http://weblogs.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/blog/2008/03/did_i_say_osama_i_meant_obama.html

Please, someone who knows someone, report this to the Obama campaign.

Sorry nmp—not buying!

We need to get this vote out like crazy and we have the power to do it. Don’t like calls? Knock on doors. Go down to the Obama office and help bundle pamplets and signs.
I was really depressed reading about the Ohio polls, but I’ve decided I’m going to take tonight to get over my cold, finish as much work as possible (I’m a freelancer), then take tomorrow off and get out tomorrow and knock on as many doors as I can here in RI.
I hate that familiar feeling of having hope, only to see it fade away. As a democrat, I should be used to it. That’s not how it’s going to be this time! (?)

I am not giving up on the fight. I will continue to have faith that Obama will either win or come close. OH is not gone. We will not know the outcome until all votes have been counted.

i live in texas and brought the possibility of a sabotage if republicans voted for hillary in the primaries just to spite obama but i was informed that you can only vote for a candidate in the party that you’re registered with…so republican’s wouldnt be able to

tomorrow will definately be interesting…

Not possible! The most reliable poll, Survey USA, has Senator Clinton opening a double digit lead. Rasmussen even has her leading nationally for the first time in 3 weeks and doing better against McCain. Part of me wishes that he had lost Iowa b/c coming this close to see it all slip away hurts more.

“”Meaning, they’d be giving up a lot (but not the general election) to crossover for either Democrat. If I were them, I’d worry about whether or not I wanted McCain as the nominee or if I wanted to send a message to the party instead.”"
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But if McCain is considered the presumtive nominee, then maybe they wouldn’t be giving up much…

[Rumor] Obama Internals Have Him Leading In Ohio Above MoE
Submitted by Jerid on Sat, 03/01/2008 – 10:39pm.

A while back I reported that I’d gotten my eyes on some Obama Ohio internal polls which
showed him within 7 points of Senator Clinton (this was way back when she was leading by
20 in all other polls, so at the time it was a big deal). Sure enough, within a few days
public polling reflected the internal sentiment I’d published. Today I wasn’t lucky enough
to see new internals, but I did speak with some of my sources that dropped an interesting
tidbit on me.

Apparently in discussions a week ago folks with the Obama campaign indicated Obama wouldn’t
be in Ohio this current weekend unless something BIG was happening. Specifically, they
indicated he’d continue to focus on Texas unless internal polling showed him leading above
the margin of error in Ohio.

And sure enough, yesterday the Obama campaign announced the Senator was returning to Ohio
today and Sunday (in Westerville).

I went to the Texas Gop site, and they wrote:

To explain, we do not register by party in Texas. One becomes “affiliated” with a party by voting in a party’s primary and the affiliation lasts for that primary year. As an example, if a voter voted in the March 2006 primary or April 2006 runoff primary, the voter affiliated with that party for the rest of that year, but on December 31, 2006 the affiliation expired. The affiliation means that the person may not vote in another party’s primary or participate in another party’s convention or sign an independent candidate’s petition for place on the ballot if the independent candidate’s position appears on the primary ballot. Note that in the general election in November, a voter may vote for whomever he/she wishes, regardless of how or whether he/she voted in the primary or runoff primary election, since all candidates are on the same ballot.

Meaning, they’d be giving up a lot (but not the general election) to crossover for either Democrat. If I were them, I’d worry about whether or not I wanted McCain as the nominee or if I wanted to send a message to the party instead.

Adam, I agree with you. It is refreshing to see the Obama campaign take no bullshit. My only problem is that nothing is set in stone until after the fact. I don’t trust any polls or any forecasts because of what happened in New Hampshire and then what happened in Nevada. Celebrate after, not before.

I’m so glad this site is doing what it can to get the word out. Knowledge is power. The people who run this site have power.

How can anyone support this woman, this family? How? Why?

What has to go through your mind to actually willingly participate in this kind of madness? To encourage it? Are the perks that irresistible? That’s a ‘we have to destroy the village in order to save it’ mess, right there.

And after all that, whose fault would it be when Hillary loses the general? or would we just be asked to ‘deal with it’, ‘live with it’ and ‘get over it’… like the ladies of New Hampshire’s pro-choice organizations basically told voters after apologizing for signing their name to a statement criticizing Obama’s pro-choice record, without investigating whether the Clinton campaigns claims were true.

This is invaluable information that I will indeed pass on to my relatives in Texas who are excited and involved in this process.

I think for so long, both as black folks and as Democrats we are used to playing defense and being the underdog in these types of political situations.

I can’t count how many times I have wondered why the Dems didn’t just fight back against a lot of the punks who were tossing attacks around.

So when I see the Obama campaign I see a team that is simply not playin’ any freakin’ games.

I hear so many people say, “watch out for Hil, she has tricks up her sleeve”

And that’s true.

But Hil also should be pretty darn nervous about the folks on the other side.

I mean seriously, if most of us on this blog and others have a checklist of tricks that the Clinton campaign is about to pull, we know for sure that Team Obama has counters set up for all of them.

If March 4th happens like most expect (O wins Texas and Vermont, Clinton wins Ohio and RI), then I think you will see the last vestiges of Hil’s money and man power start to dry up.

Will she want to keep fighting? Sure. Will she be able too? I’m not sure.

So for me, I’m tired of looking over my shoulder for the Clinton boogeyman. For once in my political life, I’m on the winning team and I think Obama and his staff are well prepared to finish this thing soon.