Obama Tells Voters: Don't Be Overconfident
Leading In The Polls, Democratic Nominee Stresses To His Supporters That Election Is Not Over
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Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., shakes hands at a rally at South Quad at the University of Missouri in Columbia, Mo., Thursday, Oct. 30, 2008. (AP)
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Obama On The Trail
Sen. Barack Obama campaigns for the presidency.
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Barack Obama
The junior senator from Illinois is making his name known.
That's what the giddy crowds at Barack Obama's campaign rallies hear when he walks off the stage, the booming sound of Stevie Wonder singing about the promise of a sure thing.
The curious part is that Obama keeps saying just the opposite: Not one thing is sealed.
"We can't afford to slow down, or sit back, or let up, for one day, for one minute, for one second in this last week," the Democratic presidential nominee told supporters Thursday.
"Not now. Not now," Obama said in the Florida sunshine. "We've got to work hard."
For a range of reasons - the slippery nature of polls, the Democrats' history of heartbreak, the still-to-be-determined effect of race, the desire not to jinx himself - Obama is, in fact, working the vote hard.
In his race against Republican John McCain, Obama has gone big, drawing hundreds of thousands of people to rallies in the last few days alone. He used his fundraising muscle to buy a prime-time TV slot for his infomercial, viewed by 33.6 million, and touted his new unity with former President Clinton.
But Obama also is careful to look engaged individually, too. Twice this week, in campaign offices outside Denver and in Pittsburgh, he got on the phone directly with voters.
One woman grilled him at length about his environmental record. One said she wanted tickets to his inauguration. One made him smile by saying she was 100 percent Obama.
"I won't let you down," he told her.
It is standard election politics not to look cocky. Voters hate being taken for granted. Yet the tone of Obama's argument suggests he is going beyond playing it safe.
Despite all the polling pointing in his favor, there remains a feeling in his campaign that anything can happen at the end. Obama appears easy and unworried - he even took time Thursday to visit a pumpkin patch - but signs and words of overconfidence are shunned.
"Complacency kills campaigns," said Mark Mellman, a Democratic strategist and John Kerry's pollster during the 2004 presidential race. "Winners always run like they are behind."
That helps explain why Obama barreled on with an outdoor rally in Pennsylvania this week despite the foul weather. The thousands of people who showed up endured sideways rain, cold chills and mud. McCain canceled a similar rally 50 miles away.
Obama told them: "If we see this kind of dedication on Election Day, there is no way that we're not going to bring change to America."
Late come-from-behind wins are rare in presidential races.
In Gallup polling, only twice in the past 14 elections did a candidate lose the popular vote after being ahead about a week before the election. They were Democrat Jimmy Carter in 1980 and President Bush in 2000, although he won the electoral vote.
As the election closes in, Obama leads McCain in most national polls, and most state surveys show him running strong in traditional Democratic states and leading in some that Bush won in 2004, including Ohio, Colorado, Nevada and Virginia. That makes a path for a McCain victory difficult to discern.
Mellman said all those polls assume that every Obama supporter will turn out to vote, and that every volunteer will do what it takes to turn out the vote.
"Don't believe for one second in these polls," Obama told a crowd of 35,000 people outside Orlando, Fla., late Wednesday night. "Power concedes nothing. We are going to work over the next five days like our lives depended on it. We're going to have to struggle."
When Obama talks of that election struggle, others have a hard time believing. His consistent lead in the polls has even become part of the late-night TV comedy conversation.
Craig Ferguson of CBS' "Late Late Show" put it this way: "Obama is so far ahead now, seems the only way he can lose is if his supporters screw it up. But aha! Obama's supporters have a secret weakness: They are Democrats."
One way to look at Obama's approach is that he's not just running to win. He's trying to sweep every single state in play, giving him and his party a crushing win and big leverage.
A more sober reading is that Obama has already learned one humbling lesson this year.
He scored a surprise victory in the Iowa caucuses and then, while riding high, promptly lost the New Hampshire primary to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton.
"The great thing about having run for 21 months is we know from hard experience that you shouldn't take anything for granted," Obama adviser David Axelrod said in an interview.
"We've been ahead and we've been behind," he said. "Sometimes we've assumed that when we're ahead - New Hampshire is a big example - that that guarantees anything. It doesn't."
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See all 289 CommentsWell, the meal is done and the check has arrived.
