Florida GOP meets in secret as Obama passes McCain in polls

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JonLP24  (659 posts)      Thu Oct-02-08 06:57 PM
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Florida GOP meets in secret as Obama passes McCain in polls
 Advertisements [?]Source: Saint Petersburg Times

TALLAHASSEE — Florida Republican leaders hastily convened a top secret meeting this week to grapple with Sen. John McCain's sagging performance in this must-win state.

Their fears were confirmed Wednesday when four new polls showed Sen. Barack Obama leading, a reversal from just a few weeks ago when McCain was opening up an advantage.

The polls come amid a cascade of bad news about the economy, an issue that McCain has struggled with in recent days.

With some grass roots organizers complaining about coordination problems with the campaign, Republican Party chairman Jim Greer gathered top officials at the state headquarters in Tallahassee on Tuesday afternoon. He swore the group to secrecy.

Read more: http://www.tampabay.com/news/politics/state/article8352...

 

SharonRB  (1000+ posts)        Thu Oct-02-08 06:58 PM
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1. And McLame has pulled out of Michigan completely
 No ads, no mail, nada. Pulled all his staff out and moved them to more competitive states!

bushwentawol  (1000+ posts)        Thu Oct-02-08 07:02 PM
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2. Looks like they're just a little scared down there in Fla.
 Time to watch out for every dirty trick in the book. Cornered animals and all.

winston61 (528 posts)      Thu Oct-02-08 07:08 PM
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4. When the election gets closer to the short rows,
 watch out for anything from the repukes. You should hear Hannity and Limbaugh. Jesus,if I didn't know it was all fake, I think those two were going to explode. They've gone back to the same shit they were spewing last spring. But they're just the buffoons sent out to distract the crowd. The real damage is being done in that room in Florida.
 

NC_Nurse  (1000+ posts)        Thu Oct-02-08 07:10 PM
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5. These slimeballs have something up their sleeve. I hope Obama's lawyers are
 ON IT!

santamargarita (444 posts)        Thu Oct-02-08 07:30 PM
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6. Writing the Supreme Court; Rigging machines?
 ******* fascist pigs!

ngant17 (1000+ posts)        Thu Oct-02-08 08:48 PM
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11. They're gonna try to pull it off again
 If the polls before the election show Obama ahead, and if the exit polls confirm his lead after election, and a Fla. Secretary of State Kathleen Harris isn't going to be there when the Repugs need her the most, they don't necessarily have to get away with rigging a sham election again. They will do it thru quasi-legal manuevering, such as relying on (potentially) misspelled names from databases that the government will supply to the election offices. And they have Mr. Kurt Browning who now occupies the position that Harris had back during the 2000 elections. And it appears he will be using similar vote-disenfranchising tactics as Harris did 8 years ago.

<http://www.alternet.org/democracy/98609/florida_voting_... />
"The Secretary's decision will put thousands of real Florida citizens at risk due to bureaucratic typos that under the 'no-match, no-vote' law will prevent them from voting this November," said Alvaro Fernandez of the Southwest Voter Registration and Education Project, another plaintiff in the case."
 

Damn, that LOLcat tactic isn't going to work this year. 

George II (1000+ posts)      Thu Oct-02-08 11:35 PM
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13. But, the good thing is that even if the scumbags cheat Obama out of Florida's electoral votes....
 ...he's so far ahead in other states that this time it won't make a difference.

Sad that finally, after 8 years, we get an honest election but there are about 10000+ Americans who won't be here to celebrate the return to sanity.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3523869#3523877