is that this poll is flawed as they over sample evangelicals. Please read the article on huffingtonpost.com. So Obama is well ahead. Take it from a republican voting for Obama

Posted by: Jim | October 22, 2008, 9:22 pm 9:22 pm

Garry, I commend you on your discourse. You obviously care deeply about America and this is important for all people to understand that we should care in the same way. I however also cannot help but denote that you have a biased opinion of the candidate of your choice. You say that Obama may be the best for America, or the worst ever, however you dont mention the same thing about McCain and he could most certainly be the worst ever as well. Hes a very angry man, a man KNOWN to have fits of rage, some would even consider him unstable. Anyone who has ever crossed him in any way, he tends to take personally and is known to go to great lengths to avenge that supposed dissenter. In fact some of his own party have made statements to that affect. He also has had NO executive responsibilities, and his running mate is, very untested to say the least. That being said I wish you the best and hope that your dreams come true, if not however I ask that you not overthrow this government until you at least see what is to come, from one American to another, dissenting opinions well noted. Good luck!

Posted by: Fairfax | October 22, 2008, 9:28 pm 9:28 pm

@my only vote,
In AP poll, among registered voters Obama is 10 percent ahead of Maccain
47: 37…..Please check the detail.
They are using likely model in a traditional way…. they remove the new voters from the sample…

Posted by: zen | October 22, 2008, 9:45 pm 9:45 pm

McCaniac, wanted to spread the wealth in 2000, he was quoted as saying that the people who make more money should pay a little more, but now he has to try to satisfy his base, oh what base is that, it sounds just like his campaign, not knowing where to go next. As if he forgot, we are in a socialist country, we as taxpayers own the banks. OMG say it’s not true. Oh well, I guess the next thing will be Jeramiah Wright, if that happens, the lines will be 8 hours long for early voting here in South Florida.

Posted by: Money Bags | October 22, 2008, 10:05 pm 10:05 pm

THE REDNECK FACTOR…..
THE BUBBA FACTOR…..
THE SILENT FACTOR….
DON’T BET ON YOUR FRIEND OBAMA….
The poll, which found Obama at 44 percent and McCain at 43 percent, supports what some Republicans and Democrats privately have said in recent days: that the race narrowed after the third debate as GOP-leaning voters drifted home to their party and McCain’s “Joe the plumber” analogy struck a chord.
Posted by: MY ONLY VOTE
******************************
REDNECK FACTOR…..
THE BUBBA FACTOR?
ohhh yes! The true colors come out
of the republicans ugly heads, now
that they are desperate and gasping
for CO2 and methane.

Posted by: spacerook1 | October 22, 2008, 10:07 pm 10:07 pm

To Zen and Jim.
It’s the poll that the networks posted.
Check NBC and other networks…..
The race is wide open…..
We don’t really know the outcome untill
november 4th….and it maybe a long
night….The current elections are
very different from any other election
in U.S history…..We know blacks will
vote 100% for Obama,BUT we don’t really know how the whites will do……
Also don’t underestimate those groups[
silent,bubba and redneck voters].

Posted by: MY ONLY VOTE | October 22, 2008, 10:16 pm 10:16 pm

This was a Congress-caused crisis, beginning during the Clinton
administration, with Democrats leading the way into the crisis and
blocking every effort to get out of it in a timely fashion.
If you at our local daily newspaper continue to let Americans believe —
and vote as if — President Bush and the Republicans caused the crisis,
then you are joining in that lie.
If you do not tell the truth about the Democrats — including Barack
Obama — and do so with the same energy you would use if the miscreants
were Republicans — then you are not journalists by any standard.
You’re just the public relations machine of the Democratic Party, and
it’s time you were all fired and real journalists brought in, so that we
can actually have a news paper in our city.
Posted by: John K. Watts
**************************
Hmmm. If clinton put this in place, why didn’t
the Republicans fix it! After all, the republicans
had 8 years to correct it! Six of those years had a
majority rule along with a republican president in
charge! (we think). That’s one of the reasons
why we are getting rid of the Republican rule.
Hate to say it John, excuses are like arses,
we all have one.

Posted by: spacerook1 | October 22, 2008, 10:20 pm 10:20 pm

Republicans are losers!..Republicans have messed up our economy with a stupid war based on lies and 10 billion dollars a month to support the troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. Republicans believe in voodoo trickle down economics..which is partly what has contributed to the current economic crises. Obama believes and is supported by most economists including Warren Buffet that you grow the economy by investing in the middle class..that is what he meant by spreading the wealth around..Most Republicans who say that Spreading the wealth around is Socialism are too dumb to understand that SOCIAL SECURITY is a basic tenet of the Socialism doctrine so you people should not accept social security or medicare. Republicans like to throws term around like Socialism, liberal, marxism et to scare people but it is not working this time.The democratic party looks like America(Multicultural,cosmopolitan) The Republican party is for people who are really rich and people who pretend to be rich(the Republicans who heretofore pretended to be rich are now throwing their support behind Obama because they are feeling the pinch like the ordinary man)..you saw them at their convention..all white people who had the nerve to raise signs that read “COUNTRY FIRST” after ruining the economy with the filthy voodoo economics and the stupid senseless war that Powell did not support but was given false info from Bush and his cohorts to report..as a good soldier he did so for his commander in chief..They used him to sell the war because he was at that time the most influential and believable Republican. When Powell realized how he was used he then resigned. We have had enough of the Republican crap and come November there will be a change. McCain is old and heaven forbid if he dies in office then here comes “Cheney in a dress” Palin..Heaven help us all and save us from the Republicans!

Posted by: Stanley | October 22, 2008, 10:30 pm 10:30 pm

Good will always triumph over evil. John McCain will triumph over Hussein Muhammad Obama.
George, don’t believe your own BS.

Posted by: Women4Palin | October 22, 2008, 10:31 pm 10:31 pm

Obama is a socialist. He will never be President of this nation.
He wants to redistribute our money????
No way Nobama!!!

