You keep telling yourself that, sparky.

Dude, what's this guy's TF login?

I've seen these posts before.

Come on, which one of you is it

this is bad news for obama.

what color is the sky in your reality, subby ?

McCain gets up a couple points in the polls for the first time in months and the republicans are wetting their pants with excitement. Still over a month left. Anything could happen, like young people actually showing up to vote.

When you point a finger at someone, three fingers point back at you.

Someone's losing what's left of their grip on reality.

And it's really fun to watch!

Chariset: When you point a finger at someone, three fingers point back at you.

Thanks, Nancy. Let's hear it for Nancy Grace, everybody!

Projection, much?

mashed potato cat: McCain gets up a couple points in the polls for the first time in months and the republicans are wetting their pants with excitement. Still over a month left. Anything could happen, like young people actually showing up to vote.

Specifically, that'd be young people actually showing up to vote in the swing states. And not writing in "RON PAUL!!1!" while they're at it.

thatvoiceguy: mashed potato cat: McCain gets up a couple points in the polls for the first time in months and the republicans are wetting their pants with excitement. Still over a month left. Anything could happen, like young people actually showing up to vote.

Specifically, that'd be young people actually showing up to vote in the swing states. And not writing in "RON PAUL!!1!" while they're at it.

YES!

Is this opposed to the fact that McCain can't move past the time he was a POW?

Wait, wait, wait, you can't bash Obama for both changing his positions, and for being stuck in time. Pick one Cognitive-Dissonance-mitter. Oh, wait, I forgot, this is US politics. All common sense goes out the window when Repubs are involved.

mashed potato cat: McCain gets up a couple points in the polls for the first time in months and the republicans are wetting their pants with excitement. Still over a month left. Anything could happen, like young people actually showing up to vote.

Yea, anything can happen, except that last part. Actually, they might in Ohio, with that register and vote immediately law.

I'm not worried, however, I think Obama can take either Ohio or Florida.

Thank you, Mr Rightwing Suckup. Thanks for the pom poms, the war, and the rehash of what you hear on the radio.

I'm glad the AJC keeps this guy around.

He's all the rightwing talking points in one easy to check column, just in case I need to find them. Daily Luckovich and Bookman knock the stuffing out of him.

mashed potato cat: McCain gets up a couple points in the polls for the first time in months and the republicans are wetting their pants with excitement. Still over a month left. Anything could happen, like young people actually showing up to vote.

I'm not actually showing up to vote.
\is young
\\is mailing in an absentee ballot
\\\damned if I'm driving the 9hrs to my home state to vote when there's a perfectly good absentee ballot I could be using

Here in America we have 5280 feet in a mile,12 inches in a foot, and an inch is ... well... based off the King's thumb.

So in this environment of ridiculous measures we are, by some boggling measure, looking at percentages of National opinion. Can we maybe at some point get a state by state/electoral vote poll going?

I understand traditional media is dead as dead can be and that they probably don't have the resources to do this. Maybe they should just focus on battleground states?

This focus on national opinion does no one any good as we all saw in 2000.

haemaker: mashed potato cat: McCain gets up a couple points in the polls for the first time in months and the republicans are wetting their pants with excitement. Still over a month left. Anything could happen, like young people actually showing up to vote.

Yea, anything can happen, except that last part. Actually, they might in Ohio, with that register and vote immediately law.

I'm not worried, however, I think Obama can take either Ohio or Florida.

Call me crazy, but I'm seeing the young voters finally making their presence known this year. He was able to get untold* millions of young voters to register and vote for him. And that was just in the primaries. Add in the fact that their dependence on cell phones make them unreachable to pollsters and the always present threat of a draft and they might just turn out in droves for the one cynical old people call Changy McHope.

/* - I'm sure there is a figure to be told, but my Google-fu is especially weak tonight.

I didn't get very far in THAT article. I was going to sprain an eyeball, rolling my eyes that hard.

Viciously mocking your opponents' position and then adopting it as your own would throw anyone off their game.

WTF were the Republicans smoking when they stole that campaign message?

Calling anything "panic" doesn't really make it panic. Words mean things, but usually you gotta put some stuff behind them besides just good thoughts.

Ron White for president!!!

Meh, I'm not going to get excited until the damn election; but it does look to be swinging McCain's way and Obama does appear to be somewhat lost.

I will say this though, if McCain does win, there will be a whole lot of lefties and journalists kicking themselves in the arse; they essentially greased the wheels and kneecapped Obama with the damn Palin Smear Campaign. The more they continue, the more people they drive her way.

/They should cut thier losses and probably not bother with any more stories on her; I'm pretty sure we've hit saturation point.

