Arkansas Blog

It all seems to come down to hatred in the end.

Mr. Brummett mentions the cries of treason at Palin rallies. But her supporters have shouted far uglier and more frightening things, including, "Kill him!" and "Off with his head!".

And when they've done so, nary peep from Mrs. Palin.

It all comes down to hatred in the end, and predictably, we white Southern Christians are still very, very good at that. Alternet today reports a poll that breaks down the latest poll results by region www.alternet.org/blogs/election08/102666/:

McCAIN/OBAMA

NORTHEAST 28 65

SOUTH 53 41

MIDWEST 38 55

WEST 39 53

We distinguish ourselves once again by being the best haters in the whole nation. Wonder if those preachers and priests who are standing on their heads to get out the vote for McCain-Palin ever give a thought to the hatred they're endorsing?

I think all these "polls" are a load of crap. How many of you bloggers have ever been polled on who /what you want/think, etc. ? They're rigged anyway. The Democrats rig the results their way and the Republicans do the same. Personally I'd like to hear what the candidate is gonna do for me and my country ..... NOT what the other guy has or hasn't done, what the last couple of administrations have or haven't done. No one is campaigning anymore, they don't have time to because they're way too busy slinging mud ! Too many people doing their best to dig up the past to have more mud and if they can't "dig" any up they "make' some up. "Abortion" ! Why does that keep coming up? That's an opinion that's been argued for too many years and will never be won. Why is a "man" in DC deciding what a "woman" in our country can or cannot do with her body? Reading blogs on this and other subjects on here are intertaining at most. Everyone is bashing everyone for having their own opinion, beleif, religion, etc.,etc.,etc.! What ever happened to to having your own opinion, etc. ?
Oops! I think I slightly got off the subject .... the polls are a load of crap !

I'm loathe to do it, but...I'm gonna defend polls. There are legitimate polls that are based on science...just as there is a real scientific method and real peer reviews. Most politicians/parties blur the lines between crap and science, but the Monkeyboy Republicans have elevated the crap and denigrated real science to such a degree that too many people think 'all polls are crap.' Not true. They have, however, made it very difficult to tell the difference between real science and their baloney.

When you only mention two candidates and 6 are on the ballot you are the MAINSTREAM MEDIA. That makes a small newspaper equitable to poor people who vote Republican right?

New Zealands electioneering starts this week. They limit theirs to four weeks. Must be paradise. Do the clicky if interested.

Damn sign in/sign out process!

In short, Rod, I'm not inclined to throw my vote away. Either Obama or McCain will win and I don't want to be McCain. I'm not 100% sold on Obama, but he has McCain beat hands down in the smarts category. That heartbeat away? Biden has my confidence. Sarah Palin may be fairly bright in some ways, but beyond dumb in others. Plus, she's downright vicious.
Another day, another situation? Cynthia McKinney? Never. Ralph Nader? Yes, strictly as a statement. The other two? Who????

Since I don't have the luxury of supporting someone I have confidence is perfectly suited for the job, I think it is my responsibility to determine the lesser of two evils and right now there is no question in my mind but that the greater evil is McCain/Palin. While I'm not sold on Obama, he is intelligent, thoughtful and seems to act with due deliberation. Biden is wise and will help him a lot. McCain is rash, sometimes almost crazed, and Palin is too silly to even merit consideration.

Sometimes I feel as though someone is conning us and that the Republicans never intended to win this election at all, correctly surmising that whoever wins the election will have a hell of a mess on his hands, will likely fail, and will take the blame for all that ails the economy and society. I don't know how McCain ever thought he could win with his stupid blunders and his pathetic choice of of a partner. Cindy is pretty shallow but she's a mile wide and a mile deep compared to the winkin' Sarah. Republicans everywhere are jumpin' ship and hangin' their heads in shame.

Obama's going to win.

The character attacks have tarnished McCain's image more than Obama's:

"McCain has made little headway in his attempts to convince voters that Obama is too "risky" or too "liberal." Rather, recent strategic shifts may have hurt the Republican nominee, who now has higher negative ratings than his rival and is seen as mostly attacking his opponent rather than addressing the issues that voters care about. Even McCain's supporters are now less enthusiastic about his candidacy, returning to levels not seen since before the Republican National Convention.
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Nearly two-thirds of voters, 64 percent, now view Obama favorably, up six percentage points from early September. About a third of voters have a better opinion of the senator from Illinois because of his debate performances, while 8 percent have a lower opinion of him. By contrast, more than a quarter said they think worse of McCain as a result of the debates, more than double the proportion saying their opinion had improved. McCain's overall rating has also dipped seven points, to 52 percent, over the past month."

If polls remain this positive for Obama.. I will be voting for Nader.

McLunatic and every member of his hateful neo con corporate fascist party must be defeated, but I don't expect he will be defeated in AR nor will it matter. That said, why not vote as close to your views as possible? I believe the future of our country will be decided by the majority of the D parties positions, so I work on and for the D party most of all. I only find encouraging progressive D candidates in other states.. The D party desperately needs to move towards the progressives, away from war, Friedman school of economics and away from egregious MIC spending... including away from an oil based energy reliance and towards universal aka single payer health care.

As long as the D candidates on my AR ballot are like Pryor.... and Obama, who supports Blue Dog (Barrow - GA) congressional candidates, destroyed our civil liberties in FISA, believes we need to continue war in Afghanistan and Pakistan, runs to AIPAC on his first day of the nomination, supported the absurd bailout.. we will be in for more Clinton lipstick on the wrong end of a neo-bipartisan pig.

I wanted Obama to be the D nominee when the only two remaining choices came down to either C or O... My HOPE was that Obama would not become Clinton.... he has and that is unacceptable to me. It is no longer necessary to throw away my vote to save the Clinton Reagan Dems from McBush this year... so I wont.

Obama will win... unless criminal GOP voting tricks are successfully used again.

My vote will be cast in an effort to push President Obama to the left.