CHILLICOTHE, Ohio, Nov. 3. 2008
A Hard-Fought Battle In Hard-Hit Ohio
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A former airline employee who returned to law school after being laid off, Frame was ambivalent about volunteering at first because he has long liked McCain, but the selection of Palin prompted him and his wife to go all out for Obama. They are "neighborhood team leaders," overseeing the campaign for all of Springboro, and they are surprised by the response they have received.
"We thought we were the only ones in our area who thought the way we do," he said.
But the Republicans are doing what they can to hold the exurbs. Their Warren office was filled all of last week, buttressed by a couple of "marshals" -- GOP operatives from Washington who volunteer their time to help organize in swing states.
Palin's role in motivating the operation is palpable. Lori Viars, who works part time for a local antiabortion organization, said she was not that energized about McCain until he picked Palin. Joy Glover was still glowing over the memory of Palin accepting her gift of a silver elephant necklace during a recent visit.
The office ran out of yard signs after handing out 10,000. Viars said she and another evangelical Christian have distributed to fellow church members 5,000 copies of a "voter issues guide" that describes Obama as supporting human cloning and opposing "protecting the lives of children who are born alive and survive a botched abortion," both misstatements of his record.
It looks similar in Delaware County, a Columbus exurb where Bush won 66 percent of the vote in 2004. On a recent evening, the Republican office, a former lighting store, had volunteers at many of its 32 phones. Traci Saliba, a court clerk who chairs the county campaign, said there were even more volunteers this year, thanks to a growing population. The volunteers have managed to block out all the talk of McCain's poor odds, she said. "We're not focused on what everyone else in the universe thinks we should be focused on," she said. "We're on task, and we're stronger than ever before."
One new volunteer is Kate Yonkura, 32, who oversees the county canvassing operation while her two sons play at her feet. She said she has gotten involved out of fear of an Obama victory. "It's the national security thing, the threat from terrorists -- that's what keeps me up at night," she said.
That evening, there was much less activity at Obama's Delaware office -- it was empty but for two organizers, one of whom had arrived days before, and three local teenagers.
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The Obama push was more evident in Chillicothe, a city of 22,000 that sits on the line between flat farmland and Appalachia, that served as the state's capital 200 years ago, and that is home today to two state prisons, a veterans hospital, and a large paper mill and a large truck plant, both of which have laid off hundreds.
The Obama office is staffed by three organizers and plastered with sign-up schedules for get-out-the-vote shifts in the final days. Fifty volunteers from Ross County and an adjoining county attended voter-turnout training last month.
Simkins, the wife of a highway laborer, volunteered to be a neighborhood team leader after being urged by her brother, an ironworker, and hearing Michelle Obama speak in Chillicothe. "She really spoke to me about family issues, what the government can do to help us, and helping us to help ourselves, and everything not being about the wealthy," she said.
Early last week, Simkins was making calls to ensure voters who had requested absentee ballots had returned them. Then the emphasis shifted into getting out the rest of the vote.
The GOP office is quieter. In the absence of any volunteer schedules, it is dominated by a sign with pictures of rifles and the caption "If you want to keep these, vote McCain." A member of the party's county board, David May, was upset about the lack of communication with the national party. As residents came in for Palin tickets, volunteers made no attempt to recruit them to help the campaign.
This weekend, the office was closed by 6 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, while Obama's office had half a dozen people working past 8.
The most active volunteer in the GOP office, Carol Myers, who moved to town four years ago from Alabama to care for her grandchildren, did not get involved until September, after the media's coverage of Palin moved her to action. She had hoped the campaign would have done more canvassing. "I'm 65, and if I do one more thing in my life, it's to put God back in our country," she said.
Obama's challenge in Ross County was clearly demonstrated among a group of 60-something residents who meet each morning for coffee after walking together. The group has chewed over his candidacy enough that some now refer to him as "Barack," yet it is still trying to come to terms with the prospect of his being president.
One, Rita Hawkins, a retired social service worker, calls Obama a "visionary," says the Republicans have "got so far off base" with social issues, and doesn't understand McCain's attacks over William Ayers, the former radical with whom Obama sat on the boards of nonprofit groups, saying she has sat on boards with all sorts of people herself.
But she is outnumbered in the group. Her brother, Steve Zurmehly, 61, a farmer, is voting for McCain even though Hawkins argues that he has lacked health insurance coverage his whole life and might benefit from Obama's proposals. "Health care has been an issue for so many years, and no one's going to do anything," he said.
Hawkins's sister Diane McDonald, an occupational therapist, is voting for McCain even though she thinks Obama is "articulate, intelligent, unwavering."
"So why don't you vote for him?" Hawkins said.
"Because it doesn't mean I believe in his politics," McDonald said. "A lot of women have gotten in trouble because of men like that."
Back at the Obama office, the volunteers have been discussing how they would feel if Obama won the presidency but lost Ohio. "I'd be very disappointed," Simkins said. "I'd be happy if he won, but I'd be disappointed if he lost Ohio. We've all worked so hard."
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Tomorrow will be a dark day for America. Obama supporters will either protest by rioting and burning or they''''ll celebrate by rioting and burning.
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I am sending you this link for your entertainment
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUc62jD-G0o
Have fun you pathetic loser, by the way you could get a better girl for running mate on Vegas for less money
Bill Frist
Randy "Duke" Cunningham
Jack Abramoff
Tom DeLay
Mark Foley
Larry Craig
Ted Haggard
Bob Ney
Trent Lott
Ted Stevens
Alberto Gonzales
Donald Rumsfled
Karl Rove
Scooter Libby
*** Cheney
George Bush
Lying about reasons for going to war with Iraq (Uranium,
false claims about Iraq''s supposed weapons of mass destruction.)
