Is the MSM trying to suppress the vote in Colorado?
CNN and Time magazine ran breathless stories yesterday reporting that the McCain camp is giving up on Colorado. The reports relied on anonymous sources to gin up GOP anxiety about the battleground state.
You can read the Obamedia spin here.
Or you can read about Sarah Palin’s three-stop tour in the state yesterday that brought out thousands of Coloradans in Colorado Springs, Loveland, and Grand Junction.
Thousands showed up at the first two events (Colorado Springs attendees began lining up at 5:30am in the morning in bitter cold); security glitches apparently kept many who had waited for hours out of those venues.
KREX reports on the last stop, which broke records:
With just 15 days to go until Election Day, there was a record breaking crowd at Suplizio. According to Mesa County Republicans the rally drew 22,000 people making it the biggest in Grand Junction’s history. The speech was only about 15 minutes, but it touched on a variety of issues from energy independence to the economy.
The crowds have cleared out and now the army of 400 volunteers are tearing down. Mesa County is overwhelming red with registered Republicans outnumbering Democrats 2 to 1. The last event like this at Suplizio Field happened back in 1974 when President Ford came, but today it was all about Sarah. Her visit lasted less than 2 hours, but the scramble for our state’s 9 electoral votes is far from over. In politics a lot can happen in 15 days.
Exactly: It is far from over.
Words you won’t see in the Obamedia.
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More via Slapstick Politics:
“It’s not true,” McCain spokesman Tom Kise responded to PolitickerCO.com. “I don’t know what the hell they’re talking about.”
“We see the race tightening both internally and in public polling,” said Jill Hazelbaker, McCain’s national communications director, in a statement. “We are within striking distance in the key battleground states we need to win.”
“Insider” sources are always problematic, even for blogs. Is the campaign already cutting its losses? If so, then why waste a day of Palin blanketing the state, and announce plans for McCain appearing in Colorado later in the week? It makes little sense to believe Pennsylvania is part of the strategy (a state Bush failed to capture twice) but that Colorado is suddenly somehow off the table.
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Any lie, Any time, Any place. The new slogan for the MSM.
MSM: How can we help Obama today? What I can’t believe is that the us population is actualy buying it.
The media is clearly trying to suppress the conservative vote by engaging in morale suppression, via lies like this, rigged polls, and so on.
On October 21st, 2008 at 11:01 am, thirteen28 said:
Hopefully it will work in the opposite fashion. The dhimms will wake up on election day, decide they have it in the bag (and they had a little too much fun the night before to drag their sorry asses out of bed), roll over, and go back to sleep!
OT: John Kerry is an ASS!
it’s very far from over here in colorado. sarah palin had three rallies across the state yesterday that pulled 8,000 – 12,000 each and todd is still in town today.
the crowd at palin’s rally in loveland yesterday tells me the base here is fired up: Governor Palin in Loveland
I am so disappointed. Sarah will be here today, I got tickets for myself, my daughter and a good friend to go and yesterday my daughter came down with strep throat. We won’t be going. I am so disappointed.
They are doing the same thing with polls. Get 1,000 Mickey Mouses on the voter rolls as democrats and that gives them a reason to say democratic registration is greater than the GOPS so they have to “Adjust” the polls for the greater number of democrats giving Obama a larger lead then he would normally have.
Reminds me of election night 2000. “Florida is over folks, don’t even bother voting.”
I went to the rally yesterday in Grand Junction. Wow, she is very inspiring. Great speech and no teleprompter. This morning’s paper is estimating 22K people were there.
In August, they estimated 6500 for the messiah.
Here in Colorado we have about as many unaffiliated voters as registered repubs and dems. Obama is leading with the unaffiliateds but if McCain can hang in there and fire up the base he may just pull ahead.
This is why watching VA, NC, FL, and CO go red will be all the more…orgasmic.
The MSM is the PsyOps Corps for the Obama campaign.
