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		<title>By: JSpencer</title>
		<link>http://themoderatevoice.com/20476/danger-signs-for-obama-no/comment-page-1/#comment-135937</link>
		<dc:creator>JSpencer</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 05:08:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>jchem, those are good and fair questions. I believe when the disappointed Hillary folks have had enough time to heal and think things through, they will realize supporting Sen. Obama is their only conscionable bet. Granted, this may take awhile, but I have faith they will buck up when necessary. As for the polls, I see little reason to expect McCain will be able to close even this modest gap. I think he will peak early (maybe he already has) and start sliding from there.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>jchem, those are good and fair questions. I believe when the disappointed Hillary folks have had enough time to heal and think things through, they will realize supporting Sen. Obama is their only conscionable bet. Granted, this may take awhile, but I have faith they will buck up when necessary. As for the polls, I see little reason to expect McCain will be able to close even this modest gap. I think he will peak early (maybe he already has) and start sliding from there.</p>
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		<title>By: jchem</title>
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		<dc:creator>jchem</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 01:50:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Silhouette,&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Seems pretty obvious that you&#039;re not happy about Clinton losing.  I don&#039;t blame you.  But you really need to articulate why Obama is so bad.  Do you honestly think that he can&#039;t win in November?  Do you really think that Hillary would have won?  I&#039;ve heard it said many times that the Democrats always find a way to lose when they are supposed to win.  How would you feel about a President McCain in &#039;08?  Given the number of SC justices who are ready to retire, are you really willing to allow 4 years to someone who pledged to put more people like Roberts and Alito to the bench?  I don&#039;t want to sound rude, but I&#039;m just trying to ask honest questions.  What&#039;s your beef with Obama?  I&#039;ve seen your posts now for a little while, but all I get is a bunch of excuses to why Hillary didn&#039;t win.  Perhaps you should try to start telling the audience why Obama won...and blaming it all on the media isn&#039;t going to help.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Silhouette,</p>
<p>Seems pretty obvious that you&#39;re not happy about Clinton losing.  I don&#39;t blame you.  But you really need to articulate why Obama is so bad.  Do you honestly think that he can&#39;t win in November?  Do you really think that Hillary would have won?  I&#39;ve heard it said many times that the Democrats always find a way to lose when they are supposed to win.  How would you feel about a President McCain in &#39;08?  Given the number of SC justices who are ready to retire, are you really willing to allow 4 years to someone who pledged to put more people like Roberts and Alito to the bench?  I don&#39;t want to sound rude, but I&#39;m just trying to ask honest questions.  What&#39;s your beef with Obama?  I&#39;ve seen your posts now for a little while, but all I get is a bunch of excuses to why Hillary didn&#39;t win.  Perhaps you should try to start telling the audience why Obama won&#8230;and blaming it all on the media isn&#39;t going to help.</p>
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		<title>By: Silhouette</title>
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		<dc:creator>Silhouette</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 22:58:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I was thinking of strolling down to our local tavern and doing a fair poll of all the patrons there about how many of them support drinking alcohol on a daily basis.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Then I will entitle my poll something like &quot;95% of local people polled think drinking daily is OK.&quot;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Technically I won&#039;t be lying.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;See?  It&#039;s easy, and fun!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I was thinking of strolling down to our local tavern and doing a fair poll of all the patrons there about how many of them support drinking alcohol on a daily basis.</p>
<p>Then I will entitle my poll something like &#8220;95% of local people polled think drinking daily is OK.&#8221;</p>
<p>Technically I won&#39;t be lying.</p>
<p>See?  It&#39;s easy, and fun!</p>
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		<title>By: Silhouette</title>
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		<dc:creator>Silhouette</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 22:56:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Michigan.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Michigan.</p>
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		<title>By: aba23</title>
