Damn you LBJ!

You know, I've thought that the predictions of a landslide were the over-confident back-patting of young volunteers working on their first election, or simply the dreams of under-informed supporters. I'm really starting to wonder, though.

I guess the one thing for sure in this election is you can't expect anything 'cause the CW just does not apply.

No doubt McShame blames it all on John Lewis.

Fast forward please . . .

Land. Slide.

I'm guessing somewhere in the neighborhood of 400 electoral votes.

Another effect- McCain voters aren't going to bother to show up for this bloodbath.

No Eric this couldn't be an outlier. An outlying polls lies OUTSIDE the margin of error of 95% of other polls taken at or about the same time...

So the result is entirely consistent with all recent polls ..no outlier..couldn't be an outlier unless the other polls are too

Sheesh

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Wow. Wish my South Carolina would go blue. It's the lone holdout on either coast!

let's hope Obama hires people like this Republican Hero.

The guys at 538 gives BO a 10% chance of winning GA.

"...the problem for McCain is that all but 3 percent of whites have made their decision and approximately 8 percent of black voters have continued to say they are undecided or voting 'other.' This will likely move closer to 95 percent for Obama when all said and done."

Boy, it's a good thing Hillary didn't say that, because then it would have been racist.

There's even a little sanity emerging in very conservative Oklahoma. Permit a little anecdote, please.

We flew to Oklahoma a couple of days ago to visit my husband's father who lives in an upscale assisted-living complex. We knocked on his apartment door, but when there was no response we walked in and discovered Dr. B (my father-in-law) in deep conversation with a rather attractive, well-dressed senior-citizen lady. She rose from the sofa and introduced herself by name and told us that she was a volunteer at the assisted-living facility. Mrs. P said that despite being 83 years old she enjoyed getting out and talking politics with many of the residents, including Dr. B.

She was quite forthright and told us that she was doing her best to convince Dr. B (a closet racist) to vote for Obama. She said that she had already voted and hoped that we had done the same. When we said we'd voted for Obama in Maine before flying to Oklahoma, Mrs. P let out a whoop and waved her well-manicured hands in the air. Before she departed, Mrs. P assured us that she would return in a day or two to continue her political conversation with my father-in-law (he actually grinned when he heard that). And as she headed for the door she turned back and said to my husband and me: "Don't worry. If I can't get him to change his mind, at least I know that I've cancelled out his vote."

I live in Atlanta and early voting is going gang busters. In the news are stories every day of long lines and long waits. I can assure you it ain't the McCain supporters here who are getting out early to avoid the long lines that will no doubt exist at their local polling place. And even better news is that Jim Martin may actually send Saxby Chambliss packing. Remember Saxby? The one who defeated Sen. Max Cleland (who lost three limbs in Vietnam) by questioning his patriotism and was swept into office 6 years ago on the Bush coattails of fear. Excellent news indeed.

The shift in Florida's pleased me no end, but to see my home state turning its colors... This is turning into a great morning.

HOLY SHIT~!

I had hopes that the trend would continue and that by the weekend before the election we might see some cracks in GA. And then the interaction between Chambliss running strong & close in the Senate race, Obama's national advertising and of course the Obama Ground Game in GA, that we might see some Really Good Things in GA. My wildest dream has been to grab the whole Easter Seaboard from FL to Maine.

I didn't expect to see something like this already.

Just breathtaking. Even if we don't win the state and Chambliss comes up short, we've pushed the GOP to their limits in the very heart of their base.

John

I've been writing this in TPM and dagblog for a couple of weeks.

Here it comes. NC won't be close, and MS will be.

NOTICE: Good polling isn't enough. People still need to vote, and those votes need to be counted correctly.

Gwinnett officials reprint 19,000 ballots.

LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. (AP) - Gwinnett County officials have reprinted 19,000 absentee ballots after officials found a problem with the forms. They will also have to hand-copy votes from at least 10,000 absentee ballots onto new ballots that can be read by a machine.

Elections Superintendent Lynn Ledford said Thursday the issue will not interfere with votes being counted in the Nov. 4 election.

She said officials discovered the problem after a routine test last week. Ovals that voters use to mark their choices are too thick for the optical scanning machines to read.

The county said members of each political party will moniter the transfer of votes. Gwinnett County officials will also keep copies of both the old and new ballots in case of an audit.

Information from: Gwinnett Daily Post, http://www.gwinnettdailypost.com

Having lived in the Atlanta area for most of the last 23 years I'm pleased to say that I'm not at all surprised to see this poll. I live in one of the more affluent Northern suburbs of Atlanta and, as you can imagine, have been somewhat of a political outlier over the years. In driving throught the city recently though, I've noticed at least as many Obama bumper stickers and yard signs as McCain ones. Even in Buckhead, THE upscale area of Atlanta, it's more Obama than McCain on the cars and in the yards. A number of the mansions on West Paces Ferry Rd., on which the governors mansion sits, have huge Obama banners hanging from their balconies. It's truly amazing, and while I'm not counting my chickens, it really gives me hope that Obama can carry Georgia. This is real folks. This is real.

Be still my heart. I have always liked early voting, but if the surge continues it may turn out to actually save McCain-Palin a few red states.

My neighborhood in Atlanta is VERY republican...this year many more Obama signs than McCain.

It almost makes me want to root for the Braves!

"Approximately 8 percent of black voters have continued to say they are undecided or voting 'other.' This will likely move closer to 95 percent for Obama when all said and done."

Completely disagree - unless Obama grows a pair and decides that he will speak out against the state sponsored murder of Troy Anthony Davis, something that Pope Benedict - the POPE, for crying out loud - has already done, he won't win. This is the most gripping issue in the Georgia courtrooms right now, with an issue that is 10x more important and relevant to us because it involves our justice system. It has gripped the Georgian African American community and multiple times Sen. Obama was contacted by the Davis family to join them in condemning this mentality of "guilty until proven innocent" that has infected the US legal system. He has ignored this request. I think if you look in the numbers that is probably what that 8% of African Americans are concerned with that has left them undecided or voting "other," that this so-called candidate of the people is not standing up against injustice.

I read something that summed it up the best:

"One of the saddest realities of this political season is that Barack Obama or John McCain will become the next president of these United States without being asked a single serious question about their thoughts on the state of America's "justice system."

Pathetic.

Let me be clear - I am well aware of the Vactian's POV towards the death penalty. I applaud it. I also applaud the stance Pope JPII took in '03 against the Iraq War from the start. I was actually trying to compliment the Pope by using him in my argument.

My point in bringing up the Pope was that if someone of international stature like Pope Benedict could speak out against this case - someone who technically has no need to worry about this, is not an American, and arguably has better things to worry about - then the least Obama can do is at least condemn the breakdown of the justice system in Georgia, a state that he needs. He has yet to do so. Why?

Why is it so difficult for you to understand WHY
McCain is going to be defeated?

HE IS ESSENTIALLY JUST ANOTHER DISHONEST POLITICIAN, fully in the school of George Bush and Dick Cheney.

What's so hard to understand. PEOPLE DON'T LIKE LIARS AND CROOKS.

I just came from casting my ballot in early voting here in Georgia, in the Atlanta area, and easily 95% of the hundreds and hundreds of people standing in line with me for three hours were African-Americans. Presuming most were Democrats - which seems to hold true in Dekalb County, where I voted - I think it bodes well for Obama. At least I hope so.

So, at last, in the red hills of Georgia, Barack Obama is being judged not by the color of his skin, but by the content of his character?

Eleven days.