NOVATOWNHALL

November 2, 2000 - Reuters/MSNBC tracking poll: Gore leads Bush in Florida by 12%.

February 5, 2008 - Zogby: Obama leads Clinton in California by 13%.

October 30, 2008 - SurveyUSA: Obama leads McCain in Iowa by 15%. (Based on a sampling of 45% Democrat to 29% Republican! Science, don’t you know.)

“Double standards?” Oh, brothers, that does not even scratch the surface as to what we are in for.

As noted the other day: this whole free speech concept is going to get some serious whittling down when the subject in question is Dear Leader.

And here we have the upshot. You hang Sarah Palin in effigy and it’s fair game. Try the same thing on Barack Obama and you get in trouble with the Man. Be prepared to lie low for a couple years, friends.

NBC/Mason Dixon poll just announced John McCain now trails Barack Obama 47% - 43%, with a margin of error of 4%.

Elsewhere on the same page, the Time/CNN poll has Obama 55%, McCain 43%. So you need to choose whom you believe.

Or like RCP just average them together, which lends an air of credence possibly not deserved to whichever is wrong. But what the hey. As Karl Rove said, there’s a lot of polls out there nowadays.

I have labeled the the left side of my front yard as Obama territory and the right side McCain, and I can tell you there is far more squirrel nut-burying activity on the right side - something like 58% to Obama’s 39%. Average that poll in with the other two and McCain has pulled ahead of Obama for the first time since late September. To me this indicates the undecideds breaking for McCain, which has to be the Obama campaign’s chief concern right now.

But here is what is most interesting: Even with the ungodly advantage in advertising in all forms he has been doing, Obama not only cannot close the deal but may be losing ground as time goes on. Americans are getting to know Barack Obama better, and not liking what they see.

This is surprising: Early voters in Florida are giving John McCain a 4 point advantage over Barack Obama, and McCain is leading by 20 points in absentee ballots already tabulated. Democrats are turning out in larger numbers than Republicans, as expected - but they are not all voting for Obama.

As the Dems for McCain crowd has opined, there are some lingering bad feelings about the Obama campaign’s tactics in the primaries, and paybacks can be hell.

Or maybe all those Democrats who happen to own or work for small businesses are getting wind of Obama’s tax hikes for over a million small companies which might just be the beginning.

Whatever the reason, this is great news.

Cal Thomas makes the case much better than I can:

Barack Obama thinks the Constitution and the country it helped create should be remade in his image. He wants to be a founding father of a different America, one that would bear little resemblance to the country we have known.

Read it all and share it with everyone you know. It is expressed with a level of urgency that is compelling; it might be effective at getting the attention of folks who don’t yet realize what Obama’s deal is.

At HillBuzz an Obama worker reveals the tactics the campaign is using to depress the Republican vote and announces she is voting for McCain:

We pay people and organize people to go to all the online sites and “play the part of a clinton or mccain supporter who just switched our support for obama”

We do this to stifle your motivation and to destroy your confidence…

Next, we infiltrate all the blogs and all the youtube videos and overwhelm the voting, the comments, etc. All to continue this appearance of overwhelming world support…

We have also had quite a hand in skewing many many polls, some we couldn’t control as much as we would have liked. But many we have spoiled over. Just enough to make real clear politics look scarey to a mccain supporter.

Fascinating information.

A recent Barack Obama campaign mailing stated “the link between Obama and Ayers is tenuous” and “there is no evidence of any relationship.”

That great big lie is rapidly unraveling as details about Obama’s recent past come to light. Today, World Net Daily announced the results of an investigation which strongly suggests unrepentant terrorist William Ayers had a hand in writing Obama’s first book:

“The statistical style analysis performed by our research team suggests that the writing style of “Dreams From My Father” is significantly more similar to the style observed in “Fugitive Days” than to the style found in other works by Barack Obama such as “Audacity of Hope.”

Read it all.

When you hang Sarah Palin in effigy, it’s all in good fun. When it’s Barack Obama, however, they launch an investigation.

