Sect'y, Young Dems of Massachusetts
Webmaster, Cte. to Re-Elect Kathleen Teahan
Member, EB Town Democratic Cte.
SUNBURY, PA -- Mikey's House of Polling announced the result of a presidential poll conducted on November 2nd from the hours of 11:45am to 12:36pm in the waiting area of car repair shop run by Mikey's brother Dave. The results are as follows:
If you were voting today in that election thing, who would you be voting for?
McCain 48%
Obama 43%
Undecided 9%
Analysis: Blue-collar voters appear to be swinging behind McCain, and the number of undecided voters remain large in this poll. McCain is nearing the 50% mark while Obama seems to have slipped in recent polling. While McCain voters include a large percentage of "persuadables", this trend appears to show McCain's investment in the Keystone State to be providing vast dividends. Obama continues to hold sway over the African-American voter consulted in this survey.
Reaction was swift and immediate across the campaign, media, and online worlds.
It's amazing how quickly we grow accustomed to the foolishness of the caucus process. From Iowa to Maine, we've seen an aggressive paring down of candidate support by mathematical formulae, bizarre "at-large" districts, and multi-day extravaganzas. From Texas, we saw selection events that would embarrass a Third World republic trying out democracy for the first time.
Now this: persons far less known than any dreaded superdelegate have swung nine national convention delegates away from the candidate who won them according to the rules. Against the wishes of these voters, folks largely unknown to their own state party staged a by-the-rules putsch for no discernible reason. This isn't just non-democratic...it's anti-democratic. And our expectations are so low that we just accept it.
"The members of the DNC from Massachusetts have decided to wait until we hear the candidates and then decide how we will each vote. We are also going to take into consideration Senator Kerry's feelings on the issue."
I find it a bit alarming that a loser who may run again for the nomination should have their "feelings" taken into consideration. I don't like having yesterday's man influencing our future -- think Gerald Ford called a lot of shots in 2000?
The highest Democratic elected officials right now are Sen. Harry Reid (NV) and Rep. Nancy Pelosi (CA), both the minority leader in their respective House of Congress. For fun's sake, throw in an occasional Democratic governor of a big-time state like Jen Granholm in Michigan, or Pennsylvania's Ed Rendell.
Because New York wasn't going to get the Olympics, Bush or no Bush. Why? Well....
Not to mention, New York's bid sucked as far as I could tell. The good news, the Olympics come to North America every once in a while for the same reason as the Pope: this is where all the money to run the operation comes from.
Reminds me of the number of Communists McCarthy was finding back in the good ol' days. Any other numbers out there?
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