Posted by: Women4Palin | October 22, 2008, 10:37 pm 10:37 pm

To spacerook1
Do you really want solutions????
REPLACE CONGRESS[HOUSE+SENATE]535 members including OBAMA,BIDEN,McCAIN,
THE ADMINISTRATION AND ITS CABINET,
WALL STREET FAT CATS,CEO’S,EXECUTIVES ETC.
Also OUTLAW lobbyists,special interests
groups, enforce the law of the land and
the constitution of U.S.A.
Without ALL THE ABOVE the status quo
will continue regardless who will be
elected in november…….

Posted by: MY ONLY VOTE | October 22, 2008, 10:38 pm 10:38 pm

Women4Palin – I agree with you. Obama is a socialist who wants to increase the taxes of those who work hard and redistribute it as welfare.

Posted by: Demsnever | October 22, 2008, 10:39 pm 10:39 pm

George, you have your head so far up Obama’s @ss that you are not thinking straight,

Posted by: John Potus | October 22, 2008, 10:41 pm 10:41 pm

I am a democrat and not a socialist. I am not voting for Obama.

Posted by: sally bull | October 22, 2008, 10:42 pm 10:42 pm

Can you guys remember when Bill Clinton was running in ’92 the Republicans used the same wicked,scary tactic they are using on Obama. They called Bill Clinton Socialists,Marxist and Liberal. Bill Clinton balanced two budgets and left us with a surplus. Here comes the most intelligent person the Republicans can find(George W) and his trickle down voodoo economic policies like tax the middle class and little tax on the rich which have now left us in deep doodoo(MESS)..with a war based on lies in a country that had nothing to do with 9/11..there were no Iraquis on those planes that went into those buildings in my home city(NONE!). There were no terrorist elements(Alquieda) in Iraq when Saddam was there because he did not want them there..Saddam was not a religious Muslim and Alqueda hated him..The war was based on lies..(The war and voodoo economics of the Republicans have us in this situation now). Republicans have no shame! After ruining the economy they have the nerve to ask for four more years to continue the slip and slide of the economy. The rich and wealthy are the ones who support the Republican party so they can get their tax break and don’t forget the self righteous people in the Bible belt who talk about values and believe that they are the only ones with values..PuHlease! Safe me the crap..loving all people regardless of race and persuasion is one of the greatest values..do they show that!NO! You want to find the most racist people go to the so called Bible belt! I am against all racists(Black and White)most of these people go to church and pray to their imaginary friend in the sky(I believe in God but I know God don’t listen to no racists). Heaven help us all and save us from the Republican party and their followers! Thank you for answering my prayer with an Obama win in November! Its a done deal Obama supporters lets get out the champaign and celebrate “Change we can believe in”.

Posted by: Stanley | October 22, 2008, 10:48 pm 10:48 pm

FOR ALL OF YOU ON BOTH SIDES WHO ARE SO EXTREME, RELAX. BOTH SIDES OF THE ASILE ARE GUILTY. ONE SIDE IS JUST AS BAD AS THE OTHER ON ONE POINT OR ANOTHER. SO SHUT UP, YOU SOUND REALLY STUPID. THE DEMS HAVE MESSED UP AND THE GOP HAS MESSED UP. IT WILL TAKE EVERYBODY TO GET US THROUGH THIS MESS. THERE IS NOT ONE PERSON WHO IS IN OFFICE NOW THAT IS LIKE 98% OF US BLOGGING HERE. EVERYONE OF THEM IS A MILLIONAIRE AT LEAST. HOW MANY OF US HAVE THAT KIND OF MONEY? NOT 98% OF US. WAKE-UP!! WHOEVER WINS WILL DO WHAT THEY WANT AND THE HE*L WITH THE FOLKS WHO PUT THEM THERE. I HAVE ALREADY VOTER FOR SEN. OBAMA BECAUSE HE IS CLOSER TO US THAN MCCAIN. DO YOU REALLY WANT A VP THAT AFTER 7+ WEEKS ON THE TICKET AND STILL DOESN’T KNOW HER JOB DISCRIPTION? WHICH ONE OF US WOULD GO TO A JOB INTERVIEW AND NOT KNOW WHAT JOB WE’RE THERE FOR? THE GOP WANTS TO THROW GEN. POWELL “UNDER THE BUS” FOR THE ENDORSMENT HE GAVE THIS WEEKEND. IN 1998, HE WAS THE BEST LOVED BLACK MAN IN THE USA. THE GOP WAS DOING EVERYTHING THEY COULD TO GET HIM TO BE THEIR FLAVOR OF THE YEAR. NOW HE HAS NO IDEA WHAT HE’S DOING. YOU IDIOTS. WHO EVER WINS, LIFE REALLY WON’T BE THAT DIFFERENT. WE HAVE MADE IT THROUGH THE LAST EIGHT YEARS (ALMOST)AND WE’RE STILL STANDING. IF WE ALL SURVIVED THAT, “WHAT DON’T KILL YA WILL MAKE YA STRONGER” WE’RE STRONGER. SO ALL THIS CRAP WE’VE HAD TO GO THROUGH IS ALMOST OVER, SO RELAX. FOCUS ON TAKING CARE OF THE PEOPLE YOU LOVE AND MAYBE, JUST MAYBE, YOU MAY HELP SOMEONE ELSE IN SOME SMALL WAY. SAY A PRAYER THAT GOD’S WILL BE DONE AND WE ALL MAY MAKE IT. PEACE AND LOVE TO ALL OBAMA 08.