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		<dc:creator>aba23</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 22:53:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Florida.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Florida.</p>
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		<title>By: runasim</title>
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		<dc:creator>runasim</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 22:26:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;m not sure how much these polls can be relied on to predict Nov. results.&lt;br&gt;Considering  the kind of smears thrown at him (first by Hillaty, and now by the Right Wing+ spiteful Hillary fans) , it&#039;s to his credit that he has any lead at all.&lt;br&gt;How can he respond to: &quot;If Obama is elected,, will it still be the WHITE House?&quot;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I agree that McCain has benefitted from a lack of attention.  Even now, coverage consists almost entirely of brainless repetition of whatever he claims about Obama, almost never followed by the kind of &#039;analysis&#039; .that follows anything said by Obama.  &lt;br&gt;I&#039;m listeneing to NPR as I write this, and it&#039;s anotehr case of: (1) McCain said this and (2) Obama said that, but what do Republicans take this to mean?&lt;br&gt;He&#039;s scrutinized up to and including every hair on his head.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;One thing I&#039;m glad about, and that is the fact Cindy&#039;s past  personal troubles have not been  used against her, no matter how tempting that might be.  &lt;br&gt;Somebody has to leave the kitchen sink in the kitchen.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#39;m not sure how much these polls can be relied on to predict Nov. results.<br />Considering  the kind of smears thrown at him (first by Hillaty, and now by the Right Wing+ spiteful Hillary fans) , it&#39;s to his credit that he has any lead at all.<br />How can he respond to: &#8220;If Obama is elected,, will it still be the WHITE House?&#8221;</p>
<p>I agree that McCain has benefitted from a lack of attention.  Even now, coverage consists almost entirely of brainless repetition of whatever he claims about Obama, almost never followed by the kind of &#39;analysis&#39; .that follows anything said by Obama.  <br />I&#39;m listeneing to NPR as I write this, and it&#39;s anotehr case of: (1) McCain said this and (2) Obama said that, but what do Republicans take this to mean?<br />He&#39;s scrutinized up to and including every hair on his head.</p>
<p>One thing I&#39;m glad about, and that is the fact Cindy&#39;s past  personal troubles have not been  used against her, no matter how tempting that might be.  <br />Somebody has to leave the kitchen sink in the kitchen.</p>
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		<title>By: mlhradio</title>
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		<dc:creator>mlhradio</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 22:18:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I think this falls into the &quot;Lies, damned lies, and statistics&quot; category -- we can all pull out whatever stats and polls and analyses we want to support any position we want.  It&#039;s been ten days since Clinton was rightfully brushed aside into the dustbin of history, and we&#039;re already worrying about the size of a &quot;bounce&quot;.  I guess it&#039;s a casualty of our short attention spans and the ever-evolving 24-hour news cycle.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Looking for a bounce?  Just check out the latest polls out this week, showing Obama up 11 in Ohio (yesterday, PPP), up 12 in Pennsylvania (Quinnipiac, today), up 4 in Florida (first time he&#039;s led there ever).  Nate over at 538 has a quick summary of recent polls and how they have changed over the last month:&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;State               May      June     Change&lt;br&gt;AR  Rasmussen       -24       -9      +15&lt;br&gt;KY  SurveyUSA       -24      -12      +12&lt;br&gt;OH  Quinnipiac       -4       +6      +10&lt;br&gt;KS  Rasmussen       -19      -10      +9&lt;br&gt;FL  Quinnipiac       -4       +4      +8&lt;br&gt;NY  Siena           +11      +18      +7&lt;br&gt;WA  Rasmussen       +11      +18      +7&lt;br&gt;PA  Quinnipaic       +6      +12      +6&lt;br&gt;WI  Rasmussen        -4       +2      +6&lt;br&gt;IA  Rasmussen        +2       +7      +5&lt;br&gt;VA  Rasmussen        -3       +1      +4&lt;br&gt;MI  Rasmussen        -1       +3      +4&lt;br&gt;WA  SurveyUSA       +14*     +17      +3&lt;br&gt;NC  Rasmussen        -3       -2      +1&lt;br&gt;NC  Civitas          -5       -4      +1&lt;br&gt;MN  Rasmussen       +15      +13      -2&lt;br&gt;MN  SurveyUSA        +5       +1      -4&lt;br&gt;OR  Rasmussen       +14       +8      -6&lt;br&gt;=========================================&lt;br&gt;AVERAGE            -0.7     +4.7    +5.4&lt;br&gt;* Average of two May surveys.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I think this falls into the &#8220;Lies, damned lies, and statistics&#8221; category &#8212; we can all pull out whatever stats and polls and analyses we want to support any position we want.  It&#39;s been ten days since Clinton was rightfully brushed aside into the dustbin of history, and we&#39;re already worrying about the size of a &#8220;bounce&#8221;.  I guess it&#39;s a casualty of our short attention spans and the ever-evolving 24-hour news cycle.</p>
