Palin wows the GOP faithful (defends Omaha area single electoral vote)

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_page=2835&u_sid=10451571

Published Monday October 6, 2008
Palin wows the GOP faithful
BY ROBYNN TYSVER AND ELIZABETH AHLIN
WORLD-HERALD STAFF WRITERS

Sarah Palin's fans could give Obamaphiles a run in the devotion department if the more than 5,000 people who listened Sunday to her Omaha speech are any indication.


Sarah Palin, Republican vice presidential nominee, spoke to an overflow crowd at the Civic Auditorium’s Music Hall on Sunday.

Palin's supporters hailed the folksy Alaska governor as a "real person" who could be one of their neighbors.

A "down-to-earth" person who has been maligned by Washington insiders and the mainstream media.

"She talks to us. She's one of us. She doesn't talk down to us like an Ivy League, Harvard person," said Craig Johansen, an Omaha sales representative who was referring to Harvard graduate and Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama.

Palin thrilled her Nebraska and western Iowa fans on Sunday with a 24-minute speech at the Civic Auditorium Music Hall. She led a familiar "Drill, Baby, Drill!" chant, took a few shots at Obama and tried to portray her running mate, Republican presidential candidate John McCain, as the real candidate for change.

The crowd roared when Palin - who is the nation's most famous hockey mom - accepted a sweatshirt and a jersey from the University of Nebraska at Omaha's hockey team. "I love that cheer - Go Mavericks," said Palin, who insists that she and McCain are the real mavericks in the presidential race.

FULL story at link.

How fast will the Nebraska Republican controlled legislature change the Electoral College vote law when Obama gets a vote out of Omaha?

[BlueIdaho]

1. Steve - how many more times are you going to post this same story?

Got a link you need to promote?

[Shakespeare]

5. Took the words right out of my mouth.

I'm wondering the same thing.

[Omaha Steve]

9. This is the only post visit story I've put up

It seems many DUers don't understand how important the (and how close the private polls are) state law that gives the Omaha area one of the states 5 votes. Statewide McCain is 60%. The Omaha is 45-45. It is the undecided that will break one way or the other for that single vote. There is more going on in Omaha for a Presidential election since I became legal age to vote in the 70's. This one vote is huge in a tight race.

[BlueIdaho]

10. Perhaps - but this is what - your fourth thread on this event?

I don't mean to seem negative but I think we get the general drift here.

[NJmaverick]

2. hailed the folksy Alaska governor as a "real person" who could be one of their neighbors

I don't know about you, but I don't have any neighbors I would want running the Country.

[galaxy21]

4. How did the last average Joe president work out?

[Starbucks Anarchist]

3. "She doesn't talk down to us like an Ivy League, Harvard person."

Translation: "I'm a dumbass, and I want someone even dumber than me in charge."

:banghead:

[BlooInBloo]

7. My sig, in real life. The one thing idiots simply CANNOT abide by....

is the presence of someone smarter than them. Their very presence is a reminder of how stupid the idiot is.

[TwilightGardener]

8. Hate those Harvard grads. Whatever you do, parents, make sure your kids

don't go to an Ivy League school--tell them to aim for "mediocre". That's the best way to keep our country ahead in the 21st century.

[calmblueocean]

6. She doesn't talk down to you? She never used phrases like "doggone it" until this year.

Her whole folksy cocktail waitress schtick is just that -- a schtick. She *is* talking down to you by treating you like idiots who are incapable of making political decisions based on information.

Have these people not learned after Bush that "folksiness" does not correlate with wisdom?

How many times do we have to repeat this farce?