From the Web site of record:

After a Barack Obama advertisement implied she was part of a “sleazy” campaign for promoting a “despicable lie” about the senator’s voting record, abortion survivor Gianna Jessen has responded to the attack with another commercial saying, “I’ve dealt with worse; I survived an abortion.”

As WND reported, the 31-year-old Jessen, who was born alive following her mother’s botched abortion, made a television advertisement earlier this year highlighting Obama’s votes against born-alive infant protection bills while he was serving as a state senator in Illinois.

The Obama campaign responded with an advertisement of its own labeling Sen. John McCain’s campaign ads as “sleazy” and “truly vile,” while showing clips from Jessen’s ad in the background, including a photo of Jessen.

I heard Ms. Jessen on the radio the other day; she is a very impressive young woman. She relates how she was invited to sing the national anthem for the Colorado state legislature during the “celebration” of the 90th anniversary of Planned Parenthood, and when she had concluded the crowd cheered wildly (she has cerebral palsy but apparently is a great singer), but when she told her story of surviving a botched abortion a sizable section of the audience turned on her, in “rage.” No wonder the Obama camp is is working to demonize her.

Our esteemed liberal visitors are a bit slow on the uptake today but have raised an interesting question:

How would you prioritize your top 4 reasons for voting for or against whomever you plan to vote for or against in the presidential election next Tuesday?

For instance, Zimzo’s list would be as follows:

1. Against Jerry Falwell
2. Against Ronald Reagan
3. Against Sarah Palin
4. For Barack Obama

Mine would be thus:

1. Against Barack Obama
2. For Sarah Palin
3. For John McCain

(Joe Biden, I hate to say, does not rise to the level of my decision making process. Joe is like mayonnaise: Don’t really care if it’s there, but don’t miss it if it’s not, and certainly don’t go seeking it out.)

I’d be interested in knowing who among us puts either John McCain or Barack Obama at the top of their “FOR” list.

Under Obama there will be a tax hike. Obama claims he will only tax the rich. First the rich are those making above $250K/year. Then it went down to $200K/year. Biden then got out in front of Obama and said $150K/year. A real go-getter that Biden.

Let us step back and assume that the Bush tax cuts which currently preclude those making $42k/year from paying income tax will somehow survive. Lets assume that the tax the wealthy, really only hits the wealthy. What will the result be? The rich will remain rich, they just will spend less. When the rich spend less the result is? Ask all them fellows in the boat building industry how that luxury tax worked out back in the 90’s.

Let us now examine taxes on the risk takers known as ‘capital gains taxes.’ The end result is what? Less capital formation in the country, and a flight of funds off shore. The end result is slower job growth and a slower rate of growth in investment in start-ups. How does this help the middle class?

The corporate tax rate will be raised. What will the result be? The following is an excellent illustration of what will happen.

Thats’ right, the price of goods will go up.  This will help the middle class consumer how? So, is this the way you want to make history? Increasing corporate taxes increases the prices of goods and services. Nothing more. It is a regressive tax to boot, because the corporations do NOT pay it, it is the people who buy the good or services from said corporation that pay the tax.

Another side effect of confiscatory tax policies is that while corporations pass on the tax burden to the consumer whenever possible, they do have to still contend with foreign competition. This inhibits the local price from being totally elastic with respect to taxes. In order to maintain profitability in the short term, the corporations will cut R&D, capital investment, etc. This punishment of the profit motive in short will cause a slow down in the rate of product improvement and job creation. Is this what you want to vote for, because that IS what spread the wealth will do.

There is now further evidence that Barack Obama aligns himself closely with those who caused America’s financial meltdown.

The meltdown is rooted in government-forced loans to people who did not qualify for the credit.

Enter Barack Obama’s Finance Chairwoman Penny Pritzker:

The candidate has even lauded Ms. Pritzker’s business practices as a model for an Obama administration.

“He knows the Pritzker family. He knows what happened in Illinois. He knows that Superior Bank was one of the first to securitize subprime mortgages,” Mr. Courtney said. “He talks about change and helping people find a better way of life, but he has distanced himself from the fact that Superior helped ignite the nation’s subprime crisis and that Penny Pritzker and her family walked away from it and us.”

