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MartiniMan
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Post-Election Riots
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10/27/2008 2:17:59 PM
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I read an interesting piece by Thomas Sowell that got me to thinking about one big test of whether Obama really loves this country as he professes. Mr. Sowell's argument is that since Obama, John Lewis, Jack Murtha and the media made the claim that any criticism of Obama is inherently racist, any discussion of his connection with Franklin Raines is racist, the lack of enthusiasm for Obama is western Pennsylvania is because of racsim, etc., that an environment has been created where white respondents to pollsters will be reluctant to tell the truth about their vote so as not to be branded a racist. Hence the steady climb in the polls. This is a theory that I think cannot be proven true until election day but I wonder if McCain's apparent optimism that he will win is related to this phenomenon?
So what if the polls greatly exaggerate Obama's numbers? What if Obama loses on November 4th? Will he call for calm or will he stoke the passions by claiming he was cheated simply because the outcome of the election does not match the polls? I think this would be the truest test of his love for country. I am not optimistic.
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water_watcher
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10/27/2008 2:42:40 PM
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I would not be optimistic he would do the "right" thing. He has not demostrated that in the past, so why would he change. I am sure he and Michelle, as well as the liberal media would cry foul and join with Rev Wright that america is a racist nation (The US of K K K).
The hope I would hold out there is voter turn out has normally been in the 30% range. From what I am hearing on the news is that the early voting is running much higher than expected and voter turn out could surpass 50% for the first time in a very long time.
Now this could work against McCain as well .... since I am hearing that blacks are turning out in high numbers so they can say the voted for the first black president. But then again, I still believe this country is more center/right and Obama is clearly far left, whicle McCain is much more where the country is on a whole. High voter turn out could very well work in McCains favor as people fear the reality of the shift Obama would create toward socialism.
Obama can spin that he is more center, but his voting record, speechs, and his past definitely say otherwise.
Just a FYI as it relates to the mass turn out ... I live in Atlanta during the week. All the early voting places have been running anywhere from a 2 to 4 hour wait. They just doubled the number of early polling places starting today and the wait is still running over 1 hour at all of them. Early votes cast so far (through yesterday) has been over 400,000. That is huge. Metro Atlanta population is 5.2 million ... even if you say 50% are voting age that is 2.6 million potential voters, that say as of yesterday 15% have already voted.
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Swimmer27
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10/27/2008 3:29:10 PM
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I would bet that it is the same folks in the lines day after day, after all, somebody has to cast votes for all those fraudulent voters who were registered by ACORN. I woulld LOVE to have video at the polls running some facial recognition software.
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