Send some love to ACORN today
Representatives from the Cincinnati and Ohio chapters of Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) will be live chatting at noon today at cincinnati.com. The group is at the center of alleged voter fraud in Ohio.
Chat here
Its at Noon Today.
Things seem to be relatively normal in Colorado. There are more and more McCain/Palin stickers and yard signs being seen, so even if the McCain camp could have given up, there are still just too many Republicans here. But the odds of Berkeley majically voting GOP is highly remote.
There was a large influx of Indians and other Asians about two years ago, due to some tech companies closing their facilites in California and moving to Colorado. The muslims are finally starting to infiltrate the suburbs over the past few months. That creates “diversity” but doesnt change the voting balance.
However, the only odd thing I have really noticed over the past two weeks is a larger than usual number of Michigan and Iowa license plates on the freeways. Hmmm, dont know what that means.
Won’t their efforts backfire? I see the Republican voters as more likely to follow through on their duty to vote, just as they follow through on our duty to go to work.
You should see how the local news pukes are pumping up His Holiness B.O. It’s obviously a concerted effort.
Once again this will most likely backfire. Make democrats lazy and republicans motivated.
I voted McCain, yesterday.
William Amos: Thanks for the info. I just saw clips this morning of a couple of speakers (one of them Maxine Waters) at an earlier ACORN convention. These “non-partisan” activists who only care about “voting rights” were outright saying that they “need to help Obama win”, and in Waters’ case using a word that had to be “bleeped” on network TV in talking about President Bush (who, they apparantly forgot, is not up for reelection).
My blood is boiling, and my hand is itching to pull that lever (or mark that card, whatever) for McCain. If Obama wins, ACORN wins, and they don’t deserve the opportunity to gloat.
Obama’s already measuring the curtains and the media and all of his minions are helping.
I’m hoping, just HOPING this is all going to come back to haunt “the one”.
Spell-check in my brain re-activated:
apparantly=apparently.
What? The MSM LIE? No way.
It means a lot of former blue collar auto union workers have been recruited by the Colorado Employment Service. The same thing here in Wyoming. A lot of Michiganers (Michiganites?) moving up here to work. From the ones I’ve met, not real big on unions any longer, but still leaning Dem.
A lot of them don’t stay long, because they can’t sell their houses in Michigan, and can’t afford two house payments (or house payment and rent).
Hard working people though, and they complain about legal and illegals failing to assimilate.
A lot of people from the gulf coast up here too, but they struggle with the winter cold.
And we have a pretty tight housing market (at least here in NE Wyoming.)
SuzEQCitizen:
I know! I am shocked, SHOCKED, I tell you.
The only way they can “supress” us is if we allow them to. Ergo: DON’T!
And keep on
Found this on Free Republic
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2111101/posts
Posted on Tuesday, October 21, 2008 7:31:19 AM by Red in Blue PA
Several protesters tried to block the motorcade of Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin in Grand Junction, Colorado on Monday afternoon, but police dragged them out of the way in a dramatic encounter.
The incident — just feet from the car carrying Palin — was captured on video by CNN affiliate KKCO-TV.
(Excerpt) Read more at http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/10/21/protesters-try-to-disrupt-palin-motorcade/#more-25725
CNN Video http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/politics/2008/10/21/vo.palin.protesters.kkco
Drive By Media is Blocking Palin/McCain just like these protesters were.
For what it’s worth, both the MSM and the RNC acted unethically during the Republican primary.
The MSM lied to Floridians and told them that Mike Huckabee had left the state (implying he was conceding defeat) on the Friday before the primary. Huckabee had not left the state, and was still actively campaigning there, but the MSM cared more about getting McCain nominated then they cared about telling the truth.
Then the MSM began repeating the mantra of “John McCain is the presumptive nominee” less than three weeks after he came in 4th place in the Iowa Caucus, and long before he reached 1191 pledged delegates.
