"Put the Coon right in there:" Change is Here in Ohio

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Sunday November 02, 2008 · 4:51 PM PST

2008/11/02 · 16:51

I have been making calls to Ohio for the Obama campaign the last two days, trying to make my small contribution to the campaign's "GOTV" effort. Of course, much of the time I am leaving messages or listening to folks hang up on me, but every now and then I make a connection that seems to make the time sacrificed from my family worthwhile. This is a story of a few such calls that I offer in the hopes that they will encourage a few more people to sign up and make some calls for the Obama campaign.

In my calls to Ohio I have run into a few sentiments that I consider offensive. Some older voters have irrationally called Senator Obama a dirty "muslim" or similar sentiments, but in the course of this I run across a few calls that seemed interesting enough to share.

I spoke with one senior citizen from Ohio. He was enthusiastic about receiving my call and he and his wife were strong supporters for Obama. Nothing too unusual there, but it was the way he expressed it. He said:

"Yes sir, put the Coon right in there."

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TrueBlueAmerican

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Thursday October 09, 2008 · 9:55 AM PDT

2008/10/09 · 09:55

I have been following the electoral college count projections over at RealClearPolitics.com for some time. They have never put Obama over the magic 270 electoral votes before. Today, RCP moved Virginia out of the contested state category and into the leaning Obama category. This gives Obama 277 electoral votes, putting Obama over the magic 270 electoral votes needed to win election for president.

Real Clear Politics Electoral Projection Map

Perhaps just as significant is that fact that RCP has Obama leading in six out of the seven states that RCP puts in the toss-up category.

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27 votes Show Results

I will e-mail and post about RCP's projection that Obama wins

27 votes Vote Now!

I will e-mail and post about RCP's projection that Obama wins

Yes

15 votes

Yes, and I know some journalists who might run with this

2 votes

Yes I will send a snail mail note to my Republican mom about this

4 votes

No, I want the Republicans to win

1 vote

No I do not have the time

5 votes

Responding to Character Attacks: Dems New Direction?

TrueBlueAmerican

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Wednesday October 08, 2008 · 7:05 AM PDT

2008/10/08 · 07:05

I detect a new Democratic strategy in responding to the right wing character attacks. In the last election cycle, Kerry responded to swift boat attacks by trying to show in meticulous detail that they just were not true. This, of course, just reinforced the false accusation and gave it more weight.

Now, I detect a new strategy. Rather, than respond in excruciating detail to how crossing paths with Ayers does not mean Obama is a criminal, I think I am detecting a smarter response. Now I would characterize the response as "tit-for-tat." The Dems are just attacking back as their response. For example, the Obama campaign released a video detailing McCain's links to the Keating-Five in response to the latest character assassination. Similarly, Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs parried Sean Hannity's Ayers attack with an accusation that Hannity was anti-semitic because he devoted a show to the attacks of an anti-semite.See Robert Gibbs Confronts Hannity Over Anti-Semite Gues

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60 votes Show Results

The Dems Are Responding to Character Attacks With Attacks of Their Own

60 votes Vote Now!

The Dems Are Responding to Character Attacks With Attacks of Their Own

Yes

5 votes

Yes, and it works better than just a denial

52 votes

Yes, but just a denial would be better

1 vote

2 votes

Al Qaeda Terrorists Prefer McCain

TrueBlueAmerican

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Thursday October 02, 2008 · 4:21 PM PDT

2008/10/02 · 16:21

Richard Clarke--famous and well regarded anti-terrorism expert--writes today that Al Qaeda prefers McCain to Obama and may try to act to change the outcome of the election. See Today's US News Article. According to Clarke, "Al Qaeda would not like it if there were a popular American president again", and Obama is likely to be a popular US President at home and around the world.

The Republican hawks and chicken hawks who think that McCain will make the US safer, should reconsider their poorly thought out mantra.

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58 votes Show Results

Will An Obama Presidency Make America Safer than a McCain Presidency?

58 votes Vote Now!

Will An Obama Presidency Make America Safer than a McCain Presidency?

Yes, Obama will focus our military to root out and destroy Al Qaeda

6 votes

Yes, Obama will rebuild our military

2 votes

yes, Obama will result in increased enlistment in the military

0 votes

Yes.

14 votes

All of the above. We just need a change and Obama is my candidate.

35 votes

No, I want McCain because he fought hard while a POW in Viet Nam

1 vote

No, I just vote republican no matter what

0 votes

McCain's Bracelet: Failure in Leadership

TrueBlueAmerican

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Friday September 26, 2008 · 10:21 PM PDT

2008/09/26 · 22:21

In tonight's debate, McCain mentioned a bracelet he wears from a soldier who asked him to continue the war in Iraq. McCain said he wanted to honor that soldier by continuing the war in Iraq.

