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jenmito Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-03-08 03:51 PM
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I think Obama should spend some more time in NC
Does anyone know if he's even going to campaign there before Tuesday? I'm afraid that he's taking it for granted and Hillary's catching up, especially with THREE Clintons campaigning there! I understand he wants to do well in IN, but if he loses NC or wins by just a few points, won't that look bad for him?
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gateley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-03-08 03:55 PM
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1. SELF DELETE - I'm an idiot. nt
Edited on Sat May-03-08 04:00 PM by gateley
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jenmito Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-03-08 03:56 PM
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2. You mean she was there yesterday? And won't be there again? Hillary's
catching up according to the latest Zogby poll compared to just YESTERDAY.
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gateley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-03-08 04:00 PM
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6. You know something? I'm going to delete my post
and P-U-L-L myself away from DU to go get something to eat. I think I have the vapors.
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jenmito Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-03-08 04:01 PM
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10. "The vapors"...
I haven't heard that in years! :hi:
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gabeana Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-03-08 03:58 PM
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3. I could be wrong but maybe
the campaign is pretty confident in NC could be their internals are good and trying to close it out in Indiana,
just speculation on my part
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jenmito Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-03-08 04:00 PM
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7. Yeah, could be. But the polls show it closing. Bill Clinton is doing like 7 stops a day there.
I hope Obama isn't over-confident. A loss there would be VERY harmful strategically.
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MattNC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-03-08 04:03 PM
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12. He is
coming to many small towns. But, for example, at one of his campaign stops, many of my friends went and they're Obama supporters. It's a former president speaking, and many will go, listen, even if they have no plans to vote for her.
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jenmito Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-03-08 04:05 PM
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16. Good point...
I hope that's it. :hi:
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WillyT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-03-08 04:00 PM
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8. I Agree...
That's probably what's going on.

:hi:
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MattNC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-03-08 03:59 PM
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4. calm down
He was here yesterday. Michelle was here yesterday, and will be here again on Monday. Early voting is favoring Obama heavily, and his ground game here should be much better than Clintons. If he can win Indiana, he will put major pressure on her to drop out.
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Bensthename Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-03-08 04:01 PM
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9. If she loses IN and NC she is done..
Her money will dry up and MSM will right her off.
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jenmito Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-03-08 04:03 PM
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13. I know! And I hope it happens!
I just keep seeing the Clintons on CNN all over NC campaigning on and on and on. Fake accents and everything.
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jenmito Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-03-08 04:02 PM
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11. Thanks for that...
I feel a little better. You know more than me about that. :hi:
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Bensthename Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-03-08 04:00 PM
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5. Obama Vs. 3 Clintons = I bet on Obama..
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jenmito Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-03-08 04:05 PM
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15. It'll be a great victory for him. He's running against the most popular Dem. name there IS!
And he's beating them ALL! I bet on Obama, too. :hi:
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my3boyz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-03-08 04:04 PM
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14. I agree! nt
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jenmito Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-03-08 04:07 PM
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17. I'm just so sick of seeing Hillary with her arm out and Bill with his finger-pointing, both of them
pandering and lying, but fooling some people.
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PBS Poll-435 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-03-08 04:07 PM
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18. I think Rev. Wright should spend some more time in NC
:rofl:
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jenmito Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-03-08 04:09 PM
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19. You wish. That's all you got?!
:rofl:
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graycem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-03-08 04:09 PM
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20. It seems like
they're going back and forth. I can hardly keep up at the moment with the way they're landing all over the place. Like Hillary's in one state right now and has an evening rally in the other. I'm sure he's doing the same?
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jenmito Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-03-08 04:11 PM
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21. I hope so.
:hi:
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graycem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-03-08 04:14 PM
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23. He's good...
They know how important it is. They must be so exhausted. They both had a super late night last night, several stops today, and busy weekends. Geeze, they need a vacation. :D
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jenmito Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-03-08 04:16 PM
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24. Yeah, they DO have good sense AND good organization. I guess the coverage
is so pro-Hillary lately that all I see is video of her "connecting" with voters and then commentary on how Rev. Wright will affect Obama. :eyes:
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graycem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-03-08 04:31 PM
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26. That's surely true..
They have to keep control over their horse race narrative you know. ;-)

I am watching CNN right now and they are at least going back and forth between the two of them. MSNBC is really "FOXing" up, they replayed that lousy Dan Abrams "Rev.Wright is a scary black preacher" that aired last night, so I turned it here instead.

