Here’s why you shouldn’t put much stock in polls today: The final SurveyUSA poll before Super Tuesday had Hillary Clinton winning both California, 52 percent to Barack Obama’s 42 percent, and Missouri, 54 percent to Obama’s 43 percent.
But Zogby, also a respected pollster, gave Obama the edge in both races: Obama 49 percent and Clinton 36 percent in California; Obama 45 percent and Clinton 42 percent in Missouri.
In other words, the polls are all over the map. This race is close and truly up in the air, with a large number of undecided voters who could break either way.
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OBAMA LOOSES JOBS FOR MINORITIES
Ms. Obama, VP Chicago Hosp, that charges minorities 6 times as much, isn’t cold hearted enough, she also caused hundreds to loose their 11.hr jobs, to be more efficient she said! In 05, elected to the BOD Westchester-based TreeHouse Foods, she received $12,000 and $33,000 from a subsidiaries, in Nov announced closing its La Junta, plant, that claimed the jobs of 153 workers, most of them Hispanic! Huge blow to a rural town jobs paid a starting wage of $11hr, Company pays top execs like MICHELLE OBAMA tens of millions a year while destroying middle-class America. Raises the question not only about corporate values but about Barrack Obama’s own values. Specifically, while he bashes Wal-Mart, why does his wife, make $45,000 and up a year serving on the board of Chicago comp that pays her a very hefty amount of money while laying off mostly minority workers in economically deprived areas? No. 1 customer is Wal-Mart???More corrupt camp donations for Obama! WHERES THE MEDIA??? We are sick of the media pushing obama down our throats! on Oct. 5, in the aftermath of federal bribery/extortion/conspiracy/other miscellaneous badness indictments of former Dallas Mayor Pro Tem Don Hill , Obama camp supporter and financial contributor to Presidential candidate Barrack Obama who desperately wants campaign cash from another, criminal or not, Again Obama camp has its hands full with other publically indicted bankrollers Rezko. Now Mr. Hill’s campaign finance report shows donations on April 28, and federal campaign finance reports indicate Mr. Obama received donations in June 22 as well. The Obama camp couldn’t immediately be reached for comment Friday…Of Couse, did axelrod loose his voice?
Obama’s Relationship With Rezko Goes Back 17 Years. Obama Kept Contributions From Accused Fixer’s (REZKO)Wife And Others ABCNews.com Analysis Shows the Campaign Still Hasn’t Returned More Than $100,000 in Obama is referred to in document which outlines case against Rezko As Barack Obama is finding out, it’s not as easy to dump politically toxic campaign donations as it might seem. For the third time in more than a year, Obama’s presidential campaign announced this week it was shedding more donations tied to indicted fundraiser Antoin “Tony” Rezko. Calculations by the media and Obama’s own staff of Rezko’s financial impact on his past political campaigns have been all over the map and shifting. In the case of Obama, public records don’t make clear every Rezko connection. The records show that since 1995, $74,500 came from Rezko, his relatives or contributors listed on official disclosure forms as employees of one of his businesses. Rezko has raised money for Obama’s presidential campaign.
The Kennedy’s have been nothing but disgraceful scandals in the last 25 years, relatives accused of murders, rapes etc and that gives the Kennedy name clout? Don’t think so… Ted Kennedy is now go headed for a disgraceful end. The Massachusetts senator has been caught in a sneaky plot to kill a clean-energy project in Nantucket Sound. Seems he doesn’t want to see wind turbines from his waterfront estate. “Don’t you realize — that’s where I sail!” he famously said.