And less than four weeks after McCain’s 4th place finish in Iowa, the Vice Chairman of the Republican National Committee sent the message that resistance was futile…
So, in the week before Super Tuesday, the RNC was trying to pressure people to “unite behind John McCain” and repeat the mantra of “presumptive nominee”.
In my opinion, that is trying to manipulate a Presidential election, and has no place anywhere, especially in the RNC.
OT but there’s a picture of Obama kissing yet another blond. You’ll never guess who. Double eeeeewwwwww!
Opps – picture on Drudge – duh me!
Over the last month there has been an EXPLOSION of MCCAIN / PALIN yard signs.
In the suburbs McCain signs out-number obambi signs 3 to one, easily…
Even down by the stadium or near downtown McCain signs out-number obambi signs.
Colorado will remain a red state, the MSM and the polls are full of ‘it’.
Actually that photo looks more like Jungle Fever..
I am so glad I just recently moved to Colorado. After living in kool-aid sucking New York for years, it’s going to feel good to have my vote count for once.
On October 21st, 2008 at 11:15 am, rfjjulie said:
I’d love to see all candidates go without the teleprompter.
What would Obama do if he had to actually speak his own thoughts?
RS – roflmao
I haven’t watched cable news or read any newspapers in a long time. I use this new fangled thing called the internets. The Drudge page has all the links I’ll ever need for both Liberal and Conservative viewpoints and everything in between. Anybody that still relies on the MSM is woefully under-educated. I don’t need no Fairness Doctrine! I’m the Decider! How about you?
RS – I believe your comment is RACIST!!!!
Thanks, that would make sense. Normally I see California/New Mexico/Arizona or a mix of various tourist plates, but its not tourist season and they arent students. So wit a higher concentration of two states then a recruitment effort would fit.
s/wit/with/g
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Shooter:
Good to know. Someone who cares enough to put up a sign most likely cares enough to get out and vote, regardless of what the MSM tells them.
That gives me a
And hopefully, those who tried to help Obama win by “fair means or foul” will be
on Election Day!
‘Scuse me if I “overused” the smiley/frowny faces; just figured out how to do it! I’m like a kid with a new toy.
No, it pretty much is over. Just look at the polls.
I just havent figured out how the laughing/blushing ones are noted.
I watched the Loveland event on CSPAN, and those folks were fired up! About 11,000 in the arena, packed to the rafters.
Hank Williams Jr. sang the National Anthem, then his McCain-Palin Tradition, which rocked the house! Todd really got a kick out of that, too. Hank, very astute guy he is, was sporting a throwback Elway Broncos #7 jersey, and he gave the crowd a little reprise of the “raise the roof” dance from Sarah’s SNL appearance, and this crowd loved it, positively ROARING!
Sarah was terrific, and the crowd ate up every word, every gesture, and yes even a wink. Piper Palin is a joy to watch too. She is really having fun, not intimidated by the crowds at all. What a cute kid, a natural crowd pleaser just like her mother. No Greek Tragedy set required, Sarah brings her own energy and presence.
It’s plain that I agree with the message and policies that Sarah is promoting, but I’m endlessly fascinated by HOW she delivers this message. Her stump appearances have gotten more effective over the last month. Her timing and sense of crowd energy have become even better lately. No matter what happens, Sarah is here to stay, and I’m really going to enjoy seeing her career advance, however it does. Let’s hope and pray that Sarah is our next Vice President. What a VP she will be for our nation!
Obama is well spoken. This is not synonymous with intelligent or able. Frankly, I am not convinced that the “Messiah” is any brighter than the current occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania. H e has no record upon which to judge his veracity or ability. The press has willfully refused to perform even a cursory investigation of “The One.”
I was sitting with my wife yesterday watching ABC news. I asked her if ABC was in the bag for Obama. She, a noted skeptic, agreed. I asked her if the TV networks could be trusted for honest information. She said no. I asked her why we were still tuning them in every night.
She said they could lie about some things and not about others.