Torture in Abu Ghraib.
The treasonous exposure of a CIA agent by White House officials.(Plamegate)
Letting Osama Bin Laden escape from Tora Bora
Halliburton%u2019s overcharging and outright fraud for services in Iraq
Lack of body armor for troops
Enron
Katrina
Illegal wiretapping
Political influence peddling
S.e.x scandals
Troopergate
Travel fraud
Election tampering
Ballooning federal debt
Economy in a tailspin
And these are just for starters%u2026
Enough is enough, America is ready for change!
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From Dreams of My Father: "I found a solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against my mother''s race."
From Dreams of My Father: "There was something about him that made me wary, a little too sure of himself, maybe. And white."
From Dreams of My Father: ; "It remained necessary to prove which side you were on, to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names."
From Dreams of My Father: "I never emulate white men and brown men whose fates didn''t speak to my own. It was into my father''s image, the black man, son of Africa, that I''d packed all the attributes I sought in myself, the attributes of Martin and Malcolm, Dubois and Mandela."
From Audacity of Hope: "I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction."
Bill Frist
Randy "Duke" Cunningham
Jack Abramoff
Tom DeLay
Mark Foley
Larry Craig
Ted Haggard
Bob Ney
Trent Lott
Alberto Gonzales
Donald Runsfled
Scooter Libby
*** Cheney
George Bush
Lying about reasons for going to war with Iraq (Uranium, false claims about Iraq''s supposed weapons of mass destruction.)
Torture in Abu Ghraib.
The treasonous exposure of a CIA agent by White House officials. (Plamegate)
Halliburton%u2019s overcharging and outright fraud for services in Iraq
Enron
Katrina
Illegal wiretapping
Political influence peddling
*** scandals
Election tampering
Ballooning federal debt
Economy in a tailspin
And these are just for starters%u2026
Enough is enough, America is ready for change!
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Causes and Historical Perspectives
1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MGT_cSi7Rs
2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usvG-s_Ssb0&feature=related
3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLLlZQJQrFY
4. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RZVw3no2A4&feature=related
5. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1vSqF9Hm7A
Consequences
In every generation, every decade, recent history is replete with the consequences of politicians and other authority figures who prey on suffering, selling hope to those who would listen while peddling influence to those who would pay, advocating accountability but abdicating responsibility while casting blame, and promising unity but creating division, employing violence - be it verbal, emotional, psychological or physical - to set one party against another to further a cause. The result is always the same, however well-intended the cause. People are divided. Humanity suffers.
http://www.nbc24.com/news/news_story.aspx?id=216450
Enough already! Wake up America! Vote Obama/Biden ''''08
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Posted by socrates100 at 07:27 PM : Nov 03, 2008
I am sure glad you don''t take care of my budget, you must have been through the obama school that tells you to spend more to save money. Well I am sure this works in someones dream but never has in my budget or my companies budget and quite sure it won''t with our ecomony. We need to rein in spending of worthless stuff like obama''s ACORN, money going to other countries that have no control over it and it mostly goes to the leaders not the people it is meant to. So bottom line if spending is increased and taxes raised, finanical 101 tells you we will see a long down turn and much more jobs lost. If we control spending reduce taxes the down turn will be shorter. Any time in history that taxes was reduced the income of the goverment went up. When taxes were increased goverment income decreased. History tells
good bye affirmative action
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Posted by popstom12 at 06:42 PM : Nov 03, 2008
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Then you are very short sighted. Fortunately, we live in a democracy and any president we elect is only going to be there a maximum of eight years. So if your candidate loses tomorrow, then you won''t have to suffer more than eight years. If we could survive Bush, we can survive McCain or Obama. We are still all Americans at the end of the day.
It is your right and your duty!
And to avoid the past crowding at the polling places the new regulations this year are:
Voting Day for Republicans is tomorrow.
Voting Day for Democrats is Wednesday.
Get out and vote bright and early those days.
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Posted by michaelt302 at 07:57 PM : Nov 03, 2008
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LOL. Nice try.
His redistribution argument is also ridiculous... Exon just posted its 3 straight quarter of record profits in the billions. None of this is trickling down to the middle class. Bush/Cheney/McCain have redistributed wealth in America over the past 8 year to the top 1% of income earners. The middle class continues to shrink as a result of their disastrous economic policy.
Go ahead McCain supporters. Review the debates, his stump speeches ..... how many references to the middle class have you heard?
Enough already! Wake up America! Vote Obama/Biden ''08
good bye affirmative action
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Hidden Audio: Obama Tells SF Chronicle He Will Bankrupt Coal Industry
November 2, 2008 - 07:26 ET
Well, Barack Obama actually flat out told the San Francisco Chronicle (SF Gate) that he was willing to see the coal industry go bankrupt in a January 17, 2008 interview. The result? Nothing.
"So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can; it''''''''''''''''s just that it will bankrupt them because they''''''''''''''''re going to be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that''''''''''''''''s being emitted.
That will also generate billions of dollars that we can invest in solar, wind, biodiesel and other alternative energy approaches.
The only thing I''''''''''''''''ve said with respect to coal, I haven''''''''''''''''t been some coal booster. What I have said is that for us to take coal off the table as a (sic) ideological matter as opposed to saying if technology allows us to use coal in a clean way, we should pursue it.
So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can.
It''''''''''''''''s just that it will bankrupt them."
She planned her death to get votes? When did your Heart turn to ice? I''m very sorry for you. Oh, and Osama?
Is it in your brain not to call people with views different than yours names?
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