McCain and Palin were in Hershey this morning. Palin then went to State College, a conservative stronghold. Bill Clinton will be in Harrisburg tomorrow. My mother and father attended an event for Obama in the Scranton area a few weeks ago, and got to meet him afterward, courtesy of Bob Casey.

Both campaigns have hit PA hard, and McCain has been pulling closer in the polls. I think the gap though will provide Obama with a comfortable margin of victory.

Kly,

Were you in the area of either Obama or McCain? Would you be interested in attending one? Boy, I wish I was in a battleground state. I'd love to go to an Obama event. And although for me, not near as exciting, I'd go to a McCain event as well.

If I wasn't working I would love to help out during the campaign too and on election day. I think it'd be fun working the polls. Heck, I'd even bring the donuts.

Speaking of the polls, I hear Florida Governonr (Crist) extended the early voting hours adding 4 more hours per day, due to huge turnout. I sure hope all states are prepared because I tend to agree the WILL be huge. There will be voting at my work in our school library. Usually it's very slow, I expect it to be a big headache that day as far as just traffic in and out of the school, even if the school employees are not involved in working the election. I'll get an idea though of turnout.

TIS

Klyd, what was it like to meet Senator Obama in person??

This dolt has left his job to go on a bus tour to campaign for McCain.

My Mother-In-Law works in the election at the polls every election.

Thank goodness you did, TIS. We're going to be mighty hung over on the 5th from all of those blue drinks we'll be having together.

Those virtual Blue Drinks can leave one heck of a hangover.


TIS

Crist also isn't campaigning for McCain. Probably because he figures McCain is a sinking ship, and also because McCain didn't pick him for running mate. Fuck him. Crist wants no strings attached for a possible 2012 run.

Better him than Palin.

I think every state should be prepared for a whole lot of voters. Seeing the few early voting states now, there shouldn't be any reason to be unprepared.


Oh, and dont forget that tomorrow is Obama's half hour special. Now, someone correct me if I am wrong, but I believe it's CBS, NBC, MSNBC that will be airing it. It starts at 8:00 p.m. (5:00 my time I persume).

TIS

Vote for Obama...Go to Hell!

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/vote-obama-go-hell

Well folks, I'll miss you all when we depart in the afterlife, and I head down to Hell. On the bright side, I'll get to meet Napoleon.

I read it first as "Christ also isn't campaigning for McCain"

It's also on: Fox, Univision, BET, and TV One

Nearly 10% of total American registered voters have already casted their ballots (and apparently, they're 59-41 in Obama's favor)

In Georgia, the early-vote encompasses 37% of the total Georgia votes in 2004!



NBC
MSNBC (Part of NBC Corporate Family)
FOX
CBS
Univision
BET*
TV-One

*=Strange since the black Owner of BET was a Hillary supporter.

Oh, and I may have a "scoop" for you guys. I heard that there is a good chance the Obama will be on the Daily Show, I think tomorrow night. Anyone else hear this? I don't have a link. I hear a lot of this on the news or at work and can't remember who my source was.


TIS

Obama to appear on 'The Daily Show'

The Democratic presidential candidate and senator from Illinois will appear Wednesday night on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Comedy Central announced Tuesday.

It's Obama's fourth appearance on the influential late-night fake news program, which airs in Canada on CTV. Obama first appeared on The Daily Show in November, 2005, and again in August, 2007.

In his last appearance, on April 21, on the eve of the Pennsylvania primary and in the midst of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright controversy, Stewart jokingly asked the candidate, "The Rev. Wright controversy, the flag-pin controversy . . . Will you pull a bait-and-switch, sir, and enslave the white race? Is that your plan?"

"That is not our plan, Jon," Obama replied, without missing a beat. "But I think your paranoia might make you suitable as a debate moderator."

In that same show, Obama credited fellow Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton with doing him a favour with her tough campaigning, telling Stewart, "She has put me through the paces."

Stewart later mocked Obama's speaking style by having him read some ordinary phrases, to see if he could make them sound inspiring.

The Daily Show appearance comes the same night Obama bought an unprecedented half-hour of commercial time on three of the major U.S. broadcast networks.

Obama's Daily Show appearance comes 10 days after Alaska Gov. and Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin appeared on Saturday Night Live.

According to thedailyshow.com, yes, he will be a guest on the 29th.

http://www.thedailyshow.com/

He'll also be on CNN with Wolf Blitzer Friday.

Obama Infomercial, a Closing Argument to the Everyman
By JIM RUTENBERG

WASHINGTON — Senator Barack Obama will use his prime-time half-hour infomercial on Wednesday night to make what is effectively a closing argument to a national audience of millions. At times he will speak directly into the camera about his 20-month campaign, at others he will highlight everyday voters, their everyday troubles, and his plans to address them.

Mr. Obama’s campaign agreed to provide The New York Times with a minute-long trailer for the 30-minute program, which is to run on four broadcast networks at 8 p.m. It will be the first time in 16 years that a presidential candidate has bought network time, in prime time, for a prolonged campaign commercial.