Posted by: jww | October 22, 2008, 10:49 pm 10:49 pm

AII THE OBAMAMANIACS THAT HAVE BEEN ANNOYING US FOR DAYS, I GUESS THE MESSIAH IS STTING DUCK AFTER $700 MILLION AND BAD ECONOMY
I GUESS THE US PRESIDENCY IS NOT FOR SALE AFTER ALL..
I GUESS WE DONT HAVE TO EAT OBAMA’S “PIE IN THE SKY” SFTER ALL
HERE READ. JUST OUT.
New AP Poll Shows Roughly Even Race
By LIZ SIDOTI, AP
posted: 4 HOURS 4 MINUTES AGOcomments: 1639filed under: Election News, Barack Obama, John McCainPrintShareText SizeAAAWASHINGTON (Oct. 22) – The presidential race tightened after the final debate, with John McCain gaining among whites and people earning less than $50,000, according to an Associated Press-GfK poll that shows McCain and Barack Obama essentially running even among likely voters in the election homestretch.
The poll, which found Obama at 44 percent and McCain at 43 percent, supports what some Republicans and Democrats privately have said in recent days: that the race narrowed after the third debate as GOP-leaning voters drifted home to their party and McCain’s “Joe the plumber” analogy struck a chord.
BYE BYE MESSAIH

Posted by: TJ, THE CLINTONITE | October 22, 2008, 10:55 pm 10:55 pm

Women4palin,YOu probably would not accept social security and medicare when the time comes..you dummy! those two factors are tenets of socialism used by our Government. You do not grow the economy by taxing the middle class and not taxing the rich enough..that is your Republican way of growing the economy..and it does not work..we are in a deficit now just like when King Reagan left office..Clinton left us with a surplus..and Like Clinton Obama believes that you grow the economy by investing in the middle class. OBAMA’s economic plan and tax plan IS SUPPORTED BY WARREN BUFFET THE RICHEST MAN IN THE WORLD..HE MUST BE A SOCIALIST TOO! You Republicans just like to throw terms around without knowing what they mean. Heaven help us all and save us from the Republican party and its followers!

Posted by: Stanley | October 22, 2008, 10:56 pm 10:56 pm

Sally Bull, let me play the devil’s advocate for a moment. So you are a democrat who buys into the Republican line that Barack Obama is a socialist! What did Obama say or do that makes him a socialist! “Spreading the wealth around”! that! Spreading the wealth around(investing in the poor and middle class) would grow the economy faster that the trickle down economics you Republicans believe in..yes I say you Republicans because you SARAH BULL is not a democrat! Got cha! Heaven help us all and save us from the Republican party and its followers!

Posted by: Stanley | October 22, 2008, 11:04 pm 11:04 pm

Wow, what a great rehash of voting statistics. How much do they pay the ‘expert’ to write this?
His real claim to fame is not as a Clinto advisor.
His real power came from being one of Clinton’s laisons w/ AIPAC. I used to see AIPAC flyers on the bulleting boards at the capitol advertising his speach at the AIPAC dinner.
Hey George. Tell people what ya thought the first time you saw someone demonstrait a POW torture position at the White House.

Posted by: powmadeak47 | October 22, 2008, 11:19 pm 11:19 pm

Looking at the way these 2 men have ran their campaigns says everything about what kind of Presidents they would be.
Obama is on the cutting edge pushing things forward. He isn’t a reactionary making day to day erratic moves. He’s a long term thinker. A strategic thinker. That’s what we need in the White House.
McCain has been all over the place. He showed a total lack of judgment in choosing Sarah Palin. He has been dishonest so often now that it’s a surprise any time he says anything resembling the truth.
There’s just no contest here. Barack Obama has to be elected President for our country to finally get out of the hole it’s in.

Posted by: Marvin Music | October 22, 2008, 11:36 pm 11:36 pm

“These voters have poured record-breaking cash into the Obama campaign’s war chest, and in turn the campaign buys “boots on the grounds” and hires paid staffers to get out the vote.”
We learned our lession in the 2004 election that we outnumber the 527s and the big money lobbyists. Obama’s strategy was to really appeal to the working public, young people, middle class, poor, rich, and all the other groups that the “conservative right-wing” bigots have pitted against each other. He’s going to win this election because the minorities all realized that we are the mass!
Our $1 counts when we pool our resources to affect change. YES WE CAN!!!
(Vote early if you can because you will not believe how many people have become involved in the election process this time.)
Obama/Biden 08!

Posted by: Common Sense | October 22, 2008, 11:49 pm 11:49 pm

OK. First if you do not like George Stephanopoulos, then do not read his articles. For example, I do not like Shaun Hannity, so therefor, I do not go to the FOX Blogg. Moreover, I do not like the crazys at the huffingtonpost, so I do not go to there website. I know what I am getting on both sides, so I do not go there. I avoid the exteme and crazys on both side. You know, there side is “always right”. CNN and ABC seem to be fair to the point. To this article, I read simular in the AP, and i believe CNN reported on this as well. Obama seems to be doing well. I voted early, and it is nice…. Now let see what happens. Good luck to your choice

