Editor’s note: The following article is written by Judith Gayle, a regular Planet Waves blogger on her own page, Political Waves. She also contributes regularly to the Friday edition of Planet Waves Astrology News. –RA
Dear Friend and Reader,
Today we’ll look at the shift toward Obama in the ‘least likely’ places in the nation — good sense and calm leadership may have made a comeback; if we can keep the GOP from discounting the hundreds of thousands of new voters by scurrilous accusations, ID card rules and disenfranchisements due to handwriting, missing initials, etc. You know, that stuff they ALWAYS do to keep the class war going.
Voting machines are giving the wrong candidate Obama votes (you KNOW which wrong candidate it’s going to), which is called vote flipping,В and long lines, shortages of ballots and such have made early voting difficult. If this is happening now, think what will happen on November 4th!
On the three-hour trip to the airport yesterday — and through what can only be called deeply entrenched Red Country — I saw more Obama signs than McCain. Miracles DO happen, don’t they? It’s becoming increasing difficult to vote against the just-plain decency and intelligence of Obama in the face of shifting hate-speak and irrational accusations from the Righty team.
I read this article from Alternet this morning, sayingВ Obama and McCain are now in a “statistical dead heat” among born-again evangelicals, those Rovian foot soldiers of two successful Bush elections, according to a recent survey; and the same seems to be true in Sarah Palin’s “real America,” those rural and small town areas she’s praised to the skies. According to a poll commissioned by the Center for Rural Strategies, in those areas which Bush won in 2004 by 53%-41%, Obama now holds a statistically insignificant one point lead. To complete this little trifecta, Gallup has just released a poll showing that Jews are now likely to vote for Obama by a more than three-to-one majority (74% to 22%).
The so-called Bradley Effect does not seem at play in this election; a Reverse Bradley — where white folks of the Pub persuasion say they’re voting the Palin ticket but secretly mark their ballot for Obama — looks more likely. Jon Stewart teased Obama about that last night: good to see a candidate that can poke fun at himself!
And in what Obama called an infomercial and television stations called ads, because they were purchased with Obama money, Barack gave us an answer to the Righty Joe Six-Pack supposition last night; people are hurting and need leadership and assistance. A lot of them are looking Bluer than ever.
Republican appreciation for the working class is a joke; the Great Unwashed are useful to groom Pub lawns or install their swimming pools; but they don’t want to see them at the gun club, the country club or in their Congressional club. In fact, the club they associate with this demographic is the rhetorical one they use to club them into compliance and irrationality.
BradBlog continues to lead on voting corruption and ACORN updates — visit often. Included are links on voting concerns including an expose on Texas vote-flipping.
It does not seem unreasonable to me that we’ll wake up on Nov. 5 with everything still undetermined — which is THE answer to those who think Constitutional law doesn’t matter very much, and only when the fix is in for THEM!
Yours & truly,
Jude