this morning, I am wondering if you are the same person or if this is some other coordinated effort to effect something by the Obama campaign.

How are we to know when you have already demonstrated your capability in deceptive and dishonest behavior?

But you said:

“His only chance is to foster disorganization, chaos, despair, and a sense of inevitability among the Republicans. It has worked up until now.”

I don’t think so. The only disorganization I see is in Obama himself. He says different things on different days. He fosters
despair in his own party with his own supporters. The right side is not fostered with a sense of inevitability. We know that socialism does not work as evidenced from failed regimes around the world. Obama cannot hold a candle to the leadership of John McCain. And if anyone votes for Obama based on the world situation today then they are blinded by the cult of personality.

So, a nameless “campaign worker for the Clinton candidacy” (and it’s a good thing you told us rubes that you’re a “registered Democrat” or we never would have puzzled that out) who “believed in her and still do[es], staying all the way to the bitter end”, but for logic’s sake “without much of a second thought, transferred my allegiance to Senator Obama”, had research duties which included “scouring right wing blogs and websites” to learn what any 4th-grader knows, and writing briefs based on her “capacity in the research department”(which she “do[es]n’t mind bragging that we had pretty good stuff on all” the potential VPs) which any 5th-grader could have written, and whose proficiency with spammar* is exemplary, now also has *UNLIMITED ACCESS TO ALL THE INTERNAL NUMBERS *of the Obama campaign!!!!

Oh, and she is very concerned, “because I doubt much [sic] of you know the true weaknesses of Obama”. Riiiiiiiight.

It turned out very well that Bilbo and Frodo both had pity on Gollum at the right moments, but Moe is no Baggins. Begone, Moby.

* spam-grammar

have not believed the Obama-hyped polls. I think the more outrageous the poll numbers were, the more committed we were to expose the polls as untrue. I have been emailing articles and linking columns to all my family and friends who start to lose faith. In the last few days I have seen them get re-energized as the momentum swings more and more to McCain. This election is too important to be discouraged by a few polls. I personally believe it will be close but McCain will win. Don’t give up the fight!

who cares. I’ve wondered if some of these groups were meant to suck us in and get us believing only rip our hearts out, but if they are so be it.

We can’t worry about motives with less than five days.

Ignore the polls, and go vote. Try and get as many as you can to the polls.

Tune out, tune out, tune out the polls, and Turn out, Turn out, Turn out the vote!

People with character tand up and fight for what they believe in. And should he unthinkable happen next week, I will be able to look in the mirror and say that I did all I could do. And then start getting ready for the next election campaign for Congress. Illinois republicans need to regroup and get quualified candidates elected to Congress.

It is all part of the poll-skewing process. This makes pollsters change their mixes to reflect these new voters and tilt the mix more towards Democratic voters. What is not mentioned or reported on is not the “under-reported cell phone users or young voters” we hear so much about. What is underreported is you.
This skewing is helped by the ACORN get out the vote Obama paid $800,000 for. The extra democrats registered, even if Mickey Mouse is among them, make democrat poll numbers increase in weighting, and under reports republicans. This is all an attempt to manipulate the populace with a ‘Obama can’t loose” meme.

Nice try, but McCain was the bad choice. His blundering liberalism and desperate need to be liked by Obama’s and his fellow communist legislators has put us here.

The Democrats were wrong about the economy.
The Democrats were wrong about the surge.
The Democrats were wrong about tax cuts.

Yet here we are having to fight for every vote from a populace that’s still ignorant of Obama’s evil intentions, all because old man McCain had to play nice. He wouldn’t speak the truth about the new Hitler until it was far too late.

You’d think World War II would’ve taught us that you don’t play nice with fascists. If they live, they will kill you or they’ll conquer you and then kill you.

Whether you believe this or not, the only proper response is to go out there and do what you can for the Presidential, Federal, State and local races.

Do you, the author, also wish to claim the famous comment at HillBuzz?

This was funny though:

With Leiberman, the plan was to paint him as an erratic old-timer who didn’t have a clue as to what he was doing (pretty much a clone of McCain)

Surely you mean of Biden…

Republicans would be discouraged by the MSM’s support for Obama? You’re very young, honey, but that’s okay. Live and learn.
Republicans broke faith with the MSM decades ago, when they wouldn’t give President Reagan a fair shake, or President Nixon.
Sen. McCain chose Gov. Palin to energize the base, and to tempt all those Reagan Democrats in PA, OH, IN, WV, and KY, who voted for Hillary in the primaries when she didn’t have a chance to win the nomination.
McCain will win all those states.
Sen. Obama has never been able to close the deal–McCain will win on Tuesday.

“All other things being equal, the simplest solution is the best.”
Occam’s razor

The real reason Obama is worried about Tuesday is that in the 37 state Democratic Party Primary contests, he won 18 of 37 elections. He also won 13 of 14 caucuses. His losses included Florida, Pennsylvania, Indiana, and Ohio; all battleground states. He has the MSM convincing voters that he can win a national 50 state election when he failed in doing so within his own party’s 37 multi-state contests.

McCain, on the other hand, won Florida, Pennsylvania, Indiana, and Ohio, during the Republican Primary season. And, the one caucus contest Obama lost; it was Nevada - another battleground state.

Question: What if the NFL’s NFC or AFC sent to the Superbowl a team that went 4-0 pre-season but played 1 under .500 in the regular season? The bookmakers in Vegas would offer laughable odds and the television network carrying the broadcast could not sell a dime’s worth of ad time at real Superbowl rates. Fans would boycott the game and sportswriters would mock the event.

Only the American voter will suspend disbelief and conclude a primary contest equals in value to a caucus contest. No, my friend, a caucus is a caucus and a primary is a primary. Obama is in a 50 state general election and he does poorly in those races. That’s why the campaign is worried and that’s why Obama will lose.

