Breaking: McCain Campaign Pulling Out Of Michigan

[malik flavors]

Politico set to report McCain campaign poised to give up on Wolverine State.

Developing hot...

http://thepage.time.com/2008/10/02/michi-gone/

[SuperTrouper]

McCain pulling out of Iowa and pulling out of Reality

[CoffeeCat]

25. Everyone in Iowa wondered wtf McCain was doing here...

McCain is anywhere from 8-12 points behind Obama.

Yet, McCain was here last week, and two days (two days in Iowa!!!) this week.

We're only 7 electoral votes. And he's far behind.

Hey, I appreciate the attention and love--but this didn't even make sense.

I'm wondering if McCain decided to go for a bunch of "tier 2" states, because
he knows damn well that he's going to lose Ohio, PA, FL, CO, WI and maybe NC
and VA.

Maybe McCain was scrounging for undiscovered votes in states because he knows
he's up a creek--but it appears that he's abandoning that effort because it's
not working either.

I smell a landslide.

[Peacetrain]

43. I Know!!.. Even out here in the western hintelands of Iowa, we all went

HUH? But McCain has never been good with money, planning, he is a fly by the seat of your pants guy. Who ever said how a person runs their campaign is how they will run their administration should be enough of a reason NOT to vote McCain

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

1. I wonder what their finances look like.

[AlCzervik]

3. i bet his internal poll numbers are in the shit.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

6. I bet his finances look like shit.

Maybe he invested it in subprime mortgages.

[AlCzervik]

12. i think him suspending his campaign last week was a cost cutting measure and also

a diversionary tactic to take the spotlight off of Dopey.

[Dem2theMax]

39. But he didn't suspend anything. Nothing. Nada.

It WAS a gimmick to help his sliding poll numbers. All it helped was our ability to make even more fun of him. ;)

[Drunken Irishman]

2. In the next few weeks, you'll read the following.

Breaking: McCain camp pulls out of Pennsylvania.

Breaking: McCain pulling out of Virginia.

Breaking: McCain wishes Palin's father had pulled out 44 years ago.

[SuperTrouper]

8. ROFLMAO!!! I almost choked on my eggroll!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[GrizzlyMan]

10. Oh that last one brought a nice chuckle

[hogwyld]

19. LOL!!

You owe me a keyboard for that last one!!:spray:

[Lasher]

21. Whaaa??

:spray:

Good one!!!

[Starbucks Anarchist]

26. I bow before you.

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[CoffeeCat]

31. Ok, that was some...

...grade "A" snark, right there.

Five stars.

[windbreeze]

35. ROFLMAO....directly after spitting my tea all over the keyboard...n/t

[dgibby]

38. DUzy! DUzy! DUzy!

:toast: :bounce: :kick: :yourock: :headbang: :applause: :applause: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :spray: :spray: :spray:

[sunnystarr]

46. that was funny lol (nt)

[medicswife]

4. dude.......I sure hope that's true..........

I wish they'd just hang it up and start campaigning for Obama.

[MrScorpio]

5. You can thank me, people

It was hard work, but I succeeded

[Muttocracy]

7. thank you :-D

[City Lights]

13. Thank you, MrScorpio, on a job well done!

:patriot:

[Lasher]

29. U Da Man, MrScorpio.

Even though you guys stole our coach.

[Thrill]

9. LOL. Obama has forced them to spend in NC and VA

[BumRushDaShow]

17. And FL! n/t

[SuperTrouper]

22. Don't forget Georgia.

[myrna minx]

30. And in Minnesota.

McCain has his bizarre ads running all the time in Minnesota. I haven't seen an Obama as since the primaries. Minnesota is strong for Obama even though he's not advertising here and McCain is. :rofl:

[Barack_America]

11. Yessssss. This makes me happy to the brink of tears.

I was really worried about Michigan this year. I don't know why, Michigan always finds a way to go blue. Mad props to Levin, Conyers and Granholm for that. They rock!

[slampoet]

14. Holy Shit! Mark today as the DEATH of the Engler Machine. The end of Devos and Van Andel's influence

I am sooo happy for you all.

