McCain Up In NV & OH, Obama LOSING African American Vote BADLY in NV, Low In OH.

The overall news out of Nevada and Ohio is not very shocking…  McCain is beating Obama in the polls.

What is a very surprising development is that McCain is CRUSHING Barack Obama in the African-American/Black demographic  in Nevada and Obama isn’t even over the 50% mark in Ohio.

From RCP in NV

African-American/Black  Demographic

McCain                            Obama

73%                                  26%

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And In Ohio from RCP

McCain                           Obama

23%                                 48%

WOW.

I will be watching the polls more closely to see if this seems to be a rising trend in other states.

Heather Malik From CBC and The GuardianUK – Most Offensive Ever?

Holy crap…  I don’t even know what to say about this one…  so I will let Ms. Maliks words speak for themselves…

CBC

I assume John McCain chose Sarah Palin as his vice-presidential partner in a fit of pique because the Republican money men refused to let him have the stuffed male shirt he really wanted. She added nothing to the ticket that the Republicans didn’t already have sewn up, the white trash vote, the demographic that sullies America’s name inside and outside its borders yet has such a curious appeal for the right.

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It’s possible that Republican men, sexual inadequates that they are, really believe that women will vote for a woman just because she’s a woman. They’re unfamiliar with our true natures. Do they think vaginas call out to each other in the jungle night? I mean, I know men have their secret meetings at which they pledge to do manly things, like being irresponsible with their semen and postponing household repairs with glue and used matches. Guys will be guys, obviously.

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Palin has a toned-down version of the porn actress look favoured by this decade’s woman, the overtreated hair, puffy lips and permanently alarmed expression. Bristol has what is known in Britain as the look of the teen mum, the “pramface.” Husband Todd looks like a roughneck; Track, heading off to Iraq, appears terrified. They claim to be family obsessed while being studiously terrible at parenting. What normal father would want Levi “I’m a fuckin’ redneck” Johnson prodding his daughter?

I…  uhhh…

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I am at a total loss…  WHAT IS WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE!!!!

Add this to the SC chair’s comments and all the other vicious slander…  not the way to win votes.

Once again…  it’s about class…  and this is just classless.

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UPDATE – More vitriol from Huffington Post – Sarah Palin Naked

UPDATE:  CBC has removed the article from their website!  It’s about time.

So Much For Changing The Map…

Barack Obama, his campaign and their “bots” have screamed that they don’t need Ohio or Florida because they are going to redraw the map.

This was a primary excuse for telling millions of Hillary Clinton supporters that they were racists and to “get the hell out of the party.”

“We don’t need you!” they said…  “We are going to bring in new voters and redraw that map!”

So let’s see how those predictions are working out in the most recent polls….  below are all the states that Obama and his campaign said were in play or would win…

North Carolina – McCain + 20

South Carolina -McCain + 7

Georgia -McCain + 6

Alabama – McCain + 13

Tennessee -McCain + 15

Mississippi -McCain + 10

New Mexico – McCain + 2

Virginia – McCain + 4

Florida – McCain + 2

Missouri – McCain + 7

Montana – McCain + 11

Minnesota – McCain/Obama Tied

Looks like that redrawing of the map is not going so well….  and it seems to be getting worse.

Lynette Long: The X Factor – Brilliant Post

From Lynette Long

Gloria Steinem, in her September 4th editorial in the Los Angeles Times, came out strongly against Governor Palin claiming the only thing women have in common with Palin is an X chromosome. I respectfully disagree. Governor Palin knows what it is like to be a woman, a mother, a daughter, a sister – things the two men on the Democratic ticket can never fully understand. She knows what it is like to grow up invisible in an incredibly sexist society, to be stared at, groped, and sexually harassed. She knows what it is like to be smaller in stature than men and physically vulnerable. She knows what it’s like to worry that you are pregnant when you don’t want to be or that you are not pregnant when you want to be. Sarah Palin knows what it is to experience the joys and sorrows of motherhood, to nurse a baby while holding down a job, to leave for work in the morning with a toddler tugging at your pant leg, or to have your children calling you at work to diffuse squabbles or ask for help with homework. She knows that once you get to work you have to speak twice as loud and twice as often to be heard and work twice a hard to go half as far. She knows what it is to be a member of the second sex.

Gender is the most fundamental human characteristic. The first comment made when a child is born is either, “It’s a girl” or “It’s a boy.” From that second on, boys and girls live in parallel universes in the same culture. From the nursery room to the board room, boys and girls are given different messages about their respective roles in the world. At the hospital they are given different types of names and wrapped in different colored blankets. Once home, baby girls and boys wear fundamentally different clothes and play with different toys. This differentiation extends through school where girls are given less attention, picked less frequently to answer questions and placed less often in advanced science and math classes. Once in the workforce, women are steered into lower-paying careers, paid less for the same work, and forced to juggle the responsibilities of work and home. You can’t learn what it is to be a woman, unless you are one. You can’t have a government essentially devoid of women that knows what’s best for women. You can’t legislate for women, without women.

After the last Democratic Primary was over and it was clear Senator Clinton was not going to get the Democratic nomination, myself, and a small group of Clinton supporters met with Senator McCain and Carly Fiorina. I personally explained to Senator McCain that women comprise well over half of the population, yet are underrepresented in every branch of government. I asked him loudly and clearly to choose a woman for the VP slot and to increase the number of women in the cabinet and on the Supreme Court. Senator McCain listened respectfully to my request. Representatives of The New Agenda also met with Carly Fiorina as well as members of the Obama campaign to make similar requests.

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