One month out, who are you voting for?

[SoCalBronco]

The other thread was based on who people thought would win with 30 days out. But who are you supporting 30 days out from the election?



As most people know, I intend to vote for Mr. McCain.

What about you?

My personal guess is about 80% of WRP subforum regulars are supporting Mr. Obama and about 65% of the board as a whole are also supporting Mr. Obama.

[SJ Bronco]

Im voting for Tina Fey......and her running mate...Hotness

[Doggcow]

Im gonna write in Jay Cutler

[Bronco Bob]

No option for the Green Party candidate Cynthia McKinney?

[baja]

I'm voting for McCain

[L.A. BRONCOS FAN]

My personal guess is about 80% of WRP subforum regulars are supporting Mr. Obama and about 65% of the board as a whole are also supporting Mr. Obama.

It looks like Bush was a uniter after all. ;)

[L.A. BRONCOS FAN]

Anyway, I was originally planning to write in Gore or Kucinich, but the Palin pick tipped me into Obama's camp.

[L.A. BRONCOS FAN]

GOP Strategists Whisper Fears Of Greater Losses in November

By Chris Cillizza and Shailagh Murray
washingtonpost.com Staff Writer and Washington Post Staff Writer

Saturday, October 4, 2008; A11

With the party already struggling to generate enthusiasm for its brand, Republican strategists fear that an outpouring of public anger generated by Congress's struggle to pass a rescue package for the financial industry may contribute to a disaster at the polls for the GOP (http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/U.S.+Republican+Party?tid=informline) in November.

"The crisis has affected the entire ticket," said Jan van Lohuizen, a Republican consultant who handled the polling for President Bush (http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/George+W.+Bush?tid=informline)'s reelection campaign. "The worse the state's economy, the greater the impact."

Republicans are trying to defend at least 18 House seats in Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Florida, economic trouble spots that double as election battlegrounds. Rising unemployment, the meltdown in the housing market, and a credit crunch besieging consumers and manufacturers alike were factors in Sen. John McCain (http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/members/m000303/)'s decision Thursday to pull campaign resources out of Michigan. The McCain campaign's exit from the state leaves a pair of vulnerable Republicans, Reps. Tim Walberg (http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/Tim+Walberg?tid=informline) and Joe Knollenberg (http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/members/k000288/), with a weakened party infrastructure heading into Nov. 4. Attempting to sound optimistic, Knollenberg, who opposed the bailout bill on Monday but supported a revised version yesterday, said simply, "I am going to fight harder."

In the Senate, where Democrats have been on offense all year as they try to attain a filibuster-proof, 60-seat majority, Republican incumbents are suddenly teetering in North Carolina, Kentucky and Georgia because of the economic crisis, according to several GOP strategists closely tracking the contests.

The pessimism in the GOP ranks reflects a striking shift in momentum in the four weeks since the Republican National Convention (http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/Republican+National+Convention?tid=informline), when Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/Sarah+Palin?tid=informline) made her national debut and rallied conservatives, helping to fuel the perception that longer-shot Democratic targets were drifting out of reach.

"If you turn the clock back two or two and half weeks, you could make a plausible argument that if a couple of things go our way we will lose three to four Senate races," said one Republican strategist. "Now we will lose six to eight." Polling in most Senate races over the past 14 days has shown a five-point decline for the Republican candidate, the strategist said.

The picture in the House is similar. The generic ballot test -- a traditional measure of broad voter attitudes -- has also moved decisively in Democrats' direction in recent days. The latest NBC (http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/NBC+Universal+Inc.?tid=informline)-Wall Street Journal (http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/The+Wall+Street+Journal?tid=informline) and Associated Press (http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/The+Associated+Press?tid=informline) polls showed voters favoring a generic Democratic candidate for Congress over a generic Republican by 13 points, while a recent Time magazine (http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/Time+Inc.?tid=informline) poll gave Democrats a 46 percent to 36 percent edge.

GOP operatives said the party's declining fortunes are rooted in a series of events over the past two weeks, including McCain's decision to suspend his campaign in order to help broker a deal on the rescue plan and Republican opposition that doomed the bill in a House vote on Monday. Those incidents helped reinforce voter impressions that Washington is broken and that Republicans bear the brunt of the blame, the party insiders said.

In the most recent Washington Post (http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/The+Washington+Post+Company?tid=informline)-ABC News (http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/ABC+Inc.?tid=informline) national poll, more than half of all voters said they were "very concerned" that the failure of the first bailout vote would cause a "severe economic decline." By a ratio of 2 to 1, they blamed the legislations' defeat on Republicans.

