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Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Rich Galen :: Townhall.com Columnist
Keep the Faith
by Rich Galen
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Will Congress pass Obamacare by the end of the year?

It is that time in the election cycle when the faithful can become confused, the confused can become disenchanted, and the disenchanted can tune out.

Using the Galen Theory of Poll Interpretation - throw out the high (CBS/NY Times) and the low (Investors Business Daily) and whatever is left is probably right - Obama is now leading McCain by about seven percentage points.

That is not the end of the world as we know it. That isn't even CLOSE to the end of the world as we know it.

With the global financial system teetering on the brink of going back to trading in wampum and the War on Terror no closer to being won than it was in January 2002 and housing prices continuing to drop and unemployment continuing to rise and who-knows-what-else is going wrong … Obama shouldn't be ahead by 6.5 percentage points; he should be ahead by SIXTEEN percentage points.

Ok, so why isn't Obama ahead by double digits?

I think it's because the world is as dangerous as it is.

Think about Barak Obama not as a candidate for President, but as a race car driver. Which NASCAR team would give the keys to the car to a guy who has just learned to drive?

It is much more likely that they would send him back to the minor leagues for a few years of seasoning.

And it is very likely that American voters, before they pull the lever, fill in the circle, press the button or punch out the chad; will decide that Barack Obama needs some more seasoning before they allow him to take the tiller of the Ship of State and vote for John McCain.

So, a six-to-seven percentage point lead with three weeks to go is not enough for Obama to start looking at paint sample for the First Family Residence.

The big problem for the GOP isn't that Obama has a mid-single-digit lead in the national polls. The big problem for the GOP is that rank-and-file voters will decide that this race is over and not bother to go to the polls.

The Obama campaign is depending upon the jillions of young people - mostly college students - voting for the first time and voting for Obama.

If Republican voters fall into the trap being laid by the media that the Presidential race is over then Obama will win by default. Continued...
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Rich Galen has been a press secretary to Dan Quayle and Newt Gingrich. Rich Galen currently works as a journalist and writes at Mullings.com

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Reply # 1
Date: Oct 17, 2008 - 12:14 AM EST
Mr. Galen
Have you learned nothing? By themselves, Democrats are completely helpless. They are both ideologically and practically incompetent, and they don't do anything without Republicans taking the lead on it. Look at the bailout saga. That was years and years of Dem-GOP politics condensed into a week. Republicans developed the plan in response to a crisis caused by the government (including Republicans) with the Democrats shrieking and demanding in the background. After some initial resistance, GOP Congressmen who were inclined to resist the bailout were eventually threatened, guilted, and bribed into voting yea. They caved. That is the entire history of the Republican Party.

If Republicans would just stop cooperating with Democrat rabble-rousing for collectivism, the crap would stop. Democrats have nothing, and they know it. Instead, the GOP has been spiritually and politically cowardly, always fearing the consequences of not showing enough "compassion" and always "me-tooing" the Democrats. Where has it gotten us? To total, unmitigated destruction, and defeat for the GOP.

Yet, Republican voters are expected to dutifully vote for these same individuals who are responsible for our destruction, on the grounds that the Democrats are much worse, even though the Democrats are not worse. The Democrats do not do anything, and nothing is far superior to the "something" which the GOP has been doing to this country.
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Reply # 2
Date: Oct 16, 2008 - 9:06 PM EST
faith
When the news media try to tell me that Obahma is winning I have only one thing to say.

DEWEY WINS ELECTION.

Dont underestamate the intelegence of the American public. Have faith and win.
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