I've done my own election polling. I think mine is as good or better than the big boys. I looked at yard signs and bumper stickers. That's right, yard signs and bumper stickers. Hear me out. The MSM wankers are always on about who is getting polled, likely voters, registered voters, first time voters, with all the attending hand-wringing over who is getting it right. To hell with that. I think anyone willing to put a sign in their yard or a sticker on their car in today's climate is a "sucking chest wound voter", a voter who is going to go to the polls on bloody stumps if they have to. So my poll has a confirmed target audience, a better sample if you will. My poll is not weighted by voter registration where Acorn has fraudulently registered thousands of Democrat DooDad Pros and Little Bonny Foo Foos. Can you say fraud, projection and voter suppression? That organization should be defunded and disbanned.
Secondly, my poll covers areas where the MSM is afraid to go. Fly-over country. In the last six months I've been in 16 states east of the Mississippi, and four west. Specifically; NC, SC, Ga, Va, Md, Conn, NY Pa, OH, IN, Ill, BAMA, Pa, Fl, WI, Tenn and KY. West includes La, Okie, Ne and Mo. One might assume that as a .mil pilot, I only go to military bases and so my sample would not be accurate since we're all knuckle-dragging gun-clinging Republicans. That assumption is half wrong. The type of flying we do dictates we go to a lot of civilian airfields, so I spend half my time out and about among non-knuckle-dragging gun-clinging humanoids. A somewhat disheartening experience with all that man's inhumanity to man hogwash, but that's another story. So I have 2 data points telling me my data is more accurate than Rassmussen's.
What I saw was this; Mac beats Obama ranging between 4-1 and 8-1 depending where you are. Only in localized liberal pockets does Obama come close, and those are far apart. In Cary NC, it's Mac by 3 - 2. New Haven Conn is tied. Only in ultra liberal dogholes like Chevy Chase MD does Obama trounce Mac by about 9 - 1. The 2 McCain signs I did see were vandalized too.
Between Raleigh and Jacksonville, it's McCain by 20 - 3. One hundred and fifty miles of twenty to three. Unless the whole state west of Raleigh goes retarded overnight, Obama is not going to win NC. Anyone who says so hasn't left the Duke campus and is full of horse-squeeze.
Anecdotally, I drove through SE NC, SC and into Ga in March for turkey season. There were Hillary signs everywhere, a carpet bombing of Hillary signs, a fucking nightmare, ok. In September I drove the same route. No Hillary signs. No Obama signs either. Zero, Zilch, Nada. 400 miles of NObama. So, to parse this; The south loves Hillary, a white liberal from Illinois who made her name as a politician from Arkansas. The south hated John Kerry, a white liberal from Mass., wouldn't even support one of their own liberals (looking at you OwlGore). Now they apparently don't support a black liberal from Chicago promising the world on a silver platter. I DECLARE RACISM OFFICIALLY OVER IN THE SOUTH. They don't care who you are, it's where you're from and maybe your ideas that count.
The wife recently spoke to a woman with a green card who wished she could vote. Within the largely Roman Catholic immigrant population, Obama is regarded as a child murderer due to his support of late term and partial birth abortion. She said the sentiment is unanimous among everyone she knows. That's a big block to lose, Latino Catholics.
Florida as a battleground state? There's at least 12 military bases in Florida and I know I'm missing one or two. The DoD has pushed voting so hard this year that we've done everything but check the box for people. A significant number of active duty claim Florida or Texas residency for tax purposes and will vote absentee. Our squadron has passed out over three hundred of the forms. I've never been in any unit where that was done before. This program for absentee voting is a DoD program, so this level of getting out the vote is supposed to be happening across all the services
Florida doesn't even open up absentee ballots unless it's close, but I guarantee you, there's going to be a metric assload of them this year. If the margin is a hundred thousand on Tuesday night, Florida is probably going to have to open them up, and that will be a can marked whup-ass in large block letters.
One three letter word, National Rifle Association.
Your solemn duty is near America. I leave you with this;
Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force!
You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these many months. The eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you. In company with our brave Allies and brothers-in-arms on other Fronts, you will bring about the destruction of the German Democrat war machine, the elimination of Nazi liberal tyranny over the oppressed peoples of Europe, America and security for ourselves in a free world. Your task will not be an easy one. Your enemy is well trained, well equipped and battle hardened. He will fight savagely. But this is the year 2008! Much has happened since the Nazi triumphs of 1940-41. The United Nations have inflicted upon the Germans great defeats, in open battle, man-to-man. Our air offensive has seriously reduced their strength in the air and their capacity to wage war on the ground. Our Home Fronts have given us an overwhelming superiority in weapons and munitions of war, and placed at our disposal great reserves of trained fighting men. The tide has turned! The free men of the world are marching together to Victory! I have full confidence in your courage and devotion to duty and skill in battle. We will accept nothing less than full Victory! Good luck! And let us beseech the blessing of Almighty God upon this great and noble undertaking.
SIGNED: Dwight D. Eisenhower
God Bless you and God Bless America, Napalm and Lockheed Martin.
UPDATE: I just found this Rev Manning sermon. It's from Pat Dollard and 22 minutes long, but worth every second. That this type of sermon is going on in any black church is unexpected...most unexpected. If this is going on in other churches, as Rev Manning has apparently asked for and coordinated with other pastors to do, it points towards one end. Obama - fini.