The only team promising change that will actually deliver is McCain/Palin. Older registered voters are the most participatory voting segment and they are consistently values voters. This election will be a landslide alright, but not the one the Obama camp is hoping for.

McCain/Palin 08!

Concern columnist is very concerned.

CanisNoir: I will say this though, if McCain does win, there will be a whole lot of lefties and journalists kicking themselves in the arse; they essentially greased the wheels and kneecapped Obama with the damn Palin Smear Campaign. The more they continue, the more people they drive her way.

/They should cut thier losses and probably not bother with any more stories on her; I'm pretty sure we've hit saturation point.

Palin smears: bad.

Palin reality: worse.

Barack Obama knows it. The election he had in the bag is slipping away.

Not much point in reading past the first line, really. I'm pretty sure I read this same article by 15 or so other Concern Trolls in teh librul medias today.

It's wonderful that you people live in a country with so many shills. These idiots actually try to create reality by declaring it.

Slunt: The only team promising change that will actually deliver is McCain/Palin. Older registered voters are the most participatory voting segment and they are consistently values voters. This election will be a landslide alright, but not the one the Obama camp is hoping for.

McCain/Palin 08!

What will they change? Will McCain try to break Bush's vacation record?

FTA
"I don't care what they say about me," Obama responded. "But I love this country too much to let them take over another election with lies and phony outrage and 'Swiftboat politics.' Enough is enough," he said.

Yeah, sounds like Obama sure is worried. :-|

/not fooled by the author's misperception

Time is running out on the empty suit. Tick tock...tick tock...

/teehee

Slunt: The only team promising change that will actually deliver is McCain/Palin. Older registered voters are the most participatory voting segment and they are consistently values voters. This election will be a landslide alright, but not the one the Obama camp is hoping for.

McCain/Palin 08!

Erm, part of what Obama is trying to change are the secrecy and lies we've seen in action for the past 8 years. McFailin' is practicing the same misinformation assault carried out against the American people.

McCain/Palin aren't qualified to change a tire, let alone a country!

mashed potato cat: McCain gets up a couple points in the polls for the first time in months and the republicans are wetting their pants with excitement. Still over a month left. Anything could happen, like young people actually showing up to vote.

I wonder what the average age of people with listed landlines is? Somewhere near retirement, probably.

Obama is actually running a very disciplined campaign. If he is panicing, it is only in people's imaginations. If his campaign fails, it will be because the McCain campaign has managed to keep him out of the media. This is an excelent example from TFA:

He's begun to sound dated. Last week, for example, he devoted valuable campaign days - less than two months remain - into explaining a silly "lipstick on a pig" line.

He talked about more than that, but the media only covered the pig controversy stuff. If anything, McCain wasted two days of the election by manufacturing a stupid controversy.

When the elections are over and should Obama win, I intend to take a sadistic joy in laughing my arse off outside of the republician office nearest to me.

/pointing will be involved
//then running before I get accused of being a terrorist

The problem with Democrats is they haven't learned to love the double standard, adopt it, live it, love it, pretend it's reality. When your opponent uses a tactic that you yourself use, crucify the motherfarker for being bitter, vengeful, evil, vile, mean, disrespectful, unpatriotic. But make sure you keep using the same tactic yourself. LIVE THE 1984 MENTALITY.

Cognitive Dissonance, when you create it regularly, for decades, you will cause a loyal dog like mentality in your followers. They will literally be impervious to reality. The fact that the democrats are about a decade behind employing this technique is how America has become such a farked up shiathole. The obvious staring voters in the face, they are still trained to follow their leader/alpha dog.

Phil Moskowitz: ...

I thought it was "respect the letter, not the leader"? Or is that tactic too 2004?

The "Democratic left" is an asset to him.

Occam's Chainsaw: Phil Moskowitz: ...

I thought it was "respect the letter, not the leader"? Or is that tactic too 2004?

Well, you're right of course, anyone can assume the role of leadership by saying the right codewords into the camera. It's like showing the manchurian candidate the queen of hearts. Speak the codewords, and you will become Republicanman!

New poll in Minnesota (Star-Tribune) shows a 45-45 tie, McCain wiping out a 13-point deficit. Washington State is now 49-47 Obama after he led by double digits there as well. If McCain is closing in in states that everyone had labelled as sure shots for Obama, you can see why there's panic across the board among the Democrats. His manager Axelrod has never won an election outside an urban setting, and urban settings may be all Obama is going to get the way things are going.

9/11 changed everything..... everything

AlinaJoan: When the elections are over and should Obama win, I intend to take a sadistic joy in laughing my arse off outside of the republician office nearest to me.