[MadBadger]

15. But Chuck Todd sa......Your Slippin Chuckie!

[Obamarulz11]

16. Hit the road jack, dont ya come back no more, no more, no more, no more

[ErinBerin84]

18. no way!

I, for one, want to hear what Chuck Todd has to say about this...

:rofl:

[BumRushDaShow]

28. He'll insist that Obama has to do more to get those blue collar Michigan voters who support McCain.

Meaning he will ignore the announcements and make up his own shit like he usually does! :rofl:

[midnight]

20. They are going to be putting the clan here in Wisconsin.

[Bolo Boffin]

23. Wow. Check out the map --

http://www.electoral-vote.com/

Texas, Mississippi, and Georgia have gone pink??? (Only leaning McCain instead of strongly McCain)

This may get ugly before too long.

[O.M.B.inOhio]

24. That's great; however, pulling out is not 100% effective. Ask Bristol.

I just used NPR's interactive electoral college map -- http://www.npr.org/news/specials/election2008/2008-election-map.html#/president-userOvM/ -- and gave all their "toss up" states to the GOP. The results were 269 to 269!

[Muttocracy]

27. I think a couple of maps I saw yesterday said same thing - GOP needs ALL the tossups. nt

[O.M.B.inOhio]

32. I listened to Palast and RFK Jr. on StealBackYourVote.org, and I'm trembling about CO

The Secty of State in Colorado (leaning Dem) has purged 20% of the state's registrations, and we can expect that these would be concentrated in democratic-leaning demographics.

[featherman]

40. A Democratic secretary of state has purged Democrats?

Now that would be news! Kind of unlikely but thanks for the heads up

[featherman]

41. A Democratic secretary of state has purged Democrats?

Now that would be news! Kind of unlikely but thanks for the heads up

[O.M.B.inOhio]

49. The SOS (Coffman) in Colorado is not a Democrat but the Governor (Ritter) is

[featherman]

53. Thanks for the clarification. Gov. Bill Ritter ought to look into this

[O.M.B.inOhio]

50. more on the CO SOS

As secretary of state, Coffman has come under fire for alleged ethics violations.

In one instance, Coffman picked a consulting firm for his congressional campaign that also worked with an election machine manufacturer, Premier Election Solutions. All of Premier's machines were cleared for use in the presidential election.

Coffman denied any link between the consulting firm and the decision to certify the Premier machines. The head of the consulting firm said work for Premier and Coffman's congressional campaign were not linked.

In another instance, Coffman reassigned an employee at the secretary of state's office who was running a political consulting business. State auditors cleared the worker of the most serious charge, that he sold state data to clients.

The group Ethics Watch has filed a complaint covering both ethics charges with a state ethics panel, which has not yet heard the case.

rocky mtn news and http://www.coloradoforethics.org/node/26635

[ThatsMyBarack]

33. Wasn't Michigan the state....?

In which Repukes tried to stop those who had had their houses foreclosed from voting?

[4_Legs_Good]

34. He'll have to move them to NC and Georgia!

Heh heh heh

On our way...

David

[Renew Deal]

36. I thought they would give up on PA first.

Oh well.

[demokatgurrl]

37. No, it's too close here in PA.

There are a lot of McPalin types in the middle of our state.

[FVZA_Colonel]

44. I thought Obama was polling up at least 5 points there?

[PolNewf]

47. Obama is polling better in PA than he is in Mi n/t

[skipos]

42. Bye! nt

[bushisanidiot]

45. Damn, I was hoping they'd waste more money there.

Looks like they are gonna have to go shore up GA, IN, MO and AZ.

BWAHAHAHAHAHA!

[workinclasszero]

48. YIPPEE!!! RUN MCCAIN AND GIDGET!!

Michigan ain't drinkin your poison republican kool-aid any more!:kick:

[frickaline]

51. niiice! and some freeper tears for your enjoyment

names removed to protect soap.

>Here we go... Sad because he was only down 4 points a week or so ago.

>That is a very bad sign.

>Ping Michigan Freepers who can tell us the real truth on the ground.

>Minnesota and/or Wisconsin may be next.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2095968/posts

[sufrommich]

52. Woo Hoo!!! See ya!!! nt