Read it all here.

So this is the kind of “change” Barack Obama plans to bring to our country:

Mr. Courtney went to his Hinsdale, Ill., branch the Monday after the bank closed in 2001 and stood in line with hundreds of other concerned depositors. He said he’ll never forget overhearing a bank employee tell “one kindly old gentleman, maybe in his 80s, that the coffee and rolls were free but that was about all he was going to get from the bank.”

“The old man just sat down on the curb and cried. It was heartbreaking,” Mr. Courtney said. “They ran their bank like a sleazy car lot and left us holding the bag.”

More crooks in office, is the change Obama will bring.

So you want MORE options for keeping Barack Obama out of the White House? Here you go, both at Ace’s place:

1) The LA Times is sitting on a videotape which shows Barack Obama truly literally palling around with terrorists. Problem is, the LA Times will not release the tape. More, here. Consequently, there is a blog-a-thon to pony up cash for anyone who might have a copy of the tape to cough it up. Go tell them you are in. I know, I know, it is a long shot, but go tell them anyway and pass the word around. Here is more on the significance of the Obama-Khalidi tape.

2) People from around the country are sharing notes in order to help match willing workers with willing hosts in battleground states. If you are in a battleground state and can help facilitate a ride or place to stay for folks who are eager to work, or if you want to work and need a home base - please leave a message here.

The National Republican Trust PAC appears to be getting it done. Here is today’s message from GOPtrust Exec Scott Wheeler:

I have some incredible news for you.

Last week I reported that the National Republican Trust PAC had raised more than $1 million for its emergency effort to expose Barack Obama in key swing states.

Our goal was to raise $2 million by today.

We smashed that goal: we have raised over $3 million today!

Your generosity made this possible.

You are standing up for this country against one of the most vicious assaults ever waged on the Republican party by the liberal media establishment.

Smear after smear against Sarah Palin and John McCain. But Obama’s leftwing agenda and radical friends get barely any attention from the big media!

Let me tell you what’s at stake here.

Obama has promised two major initiatives as soon as he becomes president.

First, he wants to close down talk radio with the so called “Fairness Doctrine.”

And remember this Orwellian “Fairness” broadcasting law could easily be made to apply to Fox News.

Second, Obama wants to give 12 million illegals citizenship. You may recall they tried that in 2007 but failed.

This time Obama will have super-majorities in the Senate and the House.

He will get his wish.

As these illegals become citizens most will register as Democrats and vote for Democratic candidates.

Obama knows that by granting millions of illegals citizenship they will have a super-majority over the Republicans in every future national election.

This single act — giving illegals citizenship — will give the Democrats permanent control over the House and Senate for a generation to come.

We already know just how close the past two elections have been.

If Obama puts even just a few hundred thousand new immigrant voters on the election rolls, he will effectively end the two party system in this nation.

That’s what’s at stake here.

We need to continue our battle. We need your help.

Make sure you see our ads — go to www.GOPtrust.com now.

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Make sure you tell your family and friends to donate.

Dick Morris has said repeatedly Obama can be beaten. He believes our ad campaign can do just that.

Thank you again for your help to our worthy cause.

Yours for America,

Scott Wheeler
Executive Director

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Toss them a few bucks, I say. They are making progress.

Another way to help will be posted shortly.

Our good friend and fellow blogger jack mentions voting fraud in Madison County, Miss., but AP is reporting that the problem is more widespread :

AP: Mississippi Has More Voters than Adults

Monday, October 27, 2008 7:01 PM

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JACKSON, Miss. — More than a third of Mississippi counties have more registered voters than residents old enough to cast a ballot, according to an Associated Press analysis.

In addition to providing ammunition for people who say the voting system is vulnerable to fraud, the flabby voting rolls may make it difficult to accurately determine turnout for the Nov. 4 presidential election.

“There is no reason in the world why some of these counties should have more registered voters than they have living, breathing people,” Mississippi Senate Elections Committee Chairman Terry Burton said.
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Question for the left, if your candidate is so damned qualified, why do you find it necessary to resort to election fraud ?

Because you know deep down your guy is a zero ?