Until she turns off Charlie Gibson, , I have no hope.
Omu:
Only if we let people like you discourage us before we have even had our chance to vote. Telling people “it’s over” for their candidate before the election has happened is borderline voter intimidation. In fact, I sometimes suspect that’s really what some of these “polls” are intended to do.
I don’t believe the polls anymore, not after the last few elections. Just look at the RCP polls, all over the place. With 12 point swings in one day, I am not buying them any more.
So was Hitler, Leinin, and Mao.
So much for well spoken.
Rabidsquirrel:
Thanks for showing me the “winky” and “sunglasses” faces.
right back atcha!
I try to repeat statements that others have made, but I am also a Coloradan, and the Loveland Event Center’s capacity could not hold everyone that wanted to hear Palin speak for 20 minutes yesterday.
Downtown is pretty blue. My husband has a McCain/Palin magnet sign on his Jeep and was harrassed and jeered driving by one of the Gen X breakfast hotspots near Coors Field. They even came out into the street.
And Golden is plastered with Obama signs, plus the local Dems – Udall, etc.
Our neighborhood in Arvada seems to be mostly McCain, except for the firefighter on the corner who just added an Obama sign and a pro-union sign.
We’ve just had too many people from the coasts move here during the past 15-20 years. They estimate at least a third of the population has moved here since 1990. When people ask me where I’m from and I tell them I’m a native, I get lots of exclamations about how rare that is.
So then send her to an Obama rally, instead.
Imagine my surprise to hear this headline teased on local radio this AM after I spent my Monday driving 45 min to the Loveland, CO rally, standing outside in “brisk” fall CO weather with a better than half-mile long line behind us, with my ears still ringing from the thunderous cheers and ovations and several fond memories of the tireless VP hopefuls marathon day still spinning in my head. The two young daughters of a friend of a friend in our group got handshales and autographs. It was an awe-inspiring day. I was part of history in CO yesterday, and I plan on being part of history again on 11/4.
Perhaps the MSM have realized that the hysterical attacks on Sarah Palin were a bit too naked. Now they’re being more subtle with their subterfuge.
um, read: “handshakes.” Sorry.
Oh, you mean the same polls that showed Kerry had won in 2004 too?
Sorry, ain’t buyin’ it.
Wow, you’re a Texan?? (I always like that agrument and then I show the Pioneers the 1845 map of Colorado)
Used to be Arvada/80/Sheridan years ago
Everyone come on down, A-Basin is already open for Snowboard season! Its gonna be a great winter!
BlameAmericaLast:
OOOOHHH, Snap!
This post makes no sense. If anyone will be “suppressed” it will be Dems who get complacent and already have a history of not voting. There have already been reports of Obama volunteers’ complacency in Pennsylvania, with the polls showing such a wide margin.
If the Feds had a dollar for every time a poll was incorrect, they would have had plenty of money for a bailout bill.
Ignore the polls, ignore the MSM, ignore the Dems and their hacks. DRIVE ON and keep the faith.
We are winning. The signs are there. Keep pounding away on the “spread the wealth” issue. It’s a “Mcacca Moment.” It is a dagger and the other side knows it!
riiiight…I especially like it when he falls back into his emotionally charged radical black preacher speak. He starts thumpin, and swaying. GAG! Hallalujah!!!!!
The marijuana crop is especially potent this year and hash is more prevelent. Yeh, lets just call it “supression through complacency”…
Red State Sceptic:
Agreed: it makes no sense to say to yourself, “My candidate is sure to win (whoever he/she is), why should I bother to go out and vote for him/her”.
However, if any Obama supporters feel that way, it is due to over-confidence, not active attempts to discourage them from bothering (such as a declaration before the election has happened that it is “over” for Obama).
Then your vote for Obama isn’t necessary. You should just stay home.
A lot of Michiganers (Michiganites?)