<p>Looking for a bounce?  Just check out the latest polls out this week, showing Obama up 11 in Ohio (yesterday, PPP), up 12 in Pennsylvania (Quinnipiac, today), up 4 in Florida (first time he&#39;s led there ever).  Nate over at 538 has a quick summary of recent polls and how they have changed over the last month:</p>
<p>State               May      June     Change<br />AR  Rasmussen       -24       -9      +15<br />KY  SurveyUSA       -24      -12      +12<br />OH  Quinnipiac       -4       +6      +10<br />KS  Rasmussen       -19      -10      +9<br />FL  Quinnipiac       -4       +4      +8<br />NY  Siena           +11      +18      +7<br />WA  Rasmussen       +11      +18      +7<br />PA  Quinnipaic       +6      +12      +6<br />WI  Rasmussen        -4       +2      +6<br />IA  Rasmussen        +2       +7      +5<br />VA  Rasmussen        -3       +1      +4<br />MI  Rasmussen        -1       +3      +4<br />WA  SurveyUSA       +14*     +17      +3<br />NC  Rasmussen        -3       -2      +1<br />NC  Civitas          -5       -4      +1<br />MN  Rasmussen       +15      +13      -2<br />MN  SurveyUSA        +5       +1      -4<br />OR  Rasmussen       +14       +8      -6<br />=========================================<br />AVERAGE            -0.7     +4.7    +5.4<br />* Average of two May surveys.</p>
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		<title>By: Silhouette</title>
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		<dc:creator>Silhouette</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 21:40:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Newsflash.  At the stroke of midnight just after the official nomination of Barack Obama as democrat nominee, the press will turn on Obama precisely and calculatedly as it did Hillary Clinton...while Obama watched smiling, enjoying his own version of the press &quot;free pass&quot;.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;It was precisely when I noticed Big Media (GOP owned and operated dontcha&#039; know) was handling Obama with kid gloves in preference over Clinton.  I began noticing, day by day, in astonishment, blatantly sexist comments, whose racial equivalents would&#039;ve surely gotten anchors an instant pink slip, spewed forth day after endless day; all without Obama making a peep in protest.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;In fact, the GOP strategists know an unqualified and easily-beatable candidate.  That&#039;s why they helped promote Obama over their arch (and feared) enemy Hillary Clinton.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;When you watch any mainstream media outlet bear in the front of your mind that anchors meet in staff meetings daily and are &quot;told&quot; which angle to pitch when, and how.  Know that polls are skewed to favor the strategy of the day.  Know that the downplay of Clinton&#039;s homestretch landslide victories in the primaries went with nary a comment for a damn good reason:  They didn&#039;t want people noticing that the trend of democratic constituents was towards sending a message to the GOP/Press and their media darling Obama, &quot;Hey, we&#039;re not dumb and we&#039;ve changed our minds.&quot;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Now hand-selected superdelegates are telling us how it will be in August.  &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Can anyone say &quot;corruption&quot;?  It doesn&#039;t just happen abroad folks.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Newsflash.  At the stroke of midnight just after the official nomination of Barack Obama as democrat nominee, the press will turn on Obama precisely and calculatedly as it did Hillary Clinton&#8230;while Obama watched smiling, enjoying his own version of the press &#8220;free pass&#8221;.</p>
<p>It was precisely when I noticed Big Media (GOP owned and operated dontcha&#39; know) was handling Obama with kid gloves in preference over Clinton.  I began noticing, day by day, in astonishment, blatantly sexist comments, whose racial equivalents would&#39;ve surely gotten anchors an instant pink slip, spewed forth day after endless day; all without Obama making a peep in protest.</p>
<p>In fact, the GOP strategists know an unqualified and easily-beatable candidate.  That&#39;s why they helped promote Obama over their arch (and feared) enemy Hillary Clinton.</p>
<p>When you watch any mainstream media outlet bear in the front of your mind that anchors meet in staff meetings daily and are &#8220;told&#8221; which angle to pitch when, and how.  Know that polls are skewed to favor the strategy of the day.  Know that the downplay of Clinton&#39;s homestretch landslide victories in the primaries went with nary a comment for a damn good reason:  They didn&#39;t want people noticing that the trend of democratic constituents was towards sending a message to the GOP/Press and their media darling Obama, &#8220;Hey, we&#39;re not dumb and we&#39;ve changed our minds.&#8221;</p>
<p>Now hand-selected superdelegates are telling us how it will be in August.  </p>
<p>Can anyone say &#8220;corruption&#8221;?  It doesn&#39;t just happen abroad folks.</p>
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