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rideit
11-03-2008, 10:57 AM
McCain's Crowd Disturbingly Small, Ten Times Less Than Planned For November 3, 2008 10:14 AM
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Something was missing from the first of John McCain's seven campaign stops today: the crowd.
Kicking off the last day of the election in Tampa, Florida, John McCain was welcomed by a roughly 1,000 voters. Compare that to the 15,000 people that President Bush drew to a rally in Tampa on the eve of the 2004 election. "What's up with that?" wrote Adam Smith at the St. Petersburg Times.
Even Fox News had a bit of difficulty spinning the whole thing. Carl Cameron, who is following the Senator at every stop on Monday, said the crowd size was likely "a little bit disturbing" for the McCain campaign. He added that organizers had set up the venue predicting ten times the number of attendees.
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BigDaddy
11-03-2008, 01:23 PM
What about McCain is so disturbingly small?...
I saw that. Gotta be a sign of good tidings, I hope!
frito bandito
11-03-2008, 02:40 PM
Small article in our paper this morning about tickets still available for today's McCain rally, it was next to the Obituaries.
Palin filled a 20,000 seat amphitheater when she was here two weeks ago, but she did have Hank Jr. opening for her.
Cliff Huckable
11-03-2008, 02:46 PM
Small article in our paper this morning about tickets still available for today's McCain rally, it was next to the Obituaries.
Palin filled a 20,000 seat amphitheater when she was here two weeks ago, but she did have Hank Jr. opening for her.
You're funny! Like Mark Twain, and such.
Why do you find this surprising? McCain supporters are at work or on Sundays, church.
Obama supporters are home waiting for their welfare checks so they have all the time in the world to come out in support of government run healthcare and higher taxes on wage earners.
advres
11-03-2008, 02:58 PM
^ZING!!!
rideit
11-03-2008, 02:59 PM
Hunh.
Then WHY were they expecting 10 times the number to show up?
Matbe because they don't understand their supporters.
Not understanding your supporters is a GREAT way to lose a campaign.
So either way, it's FAIL.
Why do you find this surprising? McCain supporters are at work or on Sundays, church.
Obama supporters are home waiting for their welfare checks so they have all the time in the world to come out in support of government run healthcare and higher taxes on wage earners.
It's true. Obama has shitty support among highly educated professionals. The upper middle class doesn't like him either. The majority of Americans are welfare queens bilking the rest of us hardworking real Americans. That's why Obama is leading the national polls.
rideit
11-03-2008, 03:47 PM
It's true. Obama has shitty support among highly educated professionals. .
Are you kidding?
Toadman
11-03-2008, 03:48 PM
Why do you find this surprising? McCain supporters are at work or on Sundays, church.
Obama supporters are home waiting for their welfare checks so they have all the time in the world to come out in support of government run healthcare and higher taxes on wage earners.
Meh. More likely the retired folks of Tampa took a look at their fomerly million dollar 401k retirement accounts and realized that they are no longer millionaires, and they are applying for jobs at Wal-Mart. Either, that or their million dollar condos bought on spec (now worth a few hundred grand at auction) have drained their accounts and they are flipping burgers at McDonalds.
Are you kidding?
Really? You need to ask?
rideit
11-03-2008, 03:57 PM
They are the basis of a large part of his current success, flat out.
Example:
Northern Virginia.
It turned blue due to well educated professionals.
That is just one tiny example.
Hell, here, any well educated/successful person is waay likelier to vote for Obama than McCain.
It's he less educated that tend to be republican (among the non uber rich)
RaccoonFace
11-03-2008, 04:00 PM
Ten Times Less Than Planned For
I've always been disturbed by expressions like this. If you multiply something by 10 is it's magnitude not INCREASED by ten fold? Sure my understanding is limited in both mathematics and language, but in reality I think this should read:
blah blah blah one tenth blah blah!
... And now back to your regularly scheduled programming.
okbye
I Dunno
11-03-2008, 04:02 PM
Better to have more than enough space than not enough space.
Okay, yes, I was kidding. I know. I thought the welfare claim only warranted sarcasm. Democrats have relied on well educated professionals for a while now. Look at the rest of what I wrote. Could that possibly be serious?