Posted by: rob | October 23, 2008, 12:19 am 12:19 am

It is amazing the difference in the way the different parties think, I have spent many a night trying to figure how anyone could think that Obama was not concise, consistent, or that even McCain won any of the debates. I have also noticed how each side takes what the other side says so completely out of context, for example McCain saying that Obama has changed is spread the wealth to now include the working element, Hello, it was always there. Or How that Joe the Plumber stumped Obama’s Photo Op, anyone who really is looking at the interaction between the two, Obama cemented his consistency and character by saying hey, yeah you will possibly see an increase, and went into detail about the aspects of the fact that depending on different dynamics of the company could result in decreases, because small business have different conitations than an employee making the same amount. One important fact about the whole tax issue keeping Joe from purchasing the company is that the increase in taxes will come after he purchases the business and not before.
I also realize that it makes sense for Die hard McCain supporters to think that Obama’s words don’t make sense to them, not because they are dumb idiots, but because they have a completely different filter so will pick up different elements of what is said. This thought helped me to reconcile this with what is wrong with the people in this country. I realized that we are all the same, going through the same struggles and fears no matter what station in life or idealogy we follow, we just have different filters, but that is what makes this country so great is that the constitutions and structure of the government keeps checks and balances so that when one ideology starts going to the extreme, we have the power to change the direction.
But, I do have to say that i find it interesting that the that the rebulicans are for limited government and for no government interference, yet they want to use government to legislate what consitute marriage, and that if two same sex partners will somehow destroy the fabric of marriage, do they not realize that the divorce rate is above 50%, and even of those that stay together a portion of them have to deal with infidelity. Other item of importance is the notion anyone is actually pro-abortion. Obama said it best when he was saying that let’s try and reduce the unwanted pregnancies before it even gets to the issue of whether to abort or not, it is right to chose, who am I to dictate a woman’s choice, especially if I have not walked in her shoes. The fundamentalist want to judge everybody and act as if they have the right to determine what is right or not for the rest of us, do they not forget the tenant let the not cast the first stone, only one person had the right, and that was Jesus, and yet no where did I ever hear of him casting stones upon anyone whether they were prositutes, gamblers, etc. He treated people with humility, compasion and grace. We have lost our way and we need to get it back as a nation, spread love and acceptance, not judgements and tolerance.
Another thing, why is it that when one is an articulate speaker it is looked down upon, instead of honored for the skill and abilities that they have, why are they looked at as elitists, or snobs. We should be looking to people like that to run our complex government.
The last thought to think about is would McCain and Palin support special needs children if she wasn’t effected by it? A president or VP needs to be able to represent the country as a whole, event those different then them.
Everyone have a blessed day.

Posted by: Kday | October 23, 2008, 12:37 am 12:37 am

Governor Palin has more experience than Barack Obama. The pro-Obama media keeps smearing Governor Palin on a daily basis (like they did Hillary) to distract the American people from the fact that it’s Obama who lacks experience. As Joe Biden and Hillary said, Obama is not ready to be President. Moreover, Biden said he would be honored to be on the same ticket with Hillary.

Posted by: Doreen | October 23, 2008, 12:39 am 12:39 am

My only vote,
You mean the AP poll? The only poll that has the race this close. So…you’re disregarding every other poll, and putting your faith in this one? Whatever helps you sleep. Sure “Joe the plumber” helped with the Republican base, but most voters see “Joe, not really a plumber” for what he really is… “Joe the conservative Republican”

Posted by: Randy | October 23, 2008, 1:05 am 1:05 am

Doreen,
…well she’s got a lot of experience wasting Alaskan taxpayer’s money, so she difinetly would fit right in in Washington. And she’s got a lot of experience spending lot’s of money on her wardrobe, so she fit’s in with the elite. Not to mention her experience with lobbyist. Her experience evading prosecution. Her experience engaging in cronyism, and her experience in abuse of power. Which makes her a natural for the Republican Party. Unfortunately for her, that’s not the kind of experience most Americans are looking for.

Posted by: Randy | October 23, 2008, 1:11 am 1:11 am

JOE THE PLUMBER FLUSHED…
Joe Wurzelbacher is Charles Keating’s grandson.
His father is Robert Wurzelbacher who went to jail as part of the Keating 5 scandal.
Coincidence? I think not.
Do a web search it’s all there.
His mother is Elizabeth Keating.
In 2000, Joe the Plumber sold a commercial property for $402,000. That commercial property was located in…Milford, OH, home of Robert M. Wurzelbacher.
Robert M. Wurzelbacher lived in Scottsdale, AZ in the 1980′s
• Property: 819 Montclair Blvd., Miami Township, 45150. Use: Commercial structures. Price: $402,000. Buyer: Perry D. and Susan F. Buffington. Seller: Joseph Wurzelbacher.
—————————-
The nation’s newest celeb Joe the Plumber is a fraud.
A GOP plant.
“Joe” is related to Charles Keating of The Keating 5 bank scandal that rocked John McCain!
Wurzelbacher, an Ohio plumber, thrust into the national spotlight after he was mentioned 24 times during the final Presidential debate by McCain, isn’t even a licensed plumber.
State licensing agencies in Ohio showed no license registered under his name.
Nor is he a member of the plumber’s union he claimed to be enrolled in on his MySpace page.
His name is listed in the telephone books as “Samuel”. More amazingly,”Joe” is a Republican mole with deep ties to a scandalous past.
Wurzelbacher is the son of Robert Wurzelbacher – the son-in-law of Charles Keating – The Charles Keating of the Keating 5 scandal – for which Sen. John McCain was reprimanded by the Senate for his part in attempting to illegally influence government regulators, after receiving $150,000 from Keating.
Robert Wurzelbacher was an exec of American Continental Corp., the parent company of Charles Keating’s Lincoln Savings.
That’s the bank that failed causing many to lose their life savings and cost US taxpayers $4.3 billion.
As a result Joe the Plumber’s dad, Robert, pleaded guilty to misappropriating $14 million, serving 40 months in federal prison.
“Congratulations Joe – you’re rich!’
‘You betcha!”

