Reply #35: I not only voted, I walked icy concrete for 6 hours, in basketball sneakers, [View All]

[mojowork_n]

...getting out the vote, door to door, for Barrack and Michelle.

I thought I was going to be inside, making last minute phone calls, but that wasn't the assignment.

...I was at the Pabst Theater, yesterday, and that's what really convinced me that something good can come out of the Obama candidacy. Michelle Obama hit each and every note on the mark. Her delivery was warm, fluid, natural, passionate, and totally honest. The speech may have been practiced and well-rehearsed, but it wasn't a performance. It was more like a gift to the audience. Afterwards, two guys from a Japanese TV network stuck a microphone in my face, and it was clear to me, they had been completely won over, as well.

So, what's the media focus? Some Gray Ops sound editor manufactures a single lie (blipping one word from the audio, "really"), and *that's* the whole story -- the distortion.

...I finally got home tonight, and Tweety and KO were talking to some empty suit from Texas. Tweety asked the guy to "name one accomplishment of Barack Obama in the Senate." The guy fluffed it, couldn't come up with a precisely phrased, 8 second summary of bullet points, and Tweety chewed his leg off. "That's a problem," he kept repeating. "What are his accomplishments, even his supporter can't name a single one." He was like a terrier gnawing at a turkey drumstick.

The network called the Republican race over before they conceded Hillary's defeat, but Obama's landslide margin in Wisconsin is 3 points above McCain's total.

And unlike CNN, MSNBC is only reporting the relative percentages in each race. Overlooking the fact that, with 85% of the vote in, Obama got 528, 654 Wisconsin votes, and McCain received 187,755.

Talk about Orwellian. CNN is rounding that off, in their description, summarizing it as a "2 to 1" margin. They could have just as easily rounded up, it's 2.8 to 1.