CNN’s Wolf Blitzer with Lynn Forester De Rothschild on the Democrat ticket and why she is supporting McCain.
I love hearing another Democrat quoting Ronald Reagan: “I didn’t leave the Democratic party, the Democratic party left me.” Perfect!
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Bitter Clingers Tie it up in Pennsylvania: Obama 47% McCain 47%
Tied in Pennsylvania tied, tied in Minnesota, McCain up by 1 in Michigan. It doesn’t look good for “The One”.
Another good thing about this; I don’t think Fast Eddie Rendell likes Obama. He is a die hard Clintonite. I doubt if he will have the dead rise to vote for Obama.
All Tied in Pennsylvania: Obama 47% McCain 47%
The race for Pennsylvania’s 21 Electoral College votes is tied.
The latest Fox News/Rasmussen Reports telephone survey in the state finds Barack Obama and John McCain each attracting 47% of the vote (demographic crosstabs available for Premium Members). Eighty-three percent (83%) of Obama voters are certain they will vote for him and not change their mind before Election Day. An identical percentage of McCain voters say the same thing.
A week ago, Obama was up by two points after holding five percentage-point leads in August and July.
The latest poll finds the Republican candidate is viewed more a bit more favorably among voters than his opponent. McCain is viewed favorably by 60%, up three points from a week ago. Obama’s ratings are at 52% favorable, down three points.
Also, by a 51% to 42% margin, voters in the Keystone State trust McCain more than Obama.
Forty-three percent (43%) of Pennsylvania voters would be very or extremely comfortable with McCain as President. Forty-one percent (41%) say the same about Obama.
As for the running mates, 44% would be that comfortable if Biden had to assume the duties of President while 40% say the same about Palin in the Oval Office. Nationally, 63% say that McCain is prepared to be President while 44% say the same about Obama.
Rasmussen Reports and Fox News Channel will jointly release a series battleground state polls every Monday night at 6:00 p.m. Eastern. Other polls tonight were released for Colorado, Ohio, Florida, and Virginia. See overview of all polling released this week.
Rasmussen Reports will release other state polling on the Presidential race weeknights at 5:00 p.m. Eastern. The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll, follows the race on a national basis and is updated every morning at 9:30 a.m. Eastern. (Sign up for a free daily e-mail update).
Rasmussen Markets data shows that Democrats are currently given a 68.0 % chance of winning Pennsylvania’s 21 Electoral College Votes this fall.
John Kerry won the state for the Democrats in 2004 by a 51% to 48% margin over President Bush. Four years earlier, Al Gore carried the state by four percentage points. Immediately prior to release of this poll, Pennsylvania was rated as “Leans Democrat” in the Rasmussen Reports Balance of Power Calculator. NOTE: Factors other than the latest Rasmussen Reports poll impact the Balance of Power ratings. The current status is indicated on the table in the upper righthand corner of this article.
New Video Shows John McCain Being Handed Over to the U.S. Military in Hanoi
A Swedish broadcaster released a video showing the release of John McCain to the U.S. military in Hanoi in 1973.
This is pretty powerful stuff. Obama isn’t fit to lick McCain’s boots.
Film shows McCain’s release from Vietnamese prison
Swedish broadcaster SVT on Thursday released a previously unseen film clip purportedly showing the release of presidential candidate John McCain to the U.S. military in Hanoi in 1973.
A former SVT reporter, Erik Eriksson, said he found the video in the network’s archives when he was looking for footage for a book he was writing about his experiences as a war correspondent in Vietnam.
SVT posted the edited 39-second clip on its Web site on Thursday. It shows McCain stepping off a bus with other prisoners. He has a pronounced limp but is not using crutches.
It then shows McCain standing in a lineup when his name is called. He walks up to salute and shake hands with U.S. military officers. The last part of the clip shows a U.S. Air Force jet taxiing on a runway.
Eriksson said the footage was filmed in Hanoi on March 14, 1973, by a Vietnamese photographer whom he had contracted to film the release of U.S. prisoners.
“I don’t know if there is another film from his release. I haven’t seen all the films in the world, but as far as I know there are no others,” Eriksson told The Associated Press.
Eriksson said the clip was included on a DVD that he released with his book.
“This summer when I was preparing the release of my book we were putting together a DVD with some of my reports from Vietnam and then I thought, ‘I wonder if we have McCain here?'” Eriksson said.
Per Yng, head of SVT’s national news, confirmed that Eriksson found the film in the network’s archives.
“It’s our material. So we can confirm its authenticity,” Yng said. He could not confirm the date and location of the film, but he said he had no reason to doubt Eriksson’s information.
Eriksson said he was covering the Vietnam war for SVT as well as U.S. networks CBS and NBC.
Eriksson could not recall the name of the Vietnamese cameraman and said he had not been in contact with him after finding the clip.
Hat Tip: Hot Air
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