BS: Will Obama Win???

Subject: RE: BS: Will Obama Win???
From: DougR
Date: 27 Oct 08 - 05:01 PM

Probably.

DougR

Subject: RE: BS: Will Obama Win???
From: CarolC
Date: 28 Oct 08 - 03:56 AM

The only thing the signs demonstrate is that it's been very difficult for Obama supporters to get signs. This is because the demand has been very high. And also, a lot of Obama signs are being stolen (likely by McCain supporters, as some video footage of some of the culprits would seem to indicate).

I saw a string of signs for Republican candidates the other day with McCain among them. Then a little further on, I saw a string of signs for local Democratic candidates, and the metal frame on which, no doubt, an Obama sign once hung.

But Obama doesn't need the signs as much as McCain does, because Obama's got a lot of people on the ground canvassing neighborhoods, and McCain doesn't.

Subject: RE: BS: Will Obama Win???
From: Art Thieme
Date: 29 Oct 08 - 12:08 AM

Yeah, he will.
Art

Subject: RE: BS: Will Obama Win???
From: beardedbruce
Date: 29 Oct 08 - 12:20 AM

"The only thing the signs demonstrate is that it's been very difficult for Obama supporters to get signs."


I guess that explains the cluster of 4-5 signs in one yard...


So, the lack of McCain signs in other areas demonstrates that they are so hard to get because everyone wants them?

Subject: RE: BS: Will Obama Win???
From: Sorcha
Date: 29 Oct 08 - 12:38 AM

Sure beginning to look like it...all bets are off tho....

Subject: RE: BS: Will Obama Win???
From: Barry Finn
Date: 29 Oct 08 - 12:40 AM

In my part of NH there are no MaCain signs, the moosies are walking all over them, on the other hand we have deer wandering around with bulleyes on their asses & painted on their sides are slogans saying "vote Obama & save our friends"

Barry

Subject: RE: BS: Will Obama Win???
From: Sorcha
Date: 29 Oct 08 - 12:53 AM

Well, so far in all my life, I have NEVER put a sign for ANYONE in my yard....that 'may' change if the Mr actually runs for county sheriff....LOL

Subject: RE: BS: Will Obama Win???
From: CarolC
Date: 29 Oct 08 - 01:46 AM

We have three signs. One is left over from the primary, one we ordered from the Obama people, and we had to wait for about two months for that one, and the third one was made by some local volunteers in Georgia (I think it was Georgia) who JtS met in a Walmart parking lot, and they gave it to him. There's a lot of people who want signs and haven't been able to get them or have had to wait a long time. There is definitely a huge demand for them. We know this because we have been in communication with the Obama organization about it. And then there is the problem of people stealing the signs once they're put up.

I have no idea what the absence of McCain signs signifies. I guess the way to find out would be to try to get one and see how easy or difficult it is.

Either way, I don't think one can accurately predict the outcome of this election based on the number of signs one sees for either candidate. Ron Paul has the most number of signs of any candidate, and look what happened to his campaign.

Subject: RE: BS: Will Obama Win???
From: artbrooks
Date: 29 Oct 08 - 09:31 AM

Based on what I saw walking away from the Obama rally here the other night...I was in the area but not at the rally; I don't care for crowds...I'd say that the way to get a sign is to go to a rally. There were, at least according to one newspaper estimate, 45,000 people at that rally, and I'd guess that half of them came away with a large sign.

As a matter of contrast, only 1,500 (yes, fifteen hundred) showed up for a McCain rally earlier that day. Of course, you had to get advance tickets for the McCain rally - I really don't know if the pledge to vote for him is still being required to get a ticket or if yard signs were being given away - but only half of the available tickets were given out.   It was a much smaller venue, I'd guess in anticipation of a much smaller crowd.

Subject: RE: BS: Will Obama Win???
From: Bobert
Date: 04 Nov 08 - 06:42 PM

Refresh...

Subject: RE: BS: Will Obama Win???
From: Amos
Date: 04 Nov 08 - 07:03 PM

The question tonight, as the voters roll through in their several states, is not whether Obama will win, but will he win by a landslide with an unequivocal mandate for the kind of change he envisions.

A

Subject: RE: BS: Will Obama Win???
From: Bobert
Date: 04 Nov 08 - 07:15 PM

Man, I hope yer right, Amos... Livin' in a very Republican area of the world, I am hopeful but righyt now kinda nervous... Yeah, I'm sittin' here playin' on the pudder and listenin' to some fine blues on my headphones (Richard Johnston) and leavin' the TV alone for an hour or two...

Plus, I'm still beat from canvassin' today...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Will Obama Win???
From: Don Firth
Date: 04 Nov 08 - 11:19 PM

Will Obama Win???

I'm watching John McCain deliver his concession speech right now.

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: Will Obama Win???
From: Don Firth
Date: 04 Nov 08 - 11:28 PM

Good speech. Pretty glum crowd (some downright surly), but McCain himself was quite gracious and generous.

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: Will Obama Win???
From: Ron Davies
Date: 05 Nov 08 - 02:18 AM

Yes, McCain is at heart a decent person--except for how he treated his first wife. Too bad somebody convinced him of the necessity to run such a seamy campaign.


But now that it's over, he can relax and go back to being an open-minded person--exactly the kind that Obama needs to work with across party lines. Who knows, they may become partners in getting policy through.

Subject: RE: BS: Will Obama Win???
From: Barry Finn
Date: 05 Nov 08 - 02:40 AM

Obama not only won the election, with his acceptance speech he just won the hearts & minds of those that he didn't have before tonights election, the world over

Barry

Subject: RE: BS: Will Obama Win???
From: Amos
Date: 05 Nov 08 - 10:05 AM

He's a beautiful, intelligent, gracious, compassionate man with very high organizational skills.

Yeah--he won. This nation will never be the same; nor should it. And the rest of the world will see Good CHange in consequence of this historic election.

I am deeply proud of my nation.


A

Subject: RE: BS: Will Obama Win???
From: Sawzaw
Date: 05 Nov 08 - 11:09 AM

I am happy for you Amos. And everybody else.

Subject: RE: BS: Will Obama Win???
From: Amos
Date: 05 Nov 08 - 11:14 AM

ANd I for you, Sawz. Despite our clashes, I see you. I know you are striving for the best. And I respect that spark.


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