(http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/Neil+Newhouse?tid=informline)Neil Newhouse (http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/Neil+Newhouse?tid=informline), a partner in the Republican polling firm Public Opinion Strategies, echoed van Lohuizen's sentiment. "The bailout crisis has had a corrosive effect on the national political environment, and that impacts not just John McCain, but GOP candidates up and down the ticket," he said.

The proximity to the election added to the chaos on Capitol Hill (http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/Capitol+Hill?tid=informline) this week as lawmakers sought to pass a $700 billion package to stabilize banks and financial markets. In the House, most vulnerable Republicans opposed the version that failed on Monday, as well as the revamped legislation that passed easily yesterday. But in the Senate, which voted Wednesday, just two vulnerable Republicans, Sens. Elizabeth Dole (http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/members/d000601/) (N.C.) and Roger Wicker (http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/members/w000437/) (Miss.), opposed the bill (along with the only Democrat who is seen as endangered, Louisiana Sen. Mary Landrieu (http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/members/l000550/)).

Seven Republicans who are being targeted for defeat by Democrats backed the plan: Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/members/m000355/) (Ky.), and Sens. Saxby Chambliss (http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/members/c000286/) (Ga.), Ted Stevens (http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/members/s000888/) (Alaska); Norm Coleman (http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/members/c001057/) (Minn.); Gordon Smith (http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/members/s001142/) (Ore.), Susan Collins (http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/members/c001035/) (Maine) and John E. Sununu (http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/members/s001078/) (N.H.).

Some states that have been hit particularly hard economically saw fractures within their delegations. In Michigan, Knollenberg switched his vote from no on Monday to yes on Friday, while Walberg voted no both times. Asked whether he changed his mind out of concern for his reelection, Knollenberg shrugged and responded, "This is politics." But he added that supporting the bailout "is really what's best for the community."

In North Carolina, the package was opposed by both vulnerable GOP incumbents, Dole and Rep. Robin Hayes (http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/members/h001029/). Dole's Democratic challenger, state Sen. Kay Hagan, also announced her opposition. Rep. Sue Myrick (http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/members/m001134/), one of the few Republicans in the state whose seat is considered relatively secure, was one of 25 GOP members who switched from no to yes. "I may lose this race over this vote," Myrick said. "But that's okay, because I believe in my heart that I'm doing the right thing."

(http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/Phil+Singer?tid=informline)Phil Singer (http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/Phil+Singer?tid=informline), a former aide to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/members/c001041/)'s presidential campaign who is currently advising several Democratic Senate candidates, said the current financial crisis provided a new opportunity to remind voters that President Bush remains the leader of the Republican Party. "The 'GOP candidate equals George Bush' argument was growing stale in the absence of any fresh proof points," said Singer.

(http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/members/c001046/)Rep. Eric Cantor (http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/members/c001046/) (Va.), the GOP's chief deputy whip, urged Republicans to go home and talk about kitchen-table issues such as the price of gas. "That's what this election is going to be about," he said, "and people are going to ask, 'Whose vision do we ascribe to?' " But it could take time to change the subject, Cantor acknowledged, depending on how quickly the crisis shows signs of easing.

Compounding Republican problems is a continued fundraising deficit that has left the party largely powerless to defend its congressional candidates against a televised Democratic onslaught. At the start of September -- the last time financial figures were available -- the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/Democratic+Congressional+Campaign+Committee?tid=in formline) held a $40 million cash-on-hand edge over its GOP counterpart and was advertising in 41 House districts, compared with just two districts in which the National Republican Campaign Committee (http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/National+Republican+Congressional+Committee?tid=in formline) was on the air.

The gap was less daunting on the Senate side, where the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/Democratic+Senatorial+Campaign+Committee?tid=infor mline) held a $7 million cash edge over the National Republican Senatorial Committee (http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/National+Republican+Senatorial+Committee?tid=infor mline) at the start of September. However, the DSCC spent $13.6 million in August -- largely on television ads -- while the NRSC dropped just $3.6 million.

That spending deficit and the economic reverberations are being felt most strongly in North Carolina, where Hagan appears to have moved into a lead over Dole. The DSCC has spent more than $3.5 million on ads painting Dole as out of touch with average North Carolina voters, and even Republicans acknowledge that the attacks have taken their toll. Independent polling puts Hagan's lead at three to eight points.

In Oregon, state House Speaker Jeff Merkley (D) has taken to the television airwaves to attack Sen. Gordon Smith (R) for his vote in favor of the rescue plan. "In this economy, who is really on your side?" asks the narrator in Merkley's ad, saying that Smith supported a "trillion-dollar blank check for Wall Street (http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/Wall+Street?tid=informline)." Polling in that race shows a virtual dead heat.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/03/AR2008100303699_pf.html

[W*GS]

Cthulhu.

