Two wolves.
It appears here that Obama supporters are not welcomed in the UDF stores. Here's the link to the story that I read in the The Other paper this morning.
Brunner's office has created the resource www.AvoidTheLine.org hosted on her state Web site to address the fundamental questions voters have about the election.
The site helps voters register and allows them to look up registration information and fill out an absentee ballot application to avoid congestion at the polls on Election Day. It also has links to a sample statewide ballot and other key information.
Voters can enter their personal information in fields that automatically create a registration or application form that then can be printed and sent in. Brunner is making the widget available for other groups to put on their Web sites as well.
Ohio also is one of a handful of states working with Google to allow voters to look up their polling location through www.maps.google.com/vote , with links to other voting information.
Brunner also launched a Judicial Voter Guide on her Web site to help voters compare biographical and other information about judicial candidates running Nov. 4.
http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2008/10/01/web.html?type=rss&cat=&sid=101&title=BrunnerlaunchesWebresourcetohelpvoters
http://www.866ourvote.org
London - US Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama enjoys the support of large parts of the global population and is seen as preferable to his Republican rival, John McCain, a poll published by the BBC suggested Wednesday.
Backing for Obama is, not surprisingly, strongest in European countries, but otherwise ranges from just 9 per cent in India to 82 per cent in Kenya, where the 47-year-old Illinois senator was born.
The BBC survey, conducted by international polling institute GlobeScan, questioned 22,000 people in 22 countries around the world, and asked how an Obama presidency would change the US's relations with other countries.
On average, 49 per cent of those surveyed preferred Obama, compared with 12 per cent for McCain, to win the race for the White House.
An average of 46 per cent also believed that relations between the US and other nations would improve under Obama, compared with only 20 per cent expecting the same outcome from a McCain presidency.
The countries most optimistic about an Obama presidency included America's key NATO allies. Support in Canada was 69 per cent, in France 62 per cent, in Germany 61 per cent, in Britain 54 per cent and in Italy 64 per cent.
In Australia 62 per cent favoured Obama over McCain and in Africa, 71 per cent of Nigerians backed him while in Kenya, Obamas's country of birth, support stood at over 80 per cent.
A significant percentage of those surveyed in Russia, Turkey, Egypt - and other countries - did not express a preference between the candidates and expected little or no change in relations, the poll found.
The survey predates the Democratic and Republican parties' conventions and the nomination of Sarah Palin as McCain's running mate.
By John Garth
Barack Obama shrugged off attacks by Sarah Palin as he addressed 10,000 people in a 'sermon on the mount' that showed him undaunted by his Republican rival's new running mate.
The Democratic presidential candidate appeared unscathed by the brickbats hurled at him at the Republican convention as he gave a self-assured performance on a sun-drenched hillside in the city of Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
One reason he may have seemed so easy about the insults is financial - his campaign coffers had swelled by $10million (£5.67million) overnight after Mrs Palin's speech.
Digs by John McCain's running mate - who calls herself 'a pitbull in lipstick' - had the unintended effect of prompting an outpouring of money to the Obama campaign from more than 130,000 donors.
'We're up over the previous record and the number is still climbing the more Palin's attacks are covered on cable and network news,' an Obama spokesman said.
Mr Obama told supporters in Pennsylvania he had been called worse things on the basketball court.
'They've spent the entire two nights attacking me or extolling John McCain's biography, which is fine,' Mr Obama said.
'They can use their convention time any way they want, but you can't expect that I'd be surprised by attacks from Republicans.'
He told workers on a factory tour: 'You're hearing about John McCain, and he's got a compelling biography as a POW. You're hearing a lot about me, most of which isn't true.
'What you're not hearing is a lot about you.'
Republicans were only going on the offensive because they do not have any real ideas or concrete plans to help improve the lives of ordinary Americans, he said.
His comments came after Mrs Palin mocked Mr Obama's education, career choices, legislative record, policy proposals, speaking skills and ability to attract large crowds.
'What does he actually seek to accomplish after he's done turning back the waters and healing the planet?' she asked.
Mr Obama called the attacks 'not that big of a deal'.
'I've been called worse on the basketball court,' he said.
