Will health care affect the election?
I can already picture Obama running with this report.
And money-wise, Obama seems to be leading so far…
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/07/17/obama-raises-52-million-in-june/
[quote]Mufasa wrote:
I’m with Mick28 when he made the following observation:
Romney may be able to help McCain govern; but he will not help him get elected.
Romney as the VP candidate will cause McCain to lose more of the Christian Right Vote than he already has.
Mufasa
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Lose more of the Christian Right vote? To Obama?
I haven’t seen that. I can see the Christian Right saying they are not pleased with McCain but I can’t see them pulling the trigger for Obama
I sure hope Hillary doesn’t run as Obama’s VP. His chances of being assassinated as the first black pres are already high…with her it will be a sure thing so she can have DA POWA!!!
[quote]Neuromancer wrote:
pat wrote:
MrRezister wrote:
I think Pat and Lixy have got it figured out.
I can safely say that I never in my life thought I’d ever see the above sentence!
So all things really are possible,then.[/quote]
Yes, they are…Who knows Obama may have a Paul like conversion and be the best thing since Thomas Jefferson to grace the White House.
Well, that’s pushing the boundaries but anything is possible! Maybe Lixy will be the vice pres. and will ratchet up the war on terror. Who knows?
[quote]GhorigTheBeefy wrote:
I sure hope Hillary doesn’t run as Obama’s VP. His chances of being assassinated as the first black pres are already high…with her it will be a sure thing so she can have DA POWA!!!
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Honestly, I am betting that Obama that, if he does get assassinated, it will be by someone else who is black.
[quote]jp_dubya wrote:
Mufasa wrote:
I’m with Mick28 when he made the following observation:
Romney may be able to help McCain govern; but he will not help him get elected.
Romney as the VP candidate will cause McCain to lose more of the Christian Right Vote than he already has.
Mufasa
Lose more of the Christian Right vote? To Obama?
I haven’t seen that. I can see the Christian Right saying they are not pleased with McCain but I can’t see them pulling the trigger for Obama[/quote]
This has been the “threat” from the Christian Right, if Romney was associated with the ticket in any way.
This tends to be a block that gets out and vote; so I don’t know if staying at home would be a credible threat; but neither is voting for Obama.
My take is that they made a “threat” about something that wasn’t going to happen anyway…
Thoughts?
Mufasa
Obama was running on his cult of personality. He still is, but it has weakened.
Since he is still a new name, he is still not fully defined, and that may be his weakness.
McCains is that he really does not garner a lot of attention. He really seems kind of blah, and is already too far left for many conservatives.
Right after the Wright controversy, I saw that Obama started having trouble with white liberals. Until then I thought that race would not play any significant roll in this election, now I am not sure.
The controversy has died down, but if he is still having trouble with the liberal whites, then he will have no chance with the conservative whites.
I believe this will be a higher then normal year for the young to get out and vote, but may not be very significant. In the last election I knew a young person who was registered, then showed up at the wrong polling place. After finding out where to go, he just decided not to. Too much effort.
I believe by November McCain will probably win. But only because Obama will keep losing support. But it will depend completely on how quickly Obama’s star quits shining.