More items from the political notebook as the Nov. 4 arrives next week: Believe it or not, the presidential race in Georgia is now a toss-up.
I didn’t think it could ever possibly get to this point but a poll released Friday by Inside Advantage actually Barack Obama leading John McCain 48-47 percent in the Peach State.
When it comes to Georgia politics, Insider Advantage is the poll to go by. Other polls still had McCain ahead by a few percentage points, but the numbers are so close the race for Georgia’s electoral votes can now be considered a dead heat.
A note, Insider Advantage is not a liberal outlet as some of you are probably going to suggest. Matt Towery, who helps run it, is a former Republican candidate for Lt. Governor in Georgia.
How did we get this point? Well, for one I think McCain, as well as other big whigs in the Republican state and national party took Georgia for granted. That is proving to be a mistake.
Obama’s national wave of momentum (as of this writing he appears set to win the election going away) is spreading weekly, even daily, and it has reached states which have been conservation in recent elections. The Obama campaign actually sent paid campaign staffers to Georgia a few weeks ago but initially didn’t make a great deal of progress. Many of the paid staff were sent to other states such as North Carolina. One has to wonder what Obama’s numbers would be if those paid staffers had stayed in Georgia.
Regardless, it appears McCain’s once solid victory in Georgia is in serious doubt now.
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Still think all political candidates and political parties are treated fairly?
Consider Libertarian Party presidential candidate Bob Barr. Last week Barr learned a judge in Connecticut ordered him off the state’s ballot.
This ruling came despite the fact Barr had met all requirements to have his name appear. State employees had not only improperly struck signatures that Barr volunteers had collected, but also miscounted them.
The judge, however, decided it was too big of a burden to add Barr to the ballot at this point even though the state was at fault.
So in summary, Barr meets the requirements to be on the ballot but because the state makes a mistake he is not listed. Isn’t this country supposed to have free and open elections? Doesn’t sound like that is the case for Bob Barr in the state of Connecticut.
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Regardless of what happens next Tuesday, it has been great to see so many people take an interest in politics this year, both at the state and national level.
Hopefully, our presidential election will not be clouded by circumstances like we had in Florida in 2000 and Ohio in 2004. Those incidents made it difficult, if not impossible, to know who really won.
Let’s hope this time everything runs smoothly with no glitches. The future direction of our country hangs in the balance. This election is too important to have any cloud of suspicious hanging over it. Let’s have it done properly and fairly. Of course, some candidates have already been treated unfairly.
Chris Bridges is an editor with MainStreet Newspapers. E-mail comments about this column to chris@mainstreetnews.com.
You would be better suited to stay with local sports. You have got to be kidding with your support of Martin. (I hope)
Take a look at this character - he is not fit.
As far as Chambliss, he's a lost cause. It doesn't matter that he voted with the President 92% of the time. The fact is- of these 92% votes how many actually moved forward? Do you know?
Look it up - most of these failed to get through the Senate - hence the reason we are in the shape we are in with the economy.
Remember in 2006 we filled the Legislature with Liberal politicians - this is where we as voters failed.
Thank You
John Warren
1. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are the causes of this financial disaster. In order to ensure that they were not regulated these corrupt companies bought off congressmen. This is corruption. In just 3 years, these corrupt companies gave Obama $123,000 to buy him off. $123,000. Obama was the second largest recipient of Fannie and Freddie corrupt donations. This is the corruption McCain has fought against his whole life. $123,000 is corruption.
2. Earmark projects are corruption incarnate. Obama had 1 billion dollars worth of earmarks. 1 billion dollars. This is CORRUPTION RUN AMUCK. This money goes to political cronies in return for support and donations, relatives, family members. We are in this financial mess because of this kind of corruption. It created a culture of corruption that lead to the wall street debacle. Barrack Obama is at the very center of this CULTURE OF CORRUPTION. He is the WASHINGTON ESTABLISHMENT CANDIDATE. 1 billion dollars of hard earned tax payer money FLUSHED DOWN THE TOILET BOWL OF POLITICAL CORRUPTION.
3. Barrack Obama gave his First Cousin $70,000 of tax payer money. $70,000 of hard earned tax payer money to his first cousin. We elect representatives to Congress to serve the people. Not to ENRICH themselves. Not to enrich their family members. Not to enrich their political supporters. THIS IS TRULY CORRUPTION.
4. Obama wants to raise taxes on corporations, small businesses, capital gains. If you raise taxes in this economic crisis YOU WILL CAUSE A GREAT DEPRESSION. Business won’t create jobs. People will not invest. The 401 ks of seniors and all Americans won't be worth anything. The DOW WILL COLLAPSE TO to 4000/5000. The US will become another failed state like Venezuela. It’s that simple. If you want a SECOND GREAT DEPRESSION BARACK OBAMA IS YOUR MAN.