Asked exactly what he has been called on the basketball court, Mr Obama laughed and replied: 'You'd have to bleep it out.'
http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1052633/Obama-shrugs-pitbull-Palins-attack-sermon-mount.html
Fraser Nelson
The stature of the blogs is a striking feature of the American elections. There are more of them, and some of the best journalists now working exclusively online (which means there are several news cycles in a day, and newspapers are outdated by 9am). Sites like Politico have done a talent swoop; the Drudge Report is checked several times a day by most American journalists, used as a radar. Now there are attack dog sites: scores of them, eager to tear into the other side. The Daily Kos – described as “extreme left” by Fox – is one. But others, less well-known, go even further.
But in going after Palin’s family – with rumours about the parentage of Trig, her youngest child with Down syndrome – the blogs may now be starting to rebound on Obama. The Republicans have a strategy here of the “false proxy” where they say it’s the Democrats – not the blogs – which are mud-raking. Fred Thomson used this trick last night, effectively suggesting Obama is coming after Palin’s family. Obama immediately spotted the potency of this charge and – as James says – elegantly distanced himself from some attacks. But I hear the McCain team’s strategy today is to accuse Obama of a sexist double-standard, calling for peace on the record but sending out the attack dogs meanwhile. Belief in the vicious nature of the other side is a major stirring factor in campaigns. “Remember,” said one (female) strategist at a fringe event I was at, “the left would eat your two eyeballs as grapes if they could. So if you say ‘we can win’ you are complicit in an Obama victory. You must say ‘we will win’”.
In the 2004 presidential campaign it was the 527s, independent attack dogs with websites and TV adverts, which mopped up the attention. Kerry’s biggest single failure was not taking them seriously, specifically the Swift Boat Veterans For Truth. This time, it’s the blogosphere which is doing all the running, and the Republicans see a way of turning the weight and momentum of Democrat-supporting blogs against Obama. The McCain camp will release a new advert at 1pm today, addressing the attacks. Stay tuned.
P.S. Joe Lieberman will today hold a news conference calling on Obama to condemn Robert Wexler, a congressman from Florida, who described the Palin pick as an “affront to all Jewish Americans” because she supported Pat Buchanan for the presidency and “Pat Buchanan is a Nazi sympathiser”. It was a bizarre attack, and one McCain could have happily ignored. But the Republicans will today put Wexley centre stage, seeking to portray him as an Obama proxy and thus the face of Obama’s double standards.
http://www.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/2057476/mccain-to-use-the-democratsupporting-blogs-against-obama.thtml
Former Republican Sen. Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island will be stumping around Florida for Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama over the next two days.
The GOP moderate who voted aganst the Iraq war and left the party following his 2006 re-election defeat is scheduled to be in Fort Myers, Sarasota and St. Petersburg today, and the Villages and Orlando on Wednesday.
"This election is about unifying the American people no matter what party they identify with, and Sen. Chafee represents one of many Republicans and independents that support Sen. Obama and believe he is the best candidate to bring this country the change it needs," Obama Florida director Steve Schale said in a statement.
Here's the info. for the Central Florida stops:
- 10:30 a.m. Wednesday: Orlando City Hall Steps, 400 S. Orange Ave.
- 2:15 p.m. Wednesday: Bourbon Street Restaurant, 1101 Main St., The Villages, FL
I came across this video and when I saw this guy my mouth dropped to the floor, You have to see it to believe it, so here I am to share it. . . . .
http://www.tuvotoestufuturo.com/2008/08/26/si-se-puede-the-cuban-barack/
This is a comment from a supporter from another site and I just had to copy and paste here to share!
Posted by: Fred App
March 10, 2008, 10:30AM
"Obama should also highlight what Rendell said yesterday on "Meet The Press." Russert asked him how Clinton can say on one hand that he's not qualified to be president, and then on the other say she'd want him as her running mate. And Rendell replied something along the lines that Clinton was more qualified than Obama, but that Obama was qualified, and that saying he wasn't was just "rhetoric."
That's similar to what Bill Clinton said when asked the same question. He called it "just politics."
Obama should harp on the fact that they're making personal attacks that even they don't believe, meaning they don't mind lying just to win an election. Maybe that's politics to them (and to a lot of people, Republicans and -- apparently -- Josh and Greg and David Kurtz included), but the reason Obama is generating so much enthusiasm is that he believes it's possible to play an honest brand of politics and still win.
And you know what? Despite the current narrative in the mainstream media and the mainstream blogosphere, he's right. He IS winning. Only in the deluded world of Hillaryland is she the front-runner."