That’s Michiganders.
remember how the libs were screaming about the military supporting Obama ????
turns out that was another lib lie
the entire Obama campaign strategy is predicated on the Moslem practice of ‘taqiyyah’. Conceal one’s friendships and allies, wealth etc when there is fear of danger….blah blah blah.
Disinformation and a soft tie to truth is the hallmark of this miscreant.
He is unelectable. But should the American dhimmi be so cowardly as to do so, this self-proclaimed Messiah will unleash more than taqiyyah on American society. He has already promised to stand with Moslems if things get “bad”.
What exactly does this confused man mean?
It aint over til its over and even then, the counterforces of election year(s) politics will begin to erode the base of the victor.
Great to be back.
Bear1909 out.
Lately I’ve come to appreciate the term ‘Downstream Media‘ instead, as in ‘Don’t drink the water ‘downstream from the Herd.’
O/T
I like when people in San Diego and L.A. get up in arms about ‘clean water’. They dont realize that their water comes from the Colorado River and has already been processed through probably 50 waste water treatment plants and thousands of Herds before they drink it.
And regarding San Francisco wanting to name a waste treatment plant for George Bush. I personally would be honored!
“Just cleaning up the crap that Liberals produce…”
That might work if it was a little closer to the election. She could work the crowd and then everyone would be too sick to go to the polls.
Right Click Properties: to see how they are done.
But I am no longer shocked about the stunts of the media and I never should have been. Old Uncle Walter Cronkite was a lying SOB along with the rest of them forty years ago. We just had less means to double check the rats.
On October 21st, 2008 at 12:38 pm, bear1909 said:
The erosion of the base will be the least of our problems. We’re going to be too busy dealing with all the riots if That One loses.
Stock up on ammo, water, and canned goods.
Colorado conservatives have plenty of reasons to vote this year (tax increases, right-to-work, etc.). So any conservative here who doesn’t vote just because stupid CNN and Time tell you it’s all over is no less than a moe-ron.
Thanks! didnt even think of that
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Beware people!! Your boy Squirrel gots no mad skillz now.
AHHHHH HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.. just caught that.. oops
Your boy Squirrel gots mo mad skillz now.
Michiganders.
Yes, I am in Michigan and the paper regularly has “Help Wanted” ads running for out of state positions, and not just management, either.
It was interesting in Colorado Springs yesterday. The media is definitely trying to change the landscape. Just one example, 98.1 FM reported yesterday that there was a “rally” at the Sky Sox stadium where Sarah Palin spoke. If you didn’t already know it was Palin speaking there, you would have been none the wiser what the “rally” was about at all.
Jvette:
Good comeback to tre!
Sorry you can’t make it to the rally you WANTED to go to, and hope your tyke feels better soon.
Exactly why I never pay attention to polls. They are engineered to provoke that sentiment. They are patently false measurements.
I was at the Colorado Springs rally yesterday and I can vouch that virtually non-existent crowd control caused many people to arrive late or not get in at all.
I was in line by 7:00 a.m. and barely got in by 8:50 a.m., shortly before Gov. Palin began speaking. Some news reports said there were many empty seats. It’s true; by the time many of us got in there the Secret Service had closed off the seating sections and we had to go down to field level.
Look guys, this isn’t just CNN. Our local NBC affiliate in Denver, KUSA (9 News), has this story:
Denver Post reported there were 10,000+ at the Springs rally.
Then this:
I was at the rally in Loveland and there were empty seats, but they were bad ones behind the press corps. The Budweiser Event Center has 7,500 seats, so do the math if they counted 500 empty ones. There was easily 8,000 people in the arena, with 2,000 more stuck in an overflow building next door.
