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I will be truly curious to see how much of a bump McCain will get after the convention is over (if any bump will happen).

I thought that Obama would have got more of a bump after his convention was over. IIRC, he got what, an 8 point bump in the polls with a 5 point margin of error?

If McCain isn't ahead by 15 by Monday, he's lost the election.

really, the only good thing to come out of the repubs convention so far is lieberman finally coming out of the dem closet to show his true colors. he will be out of the caucus long before the election after not only bashing obama, but lieing about him in the process.

and whatever the bump in polls the repubs get from this convention, barring mccain really coming through with some serious policie decisions on....SOMETHING....besides drilling for more oil, will be very short lived once the fact checkers get through with their speaches.

i hear the repubs saying she IS middle class when asked why no mention about the middle class. that might win the instant criticizem, but give it a week and people will be saying, so yea, she IS middle class, so what is she going to DO for them?

the entire repub convention, dare i say their entire campaign isnt about issues. its about bashing obama. i think once the repub convention is over, people are going to start asking why none of the repubs brought up ANY issues other than obama.

and i laugh at the notion that hillary supporters were all about gender and not about issues. i laugh even harder at the notion that paulin could in any way hold a candle to her, much less garner anywhere near as much support.

as far as familey values, it was edwards who lost big by trying to drag his cancer stricken wife through an election campaign. long before the whole cheating issue. we saw it as selfish and very uncaring of her needs.

it wont be long before paulin is viewed in the same light. a working class husband that can no longer work. a special needs child she WILL NOT be there for. and dragging a daughter through a national lime light with an unplanned pregnancy, basically branding her with a scarlet letter before the entire country, the entire world infact.

familey values? hope she has more to support her than that. right now people are thrilled with her. the enfatuatuin WILL wear off and people WILL start asking questions. hard ones.

Edited, Sep 4th 2008 11:25am by shadowrelm

There's varying accounts of teleprompter issues ranging from "it worked fine" to "it didn't pause for applause lines" to "it was all dorked up".

Even if it failed to sync, she wouldn't have been doing the speech "from memory" since she'd see what she was going to say on the 'prompter and had a hard copy of the speech with her (according to most sources).

Edited, Sep 4th 2008 1:50pm by Jophiel

I saw it now and then on CNN (in shots from the back of the stage) and it looked fine to me as well but I was in and out of the room so I can't say for sure. Anyway, Fox's account seems a bit exaggerated against the other accounts.

I wouldn't call the teleprompter being two lines ahead "giving the speech from memory". For that matter, I wouldn't be too amazed if she had given it from memory since she probably spent the last 48+ hours on the thing.

Perhaps after 8 years of Bush the Republicans want to keep a ****** in the white house....

Just a quick aside:

Please, please use spell check shadowrelm.

McCain!

Nexa

So you missed the whole part where she spoke about her accomplishments as governor with the creation of a natural gas pipeline?


To be fair, he may have blinked. "Accomplishments" Hahahahahaha. ****, that's funny.

iirc, she talked about that in the context of becoming less reliant on oil supplies from unfriendly foreigners (brown folk) who are hell bent on destroying Americas lead in the junior hockey leauge.....or something.

I must confess to being somewhat fascinated by her youngest daughters attempts to flatten the babies hair using spit, and then later on, picking its nose.

Compelling stuff!