The trailer is heavy in strings, flags, presidential imagery and some Americana filmed by Davis Guggenheim, whose father was the campaign documentarian of Robert F. Kennedy. As the screen flashes scenes of suburban lawns, a freight train and Mr. Obama seated at a kitchen table with a group of white, apparently working-class voters, Mr. Obama says: “We’ve seen over the last eight years how decisions by a president can have a profound effect on the course of history and on American lives; much that’s wrong with our country goes back even farther than that.”

Then, while standing before a stately desk and an American flag, Mr. Obama, in a suit, says: “We’ve been talking about the same problems for decades and nothing is ever done to solve them. For the past 20 months, I’ve traveled the length of this country, and Michelle and I have met so many Americans who are looking for real and lasting change that makes a difference in their lives.”

Jim Margolis, Mr. Obama’s senior advertising strategist, said the program would then go on to feature “the stories of four different Americans, or American families, and kind of what they’re confronting.”

He said the stories would highlight “the challenges people are facing and what we should do in terms of solutions.” He said Mr. Obama would also share the story of his mother, “who struggled through her bout with breast cancer and the difficulty she had with her insurance company, to help viewers understand why his health care reform program is what it is.”

It will also have a live component, featuring Mr. Obama at a rally in Florida. The infomercial has been under production for weeks in the Virginia office of Mark Putnam, whose firm, Murphy-Putnam, is part of the Obama advertising team.

The program is to be shown on NBC, CBS, Fox, Univision, MSNBC and two cable networks that cater to African-Americans, BET and TV One. Ross Perot, the last presidential candidate to run similar programming, broadcast eight long infomercials to an average of 13 million viewers, with one of them getting 16.5 million viewers.

Costing the campaign more than $3 million, the infomercial is the ultimate reflection of Mr. Obama’s spending flexibility. Mr. McCain, with far less money in the bank, has been unable to produce a similar commercial.

The McCain campaign has seized on the advertisement as excessive, with Mr. McCain pointing to reports that Mr. Obama’s infomercial would bump back the World Series on Fox by 15 minutes. “No one will delay the World Series with an infomercial when I’m president,” he said, in Hershey, Pa.

(Fox executives have said that they, and not the Obama campaign, had initially asked Major League Baseball to move the start of Wednesday’s game to 8:35 p.m. from 8:20, to make way for his infomercial. But as it turns out, such a delay was not necessary anyway; none of the World Series games has started before 8:30, and two started after 8:35.)

For its part, Mr. Obama’s campaign said it was not worried about turning off viewers.

“Many people have 150 channels; they’ve got plenty of other choices,” Mr. Margolis said. “Or they can drop into a video game.” Then again, Mr. Obama is advertising in video games, too.

I gotta tell you. This is election is fun, historic and has captivated me from the beginning. Yet, I can't wait for Tuesday to get here. What will be talk about once it's over??? I mean it seems of late especially, I'm just plain addicted. Good thing you guys discuss politics. My kids will listen but aren't into it and I have certain people at work that I talk politics to, but for the most part I'm on my own.


TIS

Obama is going to be on 'World News' with Charlie Gibson tomorrow night too.

What time is that on JL???

Also, do you think we won't have a winner til the wee hours on election day, or do you think it'll be called say before 11:00 P.M. (8:00 my time) after polls ar closed. I think it'll be called before say 11:00 p.m. Then again, who knows what snags might occur.

I think they are going to try not to call states too early because they don't want people not to bother to vote if they think there already is a winner.

TIS

6:30PM

From what the talking heads are saying, if they call Virgina early for Obama, then it will be an early night. If they don't, it could be a long night. After 2000, don't expect them to call any states that are close, too early.

Hopefully not politics. I say after the election we make this board a politic-free zone for a designated amount of time. Like six months or whatever...

This is exhausting.

I saw a segment yesterday showing the voting in Nevada. They can vote everywhere and anywhere....the mall, the health club, the grocery store. Everyone interviewed said they never had to wait in line. How convenient is that? Maybe Nevada is oe up on everyone else with technology and all their gaming machines and such hu? You can gamble in all those places too..go vote and then play the slots.

TIS

According to the news I read yesterday, 90% of the American voters living in Berlin Germany will vote for Obama.

I was going to see Obama during the primary in Harrisburg, but his train was running late and the crowds were enormous. I was thinking about seeing Bill Clinton today, but you have to be inside and seated by 11:15 for a 12:30 appearance. I've heard him deliver full campaign speeches on the radio that were absolutely electric.

There have been at least a dozen campaign appearances among the pres and vp candidates within easy distance since the primaries, but I haven't made onne this year.

By the way, my neighborhood is decidedly in favor of McCain, but a few of us put up our Obama/Biden lawn signs. Somebody took them all last night. I have another though.

They met him with several other people. My dad was impressed that he knew some of the history of the coal regions of Pennsylvania. My mother was most impressed that he remembered everyone's name when he was leaving. They thought he had a sense of humor too. They said their conversation was probably less than 5 minutes. They were sorry they didn't have a camera.

What time is the next flight? I'll meet you at the MGM!

In The States, Is it commonly known as rude to ask somebody who they are voting for?

Down here people get furious and go on rants about how it's a private matter etc.

Amen, Blibble! I wish there was a limit of 6-9 months that candidates could campaign for the presidency. There is so much wasted time and money in this process that could be used for actually trying to solve the issues.