Obama feels more than he thinks.

going to the polls in the states mentioned as NOT going Obama….though I have to say THEY are NOT going Obama!

Whoever has his enemy at his mercy &
does not destroy him is his own enemy

Yes, skepticism is healthy at this point. But the points made here match quite well with the facts on the ground. The only objective evidence pointing to an Obama victory is the overload of polls, and the relentless MSM reporting of them. Every time there is a good news item for McCain, the MSM has to qualify with “but XXX poll shows that he is trailing here by 3%”.

Since 1984 I’ve been VERY wary of “the only poll that matters is on election day”, but I am starting to wonder to what degree poll results could be manipulated. And a campaign that is willing to turn off credit card checks to allow fraudulent donations? Would they really balk at direct bribery of polling firms?

I’m starting to sound like a truther, sheesh.

At 50+ years, I pray that my daughter is taught better throughout her life so that when she calls herself a “female grad,” she won’t have to write anything like you did today, (for which I’m proud of you for doing so).

I hate the terms, “dirty politics as usual,” and “poll skewing.” It’s sad that we have come to this, in this country. Luckily we, as a nation, are much smarter than we are given credit for, and Tuesday will show this. However, it is unfortunate that we are also fighting an economy for which the current administration is taking the brunt of the blame. Maybe we should start a new phrase … “Asleep at the wheel politics.” Anyway, if Obama is allowing these kinds politics and McCain is not, the choice is simpler for you isn’t it?

We’re going to have to unify ourselves as a nation and fix this problem together. Then we can hold individuals responsible and accountable for the mess.

At 50+ years, I pray that my daughter is taught better throughout her life so that when she calls herself a “female grad,” she won’t have to write anything like you did today, (for which I’m proud of you for doing so).

I hate the terms, “dirty politics as usual,” and “poll skewing.” It’s sad that we have come to this, in this country. Luckily we, as a nation, are much smarter than we are given credit for, and Tuesday will show this. However, it is unfortunate that we are also fighting an economy for which the current administration is taking the brunt of the blame. Maybe we should start a new phrase … “Asleep at the wheel politics.” Anyway, if Obama is allowing these kinds politics and McCain is not, the choice is simpler for you isn’t it?

We’re going to have to unify ourselves as a nation and fix this problem together. Then we can hold individuals responsible and accountable for the mess.

Would they really balk at direct bribery of polling firms?

Would is very different from could.

I doubt very much that it would be possible to bribe that many people without someone spilling the beans - and by that I mean a credible witness with specific information.

That kind of campaign would need to involve all the firms, including those that also work for the Republicans. I don’t think it would be possible.

In addition, in the big swing states that really matter - Florida, Ohio etc - the polls show that its very close. If there was some bribery going on then surely these would be the first to show an overwhelming Obama lead.

Do you really think a comment from someone so blatantly chasing after a political income has any credibility at all?

Suddenly your ideals caught up to you?

It is difficult to not be upset at this shameless flip-flopping after being entrusted to participate in a campaign that a carpet-bagging Clinton fanatic could never match.

If only there were a way to vet characters who mar the political process this way…

A check with Word shows only two misspellings (Joe Lieberman, two times, i and e swapped), and a readability index at the 8th grade. The first sentence is very complex and has no errors. The phrase “… still bitterly loyal” (to Hillary) is an extremely unusual phrase, rarely used anywhere. Later on a grammar error “I doubt much of you know …”.

Someone put a lot of work into this and would have to know they would be found out if true. A “… female grad student in my 20’s … Obama took on a few Hillary staff members into his campaign.” does not leave a lot of possibilities. So if authentic my guess would be a single white woman in a Ph.D English Lit program in New York City or Boston, taking a LONG break from studies (her thesis), with time on her hands since she is not in a battleground state. But I wouldn’t lay money on this either way.

My gut feel is that there are no undecided voters left. Just folks scared of Obama who hang up or say undecided. Obama supporters don’t seem shy about announcing their choice. If you are a Democrat and anti-Obama (not pro-McCain, just anti-Obama), you are not going to tell a soul about this. You don’t know who is on the other end of the phone, and your family may be listening in on your side.

If the undecideds mostly break for McCain, Obama can lose. Which would explain his campaign in the last days, that doesn’t look like he believes in the blow-out polls predict.

And disgruntled Hillary supporters are very capable of tanking so Obama loses. Check out divorce court if you think this to be implausible.

The laws of probability and statistics are the same for all pollsters, and they are predicting the same event. The huge variances and swings seen in different polls ought to suggest to folks that something very odd is happening this election. I don’t know how pollsters are going to CYA on this one. Right now their possible margin of error seems larger than the spread.

I like the diary, I tend to believe the claims are probably accurate as to actions, internals and concerns.

However, I have a hard time believing the author is who she says she is (or if she’s actually a she).

This sounds like it is written by one of our own right-siders to create a stir, buzz and hope and to perhaps create an internal witch hunt in the Obama Campaign.

I have no doubt there are workers on Obama’s team who feel this way. However, I find it hard to beleive they would write such an article in this way at this time where it would be so easy to figure out who they were.

If this supposed campaign worker were really having such a need to reveal, such a crisis of confidence, the correct thing to do would be to drop from the campaign and go public in a different way where their credibility would buoy their message and help create the effect they are seeking.

I think the author probably knows someone well enough in the campaign to get insider info and is ghost writing that person’s remarks, whether authorized or not.

Such a writer would have greater traction by simply saying so: “I have a friend somewhere deep in the Obama organization who says…”

Maybe legit; maybe not. Fun reading nevertheless.