It’s all up to you. It’s really that simple. In the end, this is all about who shows up to vote. The polling companies don’t think you will. Barack Obama is hoping you won’t show up.
There is hope. If you look at the polls, they’re polling 10-12 percent more Democrats than Republicans. According to Jim Geraghty “Gallup’s final poll puts the Democrats party ID advantage will be 12 percent. The most it has been since 1980 was 4 percent, in 1996. It was 3 percent in 2006.”
So even though the polling companies are figuring that 12 percent more Democrats are going to show up than Republicans, the funny thing is that John McCain is still in this thing. And I don’t believe 12 percent more Dems are showing up to the polls than Republicans. The polling companies have bought into the hype created by Obama’s cheerleaders in the media so much so that they’re willing to believe that this election will be unprecedented. Not just unprecedented. Unprecedented three times over.
But my question is that if all the excitement is on the Obama side, why does Sarah Palin draw record crowds everywhere she goes. See Gateway Pundit’s story and photos from today’s Palin-palooza in Missouri.
Forget the national polls, they mean nothing right now. Obama can win New York and California by 80 percent for all I care. (Sorry Pat) Look at Florida, Pennsylvania, Iowa (believe it or not), Ohio, Virginia, Nevada, Colorado, North Carolina, and Missouri. McCain is either leading or within a few points in the polls despite some serious weighting towards Democrats in the polls.
Well, there’s only one way to ensure that 12 percent more Democrats vote than Republicans and that’s to go out and vote.
Look, I actually think if McCain gets in to the 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue he is going to annoy the heck out of me on economic issues, the environment, and securing the border. But (and this is a big but) I do believe we’ll get a judge or two that might just overturn Roe V Wade. And that’s what I care about most.
If we do our job this could be seen as the election that Catholics turned, especially in Ohio and Pennsylvania. See Hugh Hewitt’s story on this. Don’t let the polls make up your mind. Do you want to know why the polls are so against us? It’s so we don’t vote. And if we don’t vote the polls will be right. It’s kind of a self-fulfilling prophecy. Not me. I’m voting. I’m asking everyone I know to vote. The continuance of abortion on demand is at stake. I refuse to stand on the sidelines. Join the fray. Jump in the fight. Please vote.
I actually have high hopes for tomorrow.
November 3, 2008 at 10:38 pm
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November 3, 2008 at 11:12 pm
Don’t forget Rush’s “operation Chaos” to get Republicans to vote in the Dem. primaries for Hillary. I wonder if the Dem numbers are do big because of them too?
November 4, 2008 at 12:08 am
Do you have a link to the Hewitt article?
November 4, 2008 at 12:42 am
I saw an article by some guy called Bill Whittle in which he paraphrased Shakespeare, comparing McCain to Henry V at Agincourt, fighting the Euros against overwhelming odds to ultimate triumph:
… if they [the far Left] lose this election — with all the advantages they have at this precise point in time — then they can never win. Not ever. And the media is pulling with their teeth now, because if Obama loses they will have destroyed their credibility — for nothing.
If we are mark’d to lose, we are enow
To do our country loss; and if to live,
The fewer men, the greater share of honour.
God’s will! I pray thee, wish not one man more.
Let he which hath no stomach to this fight,
Let him depart; his passport shall be made,
And crowns for convoy put into his purse;
We would not vote in that man’s company
That fears his fellowship to vote with us.
This day is call’d the eve of Elect-ian.
He that votes this day, and comes safe home,
Will stand a tip-toe when this day is nam’d,
And rouse him at the name of Republican
He that shall live this day, and see old age,
Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours,
And say ‘To-morrow is the fourth of November’
Then will he strip his sleeve and show his hands,
And say ‘With these I moved yon levers on election day.’
Old men forget; yet all shall be forgot,
But he’ll remember, with advantages,
What votes he did cast that day.
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that shares his vote with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne’er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition;
And gentlemen and lady pundits now-a-bed
Shall think themselves accurs’d they were not here,
And hold their book deals cheap whilst any speaks
That voted with us upon election day.
November 4, 2008 at 1:15 am
By coincidence my local polling place is close to my parish’s adoration chapel and also the church…so after I vote for McCain/Palin, et al, I plan on spending an hour with Our Lord in chapel and receive communion then at mass.
I traveled today through a fairly middle-class, largely African-American section of a local suburb…and what struck me was the dearth of Obama signs…except for a paltry scattering. One would have imagined every other lawn festooned with greetings of support for the great Secular Humanist Saviour (aka Manchurian Candidate)…but, alas, perhaps a what a young man told me is true…many Blacks don’t like the guy.
November 4, 2008 at 3:04 am
Those whacky pollsters — they were predicting a landslide for John Kerry, the self-declared war hero, long before the polls anywhere closed.
And, yes, I voted. I voted early, but since I voted Republican I could not vote often.
— Mack
November 4, 2008 at 3:43 am
We Meet At Dawn.