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Local Republicans Frustrated with McCain in Indiana

Posted by Matt Ortega on October 10, 2008 at 03:08 PM

And the hits just keep coming as Republicans are frustrated with John McCain's campaign (or lack thereof) in an uncharacteristically competitive Indiana:

Even if McCain does visit, there’s also this problem for his campaign: It hasn’t come close to matching other aspects of the Obama effort, such as TV ads, campaign offices, staff and energy, in Indiana.

It’s too late to catch up when it comes to organizing, so a campaign appearance is likely the best step McCain could take. Although such an appearance isn’t likely to decide this race, it would send a message to the GOP volunteers and die-hards the campaign needs to energize.

If you are in Indiana, or anywhere else for that matter, get involved. Only three and a half weeks to go.

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With the economy playing out front and center, the typical dirty repubs tricks aren`t taking traction. Hopefully, this may lend some insight into this horrible political tactic to voters in the long run also. This doesn`t lend any quality to the race. It`s also a horrible thing to portray William Ayers life to. You would think he is that same person as he was back then. I don`t know him, but being a professor I would think he`s moved on. A lot of people did things in the 60`s.

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virgo1 on October 10, 2008 at 08:40 PM

Ohio is turning blue, we suggest our neighboring states do this too...even the staunchest Republicans are now seeing the lies and figuring out the financial contradictions in their lives, it is time to resolve our problems, not argue. Rather than debate at home, put loved ones in front of the PC if you can.
Here is a must watch and explanation by Obama regarding Ayers, more news videos, and a couple of factual sites for reference:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/27113790#27124691

http://www.fightthesmears.com

http://www.factcheck.org

From Factcheck.org:
"In a TV ad, McCain says Obama "lied" about his association with William Ayers, a former bomb-setting, anti-war radical from the 1960s and '70s. We find McCain's claim to be groundless. New details have recently come to light, but nothing Obama said previously has been shown to be false... McCain says in an Internet ad that the two "ran a radical 'education' foundation" in Chicago. But the supposedly "radical" group was supported by a Republican governor and included on its board prominent local civic leaders, including one former Nixon administration official who has given $1,500 to McCain's campaign this year. Education Week says the group's work "reflected mainstream thinking" among school reformers. The group was the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, started by a $49 million grant from the Annenberg Foundation, which was established by the publisher Walter Annenberg, a prominent Republican whose widow, Leonore, is a contributor to the McCain campaign. (FactCheck.org, which is nonpartisan, also receives funding from the Annenberg Foundation. But we are in no way connected to the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, which finished its work long before we came into being in late 2003.)...

Voters may differ in how they see Ayers, or how they see Obama's interactions with him. We're making no judgment calls on those matters. What we object to are the McCain-Palin campaign's attempts to sway voters--in ads and on the stump--with false and misleading statements about the relationship, which was never very close. Obama never "lied" about this, just as he never bragged about it. The foundation they both worked with was hardly "radical." And Ayers is more than a former "terrorist," he's also a well-known figure in the field of education."

From Newsweek, Assessing Ayers: Innuendo vs. Information by Andrew Romano

http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/stumper/archive/2008/10/10/assessing-ayers-innuendo-vs-information.aspx

OBAMA/BIDEN 2008 CHANGE WE CAN BELIEVE IN!

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MarieDNC on October 11, 2008 at 03:50 AM


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