Posted by: Chuck | October 23, 2008, 1:17 am 1:17 am

Andy Martin, Hawaii, Obama not Barack Obama, FRANK MARSHALL DAVIS father, OBAMA’S ORIGINAL BIRTH CERTIFICATE, INCOMPLETE OR TAMPERED WITH
October 22, 2008 • 17 Comments
From Andy Martin in Hawaii:
“ANDY MARTIN
Executive Editor
ContrarianCommentary.com
“Factually Correct, Not
Politically Correct”
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
“OPERATION ALOHA OBAMA” YIELDS UP THE TRUTH ABOUT BARACK OBAMA
PART THREE: BARACK OBAMA IS NOT BARACK OBAMA
“OBAMA’S FATHER WAS FRANK MARSHALL DAVIS. OBAMA IS REALLY FRANK MARSHALL DAVIS, JR.,” SAYS ANDY MARTIN
OBAMA’S ‘DREAMS FROM [HIS] FATHER] WAS REALLY A BOOK ABOUT HIS REAL FATHER, FRANK MARSHALL DAVIS
OBAMA WAS THE VICTIM OF A HISTORICAL ANOMALY, AND ROBBED OF HIS BIRTHRIGHT AS THE SCION OF CIVIL RIGHTS ROYALTY
OBAMA’S ORIGINAL “VAULT” BIRTH CERTIFICATE IS EITHER INCOMPLETE OR TAMPERED WITH, WHICH IS WHY IT HAS NEVER SURFACED.
MARTIN SAYS OBAMA SHOULD SUBMIT TO DNA TESTING WITH HIS BROTHERS
WAS OBAMA THE “VICTIM” OF A PRO-LIFE MOTHER?
(HONOLULU, HI)(October 22, 2008) Internet powerhouse Andy Martin told a Honolulu news conference today that after an intense international investigation he is convinced that Barack Obama, Junior, the presidential candidate is really the son of Obama’s controversial mentor Frank Marshall Davis.
“Mendacious adults ’switched’ Obama at birth. That is why he has refused to allow access to the original or ‘vault’ birth certificate,” Martin told a Honolulu news conference. “We believe the original certificate did not list a father. Barack Obama became the father as a result of an agreement between Ann Dunham, Frank Marshall Davis and Barack Obama, Sr.
“Davis was already married to a White Woman. He did not need a nonmarital child by a second one. Ann probably refused to have what was then called a ‘back alley’ abortion. Davis may have felt that ‘Obama’ would face less stigma with an ‘African’ background than a Negro one. The civil rights revolution, of course, turned that gambit upside down. In discovering and understanding what happened we cannot forget we are dealing with events in 1961, not 2008.
“The irony in all of this is that Obama once stated he did not want his daughters to be ‘victimized’ with a child. And he is alive because his mother took the contrary view.
“Barack Obama has known this since adulthood, and the shock of this discovery still reverberates in his psyche.
“Ironically, what I have to say today dilutes the ‘Muslim’ theory that has propagated. Davis was not a Muslim. If Obama had told the truth at some point in his life, instead of living endlessly with the lies that were imposed on him by the adults in his life, we would have avoided a great deal of confusion. I, for one, have deep compassion for Mr. Obama. He is not the first person in history to be caught up in this kind of family fraud.
“The disclosure by the two women in his life that he was not the ’son’ of his ‘father’ also explains why he manifests such extreme ambivalence to both his mother and grandmother. He is angry because he was cheated of his real father.
“Obama was robbed of his birthright of being the son of civil rights royalty, and of a father with whom he was completely simpatico. He could have grown up the son of Frank Marshall Davis, civil rights pioneer and activist, cutting-edge journalist, poet and man of letters. Mr. Davis was an extraordinary man in a dark period of this nation’s history, the pre-dawn of the civil rights era.
“Obama has probably suspended his campaign and is flying to Honolulu because he is deathly afraid his grandmother may make a ‘dying declaration’ and blow the whistle on his family fraud. Dying people often blurt out the truth. The true facts of Obama’s parentage also reflect why there has been so much tension and alienation, as well as genuine love, in Obama’s relationship with his grandmother.
“There has been a great deal of confusion and misconception about Frank Marshall Davis. A brief history lesson is essential to understanding the bizarre facts of Obama’s provenance.
“During the 1920’s and 30’s many Negros (African-Americans) became ‘communists’ because the Soviet Union and the Communist Party USA promised to end racial segregation and Jim Crow laws in the United States. The Democratic Party, of course, was the powerful force behind segregation and Jim Crow. So it is a twist of fate that the same party that oppressed Blacks has now nominated one for president.
“Madelyn Dunham is the last surviving person who knows the truth about the switch. That is why as we closed in on Dunham, Obama went ballistic, cancelled his campaign and came to Hawai’i to head us off.

Posted by: llauna | October 23, 2008, 5:02 am 5:02 am

Posted by: llauna | October 23, 2008, 5:07 am 5:07 am

McCain wants to spread the wealth to the rich. The oil companies the CEOs that are earning millions and millions more than they need to be happy.
Is this the america you want?
McCain would be bad on security because he is impetuous and too ideological. He is erratic in a crisis. Too old now Im afraid. And his running mate is insane she doesnt even know what the job of a VP is and she isnt uncorrupted.
These guys are desperate: they almost called Obama a terrorist, called him a socialist and next week will probably call him a UFO.
It doesnt stick. They have run out of ideas, have weak character, have underestimated the american people.
Time for a change.

