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msa123- Tapper pulled the numbers from the same poll the week before when Gore got a post-debate bounce. His bounce did not last long.

October 9, 2000
Web posted at: 5:05 p.m. EDT (2105 GMT)

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Republican presidential hopeful George W. Bush maintains his 8 point lead over his Democratic rival, Vice President Al Gore, in Monday's CNN/USA Today/Gallup tracking poll.

paige: I think he must have made it up. At least that's the claim of all Obama backers every time some facts appear that aren't necessarily in his favor. Or maybe it's a right wing conspiracy to smear Obama. Who knows.

greymatter: "It isn't all that great if you vote for McCain more becaue "the other guy's bad" rather then, "McCain has great policies."

The can be said, and is said, in reveerse using Obama's name. I find it interesting that each voter thinks those voting for the other party are doing the exact same thing. Sounds like a pretty desperate election, does it not? Everyone wants to think 'their guy' is better. Truth is, they both suck unless you're for socialism or more of the same but it's all we've got to work with.

Msa- I get the point, but where did Tapper get his information?

geevill,

Kerry was at 228 electoral votes this week while Bush had enough to win the eleciton in 2004.

The trend is that Obama has consistently built up a strong electoral vote count.

October 9, 2000
Web posted at: 5:05 p.m. EDT (2105 GMT)

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Republican presidential hopeful George W. Bush maintains his 8 point lead over his Democratic rival, Vice President Al Gore, in Monday's CNN/USA Today/Gallup tracking poll.

Paige: I think you missed the point.

msa123 - The tracking polls for Gore/Bush during THIS week in 2000 were:

Bush 48% - Gore 43%

James Danley,

Yes. The mortgage "crisis" is due to overextending credit to deadbeats with low down payment and ARMs to unqualifed (and as Barney Frank admitted) mostly black people. ACORN and other radical groups were funded by liberal backers such as The Woods Fund (Obama and Ayers).

Belle Starr,

If you're looking for mobs, look no further then McCain and Palin's recent rallies.

Obama and Biden have been the most inspiring ticket I have seen. They work well together, they actually seem to LIKE each other. McCain and Palin seem so stiff sometimes. I watched the video of the behind-the-scenes of the DNC at Denver. It was heartwarming, Obama and Biden were real.

It isn't all that great if you vote for McCain more becaue "the other guy's bad" rather then, "McCain has great policies."

You heard it right here, on ABC - just released story:

"....That's not what lots of smart folks in the Obama campaign think. They believe Obama's poll numbers are artificially high, McCain's are artificially low, this race will come down to two or three points, and anything could happen.

As Anne Kornblut and Jon Cohen in the Washington Post today remind us, "recent history suggests that mid-October leads are vulnerable...At this stage in 1992, Bill Clinton held a 14-point advantage over incumbent George H.W. Bush in Post-ABC polling, and it was as high as 19 points before the election, which he won by six points. In mid-October 1976, Jimmy Carter had leads as big as 13 points in Gallup polling; Carter defeated incumbent Gerald Ford by two points."

CNN on October 5, 2000 reported that the "CNN/USA Today/Gallup tracking poll indicates that Vice President Al Gore may be opening a solid lead over Texas Gov. George W. Bush, after nearly two weeks of neck-and-neck competition. Today's figures -- 51 percent for Gore to 40 percent for Bush -- represents a significant margin for the vice president."

Obviously the numbers narrowed a little bit.

As will these as well."

The Republicans are using the same playbook with ACORN that they used in 1960 against JFK. The ACORN story provides them cover to their purging of thousands of legitimate voters of of the rolls. It's another distraction.

geevill, ACORN "reached agreements" with six of seven banks it "targeted" (excellent choice of word) by intimidation and extortion. And with the help of the Clinton Administration and Congressional legislation, forced the banks to lower their lending standards to avoid heavy fines and penalties.

I am all for the poor and low income families having their own home. But instead of forcing banks and mortgage companies to lower their lending standards and making these high risk loans (and as we now know, placing our financial system in chaos), organizations like ACORN should have convinced (intimidated and/or extorted) developers to donate 1% of their homes to poor and low income families.

"Why are you always so angry ?"
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"Angry" isn't the right word, but I don't find it enchanting that the Democratic Party sold its nomination to corporate authoritarians whose figurehead is a mob-friendly birthday suit.

HP Boston

Try to stick to one story please!

geevill,

Obama isn't on very good terms with Jackson.
WHAT crony?

Registering voters is a good thing ACORN has registered 1.3mil new voters 60% Democrat and 40% republican the RNC website even admits that !

This is a fake concern registering multiple times doesnt mean a thing other than wasting ACORN's money and the Elections office's time. They still only get one vote! Its a fake concern for political perpuse!

The BBC did a really good piece on the truth about ACORN saying that:

ACORN IS THE SMOKE SCREEN FOR THE REPUBLICAN PARTY... KNOWING THAT THEY ARE GOING TO LOSE RATHER THAN ADMIT THAT THEY HAVE BAD POLICIES AND IDEAS THEY INTEND TO BLAME IT ON ACORN...

SHOULD THE ELECTION BE CLOSE THE REPUBLICAN PARTY WILL TRY TO USE THE COURTS TO ELECT THE REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES INTO OFFICE...

THIS IS THE GAME PLAN FOX IS SETTING THE GROUND WORK!

Hmmm...is this yet another example of McCain's erractic, and confused leadership? Wait, I guess I can't say that out loud since Sen. McCain is older and I must be talking about his age and not his decisionmaking.

The wonderful words of Obama crony Jesse Jackson, Jr.

“Obviously it’s not right for a fake ‘Tony Romo’ to be registered in Las Vegas,” Jackson continued, referring to the professional football player whose name turned up on a Nevada voter registration list. “But remember the basic point — it’s not voter fraud unless someone shows up at the voting booth on Election Day and tries to pass himself off as ‘Tony Romo'.

"look at what you got for that first $600 bucks."
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Yeah: the conversion of the so-called economy to state capitalism.

The actual poor, of course, didn't even GET the "stimulus" ...