Ride - when McCain wins tomorrow, are you planning on posting nothing but photos of burritos from here on out?
Hugh Conway
11-03-2008, 05:04 PM
Ride - when McCain wins tomorrow, are you planning on posting nothing but photos of burritos from here on out?
fucker - Zaphod is my avatar on another site.
I am the dimmest star in several universes
timvwcom
11-03-2008, 05:05 PM
I've always been disturbed by expressions like this. If you multiply something by 10 is it's magnitude not INCREASED by ten fold? Sure my understanding is limited in both mathematics and language, but in reality I think this should read:
blah blah blah one tenth blah blah!
... And now back to your regularly scheduled programming.
okbye
Great point!!! Ask God for a rewrite on the Bible. :FIREdevil
rideit
11-03-2008, 05:13 PM
I might branch out and post Tortas, as well.
Can you even get a good Torta in WI?
I might branch out and post Tortas, as well.
Can you even get a good Torta in WI?
Is that some kind of Polish pastry?
You can't even get a good burrito in WI.
timvwcom
11-03-2008, 05:16 PM
I might branch out and post Tortas, as well.
Can you even get a good Torta in WI?
You mean a sammich?
rideit
11-03-2008, 05:19 PM
I was gonna post a pic of a Torta, but I came across this delicious morsel first.
http://i195.photobucket.com/albums/z77/jillianjoie/sensualwoman.jpg
BigDaddy
11-03-2008, 05:31 PM
Damn it.. I'm sitting here reading this next to my wife. Now she thinks TGR is just a porn site...
Thanks,
RideIt ;)
PS- Skis is pushing your leg...
rideit
11-03-2008, 05:45 PM
Yeah, I figured that out.
So, now that she thinks it's a porn site, I'll post more pink tacos.
http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r256/rosiecheeks4ubabe/1_pink_taco.jpg
BigDaddy
11-03-2008, 08:21 PM
Speaking of "ouch", I just got this nice, scary e-mail. The dude's a chiropractor in CT and a friend of a friend. He's responding to my support of Obama and I must say, he's very articulate and speaks well for the banning of steroids:
Than you associate with radical scum too. Blah, blah blah, enough with your Bush crap. Just the same old story your fucking brainwashed. I'd be ashamed to say I know that piece of shit. His plan fucks my pocket to give to those who don't even work!!!!!!!! So fuck you!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He is a muslim, because he is far from a CHRISTIAN, I'm a devout Catholic, so fuck you twice!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It amazes me how the JEWS support this radical PLO loving trash!! Spread the wealth means socialist asshole, so fuck you three times!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He's threatening because he has know experience at all with anything!!!!! Commander in chief?????!!! Are you that fucking stupid???!!!! I have 3 kids fuckhead and there safety is threatened, so fuck you 4 times!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Respect for an anti life, anti-gun, anti competition harvard piece of crap who can't produce transcripts, can't say why he isn't a licensed attorney and sat in an anti-white fuck America congregation for 20 years and never heard that rhetoric???!!! GO FUCK YOURSELF PAL!!!!!!!!!!!! Back off!!! I will say and do what I want when there are idiots like you that support a piece of anti american shit like him.
I had a brief, polite reply: "Peace out, bro... I gotta go make some calls for Obama."
What a whack job. Is this your typical McCain supporter?
rideit
11-03-2008, 08:25 PM
Can you post his e-mail addy?
Please?
BigDaddy
11-03-2008, 08:31 PM
I'd LOVE to but the FBI now has it...
Seriously, this guy needs to remember his meds tomorrow. I fear for his patients on Wednesday!
splat
11-03-2008, 08:52 PM
So that shit goes on in real life, too, eh?
Take heart, Mccain supporters.
I heard the other 9,000 got temp jobs as 'voting machine techs'.
BD, is your friend always so articulate?
natty dread
11-03-2008, 09:42 PM
Speaking of "ouch", I just got this nice, scary e-mail. The dude's a chiropractor in CT
Chiropractors are those who didn't have the grades and/or smarts to get into real med school, but still wanted to be "doctors."