[Rohirrim]

Basically, McCain's nastiness and Palin's incompetent fundamentalist whackitude have driven me into the Obama camp. Although I do still want her to explain why they have the saddles on the dinosaurs at the Creationist Museum.

[TheDave]

Basically, McCain's nastiness and Palin's incompetent fundamentalist whackitude have driven me into the Obama camp. Although I do still want her to explain why they have the saddles on the dinosaurs at the Creationist Museum.

Duh, so the christian cave men could ride them into battle against evil.

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1086/1036693826_26bd7bdcd2.jpg

[ak1971]

Im voting for The Impaler..then Im going to live in my backyard bunker for the next few years.

[USAFBronco]

Basically, McCain's nastiness and Palin's incompetent fundamentalist whackitude have driven me into the Obama camp. Although I do still want her to explain why they have the saddles on the dinosaurs at the Creationist Museum.

I can't post it at work but google "jesus riding a raptor" lol

I'll link the pic when I get home

[W*GS]

http://media.ebaumsworld.com/mediaFiles/picture/336216/484985.jpg

[ak1971]

Duh, so the christian cave men could ride them into battle against evil.

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1086/1036693826_26bd7bdcd2.jpg

didnt you ever watch 'He-Man' years ago?

[Paladin]

Jeezus! You're kidding right? A coloring book?

Link?

[W*GS]

http://www.ebaumsworld.com/pictures/view/484985

[Paladin]

Oo, oo, ooo, I got it! I got it!!!!!

That there is like when the alaskans harnessed that oil stuff that what made from dinasour sh*t. Right?

[baja]

I'm voting for McCain

Al right who is the wise guy

[kappys]

Cthulhu.


http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a349/judahverrecke/election08.jpg

[W*GS]

http://bodhranman.files.wordpress.com/2007/12/cthulhu4prez-preview-5.png

[alkemical]

http://www.wunderkabinett.co.uk/damndata/index.php?/archives/1558-The-Impalers-election-hopes-reach-a-sticky-end.html

Friday, October 3. 2008
The Impaler's election hopes reach a sticky end

We have previously looked at Jonathon "Impaler" Sharkey, partly because of his standing for election on a vampire card (for the Vampires, Witches, and Pagans Party) but also because one of his election promises was to run a stake through George Bush. Given the general mood of the nation this would look like a bit of a winner and there is a documentary coming out in a couple of weeks: Impaler. Unfortunately the wheels have fallen off his election bandwagon with his being arrested and his house (on the grounds of his self-styled Vampyre Nation).

A professed vampire with Presidential aspirations is in the Marion County jail and his property burned. We sat down and interviewed Jonathon Sharkey, who calls himself "The Impaler." About three months ago, he bought five acres of land in Grundy County near Tracy City.

Sharkey says he bought the land to start a commune for vampires, witches and pagans. He also started a party with that same name and filed paperwork with the Federal Election Commission to run for President. He is not on the Tennessee or Georgia ballots.

On Saturday night Grundy deputies arrested him on his land on a harassment and failure to show in court charges out of Minnesota.

The very next night, while Sharkey was in jail, his tree house style dwelling went up in flames. That fire is under investigation. "The Impaler" says he's not leaving.


Source

Further investigations revealed a dark story:

NewsChannel 9 has uncovered many threats in the past reportedly made by a self-proclaimed vampire who claims non-violence.

...

In the course of our investigation, we found several holes in Sharkey's story. This afternoon, we got our hands on these warrants out of Minnesota, one of which is a felony warrant for harassment. We've also come across death threats the 44-year-old Sharkey made on several people, including judges.

And we found the parents of an 18-year-old woman The Impaler calls his wife. Her parents want her back.

"I'm so worried, I just want her home," Teresa Lucchetti said one day after she and her husband drove from Indianapolis to find their daughter, Meagan Cochran. Lucchetti says two days after graduating from high school, her daughter who has a mental illness, left Indianapolis to live in the woods of Grundy County with Jonathan Sharkey.

Lucchetti says her daughter has been off her medicine for more than a year and fears Sharkey has preyed on her mania.

"And Jonathon totally manipulated that," she said. "He fed into everything that she was possibly she was possibly thinking, telling her she was right, she was psychic, she was a 'Psi Vampire'."

We came across a picture of Megan on Sharkey's website. It appears to be on his land in Grundy County where he refers to Megan as Queen Amaya Sharkey. The caption says she is shooting a picture of Pope Benedict.


Source

Hat tip

All this going back years, with various charges of stalking and harassment (as shown here, for example), it seems we have found someone running for office who is more unpopular that actual politicians - I fully expect Gordon Brown to give him a bell about joining his "Cabinet of all the Talents" (with emphasis on his impaling sex offenders I'd assume), after bringing Mandy Mandelson back from the 'grave' anything is possible.