Posted by: any123 | October 23, 2008, 6:30 am 6:30 am

Telling a friend that the love of his life is a phony and dangerous is not likely to get him to change his mind. But it may cost you a friend. It is much the same story with true believers in Barack Obama. They have made up their minds and not only don’t want to be confused by the facts, they resent being told the facts. An e-mail from a reader mentioned trying to tell his sister why he was voting against Obama but, when he tried to argue some facts, she cut him short: “You don’t like him and I do!” she said. End of discussion. When one thinks of all the men who have put their lives on the line in battle to defend and preserve this country, it is especially painful to think that there are people living in the safety and comfort of civilian life who cannot be bothered to find out the facts about candidates before voting to put the fate of this nation, and of generations yet to come, in the hands of someone chosen because they like his words or style. Of the four people running for president and vice president on the Republican and Democratic tickets, the one we know the least about is the one leading in the polls — Barack Obama. Some of Sen. Obama’s most fervent supporters could not tell you what he has actually done on such issues as crime, education, or financial institutions like Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, much less what he plans to do to stop Iran from becoming a nuclear nation supplying nuclear weapons to the international terrorist networks that it has supplied with other weapons.
The magic word “change” makes specifics unnecessary. If things are going bad, some think that what is needed is blank-check “change.” But history shows any number of countries in crises worse than ours, where “change” turned problems into catastrophes. In czarist Russia, for example, the economy was worse than ours is today and World War I was going far worse for the Russians than anything we have faced in Iraq. Moreover, Russians had nothing like the rights of Americans today. So they went for “change.” That “change” brought on a totalitarian regime that made the czars’ despotism look like child’s play. The communists killed more people in one year than the czars killed in more than 90 years, not counting the millions who died in a government-created famine in the 1930s. Other despotic regimes in China, Cuba, and Iran were similarly replaced by people who promised “change” that turned out to be even worse than what went before. Yet, many today seem to assume that if things are bad, “change” will make them better. Specifics don’t interest them nearly as much as inspiring rhetoric and a confident style. But many 20th century leaders with inspiring rhetoric and great self-confidence led their followers or their countries into utter disasters. These ranged from Jim Jones who led hundreds to their deaths in Jonestown to Hitler and Mao who led millions to their deaths. What specifics do we know about Barack Obama’s track record that might give us some clue as to what kinds of “changes” to expect if he is elected?
We know that he opposed the practice of putting violent young felons on trial as adults. We know that he was against a law forbidding physicians to kill a baby that was born alive despite an attempt to abort it. We know that Obama opposed attempts to put stricter regulations on Fannie Mae — and that he was the second largest recipient of campaign contributions from Fannie Mae. We know that this very year his campaign sought the advice of disgraced former Fannie Mae CEO Franklin Raines. Fannie Mae and Raines were at the heart of “the mess in Washington” that Barack Obama claims he is going to clean up under the banner of “change.” The public has been told very little about what this man with the wonderful rhetoric has actually done. What we knows enough to make us wonder about what we don’t know. Or it ought to. For the true believers — which includes many in the media — it is just a question of whether you like him or not.

Posted by: Mark Garnett | October 23, 2008, 8:34 am 8:34 am

We are facing big issues! ABC needs to step up to the plate and tell us about Gov. Palin’s record what she did, how she HAS in her time as governor taken action and made good on her campaign promises when she was elected Governor of Alaska. Is ABC afraid by telling the American people the truth that people will see the McCain – Palin ticket is in fact the better choice. Quit being spineless leftist whimps and tell the truth! Stand up and do the right thing!
Here’s a bit of info about Mr. Charlie Gibson and other media you all might want to see!
http://gretawire.foxnews.com/2008/10/23/newt-gingrich-on-the-misquote-in-cnns-interview-with-gov-palin-the-fix-is-in/#comment-2615873

Posted by: Tiffany | October 23, 2008, 10:03 am 10:03 am

It seems that McCain is very much in the business of projection. He projects onto Obama those things that he in more “guilty” of more than Obama. The latest is the flap over Palin’s wardrobe, McCain accuses Obama of being elist, while his runningmate spends $150,000 on clothes. To turn the old elementery school taunt around: “you are rubber, I am glue, what I say bounces off you and sticks to me”.

Posted by: Rich | October 23, 2008, 11:32 am 11:32 am

By the way George under all the stress of accurate political journalism, how do you manage to stay so young looking! whatever you have must be working for you! I’ve been watching you for years and love your reporting…you Rock!

Posted by: wendyryder | October 23, 2008, 11:55 am 11:55 am

TJ it doesn’t surprise me he’s gaining more votes by “Whites” he spreading racist lies about Obama and his heritage and associations…he’s basing his campaign right now on lies…he’s said everything he can about Obama to get racist people out to vote…calling him “THAT ONE”, i guess that was the closest he could come with out saying “THAT BOY”, unfortunately it’s not whites alone that determine who our president will be in this new day..it’s about time our melting pot country, shows a little color at the top…

Posted by: wendyryder | October 23, 2008, 11:59 am 11:59 am

BTW most terrorists i’ve seen don’t have hot southern wives like Michelle Obama, who get up and dance like that on Ellen! Michelle is sooo cool, and so hot and yet does it for less than 150,000….I suppose it’s true that the beauty comes from within…

Posted by: wendyryder | October 23, 2008, 12:07 pm 12:07 pm

Joe the homeless Vet says go Obama!!!
Michelle and “DAROCK” Obama all the way to the Whitehouse!!!!
George, thanks for your genuine reporting all these years…keep it up!

Posted by: wendyryder | October 23, 2008, 12:11 pm 12:11 pm

George Stephanopoulos(sp) – you know – that really short guy on This Week – should be excused from his job. He is still as biased as when he was a paid staffer for Clinton, Gephardt(sp) et al.
You can tell not just by the questions
he asks but also the tone. Once again – mmajor media outlets are nothing more than Push Polling organizations. They’re certainly not “News” organizations. Think about it. When was the last time you found out anything first on a news program? The internet is where it happens. To stay relevant “News organizations” create and then promote their version of news – such as in this presidential race.

Posted by: johnsmith08 | October 23, 2008, 12:38 pm 12:38 pm

there, there, leave George alone, you act as if he’s the reason Mccain is losing, could it be his pitbull attack mode…people are sick of his negativity..and lies…he’s out of touch! he ignores real issues like “joe the homeless vet” standing on my street corners and is all wired up about a plumber who makes up to 200,000 dollars and doesn’t pay his taxes…get real people…Mccain doesn’t listen to what we want, only listens to the chosen few who happen to have millions…and don’t want to share it to rebuild our country only other countries we bomb the hell out of…

Posted by: wendyryder | October 23, 2008, 1:04 pm 1:04 pm

An echo of a voice of warning. http://www.viddler.com/explore/AwakeAndAriseOr/videos/49/

Posted by: MBell_TX | October 23, 2008, 1:23 pm 1:23 pm

The McCain campaign started chanting “SOCIALIST!” “SOCIALIST!” after he lost the third debate because they knew that their Republican sheep would latch onto it without even knowing what “socialist” means.
What a bunch of frea**n idiots.

Posted by: princess9681 | October 23, 2008, 1:46 pm 1:46 pm

i tell you girl, they need to “shore up” their dignity….and go out with grace.