Electing Republicans this election would be like allowing them to Dine and Dash.
Punish a Republican, make them pay the bill,
Vote Democrat.
Go Obama!!!!
Barack Obama''s senior advisers have drawn up plans to lower expectations for his presidency if he wins next week''s election, amid concerns that many of his euphoric supporters are harboring unrealistic hopes of what he can achieve
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now McCain the De-regulator wants regulation on wall street---Lies
McCain say Obama will have *** education for kindergarten children Lies
McCain say the pig thing was about the his vp pick --Lies
Palin say never took earmarks %u2013Lies
Palin says Iraq caused 9-11 --Lies
McCain pick Pulin because she best qualified ---LIES
McCain is a maverick and goes across the aisle %u2013 LIES
McCain is against Bush and his fellow Republicans - LIES
McCain blames Obama for the high gasoline prices %u2013 LIES
McCain doesn%u2019t know how many home he has --- Lies
McCain will help home owner that lose their homes ---LIES
McCain came up with the surge---LIES
McCain will give us a tax better break ---LIES
McCain vote for woman%u2019s rights---LIES
McCain support seniors ----LIES
McCain supports the Iraq vets with his vote ---LIES
Palin was always against the bridge to nowhere --LIES
Joe the plumber is also a stupid republican liar
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Posted by specialty8
Hmmm... Jimmy Carter, governor from a small town, not ready for the Presidency. Sounds familiar yes? But makes me more inclined against Palin than Obama. He''s not at all like Carter, he''s much more like Clinton, and I for one am ready for 8 years more like 92-2000.
John Sidney McCain won''t attend family Reunion, McCain%u2019s brother, Joe, and many of his other white relatives attend the reunions , family members say Sen. McCain has never acknowledged them.
In the rural Teoc community of Carroll County, Miss., where the
ancestors of Sen. John McCain owned enslaved Africans on a plantation,
black, white and mixed-race family members unite every two years for
their Coming Home Reunion, on the land where the plantation operated.
Some of McCain%u2019s black family members say they are not sure exactly
where they fall on the family tree, but they do know this: They are
either descendants of the McCain family slaves, or of children the
McCains fathered with their slaves.
White and black members of the McCain family have met on the plantation
several times over the last 15 years, but one invited guest has been
conspicuously absent: Sen. John Sidney McCain.
%u201CWhy he hasn%u2019t come is anybody%u2019s guess,%u201D said Charles McCain Jr., 60, a
distant cousin of John McCain who is black. %u201CI think the best I can come
up with, is that he doesn%u2019t have time, or he has just distanced himself,
or it doesn%u2019t mean that much to him.%u201D
(((In fact, oil companies have paid in taxes more than three times what they earned in profits during the last 28 years. )))
Here%u2019s what Exxon Mobil paid in state and federal taxes in the third quarter of 2006 alone:
Income taxes: $7.68 billion
Excise taxes: $7.76 billion
All other taxes: $10.79 billion
Total taxes remitted/paid: $26.24 billion
Internal Revenue Service (Table 6, p. 41) -- In 2005 (the most recent year for which data are available), the bottom 75% of all individual taxpayers (about 100 million taxpayers out of 132 million total) paid about $130.9 billion in income taxes. Adjusting by the recent average of about $5 billion in annual increases in tax revenue from individuals, it is estimated that the bottom 75% of individual taxpayers (more than 100 million individuals) paid about $136 billion in 2006.
Bottom Line: In 2006, U.S. oil companies paid more in corporate income taxes to the IRS ($138 billion) than the individual taxes paid by the more than 100 million individual taxpayers in the bottom 75% of all individual taxpayers (estimated to be $136 billion, ).
Cost at the top DOES trickle down!!
Proof- Gas prices went up and the prices on food and everything else went up plus many jobs where lost.
That''s just the way it is!!!!
When you by something you ARE paying the taxes the Corporate passed down on the product and the taxes the Store like Wal-Mart has to pay on their profit. Its all passed down! Where do you think they get their profit from?....They get it from You!!!
Truth ,Who is responsible for the banking crisis? You be the judge. Watch the whole thing you will be shocked!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blcC_kCnf8U
Fannie CEO and the Democrats are one big family
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLQU7uNR5bM
Truth on Oil/ Drilling
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VobxUtOEM7M
Another on drilling our own oil, This one is pathetic and makes me sick
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1teACBS-1cc
Here is proof- Joe Biden sayes no to clean Coal in America
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJ55UzAsp6M
You deserve to know the Truth!!!
