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07-28-2008, 02:06 PM
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| 100 days to go: The presidential race's red-letter days
100 days to go: The presidential race's red-letter days - USATODAY.com Quote:
WASHINGTON — The longest presidential election season in American history is about to enter its final stretch.
Count 'em: 100 days to go.
In the time before Nov. 4, running mates will be chosen and platform skirmishes fought, economic reports released and as many as one-third of votes cast early by absentee ballot and at registrars' offices. Will more U.S. troops be pulled out of Iraq? Could a so-called October surprise be sprung, by calculation or catastrophe, that reshapes the campaign's close?
Both campaigns are acutely conscious of the passage of time. At Barack Obama's headquarters in Chicago, a countdown calendar hangs just outside campaign manager David Plouffe's office. The same count appears on white boards throughout John McCain's headquarters in a Virginia suburb of Washington.
"The momentum and intensity of the campaign builds almost every day as you approach the election," says Tad Devine, a strategist for Democrats Al Gore in 2000 and John Kerry in 2004. "You spend a lot of time planning for the events you know about, and you spend a lot of time reacting to the events that just happen."
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Some of the customary rhythms of a presidential campaign were disrupted this year after the Summer Olympics were pushed back two weeks. That squeezed the end-of-summer interval for the political conventions and prompted the GOP to schedule the first major-party convention to take place after Labor Day.
Not that either side has been waiting for the traditional Labor Day kickoff to the general-election campaign. By measures such as money raised and field forces deployed, the 2008 campaign already is setting records.
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Obama has been campaigning for nearly two years, since acknowledging on NBC's Meet the Press in October 2006 that he was considering a bid for the Democratic nomination. McCain effectively has been running even longer, since his embrace of former rival President Bush at the 2004 Republican convention made it clear the Arizona senator was positioning himself for his second White House run.
Now Obama holds a lead over McCain, 49%-40%, in Gallup's most recent tracking poll.
"Neither campaign has made the sale," says Republican strategist Ed Rollins, who helped run presidential campaigns for Ronald Reagan in 1984, Ross Perot in 1992 and Mike Huckabee this year. "The battle is the independent vote, and they don't make up their minds until late."
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07-28-2008, 02:09 PM
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| Election is 3 days after the USC game, I hope UT is still in contention at that point. If not, I'll have 2 things to be pissed about. | |
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07-28-2008, 02:11 PM
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| One of the terrible things about living in Ohio will be the non stop political adds on tv and radio!
It sucks living in a battleground state!
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07-28-2008, 02:12 PM
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Originally Posted by OrangeEmpire  One of the terrible things about living in Ohio will be the non stop political adds on tv and radio!
It sucks living in a battleground state! | I believe you. We never see the ads in Tennessee. | |
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07-28-2008, 02:14 PM
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| That is how it was when I lived in Kentucky.
Generally speaking, the metro areas of Cincy, Dayton, C-Bus, Akron/Canton and Cleveland are all super duper liberal strongholds.
Then every thing else around them are super duper conservative strongholds!
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07-28-2008, 02:51 PM
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| My sister in law went to hear him speak over the weekend and she said that he comes off as caring and engaging.
It wouldn't surprise me to see him win..... but it would be a win for the status quo.
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07-28-2008, 02:53 PM
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Originally Posted by OrangeEmpire My sister in law went to hear him speak over the weekend and she said that he comes off as caring and engaging.
It wouldn't surprise me to see him win..... but it would be a win for the status quo. | I know it's going to anger RasputinVol when I say this, but when the alternative is a Euro-style socialist, the current "status quo" doesn't seem so bad.
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07-28-2008, 02:54 PM
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Originally Posted by OrangeEmpire My sister in law went to hear him speak over the weekend and she said that he comes off as caring and engaging.
It wouldn't surprise me to see him win..... but it would be a win for the status quo. | FV is swinging over as well. McCain is killing them softly. | |
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07-28-2008, 04:41 PM
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Originally Posted by MG1968 I know it's going to anger RasputinVol when I say this, but when the alternative is a Euro-style socialist, the current "status quo" doesn't seem so bad. | I'm afraid that by the time January rolls around the "economic malaise" of the late 70's may not sound so bad.
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