rssFormer Adviser: McCain Camp ‘Smoking Crack’
Thursday, October 30, 2008 at 9:45 am
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During an interview on MSNBC this morning, GOP strategist Mike Murphy — who helmed Sen. John McCain’s 2000 primary bid — said the McCain campaign was “smoking crack” if it is still clinging to hopes of winning Iowa, according to The Page. Murphy also referred to Virginia as “the hole in the boat” for the McCain camp.
Indeed, according to the RealClearPolitics average of recent major polls in Iowa, McCain trails Sen. Barack Obama by 11.4 percentage points. Both McCain and Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin visited Iowa as recently as Saturday. However, with just five days until Election Day, neither Republican candidate is currently scheduled a return visit in the state before Tuesday.
This isn’t the first time Murphy has blasted the McCain campaign for continuing to pursue Iowa. Earlier this month, Murphy wrote that the strategists running the campaign were “stunningly incompetent” for allowing McCain to take part in a disastrous interview with the editorial board of the Des Moines Register. Murphy’s most recent comments illustrate the growing concerns of many within the GOP that McCain is headed for electoral defeat — and they make a great headline.
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Comment posted October 30, 2008 @ 10:59 am
It is to early to celebrate. The McCain camp is gearing up to steal this election, however it won't be so easy due to Sen. Obama's margin leads around the nation. Hence all the recent political banter in the MSM about the so-called “Bradley Effect”, that is nothing more than the set up to explain the pre-planned election theft that was fixed months ago. Next Tuesday will be really interesting to see if these crooks have the gall to steal this one like the last two United States Presidential Elections.
Comment posted October 30, 2008 @ 11:26 am
McCain is headed for electoral defeat
That's one way to put it.
Comment posted October 30, 2008 @ 11:49 am
You can only steal a close election. Not that Repubs won't try.
My question: lets say the (hacked) totals from a single polling place come to a negative number for Obama. Say negative 10,000 votes for Obama in polling place X. Let's say Obama receives 1,000,000 votes from the rest of the polling places in that state. Does he suddenly have 990,000 votes because of the negative ten thousand from the one location? Or is the negative number ignored? In 2004 in Ohio, I recall that there were negative totals from some locations and I'm not sure how the negative numbers were handled. There will have to be a court ruling on this someday. Otherwise, one polling location could reverse any election.
Comment posted January 18, 2009 @ 9:42 am
So sad, yet so true – but let's try and be realistic here – what can we do after all. Is it something that we can change or not?
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