Posted by: wendyryder | October 23, 2008, 2:05 pm 2:05 pm

in ref to llauna , you almost had me for a moment until i looked at Obama seniors high cheek bones and big ears…and then i realized you are all nothing but liars…sore sports…
Obama-Biden all the way!!! He Listens!

Posted by: wendyryder | October 23, 2008, 2:22 pm 2:22 pm

I stood in line for four hours to vote in Georgia. It was awesome. You have to have determination and really be excited about voting for your candidate. Obama seems to have the edge on the excitement scale.
Obama/Biden 08

Posted by: francheska ;-) | October 23, 2008, 2:50 pm 2:50 pm

“Would the Last Honest Reporter Please Turn On the Lights?
By Orson Scott Card”
***
It should be noted that Orson Scott Card was once a fine science-fiction writer, but even a casual reading of his latest work will reveal that he is no longer quite in touch with objective reality. Scott’s work shows a deep distrust of democracy, an open contempt for the electorate, and his vision of a global hegomony united under a charismatic leader. His repeated attempts to discredit the media must be viewed in this context — he believes the people can be easily swayed and manipulated by a brilliant orator (which he imagines himself to be).
His continued decline is a sad thing to witness.

Posted by: Yukon Sam | October 23, 2008, 4:24 pm 4:24 pm

100% blacks voting for OBAMA? Really? No one told me. Need to recheck that fact–100% may be voting, but not necessarily the way OBC (oops ABC) keeps reporting.

Posted by: bkiadan | October 23, 2008, 4:58 pm 4:58 pm

I am a recovering republican who will proudly cast my ballot for Barack Obama.
It’s time for REAL change and Americans to come together to solve this mess
we are in.

Posted by: Jack | October 23, 2008, 7:15 pm 7:15 pm

I voted for the first time for a democrat and waited in line for hours to do it. Barack Obama has inspired me
along with EVERY republican friend I have.We have all seen the light.
Let’s do this America. OBAMA/BIDEN 08

Posted by: Lisa in GA | October 23, 2008, 7:18 pm 7:18 pm

Women4Palin states:
“Good will always triumph over evil. John McCain will triumph over Hussein Muhammad Obama…”
***************
Good WILL triumph over evil. YES! Amen. And John McCain may well beat that guy you mention — maybe on a golf course someday or something…
But, Barack Hussein Obama WILL be the 44th President of the United States.

Posted by: dassis | October 23, 2008, 8:21 pm 8:21 pm

Vote

Posted by: dassis | October 23, 2008, 8:22 pm 8:22 pm

Stephanopoulos and the rest of his gang,good-o-boy,clan, junior-clan,brown nose,a..kiss,incester,wife beater need to be after the election rounded up like we did the japanese in the onset of the war, you know, can be trusted…

Posted by: t.v.eddie | October 23, 2008, 10:52 pm 10:52 pm

The GOP is supposed to be the party of Reagan. If Reagan was alive today, he would not approve of what the GOP has been doing these last several weeks during the election.
It really is sad that instead of focusing on winning, the GOP has been focusing on whining.
On November 4, 2008, I am going to sit back and revel in watching the long faces of all the McCain supporters everywhere. They will all sit in front of their television sets and HDTVs, in stunned silence. But most of all, we will never again tolerate the stupidity and idiocy of that moron Tucker Bounds.
Electoral Vote/College prediction:
Obama 489, McCain 49
(Same as 1980: Reagan 489, Carter 49)
Obama/Biden 2008

Posted by: mhuda | October 24, 2008, 12:23 pm 12:23 pm

I’m certain party machines around the democratic world will pursue (in some varation) many of Obama’s strategies from the early primaries right through to election day. Fortunately, the bottom line is more citizens participating. It would be great to see a imilar turnout on the GOP side in 2012. The more folks involved, the better for democracy regardless of who wins. Special interest groups lose some of their clout when they represent a shrinking part of the % of the electorate.

Posted by: ken | October 24, 2008, 12:36 pm 12:36 pm

Boy, you Republicans are really feeling like you’re backed into a corner, aren’t you? Well, if you can’t write something intelligent, just write a LOT. Your biggest problem is that the things you think are important are NOT important to average Americans this year. Trying to cast Obama as somehow being anti-American and a terrorist will not work for you this election. You must have a really low opinion of the average American’s intelligence to even consider basing a campaign on that garbage. So much for the ‘permanent conservative majority’, and good riddance.

Posted by: Ed | October 24, 2008, 1:00 pm 1:00 pm

Posted by: Susan | October 24, 2008, 1:32 pm 1:32 pm

You have no right reporting how many Democrates or Republicans voted Absentee. That in no way reflects on the outcome of the election. This is one of the reasons the news media has morally and ethically crossed the line of fairness.
If you want to report the large numbers voting, that fine; however, wait until after the election to report the specific numbers. Try to be a little unbiased.
Posted by: Susan | Oct 24, 2008 1:32:26 PM
** Crybaby! No type of poll shoudl persuade anyone.. give people more credit for that! Most people don’t let what someone else does determine their decisions. It’s called being an adult!

Posted by: In LBurg Va | October 24, 2008, 2:20 pm 2:20 pm

Aaron Wheeler on his vote for Obama/Biden: “Tears come out of my eyes as I cast my ballot,” he said. “I voted for Barack Obama today, not just because of his color….but in the words of Dr. King, the content of his character.” Aaron Wheeler was one of about 16 black Republican delegates at the 2004 GOP convention, and was proud to support George W. Bush.