The Obama campaign has criticized Hillary Clinton’s candidacy as another example of dynastic politics. But now that Obama is playing adopted son of the Kennedy clan, that argument falls apart. Kennedy mystique Is so much JUST hot air. Obama, new? Change? Going back to the Kennedy Camelot Era does not benefit anyone in 2008 – or could even survive with the media probes and questions that are asked today. The Kennedy’s have been legally less desirable since JFK. Old Joe and his money?? Questions about his involvement in some of those early elections. All the affairs and nepotism in JFK’s cabinet – at least one brother and brother-in-law. And their next generation has certainly made their share of questionable choices, charged with rapes, murders etc… Amazing Ted is shaking his finger at the Clintons! Caroline stayed away from the political arena because she didn’t want to align herself and her children with this messy history. There is always going to be some revisionism with historical figures — Earl Ofari Hutchinson did a killer deconstruction on the recent rewriting of Martin Luther King Jr’s legacy — especially those who have died, so, let’s dispense with the niceties: John F. Kennedy did propose the landmark civil rights bill and that is most of his “legacy.” Actually, the record was mediocre. Just some of the highlights: Opposed the 1957 Civil Rights Acts. Used this as a wedge issue against Nixon! to help capture the “solid South” in the 1960 election. Did absolutely nothing for civil rights in his first year of office. Encouraged, told or instructed Robert Kennedy to sic Adam Clayton Powell on Martin Luther King, threatening to expose an imaginary sexual scandal with Bayard Rustin, MLK’s black gay top lieutenant, to prevent a march in Los Angeles. Opposed the 1963 March on Washington. Refused to deploy troops to protect the Freedom Riders. Ignored the Albany, Georgia bus station riot. So many more lost opportunities to choose from…. In the early 1960s, obviously, JFK’s attention was diverted to Cuba, Berlin, Vietnam, and, increasingly, Marilyn Monroe and other actresses. If Kennedy capitulated to the blacks, the Southern white Democrats would revolt. If he did nothing–which he mostly did–the violence would continue and world attention would focus on the inept White House. The Kennedys had a horrible relationship with Congress, so, there wasn’t much the president could on his. On the other hand, by sitting on his hands, the violence quotient increased, which is why he was forced to “propose” the 1964 Civil Rights Bill. Oh yeah, this probably helped endear his family to black voters in Chicago and New York City. There was an election in 1964 … We’ve got too much work that needs to be done in this country to follow this route. Obama time is definitely ready or able to lead this great country.
Ok I want to know what republicans are posting this crap. This is so low and below the belt. And I know who will be blamed for it.
the truth hurts!!!! ha ha
“OBAMA LOOSES JOBS FOR MINORITIES”
“Looses”??
“she also caused hundreds to loose their 11.hr jobs,…”
I wear loose shoes so sometimes I lose them.
Idiots.
Where are the John Edwards supporters going to go on
Super Tuesday?
http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/election08/052
Fleettwood– Of course, they’re idiots. They’re republiCONs.
Hillary . . . Dick Cheney in a pantsuit.
Mr.C.–
If you think that what didn’t happen under 8 years of Clinton is suddenly going to happen under Clinton Too, then by all means, go with Hillary.
But if you’re someone who believes that you don’t get a different outcome by doing the same thing twice like I do, then go with voice for change–for people and against special interests–then stand with Obama tonight.
What has Obama really done? Other than making everyone feel really good?
All I want from Obama is a straight answer to what I think is a simple question.
All I get are kids screaming at me that I ought to “believe”.
In what?
If I get that answer by the second count, I will stand with Obama.
If not, I will attempt to rally the Edwards forces, then make uncommitted viable, then if all else fails, go with Hillary.
I know where McCain stands on my issues. I know where Hillary stands–I asked her myself when I was in Washington two years ago.
I don’t know where Obama stands on my issues. There’s too much at stake here for me to “believe”.
I have to KNOW.
Sorry, but reality bites.
Fair enough, Mr. C. If you cannot get an answer on issues that are important to you from those supporting a certain candidate, then “gotta believe” (admit that seemed to work for the ‘69 Mets) isn’t enough to support that person. Reality does bite, doesn’t it.
Sure looks like a poor night for Hillary in Kansas.
Do like I do. Screw with pollsters. Lie. Go out of your way to screw up all polls, whether by candidates, by news organizations, etc.
Maybe, just maybe, it would force politicians to govern by principles and rationality rather than stick their finger in the wind to decide what’s “popular.” And maybe, just maybe, news organizations would be forced to report on issues and news rather than on the horserace.
Oh well – probably too much to ask.
BTW – the proper answer for an exit poll question of ‘who did you vote for’ is “none of your damn business.”
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