New Survey USA General Election Polls

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Thursday April 17, 2008 · 3:17 PM PDT

2008/04/17 · 15:17

SUSA has new GE polls out for some states...yeah, I know we like to say GE polls don't matter now, but superdelegates are going to make their decision on who is electable vs. who won the most votes/delegates...that will most likely be Obama, but if he's trailing in important states, the superdelegates' decision will be harder and less certain.

Anyway here are the polls;

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Tuesday April 15, 2008 · 6:51 AM PDT

2008/04/15 · 06:51

I'm pretty much done diaring here I decided. There isn't much more I can add here.

Diaries are supposed to be, at least in my opinion, our experience in politics...but mine, as you well know, has not been the same as most of yours. I live in Queens, work in Nassau County and feel as if I'm living in a small chunk of political society where Barack Obama is toxic. I don't know one person who will vote for him (On Super Tuesday, I knew about a dozen)...even Democrats. I hear some of the most disgusting remarks about him
"He's elitist"
"He;s arrogant"
"He's Dukakis on the Senate floor"
"He's the worst candidate the party put forward since Humphrey"
"He's a backstabber"

and so on.

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Monday April 14, 2008 · 7:08 PM PDT

2008/04/14 · 19:08

A bitter (no pun intended) irony unfolded this morning when I got an e-mail from my cousin down in Sant'Agnello, Italy, near Naples and Sorrento, where she has been living for the past five years and where I had hoped to escape in exile should McCain win in November.

She gives me bad bad news; Well it turns out the Italian people, by a wide margin, made Italy a little less desirable for me.

If Sent Into Exile By November's Election; What Country Would You Go To?

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If Sent Into Exile By November's Election; What Country Would You Go To?

Canada

20 votes

Mexico

1 vote

2 votes

Ireland

9 votes

France

3 votes

Netherlands

3 votes

Germany

2 votes

Brazil

3 votes

Australia

9 votes

New Zealand

10 votes

Spain

1 vote

Israel

0 votes

Italy

8 votes

Greece

1 vote

Other (say in comments)

9 votes

Leadership in America: Is It Even Possible?

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Monday April 07, 2008 · 9:07 PM PDT

2008/04/07 · 21:07

Where is the leadership? Where are our leaders? Why aren't there any leaders?

How many times have you heard those questions being asked in your life...especially around here.

I've heard "leadership" being thrown around a lot. In a matter of fifteen minutes, I've heard different people make contridictory arguments as to what constitutes leadership;

1.) Someone who stands up for what the people want
2.) Someone who stands up for what's right even when the people are against it.

Well, aren't those contriictions?

I'm beginning to think what Americans want isn't leadership, they want people who think the way they think and do what they want to do, prioritized the way they want them to be. Can we really have leaders if what we're looking for is 300 million different types of leadership. Can Americans really be "led?"

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Sunday April 06, 2008 · 9:30 PM PDT

2008/04/06 · 21:30

I thought about titling this "How Republicans win Elections" but I decided my position paper was much more deserving of that title...this is just a short diary that leads to an open discussion on this topic;

I suspect, and fear, in November we will be scratching our heads, as we do every four years, wondering why despite the fact the country appears to agree with us on almost every issue, we still lost to John McCain. I hope that, for the first time, the Republicans won't be able to capitalized on ignorants and holes in our argument that left our candidate vulnerable to attack.

I sat down this afternoon with three of my oldest aunts; all Democrats, never voted for a Republican president in their lives. All hardcore Hillary supporters, but all have relunctantly admitted that they will vote for Obama in the Fall...at least as of this moment.

But after hearing them talk, I wonder what people who aren't beholden to the Democratic Party think? and I wonder how it will influence their votes.

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Monday March 31, 2008 · 5:04 PM PDT

2008/03/31 · 17:04

Since no one else has decided to blog it around here...I will.

Rep. Bart Stupak, a former Edwards supporter, has come up with a plan to seat the delegates in his home state of Michigan and at first glance, I don't see an issue with it.

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Monday March 24, 2008 · 4:30 PM PDT

2008/03/24 · 16:30

Yes I'm the world famous concern troll. I'm the one who rains on the Yes We Can parade, so if you're looking for another feel-good Obama diary, don't read this...I'm tired of the "thanks for your concern" comments, so if that's going to be your plan, go read another "Obama is amazing" or "Hillary is a neocon" diary...this one isn't for you.

