Obama's Organization Delivered Impressive Results Against McCain

what relevance does Wilson have to the current election?

what relevance does Wilson have to the current election? Well, history could be repeated. During the “Democratic” Convention, Denver police arrested Asa Eslocker, an ABC News producer. At the time he was filming Democrat senators leaving a super secret private meeting with their super rich VIP donors at the Brown Palace Hotel.

Police refused to present Eslocker with any charges. A cigar-smoking sergeant put his hands on Eslocker’s neck, then twisted his arm behind him while putting on handcuffs. And another threaten Eslocker with “You're lucky I didn't knock the f..k out of you.” Eslocker’s supposed crime was trespassing on a public sidewalk.

If Eslocker had been a terrorist, he’d have gotten much better treatment. More importantly, the maraca media would have made a huge fuss especially since he’s one of them. But since Democrats not Republicans were involved in denying an American citizen his habeas corpus, their silence was deafening.

Then there’s Brian, a graduate student, who in the People’s Republic of Vermont asked an Obama campaign table about his advisor, Zbigniew Brzezinski. Brian claimed that Brzezinski helped create Al Qaeda. But the Obama supporters weren’t willing to listen, which is their right, even though the principal purpose of their table was for public dialogue.

Once Brian realized that he had entered an intellectual free zone, he moved on or so he thought. Instead, the Obama fanatics called the cops. Two policemen chased him, ordered him to the ground. When Brian cried for help, police ordered him to shut up or be tasered. Apparently, that’s the new Miranda, “You have the right to remain silent or be tasered.”

He was handcuffed, jailed, and held for 35 hours, then brought before a judge in shackles. Brian’s supposed crimes were resisting arrest and disorderly conduct.

Then there’s Jessica Hughes of Texas who got a call from the Obama Volunteers of Texarkana. After telling the woman, “No, I don't support him. Your guy is a socialist who voted four times in the state senate to let little babies die in hospital closets,” two Secret Service agents arrived at her home.

Apparently, the Obama Nazi heard a death threat against her messiah. The agents accused Jessica of saying, “I will never support Obama and he will wind up dead on a hospital floor.” And they threaten Jessica that if she didn’t cooperate, they’d talk to her associates. Wait, I thought associations didn’t matter.

Jessica rightly concluded, “Someone high in the ranks of a campaign working for a man who may be the next President of the United States of America felt comfortable bringing the force of the Federal Government to bear on a private citizen on nothing but the word of a partisan volunteer.” And that should make every American uncomfortable.

Finally, St. Louis’s KMOV reported on Obama’s Missouri truth squad, although many are being formed across the country. Their supposed purpose is “to refute any false information spread about Obama.” But Russell Kinsaul found that, “The Barack Obama campaign is asking Missouri law enforcement to target anyone who lies or runs a misleading TV ad during the presidential campaign.”

Kinsaul discovered that Missouri’s squad has prosecutors and members of law enforcement. They include St. Louis Circuit Attorney Jennifer Joyce, Jefferson County Sheriff Glenn Boyer and St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Bob McCulloch. All are Democrats, and all of them seem willing to repeat Wilson’s thuggish tyranny all over again.

Howard Veit of CA is on target!!

How are you doing there Michael? This is Daniel...I have posted a few times before...but to be fair, do not see myself as tuned in to your wave length. But to get to the point... Some (including me) were/are not so enthusiasic about Mr. Obama.... but at the end of the day... this is not about clever organisational approaches and massive budgets... Few of us Hoosiers know that it is a pejorative term for an ignorant, stupid and easily deceived "Rube"... we have thought it was a name to be proud of. But to be fair you do not give the people of Indiana much credit as having the remnants of brain. In my first year at Indiana University, I joined the "Young Republicans" there were no big budgets... just ideas and principles. The Republican Party has a big agenda... forget the big budgets and detailed statistics. We are not impressed. The man from California has got it right. We are not always voting "for" someone... but we can tell who (or what) it is that we definitely do not want. So Mr. Barone... SHOVE your numbers and get out your beads.

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McCain's lack of support by Republicans

Mr. Barone:

You ought to analyze who actually supported (or did not support) McCain.

I am a GOP county official in Florida and until the announcement of Sarah Palin as McCain's running mate we had NO volunteers. She brought them in and they were working FAR more for Sarah Palin and somewhat by a fear of Obama, and hardly or not at all for McCain.

I know of only two Republicans who liked/supported Obama. One is a fellow Naval Academy graduate and another someone who worked with McCain 30 years ago in Washington, DC and really liked him then. In the Florida GOP primary McCain had tiny crowds (often less than 100) and other than Gov. Crist had almost no support. A lot of Republicans actively disliked McCain.

Most who attended McCain events were not Republicans, rather people who were fans of John McCain the former POW and there for the event. These folks were not signing up to support the Republican Party nor the election of McCain, rather for the event.

Obama had massive numbers of very motivated supporters, much like what GW Bush had in 2004. For poll watchers in our GOP county they had ten times the number of poll watchers as we did.

Even Bob Dole in 1996 did FAR better with Republicans than John McCain did this year.

Having worked very hard to get McCain/Palin elected I am sort of happy that McCain did not get elected so that I would not be embarassed by what he would do and say in office.

I do view Sarah Palin as having REALLY connected with Republicans and to have a signficant chance in 2012.

FS Tate

Florida

Gary Gets It

In light of the fact Lake County produced the highest percentage (67%) of the Democratic vote in the entire state, a much more interesting story is the support Northwest Indiana displayed to an administration actually crafting an urban policy agenda.

Mr. Barone referred to the increase in voter turnout in Gary as "only" 10% but for a much maligned city in desperate need of a lifeline, this was a watershed moment.

Go against the proverbial grain and write about that.

Avoidance Behavior

Mr. Barone, you're a better political analyst than this. "Organization," money, campaign errors, these are not the real explanation for the election result. They are detours you are taking to avoid motoring up to the truth: the country's views have shifted left, in Indiana and elsewhere. A party on the upswing with voters attracts money, volunteers, good candidates and good organizers, people with ambition and energy; a party on the downswing must make do with the ideological faithful.

Impressive results?

Don't look now--but he was sacked!

Impressive results?

Don't look now--but he was sacked!

Democrat victory

The big change is actually more fundamental and long lasting. We have a generational shift in the importance of money, or making big money to be specific. This disgusting Wall Street situation has destroyed all our concepts of retirement, investing for the future, and damaged most of our assumptions regarding the integrity of all financial institutions. This election was a rejection of the Free Enterprise system as we have come to know it, and a signal that we want any remnant of laissez-faire destroyed. Period. We are afraid of Obama but now terrified of "Free" enterprise.