And I tried to watch the J-J NC Dinner last night on C-SPAN, and they only had the first half up, which was her speech, and they give you an option to buy it. I guess it would've been too much trouble to show a bit of both of them. *sigh*

Surely it'll crop up on YouTube. Lousy biased fake reporters.
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jenmito Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-03-08 05:45 PM
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27. Yeah, I saw that Abrams replay. I can't believe what they're doing! But
C-Span DID show the entire Obama speech. Did you watch it on tv? I did.
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graycem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-03-08 08:22 PM
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28. Yeah, he was on top of his game...
that's why I wanted to show it to someone else so, so bad and I go to the CSPAN site and find they only have the first 28 minutes (Hillary's speech) that can be viewed. To see the full version you have to buy it. I just think that's biased, but I guess we'll have to get used to it. *sigh*
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jenmito Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-03-08 09:17 PM
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29. I can't believe that c-span would charge people to view the whole thing!
I never heard of such a thing from c-span!
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graycem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-03-08 10:11 PM
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31. Well not to view it online...
You have to purchase the dvd to get the rest of the content. At least that is how it seems.
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jenmito Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-03-08 10:31 PM
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32. Are you SURE? Maybe you somehow got to the wrong link or something? I saw the entire thing on
c-span and I also tuned into c-span online once in awhile when the sound was bad on tv (but of course, it was poor sound there, too, but it played (for free).
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graycem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-03-08 10:36 PM
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34. Yes, they do stream live
Edited on Sat May-03-08 10:37 PM by graycem
but when you go to view it now (after the event is over), it's in the archives/video library, and it's there how I said.. just the first 28 minutes. Then you have to buy the DVD. I dug around for quite a while and didn't come across any other links for the NC JJ, so I think this is the case.
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jenmito Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-03-08 10:39 PM
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35. Maybe you're right. Maybe they do that for "special events"? I know I've watched archived videos
of Washington Journal and the whole thing was free. :shrug:
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graycem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-03-08 10:40 PM
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36. Well it's sucking.. hopefully
someone will at least put the entire thing on YouTube.
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graycem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-03-08 10:41 PM
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37. BTW, did you see the thread about the
LA special election? Don Cazayoux the Dem won, and that should mean another SD for Obama, plus, proved Obama/Wright didn't hurt the downticket. :party:
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jenmito Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-03-08 10:43 PM
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39. Yes, I saw that!
I think that's the most important news on this board tonight! :bounce:
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graycem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-03-08 10:45 PM
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40. It is huge!
The real huge, and not HUGH!!1111 :P
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jenmito Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-03-08 10:59 PM
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41. Do you remember me misspelling "huge" here before?
Because I have, but is that why you're saying that? Or am I being paranoid? :D
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graycem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-03-08 11:11 PM
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43. Oh no.. not at all..
I just saw the inside joke going around about it being "freeperish" Ah, that's fine, you can be paranoid, I'll be the schizo. :P
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jenmito Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-04-08 12:21 PM
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44. Oh, ok...
Edited on Sun May-04-08 12:21 PM by jenmito
I can't believe I misspelled it "hugh" one time. It didn't look right! :D There's nothing wrong with being schizo. :P
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jenmito Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-03-08 10:42 PM
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38. Oh, ok...I just went to the link you're talking about and you're exactly right. Strange!
Sorry! :hi:
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NorthCarolina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-03-08 04:13 PM
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22. Obama was here in Charlotte, NC, at the Cricket Arena last night (Friday 5-2)
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jenmito Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-03-08 04:17 PM
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25. Was that for the JJ Dinner? And is there one in IN tonight?
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KoKo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-03-08 09:50 PM
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30. He and Hillary have been ALL OVER NC.! Last night at big Dem Party Jeff/Jackson Dinner
and speaking to full houses all over NC. Plus Bill and Michelle have been handling the smaller venues.

It's been GREAT! We couldn't get Kerry here after he announced with Edwards! So we are inundated with the two Candidates.
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jenmito Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-03-08 10:33 PM
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33. Well, THAT'S good to hear!
:hi:
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aaaaaa5a Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-03-08 11:06 PM
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42. I Think You Have A Point....
In the PA primary many critics wondered why Obama only spent 1 day in Philadelphia.

Although he won the city and the AA turnout was good. It wasn't spectacular. Some observers believe he left as many as a 100,000 votes "on the table" in the city.

In Indiana, there was a newspaper report that some "black areas" are upset that he hasn't spent anytime there.

And while I haven't been "logging his hours" it does seem he is spending more time in Indiana while Clinton is splitting her time more equally.

We just have to trust that he knows what he is doing. After-all so far he had done pretty well.
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