McCain demonstrates a complete failure in leadership with this point. The President has to make decisions about deploying our brave troops. Not one soldier. By focusing on one soldier McCain also forgets that there is a chorus of contrary views from our military men and women as well as their family and friends back home.

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32 votes Show Results

I wear a soldier's bracelet and that brave fighting man or woman asked me to

32 votes Vote Now!

I wear a soldier's bracelet and that brave fighting man or woman asked me to

Send them a Pizza

2 votes

Get them home from Iraq

10 votes

Ask the President to declare war on Alaska if Palin tries to leave the Union

3 votes

Kick Alaska out of the Union and just use their resources without letting them vote

1 vote

Say prayers for their safety and eventual safe return home

3 votes

Send them body armor to keep them safe from IEDs

0 votes

Support medical care for our troops injured in the line of duty

2 votes

Vote Obama so America can get Bin Laden and we will all be safer

11 votes

Do Something Now To Help Obama Win in November

TrueBlueAmerican

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Monday September 08, 2008 · 9:10 PM PDT

2008/09/08 · 21:10

Many of us are guilty of looking at the polling data and the news and reading post after post on Kos. Some of this is useful to the extent you are educating yourself, but more of us need to take action.

Let's not look back this Christmas wishing we had done something more to ensure an Obama victory and lament that John McSame will be our next president. Let's do it now. Rather than make that post or read that next Diary, go sign up for some work on the Obama web page. [Barackobama.com]

You can make phone calls from home, write letters to the editor, donate money and do many other things to assist Obama in winning. Just get out and do it. It is simple. Sign up for an account with my.barackobama.com and you are in business.

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46 votes Show Results

I read DailyKos and I have done the following for the Obama campaign

46 votes Vote Now!

I read DailyKos and I have done the following for the Obama campaign

I once made a comment to a diary on Kos

1 vote

I get upset when Obama is down in the polls

1 vote

I sent Obama money

19 votes

I have made phone calls for Obama

0 votes

I have gone door to door for Obama

2 votes

I have registered voters for Obama

2 votes

I have done work at an Obama for President campaign office

2 votes

I have done more than one of the above to help my candidate win

17 votes

I have not done squat, but I am going to BarackObama.com now to volunteer for Obama

2 votes

Loser Welfare Democrats or Agents of Change

TrueBlueAmerican

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Sunday September 07, 2008 · 1:07 PM PDT

2008/09/07 · 13:07

The Democrats need to stop wallowing in being defensive and victims. Time to take charge of the national debate or if we do not we will just prove to the world what a hopeless bunch of losers the Democratic party is. We should expect a bounce for the Republican brand after their convention. However, many polls make this a close race and a recent Gallup poll puts McSame ahead by three points.

Time for a change..... in strategy.

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21 votes Show Results

Obama has been too namby pamby is standing up for himself. Time to make the case that Democrats are better at National Security, Fiscal Responsibility and American Family Values.

21 votes Vote Now!

Obama has been too namby pamby is standing up for himself. Time to make the case that Democrats are better at National Security, Fiscal Responsibility and American Family Values.

Fo Sho!

10 votes

Go away man, I am waiting for my mom to call down to the basement that lunch is ready

5 votes

National Security yes, but no way on the other two

0 votes

National Security and Fiscal responsibility but what's this thing called values

2 votes

More more more... I just want more.. That's the ticket.

4 votes

Levi Johnston to join Palin family at convention

TrueBlueAmerican

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Tuesday September 02, 2008 · 4:47 PM PDT

2008/09/02 · 16:47

MSNBC is reporting that the father of Bristol Palin's child left Alaska Tuesday morning to join the Palin family at the convention. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/...

I take from this that all the talk of McSame pulling Palin from the ticket is just talk and has little better than zero chance of happening. McSame can not ask her to step down without looking like an unstable rash leader, which is who he really appears to be. The choice of Palin took away the Republican's experience attack on Obama. Removing Palin would take away the Republican's judgment attack on Obama. I am not sure that keeping her will help that judgment attack, but surely removing her would be seen as an admission of unfitness to serve as President of the United States.

McSame has to keep Palin and make the best of it. That is why I think that this poor 18 year old from Alaska is being flown down to the convention. Putting the newly coined "Fiance" next to poor Bristol will make her look like a chip off the old block rather than a wayward teen.

Well that's how I see it anyway.

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523 votes Show Results

Levi is being pressured to come to the Republican convention by forces he never dreamed of?

523 votes Vote Now!

Levi is being pressured to come to the Republican convention by forces he never dreamed of?

Yes

328 votes

24 votes

No, if he dated Bristol he must have been exposed to dark forces from the Governor

28 votes

No, his myspace page was so profane he has dreamed of lots of dark forces

53 votes

I reject this poll and I want Alaska to leave the union.

90 votes

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