Longtime Republican voters are airing new views - Los Angeles Times,

the link above is to another interesting read on this topic (Republicans jumping ship), this one is about some not so wealthy anymore, Republicans living in Florida, and their take on the failed Bush/McCain financial policy.

A Republican mayor in Alaska just endorsed Obama, too.  Of course, the Repubs have their own problems in Alaska right now, with "Toobs" Stevens under indictment.

McCain can always call Obama a "celebrity." That'll keep the GOP on winning platform.

Thanks Random, Alaska is very much in play with McCain currently holding 5% advantage....

Daily News-Miner reports 

FAIRBANKS — Republican Mayor Jim Whitaker has said he is endorsing Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama.

“My goal is to let Republicans have a clear understanding that their right to vote should not be restricted by any party affiliation,” the borough mayor said. He said the economic and political challenges facing the state and country are broader than political parties alone can address and suggested Republicans should consider crossing party lines by focusing on the strongest candidate this year.

"...Whitaker, a former state lawmaker, said a comparison of Obama and Republican Sen. John McCain — neither of whom he has personally met — leads him to believe Obama has the stronger “intellectual capacity” and a greater ability to manifest it. He said his endorsement should not be viewed as one of the Democratic Party, noting that absent criminal convictions of Republican Sen. Ted Stevens or Rep. Don Young, he would be supporting their respective reelection campaigns.

Whitaker, who as a politician has often focused on energy issues, said he sensed an open-minded approach in Obama’s campaign toward traditional, alternative and renewable energy issues that can benefit resource-rich Alaska."

with "Toobs" Stevens under indictment

And Don Young is still under investigation.

McCain just put out a racist campaign ad:

http://blogs.abcnews.com/po...

McCain just put out a racist campaign ad:

That's all he has.

Oh noes!  Obama's just like that sheriff in "Blazing Saddles"!   If he picks Gene Wilder for his VP, Senator Lepetomane is doomed!

Wayfarer/Buffoo is going to hate hearing this:

A poll by the Barna Group, a Christian polling and resarch organization says Democrat Barack Obama maintains a nine point lead over Republican John McCain among Christians. The poll finds that the race is tightening.

Among the key findings -

1) Of the 18 faith groups identified in the polls, McCain is only leading among evangelicals and it's a narrow lead. Obama leads among the other 17 faith groups identified including the born again vote (Barna notes that would mark the first time in more than two decades that the born again vote has swung toward the Democratic candidate.

2) McCain has a narrow lead among evangelicals but a third say they're undecided and McCain's support is weakening among the group:

While some Christian voters seem to be questioning their early support for Obama, the McCain candidacy does not seem to be gaining momentum among evangelicals. Since June, the current level of support Sen. McCain has among evangelical voters has declined significantly (dropping from 78% to 61%).

http://minnesota.publicradi...

Barack Obama’s campaign is rolling out a number of centrist Republicans who are endorsing the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee over Republican rival John McCain — in a show of his ability to win cross-over votes.

A conference call Tuesday featured former Iowa Rep. Jim Leach, former White House intelligence adviser Rita Hauser and former Rhode Island Sen. Lincoln Chafee, who represented his state as a Republican, but switched to become a Democrat so he could vote for Obama in the primary.

http://elections.foxnews.co...

Wait'll McBush picks between the cultist from Massachussetts and the bearded Governor of Florida for veep.  The fundies'll *LOVE* either of those choices.

Boy, that McBush knows how to rev up a crowd!

LMAO!   If only they had free grapes and tire gauges to throw around like at McSame's "victory office" opening in Bako, those folks in the pic above would've been totally fired up...

While excitement is building for a Democratic Party convention capped by Barack Obama’s historic acceptance speech before a sold-out, 75,000-seat football stadium, the GOP convention the following week is shaping up to be a considerably more staid affair, marked by the conspicuous absence of many of the usual convention attendees....

Of the 12 Republicans running in competitive Senate races — five of whom are incumbents — only three have said they will be attending the convention. Six are definite no-shows, and three are on the fence.