This is a concerted effort on the part of the media to downplay the crowd sizes. In the three Colorado events, Palin easily pulled 40,000 people.
http://www.9news.com/news/article.aspx?storyid=102187&catid=339
I saw that too. How the he## did they get public money? It’s like public radio and public tv. All are far left-wing tools, paid for by US! How do we get these leeches off the dole, using MY money to fund their antics? I am not being represented here. Do we need another Boston Tea Party? To think that another huge chuck of money was earmarked for ACORN in the bailout bill for G#d’s sake…it just infuriates me. I am starting to think I should withhold my taxes. Or pay a bit less than they ask for and tell them I am deducting what they would have given to ACORN because I don’t want them using my money.
It is entirely possible that the media blitz of ads, plus his arrogance, plus the gaffes of his running mate will start to turn people off. They might get so sick of hearing the constant barrage that they will stay home on election day. It might be that way for McCain supporters too, but I believe they will still vote because of the firm belief that Obama could destroy our country.
Happyscrapper:
“How the he## did they get public money”?
Excellent question. I say they should be first on the list of any tax cuts to be made after our next President takes office (although I doubt that’ll happen if it’s Obama).
They are partisan, and they helped precipitate the current financial crisis by bullying banks into giving loans to people who could/would not pay them back. (Although I also fault banks for being so quick to cave in).
Nice try. We know the polls are accurate, so we will lay down and die…NOT.
I second that NOT.
I just gotta do it one more time:
Colorado got a little redder (and Illinois a little bluer–blech!) when I moved this summer. I missed Sarah in CS yesterday because of work. I registered when I got my driver license (I had to show my passport) and know my polling location. Filled out my little cheat-sheet for the Ammendments and Propositions. Got my yard sign and vehicle sticker and haven’t gotten any harassment. I’m cautiously optomistic.
I guess this is the code phrase now. Earlier this morning, I flipped over to CNN and Dana Bash was reporting on the McCain rally.
She closed with ‘There were a lot of empty seats in the arena so I guess the McCain campaign was expecting a lot more people than were here.‘
I though it was an odd thing to report at the time.
I listened to this same optimistic talk in 1996 and watched Dole get his head handed to him by the Clintax.
I just sent $250 to Sarah hoping it will help, but I’m not going to suffer through 4 years with ODS for Obamarx.
If they lose, it’s what we get for putting a moderate up against a Marxist. Only a committed conservative could have drawn a bright line around his liberalism.
McCain has set himself up with his I’m with Bush over 90% of the time and Obama is an honorable man.
No communist has ever been honorable!
OT…
Managed to vote yesterday. First day of early voting here. And since I drive a truck and won’t be around on Nov 4th…
All I had to do was focus on Gov Palin’s name as I cast my vote and I felt much better.
“It’s not true,” McCain spokesman Tom Kise responded to PolitickerCO.com. “I don’t know what the hell they’re talking about.”
So true about CNN and Time Magazine, soooo true.
Just one?
On October 21st, 2008 at 2:09 pm, happyscrapper said:
Yes.
So true!! If only we had someone like Newt or Jindahl as our candidate! A true conservative who is NOT in the Congress, could make the case so much better than someone who is afraid of alienating his cronies and won’t stand up for conservative values. McCain just doesn’t have what it takes to win an election. Having said that…he may win in spite of himself. We will see.
Okay, happyscrapper, here ya go:
Heard a lot of good things about Jindal; he could have my vote. I hope McCain wins “in spite of himself”, too. The question is, will it be in spite of himself, or because of Saracuda? I can tell you that I’ll be voting for her as much as him.
I want to start a rumor for ACORN:
November 5th is election day.
Hammer, nail, head. This election is far from over. I’m a democrat and a Raiders fan, so I’m used to defeat being snatched from the jaws of victory. I’ll feel secure when McCain concedes and not a minute sooner.
I couldn’t disagree more. I trust that you’re not spreading this around to democrats and left leaning independents. This race is so far from over.
Headline — Nov. 3rd, 2008 —
“McCain and Palin Suspending Campaign After Tomorrow’s Election”
They are just dumb enough to believe you!
Lies and distractions from the Obama Campaign and their supporters? Noooo…say it ain’t so!