/pointing will be involved
//then running before I get accused of being a terrorist

Keep it classy.

This is the thread where people argue over stupid article that didn't contain anything interesting.CanisNoir: Meh, I'm not going to get excited until the damn election; but it does look to be swinging McCain's way and Obama does appear to be somewhat lost.

I will say this though, if McCain does win, there will be a whole lot of lefties and journalists kicking themselves in the arse; they essentially greased the wheels and kneecapped Obama with the damn Palin Smear Campaign. The more they continue, the more people they drive her way.

/They should cut thier losses and probably not bother with any more stories on her; I'm pretty sure we've hit saturation point.

I am willing to watch Tina Fey make fun of her a few more times.

azmoviez: Here in America we have 5280 feet in a mile,12 inches in a foot, and an inch is ... well... based off the King's thumb.

So in this environment of ridiculous measures we are, by some boggling measure, looking at percentages of National opinion. Can we maybe at some point get a state by state/electoral vote poll going?

I understand traditional media is dead as dead can be and that they probably don't have the resources to do this. Maybe they should just focus on battleground states?

This focus on national opinion does no one any good as we all saw in 2000.

Take a look at www.fivethirtyeight.com

Just be aware of the popular/electoral divide. Just because Palin may have given him a bump, it doesn't necessarily mean the poll bump is in the states that he needs.

whats up with fark being overtaken by a bunch of neocon jesus nut assholes

Gemini8555: azmoviez: Here in America we have 5280 feet in a mile,12 inches in a foot, and an inch is ... well... based off the King's thumb.

So in this environment of ridiculous measures we are, by some boggling measure, looking at percentages of National opinion. Can we maybe at some point get a state by state/electoral vote poll going?

I understand traditional media is dead as dead can be and that they probably don't have the resources to do this. Maybe they should just focus on battleground states?

This focus on national opinion does no one any good as we all saw in 2000.

Take a look at www.fivethirtyeight.com

Just be aware of the popular/electoral divide. Just because Palin may have given him a bump, it doesn't necessarily mean the poll bump is in the states that he needs.

not to mention VP bumps are notorious for waning.

Antidamascus: 9/11 changed everything..... everything

If only they presented it as: 9/11 gave the right wing fringe elite the opportunity to dismantle everything America has done, and become since Roosevelt and beyond. I don't think that would sell quite so well.

You have an enemy within. They are orders of magnitude more dangerous than any external threat.

idov: New poll in Minnesota (Star-Tribune) shows a 45-45 tie, McCain wiping out a 13-point deficit. Washington State is now 49-47 Obama after he led by double digits there as well. If McCain is closing in in states that everyone had labelled as sure shots for Obama, you can see why there's panic across the board among the Democrats. His manager Axelrod has never won an election outside an urban setting, and urban settings may be all Obama is going to get the way things are going.

Obama is in a flaming nosedive and most of the Dems don't even believe it. The denial is surreal: "Polls don't mean anything, its just (still) his convention bump."

JQPublic: idov: New poll in Minnesota (Star-Tribune) shows a 45-45 tie, McCain wiping out a 13-point deficit. Washington State is now 49-47 Obama after he led by double digits there as well. If McCain is closing in in states that everyone had labelled as sure shots for Obama, you can see why there's panic across the board among the Democrats. His manager Axelrod has never won an election outside an urban setting, and urban settings may be all Obama is going to get the way things are going.

Obama is in a flaming nosedive and most of the Dems don't even believe it. The denial is surreal: "Polls don't mean anything, its just (still) his convention bump."

Whats with your whole team player idiocy? Do you hate your country so much that you're willing to ignore the klaxon of reality and just keep on with this obtuse bullshiat on fark day after day?

What damage have you sustained in your life to make you so single mindedly obtuse and toxic to your country?

Phil Moskowitz: JQPublic: idov: New poll in Minnesota (Star-Tribune) shows a 45-45 tie, McCain wiping out a 13-point deficit. Washington State is now 49-47 Obama after he led by double digits there as well. If McCain is closing in in states that everyone had labelled as sure shots for Obama, you can see why there's panic across the board among the Democrats. His manager Axelrod has never won an election outside an urban setting, and urban settings may be all Obama is going to get the way things are going.

Obama is in a flaming nosedive and most of the Dems don't even believe it. The denial is surreal: "Polls don't mean anything, its just (still) his convention bump."

Whats with your whole team player idiocy? Do you hate your country so much that you're willing to ignore the klaxon of reality and just keep on with this obtuse bullshiat on fark day after day?

What damage have you sustained in your life to make you so single mindedly obtuse and toxic to your country?

OH SNAP!!! You really tolerated me!!!
Liberals FTW!!!