“Nobody likes a funeral,” said a Senate Republican press secretary who spoke on the condition of anonymity, citing “the overall climate of general malaise about the party” as the reason for hesitance on the part of Republicans.

Well Random, if McCain wanted to draw a clear distinction between himself and that "celebrity" Obama in front of 200,000 adoring people, I would have to say "Mission Accomplished"....

*HERE* is a fascinating graphic showing the most-used words on both McBush's website blog and Obama's.  Note that there's *ONE* thing on which they agree:  the most important candidate in the race.  (Words used more often are bigger)

Larger image here: 

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_u...

Once again McSame gets himself in legal trouble with one of his campaign ads:

On Monday, the McCain campaign released a Web video called “Fan Club” that features a clip from “Wayne’s World” with Mike Myers and Dana Carvey doing their trademark “We’re not worthy!” line.

“Unfortunately, the final clip of Mike Myers and Dana Carvey doing their ‘we’re not worthy’ bit from Wayne’s World has spurred a celebrity backlash,” Michael Goldfarb posted on the blog this afternoon. “Myers had his people call the campaign to demand that the video be removed from YouTube for copyright violation. Apparently, we are not, in fact, worthy.”

Between the music copyright problems and the ongoing rights clearance issues, I keep wondering how long it will be before the McCain campaign stops this foolishness of ripping off other peoples' work.

Here's an interesting story about whether everyday white folks will really vote for a black candidate:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id... 

Those porkers in the McCain photo look like rejects from Red State Update.

"The Fan" video has been reposted by 1001BG at...http://www.youtube.com/watc...

Jesse Jackson is no Barrack Obama. Different planets. Can you imagine Obama saying the "n-word" like Jackson? I can't. 

Jesse Jackson is no Barrack Obama.

Not to you, he isn't. Tom Bradley was a likeable guy (I voted for him in '82), but his blackness still cost him the governor's race. More than a few blacks didn't vote for Bradley, because as one South Central black man put it, "A guy who wears tailored suits and rides in a chauffer-driven car doesn't have anything in common with us down here."  

The article that I posted the link to says exactly what I posted last week: People will tell the pre-election pollsters that they're voting for the black candidate, go into the voting booth and vote for Mr. Whitefolks, then tell the exit pollsters that they voted for the black candidate.

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but the average person will tell as many lies as he or she needs to in order to get what they want.  

The numbers are bad all over (or good, depending on who you are): http://www.istockanalyst.co...

By John Ellis, The Fresno Bee, Calif.

Aug. 10--The Republican Party, which overtook Valley Democrats in voter registration totals eight years ago, is losing ground for the first time in at least a decade.

After peaking just ahead of the 2004 presidential election, Republican registration numbers are down in Fresno, Tulare, Kings, Madera, Mariposa and Merced counties.

The GOP's decline is most obvious in Fresno County, where the losses have turned into an avalanche, even as the party gears up its efforts to keep the White House in GOP hands by electing Arizona Sen. John McCain as president.

The most recent voter registration numbers show the Democrats are closing the gap and are now fewer than 9,000 voters behind the Republicans.

At the peak in 2004, GOP registrations were ahead by more than 23,500 voters.

It's not just in the valley, Tom.

You can Google articles on how the GOP are hemorrhaging voters all across the nation.

We'll get them back if we go back to being the party of small government and fiscal responsibility.

We'll get them back if we go back to being the party of small government and fiscal responsibility.

Which Republicans haven't been since Reagan ran.  Good luck turning the Titanic around.

It's funny, they talk about "small government" and "fiscal responsibility," but those are cop-out terms. What exactly do those phrases mean? Americans want effective government. The relative size of the government is immaterial.

Hell, at this point I would settle for a little legal responsibility in the Administration right now......

Kewl!  McBush just got a $2300 donation from the co-founder of one of the Internet's largest gay-meet-up websites.

But it's OK, the guy's a gay *REPUBLICAN*.

/Seinfeld mode on/

Not that there's anything wrong with that.

/Seinfeld mode off/