Palin to Defend Traditional Red States

[maddezmom]

Source: ABC

Palin to Defend Traditional Red States
Visits to Nebraska and North Carolina Planned as McCain Campaign Tries to Hold Republican Turf

Republican vice presidential nominee Gov. Sarah Palin will visit Omaha, Neb., on Sunday, an official from the McCain-Palin campaign has confirmed, signaling an attempt to shore up a traditionally reliable red state from efforts by the Obama campaign to capture one of the state's key electoral votes.

After a fundraising event in the San Francisco Bay Area on Sunday, Palin will travel to Omaha to hold a rally Sunday evening at the Omaha Civic Auditorium, in the heart of Nebraska's second congressional district. Palin was originally scheduled to fly directly from California to Florida on Sunday, but the Omaha rally was added late on Saturday, according to the McCain campaign.

The decision for Palin to travel to Nebraska for the last-minute rally signals an effort by the McCain campaign to keep the state red in this year's election, while also allowing Palin's visit to reach the neighboring battleground state of Iowa. Sen. John McCain and Palin visited the state for a joint rally in Cedar Rapids on Sept. 18.

While Nebraska's five electoral votes have been reliably conservative in recent presidential elections – the last time the state went Democratic was in 1964 – Nebraska is one of two states whose electoral votes can be split. Two electoral votes go to the state's overall winner, while separate electoral votes are given to the highest vote-getter for each of the state's three congressional districts.



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[geckosfeet]

1. Good - she may be able to convince a few hard core pubs to not vote for her.

[Aviation Pro]

2. Nebraska's in play?

What's next? Idaho? Montana? Wyoming?

I smell landslide.

[Aloha Spirit]

5. Haha just the one Omaha district.But it reminds me of Bush only speaking in front of military

audiences... that is, stay on friendly territory.

[John Q. Citizen]

9. Montana is in play, but less so do to FISA and due to Palin.

However, I think Obama has an uphill chance to take Montana and it's trending back toward him somewhat as Palin becomes a caricature to all except the base. So do the campaigns apparently because both continue to run TV ads here.

So at the very least the Obama campaign is forcing McCain to expend resources here.

[Cirque du So-What]

3. This is like Mayor Daley appointing Ms. O'Leary's cow as Fire Chief

it will surely go down in history as a monumental fuckup.

[Solly Mack]

4. Palin to spread fear and nurture hate in red states

[uppityperson]

6. Do I have this right? They are sending Palin to red states to convince undecideds?

Seems that convincing solid repubs to vote repub is an odd thought, but she is supposed to read undecideds in "traditional red" states? Or are they just getting her out of the way? Either way, hahhahahhahhhahhahahaahhahaa

Yes Sarah, go tell those people how you feel about women, and the constitution, and nukes, and not leaving Iraq. Ever. Good job! Now go home to AK and get recalled.

[amber_86]

7. Nebraska is Obama State

I believe Obama will win Nebraska, Palin needs to go home, Get out of my state.

[boomerbust]

8. Obama should

Make an appearance in Alaska. See what kind of crowd He could draw there.

[Arctic Dave]

13. Don't tease us like that.

We would love to see The Big O come to Alaska.

[grytpype]

10. McCain is sinking fast if he has to defend red states!

That 50%+1 bullshit is not going to fly this year!

[dcindian]

11. Time to circle the wagons.

Or lose every state in the union. The McPalin hate-fest knows they have lost the election and now they are trying to save what religious extremist are left in their war on America.

[supernova]

12. She must be doing a private event in NC then

there's no big publicity push for her being here so far. :shrug:

The local news is all about Obama being here to prepare for the debate and how he's pouring resources in to win NC. ;-)

GOBAMA!!

[paparush]

20. I just got back from the rally in Asheville. The place was PACKED. The line to get in was easily

a mile long.

Barak gave a great speech, hammering McCain and laying out his healthcare and taxation policies.

As we were waiting in line, we kept saying, there is NO WAY John McCain brings people out like this...thousands and thousands of people.

[Piewhacket]

14. Palin's new mission. Turn Red States BLUE.

Looks like McCain has nothing left to lose.

Incidentally, several knowledgable and credible folks have specifically
and insistently mentioned to me that, based visual clues
they are having VERY SERIOUS concerns about McCain's health.

Medical doctors have posted here about their serious concerns.
Even non-medically trained folks are noticing. One expert photo retoucher
(25 years experience) who looked at a photo published on Fox TV commented that
the photo of McCain + Obama had been retouched either to make Obama look darker
or to hide what was evident to an expert... that before retouching McCain was the
WRONG COLOR for a healthy adult (retouchers apparently deal with this a lot).

Where is McCain's medical records??

[54anickel]

15. Maintaining solid support for her reappearance in 4 to 8 years. Imagine what she'll be

like with a few years of grooming! She'll become the Sarah they fell in love with during that first acceptance speech, they've just got to keep her away from any open question and answer moments with the media. This is just the myth building grounds where they "let Sarah be Sarah". Never-mind that she's simply regurgitating what she's been taught, a puppet on a string, she doesn't have a thought of her own on much of anything.

This is all about myth creation and sustaining that myth for a return engagement.

[Tutonic]

16. Folks--this is MAJOR. When she is forced to circle back to Omaha

On October 5th--this campaign is in serious doo doo. Nebraska is the heartland with a very small minority population. Democrats are far and few between. To have to spend campaign dollars at this stage to hold onto these votes!!!! This tells me that this show is all but over. Obama has broken through the wall and he's about to tear the house down. Look for one or two other red states start to falter. And McCain talking about spending money in Maine? Come on--who does he think believes this Sarah Palin who is left out of the loop on key campaign "tactics." This is a great day because Obama has shut McCain down.

[mwooldri]

17. Come on Palin... Speak in Chapel Hill. Speak in Asheville...

/me lights fuse and stands well back...

[supernova]

21. I TRIPLE-DOG DARE Wailin Palin to show her ass in Orange County!

:spank: :spank:

She's likely to be tarred and feathered.

[ryanmuegge]

18. Don't kid yourselves. Nebraska is SOLIDLY Republican, and it will stay that way.

The reason they are doing this is because they want to keep her in front of friendly crowds only, as somebody else pointed out.

[XemaSab]

22. Crowds full of undecided voters in purple states

shouldn't be UNFRIENDLY. :P

[Anarcho-Socialist]

19. for McCain NE's split electoral votes matter

and I think GOP strategists believe that winning the popular vote is unlikely and the key to victory is to scrape over 270 by any means necessary, and so keeping any stray electoral vote from Obama matters.