What can''t be taken for granted on either side is this, you keep pushing till the polls close, not before and never take anything for granted. You might think you''re going to win, or lose, fact is you don''t know till it''s all counted.
Nothing is truer than this statement: "Complacency kills campaigns," people on the losing side might say "Oh it''s over anyway" and not vote the winning side "He''s got enough votes we don''t need to get out because it''s (insert excuse of choice)
Please, make sure you get out and vote this year. We could have elected Al Gore in 2000 and avoided the mess of the Bush years if only a few more people had voted. Please email your friends and ask them to vote for change this year.
The biggest enemy we have is overconfidence. This race isn''''t done yet. We all need to sprint to the finish line here. We have the opportunity to finally put an end to the nightmare of the last 8 years!
You sound about as intelligent as Sarah Palin. Go back under your rock.
Obama is not an epxerienced leader, and his record in the Senate reflect his lack of knowledge. Listen to what
Hilary and Bill both said just months ago about Obama
and then conclude that McCain is the best choice today.
McCain has the strength, leadership and experience that these trying times need most.
Please if you love America, do your homework on Obama and his past and VOTE MCCAIN
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for those of you who are still considering voting Obama the racist as our president, I urge you to look at this, just one more big lie Obama made about his background with racists:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySM63ES8t4U
1. Wear an Obama shirt or button to the grocery store or Walmart.
2. Send out a short email to all your friends and family explaining why you''re voting for Obama.
3. Ask your friends if they know where their polling place is and encourage them to visit voteforchange.com to find out.
4. Take a minute to ask your neighbors if they are voting for positive change in Washington. And explain to them how Obama will put us back on the right track.
George Bush won by the slimmest of margins in Florida in 2000. Please get out and vote and talk to your friends about supporting Obama. How would you feel if you didn''t vote or didn''t talk to your friends and family, and your state was the Florida of 2008?
No matter where you live, nothing will change if we don''t all join together and say "Enough!" Please lets all come together and put our country back on the right track!
Obama/Biden 08
So you think Bush did a good job these last 8 years????
Sorry I can''t respect ANYTHING you think.
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Posted by Obama_Dkhed at 11:55 AM : Oct 31, 2008
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You can flame away, no problem. I''m sure you''ve got really awesome reasons why John McCain will do a bang-up job as president. Like maybe he''ll appoint a whole cabinet as qualified as Sarah Palin. Maybe some supreme court justices too. If we have an economic crisis, he''ll suspend his campaign. And of course, he''ll get to Bomb Bomb Bomb Bomb Bomb Iran.
Yeah I know you want to give the guy who can''t even run a campaign, without crashing and burning, the keys to the country. But I''m not willing to let that happen.
You got your eight years of Bush. You can''t have any more. It''s our turn now to pick up the pieces and glue them back together.
Don''''t worry about coorporate profits because if Obama is elected american business will no longer be profitable and if they are Obama will steal it back and redistribute it to the middle class.
So vote Obama we will have a middle class beholden to government and coorporations that are not in business for profits. Because god forbid anyone trys to make a profit you will be labeled as greedy.
Posted by Obama_Dkhed at 11:55 AM : Oct 31, 2008
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You can flame away, no problem. I''m sure you''ve got really awesome reasons why John McCain will do a bang-up job as president. Like maybe he''ll appoint a whole cabinet as qualified as Sarah Palin. Maybe some supreme court justices too. If we have an economic crisis, he''ll suspend his campaign. And of course, he''ll get to Bomb Bomb Bomb Bomb Bomb Iran.
Yeah I know you want to give the guy who can''t even run a campaign, without crashing and burning, the keys to the country. But I''m not willing to let that happen.
You got your eight years of Bush. You can''t have any more. It''s our turn now to pick up the pieces and glue them back together.
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NO-One believes your :
Fabricated, Perverted and and Deranged Statements
When are You and the rest of the : CHRISTIAN RACIST
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Going to get it Through Your Head
THE SOUTH __ IS NOT __ GOING TO RISE UP AGAIN ! ! !
