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McCain Campaign Kicks Supporters Out of Rally for Being Too Young
You durn kids, get offa mah lawn!
David Zarifis, director of public safety for the University of Northern Iowa, said McCain staffers requested UNI police assist in escorting out “about four or five” people from the rally prior to McCain’s speech.
Zarifis said while the people who were taken out weren’t protesting or causing problems, McCain’s staff were worried they would during the speech.
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“When I started talking to them, it kind of became clear that they were kind of just telling people to leave that they thought maybe would be disruptive, but based on what? Based on how they looked,” Elborno said. “It was pretty much all young people, the college demographic.”Elborno said even McCain supporters were among those being asked to leave.
“I saw a couple that had been escorted out and they were confused as well, and the girl was crying, so I said ‘Why are you crying? and she said ‘I already voted for McCain, I’m a Republican, and they said we had to leave because we didn’t look right,’” Elborno said. “They were handpicking these people and they had nothing to go off of, besides the way the people looked.”
Caveat emptor for College Republicans, I guess. The GOP is still the party of crotchety old guys.
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The Stars At Night
are not so bright… deep in the heart of Texas!
Poll finds 23% of Texans think Obama is Muslim
WASHINGTON — A University of Texas poll to be released today shows Republican presidential candidate John McCain and GOP Sen. John Cornyn leading by comfortable margins in Texas, as expected. But the statewide survey of 550 registered voters has one very surprising finding: 23 percent of Texans are convinced that Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama is a Muslim.
On the other hand, they can’t really be pissed off about Rev. Wright if they don’t think he’s a Christian.
McCain Campaign Buses Students to Rally
This is interesting. Buried at the bottom of a story about how Joe the Plumber left John McCain hanging at a Defiance, OH, rally is this little nugget:
A local school district official confirmed after the event that of the 6,000 people estimated by the fire marshal to be in attendance this morning, more than 4,000 were bused in from schools in the area. The entire 2,500-student Defiance School District was in attendance, the official said, in addition to at least three other schools from neighboring districts, one of which sent 14 buses.
So more than two-thirds of the people who turned out to see John McCain give a stump speech were pulled out of school to do so. That means that McCain only drew about 2,000 voting-age supporters (maybe a little more depending on how many high school seniors will be 18 by Tuesday and are voting for him). Hmmm. The Pollster average currently gives Obama a 6-point lead in Ohio. Maybe it’s not such a swing state after all.
Palin First
Having recognized that she will probably not beat the Great Black Hope on Tuesday, Sarah Palin is already talking about dumping McGrumpy and pressing on to 2012:
Wolf Blitzer: And this just coming into the “Situation Room,” the Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin now speaking out openly about her intentions in 2012 if, if she and John McCain were to lose this contest next Tuesday. In an interview with ABC News, Sarah Palin is now saying, she would be interested in remaining a serious national political figure, going ahead to 2012. She was asked what happens in 2012 if you lose on Tuesday, would you simply go back to Alaska? Elizabeth Vargas of ABC News asked her and Palin said this, and I will read it to you verbatim according to an ABC News transcript: “Absolutely not,” Sarah Palin says. “I think that, if I were to give up and wave a white flag of surrender against some of the political shots that we’ve taken, that … that would … bring this whole … I’m not doin’ this for naught,” and that is a direct quote from Sarah Palin. Clearly, leaving open the possibility that she would be interested in leading the Republican Party in 2012 if she and John McCain were to lose this presidential contest right now. Let’s go to Dana Bash. She has been covering the McCain campaign reaction from the rather blunt statement from Sarah Palin that she would in fact be interested in leading the Republican Party going forward after Tuesday if they lose?
Dana Bash: I just got off of the phone, Wolf, with a senior McCain adviser and I read this person the quote and I think it is fair to say that this person was speechless. There was a long pause and I just heard a “huh” on the other end of the phone. This is certainly not a surprise to anybody who has watched Sarah Palin that she is interested in potentially future national runs, and she is being urged to by a lot of people inside of the Republican Party if they do lose, but it is an “if” and people inside of the McCain campaign do not want any discussion that has an “if” in front of it six days before the election, they don’t want any discussion at all, any kind of hypothetical talk about running for the next time around. So certainly, this is not at least initially being received well inside of the McCain campaign.
Wolf Blitzer: I am not surprised, not surprised at all. It is one of those “wow, she is talking about 2012 if we lose,” that is not supposed to be something that you say. You are supposed to say, “well, I’m not looking ahead, I’m not looking ahead only to Tuesday,” and those are the talking points she’s supposed to be saying, but she is obviously blunt and she is looking ahead if something were to happen on Tuesday that she wouldn’t be happy with.
I, for one, am looking forward to the Barracuda vs. Mittens Steel Cage Match that will be distracting Republicans from November 5 all the way through 2012. Maybe while they’re off doing their thing Barack Obama and the Democratic Congress can get some stuff done for America.
Young: Stevens Is Innocent, Just Like Nixon
While John McCain, Sarah Palin, and Barack Obama have all called on Ted Stevens to resign, hopefully-soon-to-be-former Alaska Congressman Don Young offers the strangest defense of Stevens I’ve seen so far:
“I can remember Richard Nixon, you know, his years of service, what he’s done, and everybody [was] ridiculing him, and he ended up being the greatest president in the history of our century. … The Senator will be re-elected. He will appeal it. When he does go, he will win it because there’s no way this is a jury of his peers,” Young told the Anchorage Daily News.
I don’t even know what to say. Richard Nixon was the greatest president of the twentieth century? Is Young thinking of some other Richard Nixon? You know, one who didn’t resign the presidency in disgrace and probably only stayed out of prison himself because he was pardoned on the way out the door?
Anyway, Young is also under investigation for having ties to VECO, the same firm that bought Stevens some of the gifts that got him convicted, so Young can’t really call for Stevens’ resignation without resigning himself. But the Richard Nixon defense? Please.
Cosmetics
If you ever look to the sidebar on the left, you’ll notice that I’ve moved some stuff around. The link to my RSS feed is now closer to the top, mainly because I happen to think that Google Reader is the greatest it a long line of Google web applications that will eventually control my life. (I’m serious! I’m using Google Chrome right now!)
I’ve also eliminated the tag cloud, which never really looked the way I wanted it to, and replaced it with a list of blogs that I read and that you too should read. If you want to look for a specific tag you should just type it into the search box. I’m keeping the monthly archive links for now, but I may reevaluate in the upcoming weeks.
Economic Theory for Dummies
Barack Obama’s tax plan delivers broad-based tax relief to middle class families and cuts taxes for small businesses and companies that create jobs in America, while restoring fairness to our tax code and returning to fiscal responsibility.
In the past, [Palin] said, “Alaska was conceding too much, and chipping away at our sovereignty. And Alaska—we’re set up, unlike other states in the union, where it’s collectively Alaskans own the resources. So we share in the wealth when the development of these resources occurs.”
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