5. Obama wants our troops out of Iraq in 16 months. As General Petraeus has warned such a withdrawal will lead to the collapse of the Iraqi government. Iraq is not Afghanistan. IT IS AT THE VERY CENTER OF THE OIL PRODUCING UNIVERSE. If the Iraqi government collapses, OIL PRICES WILL SOAR TO $200.00/barrel and $10.00/gallon/gas. If you want to pay $10.00/gallon/gas vote Barrack Obama.
6. Barrack Obama called our troops fighting in Afghanistan WAR CRIMINALS. He said that they were air raiding villages and killing innocent civilians. WAR CRIMES. You cannot be commander in chief of our great armed forces and call them WAR CRIMINALS. Not only that but these statements put THE LIVES OF OUR TROOPS AT RISK.
7. When Move On. org - a large money Barrack Obama supporter called General Petraeus - one of the greatest American generals - GENERAL BETRAYUS - Barrack Obama refused to vote on a senate motion defending this great general. You cannot be President of the United States and stand by while one of your generals is being viciously maligned. Obama did this because he didn’t want to lose the money from Move On. Barrack Obama is A COWARD.
8. Barrack Obama gave $800.000 to a organization called Acorn. Acorn is trying to steal this election by fraudulently registering thousands and thousands of voters throughout this country - registering everything from dead people to cats, dogs. THIS IS CORRUPTION. Obama has a long and illustrious relationship with Acorn. Incredibility - ACORN leader Wade Rathke was in the Weather Underground along with Bill Ayers.
Ladies and gentlemen of America in the rescue package of 700 billion just passed by Congress the Democrats tried to include $500,000,000 for ACORN. DO YOU HEAR WHAT I JUST SAID - 500 MILLION FOR ACORN. THATS ONE OF THE REASONS MCCAIN RUSHED BACK TO WASHINGTON TO KILL THIS FRAUDULENT FUNDING. In Chicago, Obama was involved in training Acorn activists to go to the HOMES OF BANK PRESIDENTS AND THREATEN THEM IF THEY DID NOT GIVE OUT FRAUDELENT LOANS THAT COULD NEVER BE REPAID. $500 million to Acorn by the democrats in Congress and $800,000 from Obama. Can you imagine what will happen with Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and Obama in charge. Acorn will get the 500 million. 100%. Every vote is precious. It is the very essence of our democracy.
9. Bill Ayers was a terrorist who bombed the Pentagon, police stations and homes of people trying to capture him. Obama has a long and illustrious relationship with this arch criminal and hater of the US. Obama received $50 million dollars from Ayers to indoctrinate children in Chicago in revolutionary ideology. NOT READING AND WRITING AND SCIENCE BUT REVOLUTIONARY IDEOLOGY like Chavez teaches in Venezuela . Obama says - he was just a guy living in my neighborhood. Obama doesn’t understand that as President one of your most important obligations is NOT TO LIE TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.
10. Obama called the people of this country when he thought nobody was tape recording his great genius - Bitter people clinging to their bibles and their guns. You cannot denigrate the great people of this country and be their president.
11. In order to create a PERMANENT DEMOCRATIC PARTY MAJORITY - Obama and the Democrats will FAST TRACK CITZENSHIP FOR ALL 12 to 20 million illegal immigrants. And all those who will pour into the US to share in the new STATE WELFARE STATE. This will happen immediately. Funds will be poured into ACORN to organize Chavez style American cities to create a class of permanent dependents permanently dependent on the Democrats for handouts all educated in the education of anti - capitalism revolutionary politics.
12. By refusing to honor his agreement made to McCain and the American electorate to accept public financing, Obama is buying the Presidency. The McCain- Feingold reform imperfect as it was, at least made an attempt to take money and hence corruption out of Presidential politics. There is $200 million campaign contributions unaccounted for by Obama. By swamping the elections with money, Obama has institutionzed corruption making a farce out of democracy and the democratic principal of free and fair elections.
The only thing left, since the election is over is to see how these Obama supporters react when and if they realize what he tries to do to our country.
Obama is not a patriot and cares nothing for our constitution.
He is a Karl Marx want to be. HE will make himself and his friends rich and the rest of the country will revert to a society
similar to European Socialism.
God help us all.
And to those talking of socialism when they demonstrably have no actual grasp of the concept, socialism is all about the government issuing state control of the economy. And what do you know, the only person this year to complete such a feat was George Bush. He nearly nationalized the banking system of the US.
And this "spreading the wealth" political buzzword is equally lucrative. I hate to break it to you, but both John McCain and Barack Obama want to spread the wealth.
Both are advocated of progressive tax policies, their dispute is over the tax rates to impose on the different brackets.
But get in your bomb shelters, because the ends times are near. And don't come out for 50 years, because of radioactive fallout.