I decided to go forth and get out of Hillary supporters why they won't vote for Obama in November...oh there are plenty. Two weeks ago, I wrote a diary about one of my closest friends who supports Hillary and doesn't like Obama. In the comments section, someone wrote "As long as she supports Obama in the general"

She won't. She's amongst the quotes I list here. They are all hardcore Democrats or liberals (one friend of mine is liberal but has never voted before). None of them ever had positive feelings for Bush, none of them supported the war. This is a fact that I would swear on my mother's life.

Alright, go ahead if you can stand it...it's not pretty.

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Wednesday March 12, 2008 · 7:22 AM PDT

2008/03/12 · 07:22

My very first member of Congress was Geraldine Ferraro. As an infant, my parents voted for her (well my mom anyway). We live here in one of the bluest areas of one of the bluest states. I still live in the heart of what was her district. Since then it has been represented by Tom Manton, Chuck Schumer, and Anthony Weiner. Bush did better than any Republican should have here in 2004, and our state senator is a right-wing nutjob...hell, one of our Assemblymen, despite being a Democrat, is a right-wing nutjob.

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Monday March 10, 2008 · 3:38 PM PDT

2008/03/10 · 15:38

I am living in the most pro-Clinton part of the most pro-Clinton district outside Arkansas. In my close circle of friends and family, there are 27 Democrats, of them, I and another friend are the only two who voted for Barack Obama on Super Tuesday...both of us had previously been Edwards supporters. The other 25, all pro-Hillary and rabid at that.

Of the 25, 20 of them vow not to vote for Obama in the GE. At one time most of them vowed to vote for McCain, now, thanks to Bush's endorsement of him, almost all will sit out the election if Obama is the nominee.

Among them is an interesting character...Elena (that not her real name, but it's close to it). She's 23 years old, she's biracial, dad is African-American, mom is Polish, she's previously apathetic in politics and is getting involved for the first time, and unlike others around her age in America (although not necessarily in New York it seems) she is excited about Hillary Rodham Clinton. She calls me last night and the first question out of her mouth was; "I don't like Barack Obama, What's wrong with me?"

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Friday March 07, 2008 · 4:38 PM PST

2008/03/07 · 16:38

Seriously, do you realize how much more money we'd have to spend in OUR tax dollars to protect a black guy? I pay enough in taxes! I mean, he won't even be able to visit the South, they would never accept a black guy as President. Face it, Al Sharpton and Louis Farrakhan will be running the country. All us white people will have to pay more taxes so black women can have 20 children and don't have to work! He'd better have a good Vice President, and it can't be Clinton, because women have no ability to lead. The first time she gets hormonal, she'll nuke Moscow. The world to too dangerous to have some women running it. We'll all be dead in less than a year.

No way, if a black man wins, I'm leaving the country. If a woman wins, I'm leaving the country. That would be the end of America.

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Friday February 29, 2008 · 8:50 PM PST

2008/02/29 · 20:50

When the Democratic Primaries and Caucuses are finally over, Barack Obama will be the one making the last speech in Denver, accepting the nomination.

Kossacks will rejoice and prepare for the imepnding Obama administration with glee. Clinton supporters stomp their feet, pout, and vow to stay home for vote McCain. Kossacks tell them where they can shove it.

Then come the polls...why is Obama underperforming in Massachusetts, New Jersey, Pennsylvania? Why is he losing swing states like Ohio, Florida? What's going on? He's winning Independents, so why is he not running away with it?Wait...is that 23% of the Democratic vote picking McCain? That many Democrats are staying home. W.T.F. is wrong with them?!?!?!

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Thursday February 21, 2008 · 9:27 PM PST

2008/02/21 · 21:27

I am part of the "MTV Generation", although I term us the "South Park Generation" (explanation later). We grew up as the first generation with video games, cable TV and mass media. We were born under Reagan, raised under Clinton, and stepped out into the real world under Bush. WE make up the vast majority of the soldiers on the front lines. WE are the ones starting lives and careers in George W. Bush's America. We didn't have the luxury to have achieved success and stability, financially and professionally, under the Clinton years that can keep us comfortable through the hard times we are facing today. WE have to somehow put together a life for ourselves in the mess our parents created.

We are not a clueless generation, quite the opposite actually. We know more about the world than our parents. Maybe it's the internet, maybe the mass media, maybe even video games (SimCity, anybody?), but we hang our heads in shame at the cluelessness of our parents.

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When were you born?

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When were you born?

Before 1930

1 vote

1930-1940 (McCain's decade)

3 votes

1940-1950 (Clinton's decade)

18 votes

1950-1960

51 votes

1960-1970 (Obama's decade)

68 votes

1970-1980

53 votes

1980-1990

62 votes

1990-2000

3 votes

After 2000 (Um, Seriously?)

0 votes

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