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FrenchieCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-01-08 05:55 PM
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Obama is back to being the Underdog! America loves a good Underdog story!
Edited on Fri Aug-01-08 05:55 PM by FrenchieCat
McCain is now practically the frontrunner. He'd better be ready for it, as it ain't gonna be pretty.
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Runcible Spoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-01-08 05:58 PM
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1. your, umm, unceasing enthusiasm and optimism are things to marvel.
I'll leave it at that.
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truthisfreedom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-01-08 05:59 PM
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2. Polls are done over land lines. WHO HAS A LAND LINE ANYMORE? Old people, that's who.
Without doing real polls of people on the street, we don't know what's really going on out there.
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democrattotheend Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-01-08 06:02 PM
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4. Pew just did a study of that
And found that the impact of excluding cell phone only voters is negligible. Including cell phone voters gives Obama a couple points at best, and that advantage is easily offset by a race of interviewer effect that one pollster discovered.
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democrattotheend Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-01-08 05:59 PM
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3. Obama is always the underdog
I don't care what the polls say. As the first black man to head a major party ticket, Obama is always the underdog even if he's up in the polls. I think he can win but it's not going to be easy and we delude ourselves if we ever let ourselves think he has it in the bag.
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FrenchieCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-01-08 06:02 PM
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5. Agreed!
And we need to work our asses off to help, instead of doing so much analysis day by day.

In the space of 1 hour, one person can write and send off about 40 LTTE of various newspapers.
That's how I pass my time when I'm not working these days...since I've come back.
Multiply that by a few thousands, and we could actually make a difference....cause the whining I'm reading about here at DU ain't hitting the spot.
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Cha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-01-08 06:04 PM
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6. One has to look at this optimistically or
else one would crumble..gotta stay strong for our Country and Obama.

I was pretty damn depressed during the primaries at times but we've come this far and I ain't gonna give up now.

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MyNameGoesHere Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-01-08 06:05 PM
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7. Coooooolllllll another Democratic nominee as an underdog. That has worked out so
well in the past.
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Political Heretic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-01-08 06:16 PM
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8. Oh my, FrechieCat... I'm so disappointed.
I expected better, and wiser... from you.

The hysterics about "this week" are truly mind-boggling. I had no idea until I started reading my weekend-wrap up here at DU that I am apparently one of the only ones who thought this was the week that pretty much cemented McCains November loss.

I can't believe how easily freaked out people are. The McCain campaigns unfocused, haphazard, shotgun like barrage of the absolutely silly did more to make them look out of touch and inept than anything to date.

Obama did exactly what he should have done - brace for the hit, absorb it and remain on top. In a little while, these exceedingly silly and ameture stunts from one of the worst-run campaigns in political history will evaportate. Meanwhile, on the homestretch, when it counts, Obama and his three-to-one money generating machine will dominate the message and every media outlet through election day.

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