You should tell him, chiros like to be reminded of that.
RaccoonFace
11-03-2008, 10:59 PM
Great point!!! Ask God for a rewrite on the Bible. :FIREdevil
You'd think "God" would have known better.
Speaking of "ouch", I just got this nice, scary e-mail. The dude's a chiropractor in CT and a friend of a friend. He's responding to my support of Obama and I must say, he's very articulate and speaks well for the banning of steroids:
Than you associate ... anti american shit like him.
I had a brief, polite reply: "Peace out, bro... I gotta go make some calls for Obama."
What a whack job. Is this your typical McCain supporter?
This sounds very much like a "discussion" I had with a friend of mine. I had a feeling where he got his information and suggested he read something else. He insisted that HE researched everything himself and denied any knowledge of the site I had mentioned. I then hopped on the computer and typed: "th"
What was the first suggested site to pop up on the screen?
"theobamafile.com"
I don't know if it had been discussed before...
okbye
mtnjam
11-03-2008, 11:38 PM
sounds like your pseudo doctor...ahem...I mean chiropractor friend isn't too well versed either in grammar or correct spelling
Remind him to let the orthos and neuros do their work and not let the chiropractors fuck it up for them
shredgnar
11-04-2008, 07:50 AM
Sounds like touretsguy is voting for mccain.
woodstocksez
11-04-2008, 08:07 AM
Speaking of "ouch", I just got this nice, scary e-mail. The dude's a chiropractor in CT and a friend of a friend. He's responding to my support of Obama and I must say, he's very articulate and speaks well for the banning of steroids:
... !!!!!!!! ... !!!!!!!!!!!!!! ... !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ... !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ... !!!!! ... ?????!!! ... ???!!!! ... !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ... ???!!! ... !!!!!!!!!!!! ... !!! ...
I had a brief, polite reply: "Peace out, bro... I gotta go make some calls for Obama."
What a whack job. Is this your typical McCain supporter?
Your friend of a friend makes some very good points, which I've highlighted by editing out the non-essential parts of his email.
BigDaddy
11-04-2008, 10:08 AM
sounds like your pseudo doctor...ahem...I mean chiropractor friend isn't too well versed either in grammar or correct spelling
Remind him to let the orthos and neuros do their work and not let the chiropractors fuck it up for them
I'm so tempted to ask him: "Are you required to take the hippocratic oath...
...or is that just for real doctors?"
Another well thought out e-mail from "The Madman for McCain":
Seriously, you don't know what your messing with. Don't write checks with your mouth that your ass can't cash son. Maybe you need to ask _______ about me. I don't take your stupid democrat liberal jokes lightly at all. It's assholes like you who need to leave the country. I will never relax when brainwashed idiots like you support radical trash like that. It's guys like me who will paying the bills for morons that support this dicks policies. i'm a father of 3 , I'm very concerned and don;t take lightly likes of people like you. My advice back off me asshole....
woodstocksez
11-04-2008, 10:29 AM
I'm so tempted to ask him: "Are you required to take the hippocratic oath...
...or is that just for real doctors?"
Another well thought out e-mail from "The Madman for McCain":
Seriously, you don't know what your messing with. Don't write checks with your mouth that your ass can't cash son. Maybe you need to ask _______ about me. I don't take your stupid democrat liberal jokes lightly at all. It's assholes like you who need to leave the country. I will never relax when brainwashed idiots like you support radical trash like that. It's guys like me who will paying the bills for morons that support this dicks policies. i'm a father of 3 , I'm very concerned and don;t take lightly likes of people like you. My advice back off me asshole....
Yeah, see, that email wasn't nearly as compelling. I'd have rewritten it something more like this:
"Seriously, you don't know what your messing with!!!!!!! Don't write checks with your mouth (???!!!) that your ass (???!!!) can't cash son. Maybe you need to ask !!!!!!!!!! about me. I don't take your stupid democrat liberal - !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - jokes lightly at all. It's ass!!!!!!!holes like you who need to leave the country. ..."
You get the idea. I'm a competitive writer, though, so I guess I can see how those flourishes might not have occurred to someone without training.
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