THE STARS AND BARS - DO NOT - EXIST ANYMORE
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Posted by antonn2
At least he HAS an education, unlike Caribou Barbie.
If Obama wins and he finds a way to spread his wealth by putting homeless people in your house and kicking your A$$ out, YOU WILL REALIZE YOU MADE THE BIGGEST MISTAKE OF YOUR LIVES. When your house value drops and drops over the next 4 years, and you can''t pay your mortgage, don''t say you were not warned. Oh by the way, beware of the TAX INCREASES OBAMA HAS PLANNED FOR YOU.
IT"S NOT TOO LATE
CHANGE IS COMING TO AMERICA
MCCAIN AND PALIN IS THE RIGHT VOTE FOR AMERICA
MCCAIN IS FOR EVERYONE
Tuesday, September 23, 2008 6:11 PM
By: Kenneth R. Timmerman Article Font Size
How exactly did Barack Obama pay for his Harvard Law School education?
The way the Obama campaign has answered the question was simply hard work and student loans.
But new questions have been raised about Obama%u2019s student loans and Obama%u2019s ties to a radical Muslim activist who reportedly was raising money for Obama%u2019s Harvard studies during the years 1988 to 1991.
The allegations first surfaced in late March, when former Manhattan Borough president Percy Sutton told a New York cable channel that a former business partner who was %u201Craising money%u201D for Obama had approached him in 1988 to help Obama get into Harvard Law School.
In the interview, Sutton says he first heard of Obama about twenty years ago from Khalid Al-Mansour, a Black Muslim and Black Nationalist who was a %u201Cmentor%u201D to the founders of the Black Panther party at the time the party was founded in the early 1960s.
Confident in an Election Day win, the campaign looks to lower supporters'' expectations on concerns their hopes of ''change'' are unrealistic, a senior aide says" Is he promising a false hope? You can read it on Fox News at http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/10/31/obama-lays-plans-kill-expectations-election-victory/
When are You and the rest of the : CHRISTIAN RACIST
Republican NAZI Fascist Party
Going to get it Through Your Head
THE SOUTH __ IS NOT __ GOING TO RISE UP AGAIN ! ! !
THE STARS AND BARS - DO NOT - EXIST ANYMORE
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Start packing.
"Of course the news media isn''''t talking about that."
Posted by ritewingman
Only the announcement came at the same time, but it covers the quarter, when prices were at the peak.
"Who paid for Obama''''s tuition at Harvard?" Posted by antonn2
Irrelevant, what matters is that he got a good education, now we will have a smart president, after 8 years of idiot, and instead of another 4 years of a different idiot.
Explain this Threat of :
Civil Resurrection againt The United States
Posted by : DaVicar1
THE SOUTH __ IS NOT __ GOING TO RISE UP AGAIN ! ! !
THE STARS AND BARS - DO NOT - EXIST ANYMORE
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Really?
Post that again on November 5th...I DARE YOU!!!
Posted by DaVicar1 at 12:12 PM : Oct 31, 2008
Irrelevant, she is not the president, her husband will be.
"Oscarez: News flash, Obama is also white, but he prefers to ignore the fact that he''''s not black, he''''s bi-racial/mixed race." Posted by Credibility2
Even less relevant.
Posted by antonn2
Black Panthers? The best thing that happened for "Black" people in the 60, they taught self defense, and self reliance, and were the counter to the rampant police brutality prevalent then.
If you have a problem with "Black" self-reliance, and "Black" self defense, and "Black" self education, it is your problem not ours.
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Posted by Credibility2
OMG, is it really true that someone who supports McCain and Cindy "I have 7 houses and spend $50,000 a year on clothes" McCain would diss a woman who got herself a good education and is working (as a hospital adminsitrator) and raising two kids without the benefit of nannies and household staff? Egad, that''s a new low...
Posted by antonn2
We are not Israel, we are America, and we aare voting for what is good for America, let Israel take care of herself. We have given $123,000 dollars for each Israeli citizen, (you cah check it, divide 30 years of "aid" by the population, that is enough.
Here is the chicken coming home to roost: Obama
Obama Campaign lay out plans to "kill CHANGE expectations beginning the day after the "election!"
THIS IS A NO BRAINER FOLKS...
VOTE: MCCAIN/PALIN 2008
Real Reform
Real Change
Change That We Indeed Can Live With
The ones who drink the most should carry the most.
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