I cannot believe this is for real, but here is a photo of Sarah wearing a donkey-covered scarf. Does she not know what the mascot of her party is? :dubious:
http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/stumper/archive/2008/10/21/in-which-sarah-palin-displays-the-latest-in-donkey-fashion.aspx
That donkey-covered “Vote” scarf is a complete “WTF?” moment. There has got to be some rational explanation for this. I refuse to believe that neither Palin herself nor anyone responsible for her wardrobe noticed this in time to prevent her going out in public advertising the Democratic Party mascot.
I thought she was.
She must have thought they were “mavericks”
Maybe they’re moose.
I bet there are also elephants on that scarf.
This is Palin’s Rachel Ray moment!
Because we really should not let them have any influence on what we do either way. Period. They deserve to be ignored other than when hunting them down.
As to her scarf … man, if you’re spending $150K on clothes you’d think you’d make a better fashion choice than that. I guess it proves what McCain has been saying - it’s not how much you spend, it is how you spend it.
Seriously could her handler be someone who knows that (s)he is out of work in two weeks anyway so why not have a little subversive fun?
I cannot see a single elephant anywhere on the scarf.
I don’t think it has been photoshopped either. How hard would it have been to photoshop this?
Maybe the big elephant in the room of their own massive fail is enough elephant for her and she decided to complement it with a few donkeys.
Politico thinks the “cavalry” is never going to come for McCain. The McCain campaign was hoping that outside groups like the Swift Boaters and the American Issues Project (lead by the strategist behind the Swift Boaters) would bankroll the coming onslaught of Reverend Wright ads and other attacks. Turns out those groups are hurting for money, either because prospecitve donors are busy losing their shirts in the stock market or because they are not that excited about McCain.
T. Boone Pickens, who financed the orginal Swift Boat group, is sitting out this one, and a casino mogul who envisioned a right-wing counterpart to MoveOn just pulled the plug before the group could air a single ad.
Chris LaCivita (formerly of Swiftboat Veterans and now with the American Issues Project) says of the much-expected late push, “It’s Oct. 21, and if you can’t say it by Oct. 21, then chances are you’re not going to say anything…Donors just weren’t willing to give the money.”
My guess is that a few of the remaining donors are going to rethink that check after the Palin clothing debacle.
I’m still nursing this ulcer until November 5. But, I’m not seeing a lot of good news for McCain. Montana is in play now, for Chrissakes.
A damn pain in the ass, that’s for sure. But, if anyone has any doubt, here’s multiple angles on that photo.
Early election night blowout info.
If Obama wins these east-coast states:
ME, VT, NH, CT, MA, RI, NY, NJ, PA, MD, DC, DE
Those are all solid D states, btw…
Then if he also wins VA, NC, and FL
He has essentially won the election. He can lose every other state except Illinois, Washington, Oregon, California, and Hawaii and still win. That would put him at 270 exactly.
So if Obama wins VA, NC, FL, and PA then you can rest assured he’ll be the next President.
Montana’s had a fairly small McCain lead for a month and a half. The last two polls in ND, taken a week apart, show a tie, then +2 Obama. The latest SD poll shows +7 McCain. Clinton never won either Dakota, and won Montana only once, and Bush won all three by double digits both times.
And would someone PLEASE poll Arkansas? It’s been a month!
I had no takers in my “What do newspaper endorsements signify?” thread but there I had linked to someone who had made the point that newspaper endorsements had a very good track record of predicting the results in swing states. With that in mind the current tallies have Obama doing well (results reported by total circulation of the newspapers endorsing each candidate and by the thousands): in OH 450 to 22; in IN 80 to naught; in FL 941 to 279; in NC 328 to naught; CO 300 to 104. OTOH this admittedly nonscientific method gives McCain a nod in VA 141 to 30 and leaves NV a toss-up at 174 for each. And for kicks TX is amazingly close, McCain 850 to 700.
FWIW.
I’d like Obama to win, but how likely is a blowout? A win would make me happy, a blowout would require a party.
I do worry about a Mccain surge coming up. I don’t know from where its just a feeling. As I have said before, McCain doesn’t say anything about his ideas. Its all rhetoric and sound bites. But people still fall for it.
Yes, the ballot is long, but Colorado has vote by mail (I voted last week) and early voting. I was at the library yesterday afternoon and I peeked in to see if there was much voting going on and every machine was being used and the line was about 10 long waiting for a chance to vote. I don’t think the CO vote is going to be affected by anything that happens on the East Coast. The last minute voting rush of years past isn’t going to be as big of a deal this year.
Maybe you were kidding, but I took a look at some juvenile moose pictures (since the depicted beasts don’t have antlers). They’re “lumpier” than the scarf creatures. But the ears on those things don’t seem at all right for donkeys.
Just some anecdata: I have been doing a little volunteering at the Obama office in Cincinnati. Just data entry, so I’m not plugged in to the strategy folks. But, they’re busily organizing a massive GOTV drill for the coming days. They are planning the GOTV effort very seriously and meticulously. They are definitely not going to coast.
By the way, the two guys to next to me working the computers were from out of town. One was from San Jose, CA, and the other from New York. They took vacations and came all the way to Cincinnati so they could volunteer in a state where Obama wasn’t sure to win. I can only speak about the Cincinnati office, not about Colorado or points west, but the staffers here aren’t screwing around.
There are a lot of volunteers in Utah, but since Utah is a lost cause, they’re all going to Colorado (especially Grand Junction) every single weekend. There are also major GOTV efforts planned for CO. Every time people warn not to get complacent, I think they should take a trip down to the local Obama HQ. They’re not just chilling out and doing crossroad puzzles.
I read a good story about Obama giving a via sattelite message to his offices nationwide… he laid down the law pretty seriously that there would be no coasting to the finish line. This was followed by a short message from David Plouffe, who is said to rarely use profanity: All right, let’s go out and win this motherfucker!