Sep 05 2008
Obama Campaign Admits It Doesn’t Have Hillary Supporters In Ohio
A lot of polls are being snuck out by the liberal media houses – in pieces – meant to highlight any remaining positives for team Obidenama. One that caught my eye starts with the claim Obama has a 2 point lead in Ohio, but what was buried in the story is quite telling:
Yet Democrats who supported Hillary Rodham Clinton during the primaries haven’t completely swung over to Obama, according to his campaign’s internal polling. Aides are optimistic they will get there before November, aided by events such as Obama’s discussion Wednesday about women and the economy in eastern Ohio.
Faux bravado seems to be the Obama camp’s last act of desperation. If they don’t have them now with Palin coming on they won’t peel them of in the next few days. More interesting is how Obama is starting to surrender states in order to try and build some fire walls against the coming storm:
Despite early optimism, Obama’s strategists are mapping out an electoral plan similar to Democrat John Kerry’s from 2004. Obama still is pushing into traditionally Republican and rural areas, such as this farm region along the Ohio River. But don’t look for the Democratic presidential nominee in, say, undeniably GOP Idaho.
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With a swing through Pennsylvania, Ohio and Michigan, Obama signaled the importance of this region to his campaign. Kerry won Pennsylvania and Michigan — two states where Obama strategists think their chances are iffy — and lost Ohio by a one-vote-per-precinct margin in 2004.
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His top aides, including his campaign manager, once said they could lose the state and still win the election by picking off states that typically support Republicans.
No more.
This pullback by Obama is a good sign of what his internal polls REALLY show.
There is an EMail making the rounds that purports to be a column written by Maureen Dowd in which she attempts to track down the sources of most of the internet contributions to Obama’s campaign . Although there have been great attempts to hide the sources of most of the funds, totalling nearly $200 million, it appears that most of the money has been transferred from accounts in a bank in Saudi Arabia. Does anyone have any information on how this can be checked out and if true, why isn’t it on the front pages of every newspaper in the countryt?
Obama may have gotten a letter of intro to Harvard via one of the big Saudi guys. You can find info on “Freerepublic” more accusations have been made, but I don’t feel conformable talking about them. But their was a tape with a big Texas millionaire saying that he was asked by Saudi guy to recommend Obama.
Obama’s and the medias attempt to play in Red states was more about demoralizing Republicans then anything else. Anyway don’t be to happy about Obama not wasting millions of dollars and wasting time in states he isn’t going to win. He is running a traditional campaign, and need I remind you that by only 50,000 votes did John Kerry lose Ohio and the election.