Posted by: TheRealThing | October 24, 2008, 10:09 pm 10:09 pm

I know GOP and Mccain Bakers are very
much nervous that Democarat Senator
Obama is going to defeat Mccain/Palin
Big time. After 8 years of “Stolen” Election,”Failed Bush”Bhogus WMD,Iraq
War,Failed economic Crisis &collapse
what Mccain has to offer like Bush???
What about Palin?? Is she fit for VP.
Hey use your Brain. Sen.Barak/Biden will
Win and Deserve to Win for our people
and country. Sen.Barak is cool,intelligent,Highly Qualified Harvard Grad,State & US Senator just as
Qualified as JFK and Clinton.He will
bring prosperity like Clinton,bring
Racial harmony and Restore Americas
respect as a Super Power to the rest of
the world. Sen.Biden is Six term,36 year
Senator,Chair of Foreign Relation with Huge Foreign Policy Credential,Where Palin is a JOKE?? OBAMA/BIDEN “08

Posted by: mkarimsyed | October 25, 2008, 10:26 am 10:26 am

It is amazing that Republicans can show their faces in public. They have a McCain campaign worker who carves a B in her face and blames it on a black man. They have McCain running Rev Wright ads in battleground states and they have Robo calls spewing evil. They also have supporters who tear down Obama signs in yards of people who support Obama. Show your love and christian ways is that they way you do it.

Posted by: Sherry | October 27, 2008, 11:44 pm 11:44 pm

Palin is a complete moron. McCain blew it! This party is over. The only repubs hanging on are the wingnuts.

Posted by: kobio | October 28, 2008, 3:24 am 3:24 am

Obama’s parentage: Just look at the early picture of his mother – he looks like her.
Socialism: Social Security is based on it. If you can answer the question: “Do you think everyone has a right to get healthcare?” as NO, while saying “Do you think abortions should be illegal?” as YES – you have contradicted your own views on “right to life” …so a baby has an absolute “right to life” whereas an adult with full family responsibilities should be denied healthcare? On the other hand, say you support “healthcare for all” – that is a socialist stance.
On the economy: It WAS deregulation that was the basis for this mess. Remember ENRON? Do you know why it imploded? Deregulation. Pure and simple. I believe government and regulatory agency oversight is a KEY element of any sound management policy. The framers of the constitution created THREE separate bodies as a check and balance against one another. A vote against “big government” is a vote against the continued existence of the United States. The Army-Navy-Air-Force are Gov’t funded programs. How is advocating for “small gov’t” patriotic even? That’s the true terrorism: taking “small gov’t to the limit, and turning the US into the wild west allowing criminals and showmen to run amock selling snake oil to the innocent masses who just want to live a good decent life with some sense of values and ethics and a grander purpose than just ‘making money’.”

Posted by: wow | October 28, 2008, 3:25 pm 3:25 pm

beneath all these cries of “socialism” of the right: is a fundamentally greedy and corrupt mindset that refuses to “give back” to the society that helped make that individual so damned rich. If you were born in Somalia, you’d understand the importance/privilege of being born as a US Citizen with all the rights and privileges and securities and opportunities that this entails.
Even after being born here, raised here, etc. if you choose to live an uneducated life of simple-mindedness, that’s your choice: but know this, there are people around the world who are STARVING who would take your place any day. Be truly thankful for the country you have, help it prosper, and choose WISE leaders who have the wisdom and REAL experience to ensure that we TALK to people around us, rather than just sabre rattle all the time, like we are the BSDs of the world. America needs some humility, or like Rome, it will be humbled. That’s the truth of any great civilization: rise and fall. Let’s not be so short-sighted as to make this the quickest rise and fall in history. We’re still 250 years old, in comparison to world cultures that are 1000s of years old. Let’s have some respect for others for a change. Let’s try to be neighborly.
For God’s sake, no for YOUR sake, save this country from the scoundrels who are impetuous, impulsive, greedy, and fear/war-mongering.

Posted by: wow | October 28, 2008, 3:32 pm 3:32 pm

VOTE OBAMA / BIDEN ’08

Posted by: wow | October 28, 2008, 3:33 pm 3:33 pm

It would be really refreshing to hear that Americans could find themselves and other countries on a map of the world; and could say something intelligent and positive about every culture/civilization that they inhabit this earth with.
One earth people. Just one. Wake the F up before you blow it up.

Posted by: wow | October 28, 2008, 3:35 pm 3:35 pm

To all those who cry out that “They did it to us first!” …
There’s something called “LEADERSHIP” that anyone with half a brain knows is HARD TO DO. If it was the EASY thing to do: you wouldn’t get any points for being one.
The GOP talk big talk about “being the light” “being the hope” of the world; but when it comes down to it, they sabre rattle like dictators with tiny p****s syndrome and large over-compensating swords (or nukes).

Posted by: wow | October 28, 2008, 3:37 pm 3:37 pm

The greatest thing about Obama/Biden is that even before they’ve taken office: they’ve already mobilized the entire electorate in ways that haven’t been done for a long long time. This may be the first time in a long time that true democracy has gotten its chutzpah back.
Go Obama/Biden ’08! Go America!

Posted by: wow | October 28, 2008, 3:41 pm 3:41 pm

As demonstrated by fivethirtyeight.com, the race is NOT tightening!
BTW, if you Retardicans:
love McCain: you should’ve voted for him in 2000.
love war veterans: you should’ve voted for Kerry in 2004.
hate socialism: you should’ve voted for Ron Paul in 2008.
Spare me your fake October hostility. If all the things that are issues now were not issues 3 months ago, you have no business complaining about them.

Posted by: Damon | October 28, 2008, 5:21 pm 5:21 pm

George Stephanopoulos IS THE COMMENTATOR FOR ‘ALL THE STORIES’.
ABC IS A FRAUD!
Mr. Greek Butt is on record IN THE TANK FOR OBAMA.
NO OBJECTIVITY HERE
The Obama Candidacy is TAINTED by AFFIRMATIVE ACTION FROM THE MEDIA.
Clearly the BLACK GUY NEEDED HELP in this campaign.
Without 95% of ALL NEWSPAPER, TELEVISION, AND MAGAZINES giving FREE HELP to the BLACK GUY.
The QUOTA SYSTEM LIBERAL STYLE

Posted by: Patrick | October 28, 2008, 10:54 pm 10:54 pm

Posted by: Patrick | October 28, 2008, 10:55 pm 10:55 pm

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