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Continue to slip?  Please don’t quit your day job Rob. Perhaps you can provide us with the poll data on Bush Kerry in North Dakota or even tell us the last time a democrat even had a shot at North Dakota. 

Perhaps you can enlighten us as to why McCain isn’t kicking Obama’s butt in ND right now.  If it is such a red state, then why is Obama even in a dead heat at this time of the summer with McCain. 

While I know you get your daily McCain talking points from the RNC and the McCain campaing among others, really you ought to take a class in poll comprehension or at the very least reading the trend in the polls because you really suck at this.

Puzzled: In November Obama led McCain in a poll of North Dakotans by six points.  The latest poll shows Obama down by three points.

What part of “Obama continues to slip” don’t you understand?  Or are you suggesting that reality itself is biased against Obama?

As for me getting my talking points form McCain, I guess all the posts on this blog which blast McCain for this and that come from him too?

It can’t be that I just don’t like Obama and think he’d make a terrible leader?

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When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.

-- Thomas Jefferson

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How is Obama’s slip in AK doing?

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Excuse me, you were saying?

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A poll from November of 2007?  How about these polls:
MN: 50 Obama McCain 37

Iowa: 45 Obama McCain 39

Wisconsin 50 Obama McCain 38

Indiana:  Dead Heat

Ohio: 46 Obama McCain 42

Michigan: 48 Obama McCain 42

New Hampshire: 48 Obama McCain 41

Florida: dead heat

Colorado: Dead heat

New Mexico:  49 Obama McCain 41

Pennsylvania: 49 Obama McCain 40

Virginia: 47 Obama McCain 45

Montana: 48 Obama McCain 45

Alaska: 44 Obama McCain 41

That Obama is even competetive in states like North Dakota, Indiana, Montana, Nevada, Alaska, Virginia, Missouri, doesn’t bode well for McCain.  That Obama has opened offices in these states is running program and ads that McCain can’t afford doesn’t bode well for McCain. 

The real campaigning begins on September 4.

I don’t see North Dakota in this list.

As for this:

That Obama is even competetive in states like North Dakota, Indiana, Montana, Nevada, Alaska, Virginia, Missouri, doesn’t bode well for McCain.

Thatta’ girl!  Lower those expectations!

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When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.

-- Thomas Jefferson

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I love how you challenged my contention that Obama has slipped in polling in North Dakota since November of 2007 (which is a perfectly reasonable time to begin the analysis), and then when it became clear that you have no idea what you’re talking about you quickly changed the subject to other states.

Is Obama closer than expected in a lot of states?  Sure.  That’s that 50 state strategy.  He’s paying attention to places Democrats won’t.

Will that translate into victory?  Who knows?  But I doubt it.  Nationally Obama isn’t polling well at all.

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When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.

-- Thomas Jefferson

Rob’s recently listened-to songs:

Just for you Rob,
North Dakota: McCain 44 Obama 42

Rob writes:

Is Obama closer than expected in a lot of states?  Sure.  That’s that 50 state strategy.  He’s paying attention to places Democrats won’t.

Yep, he’s a democrat running a 50 state strategy.  He is a democrat paying attention to states that have been traditionally republican.  Is McCain paying attention to any blue states.  Is he leading in any blue states?

Rob writes: 

Nationally Obama isn’t polling well at all.

I would venture a guess that Obama is paying much more attention to the individual states that he is targetting in his 50 state strategy.  If he takes all the 2004 Kerry States, he only needs a few more electoral votes and he is leading in more than enough states to get to 270.

National polls as you have said many many times on this blog really don’t mean anything right now, right Rob? I’ll start paying more attention to the polls come September and October.

It may be that the campaign annoyed the wrong guy....
http://cbs4denver.com/local/burnsley.hotel.death.2.793573.html

“DENVER (CBS4) ― It has the makings of international intrigue. Less than two weeks before the Democratic National Convention a man has been found dead in a Denver hotel room with a container of what authorities initially suspect to be the deadly poison cyanide.
Adding to the intrigue is that the dead man, Saleman Abdirahman Dirie, 29, appears to be from outside the U.S. No passport was found on Dirie, who is believed to have entered the country from Canada.
A large container of a white powdery substance was found in the man’s room on the fourth floor of The Burnsley hotel at 10th and Grant.
Tests are now being done by the Denver Police Crime Lab to determine exactly what the substance is. The tests could take days.”
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I hope that do better than with the Ramsey case....

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Puzzlefeet:

As Mark Levin would say “Ya big dope” here it is:

North Dakota

Obama was leading in February, and was only down by a point or two in July but now McCain is 3 ahead.  As you say, no one is paying attention, once North Dakotans start paying attention all the dreams of Kent Conrad & Byron Dorgan, and one Puzzlefoot are going to go up in ashes.

I’ll offer up that is only our Senate Delagation, particularly Conrad, that are dreaming Obama can win in this Red State.

then Patriot, please enlighten us all as why McCain isn’t leading by more in North Dakota.  After all it is a red state.  Why is Obama even in contention in North Dakota, as Mark Levin would say, ya big dope.

It is simple why McCain is not way ahead in North Dakota, he is a RINO.  North Dakotans are craving for a conservative but will have to pinch their nose for a RINO, never voting for a liberal. Just so you know.

North Dakotans are craving for a conservative but will have to pinch their nose for a RINO, never voting for a liberal. Just so you know.

I agree with this except when it comes to the Senate and House.  North Dakotans like the pork that the three stooges bring back to the state!

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A political party cannot be all things to all people. It must represent certain fundamental beliefs which must not be compromised to political expediency, or simply to swell its numbers.

intheknow is correct: with RINO McCain and RINO Hoeven leading the ticket, ND Republicans will not be very excited for this election.  Add in the many Republican legislators who are working against the tax cut initiated measure and you have a party base that isn’t very motivated this year. 

North Dakota Republicans support conservatives, not just those who label themselves “Republicans” and then fail to adhere to the core principles that set them apart from the liberals.