Gallup Poll shows McCain gaining

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Gallup Poll shows McCain gaining
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Tue, 10-28-2008 - 1:25pm

and Obama dropping today.


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Registered: 07-03-2008
Wed, 10-29-2008 - 12:06pm
Because he knows how the Republicans cheated the last 2 elections.
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Registered: 10-10-2007
Wed, 10-29-2008 - 12:16pm

I 100% agree with this post.


Obviously, a lot of Americans belive Obama is a flawed candidate for whatever reason.


We have an incumbent president with the lowest approval ratings in living memory, we're in two unpopular wars, the economy is tanked...we have an old guy that is not that charismatic with a controversial running mate... and YET, Obama can't close the sale.


He should've been leading in the double digits. And please, no more Americans are racist, that's why. It shows a huge flaw in his campaign. He's selling "change" and a lot of Americans just aren't buying that his change will be good for America.


Not saying he's not going to win- I think he will win. But when he does, I hope he will remember that there is a huge contingent- half of the nation- that strongly opposes his policies. And most of these people aren't happy with the current situation, either.

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Registered: 10-20-2008
Wed, 10-29-2008 - 2:47pm

>>Very prudent considering his performance against Hillary.<<

>>> You mean the primary? Which he won?

By the skin of his teeth. And he wouldn't have if Rev. Wright had reared his ugly head a few months earlier.

>>Sure...if by "commanding" you mean "tie." LOL!<<

>>> I'm sure it comforts you to ignore the data and believe they are in a tie. It doens't happen to be true, but I'm sure its comforting.

You're right...as it's within the margin of error, McCain could actually be ahead. LOL!

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Registered: 10-12-2008
Wed, 10-29-2008 - 2:52pm
You say this all the time here.

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Registered: 10-20-2008
Wed, 10-29-2008 - 2:56pm
Yeah...sure...but it's Obama who's propping up the ACORN voter fraud and taking untraceable donations. There isn't a scumbag scheme Barry and the Dems won't use to steal the election.
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Registered: 09-04-2008
Wed, 10-29-2008 - 3:01pm

No - but it is very interesting...in our children's school they always get the winners correct during their mock elections.

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Registered: 10-25-2006
Wed, 10-29-2008 - 3:22pm

<<.sounds a bit nervous compared to the fired up McCain.>>

On Sunday with Tom Brokaw, McCain didn't sound fired up at all, in fact, he looked pretty nervous.

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Registered: 03-25-2007
Wed, 10-29-2008 - 3:29pm

<taking untraceable donations>


Sheesh...you mean like this:


http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-donorsoct29,0,1269595.story


<Campaign donor's giving raises questions
Little known about man who has sent thousands to GOP
By Andrew Zajac, Ray Gibson and Bob Secter | Tribune reporters


October 29, 2008


Big campaign donors typically come with deep pockets and influence. But in Illinois this election cycle, no one not running for office himself has given more to the nation's federal campaigns than Shi Sheng Hao of Roselle, a virtual unknown in business and political circles.

Before September 2007, Hao's name had never appeared in the 15-year-old federal database of campaign contributors. Since then, however, his donations have topped $120,000 — including $70,100 on a single June day to Republican presidential candidate John McCain.

Over the same time frame, a network of Hao relatives has kicked in more. The take from this group over the last 13 months exceeds $269,000, a small amount to Democrats but most of it to McCain and the Republican National Committee, records show.

Hao didn't register to vote at the northwest suburban address attached to his donations until October 2007, a month after he wrote his first political check, $25,000 to the RNC.


The circumstances surrounding Hao's sudden and prolific political activism are curious and his whereabouts unclear. His name isn't listed on property records or the mailbox at the unassuming tract home listed on his donations. Hao lives "overseas," insisted a man who answered the door at the Roselle home recently. The man declined to identify himself.

The story of Hao—whose varied roster of business associates appears to include a Taiwanese government investment arm as well as the mastermind of a decade-old Democratic fundraising scandal — is an eyebrow-raiser in the current election climate.

Ethnic Chinese donors became an issue in the battle for the Democratic nomination last year because some didn't seem to live where they claimed on contribution records. Now, Republicans are raising questions about the authenticity of many small donations Democrat Barack Obama has received from abroad.

Sheila Krumholz, executive director of the Washington-based Center for Responsive Politics, said the timing of the Hao-related contributions appeared troubling, though there could be a plausible explanation. "Large contributions from people who have never given previously do generally provoke questions about who they are and what they're up to, and most importantly, what they're looking for," said Krumholz, whose non-partisan group closely tracks political donations. "The public needs to be concerned because there are fraudulent donations, and persons use them to gain influence and access in Washington."

McCain spokesman Brian Rogers said Hao was not a "major donor" and "not a part of this campaign in terms of fundraising," but declined to discuss him further or address the campaign's procedures for vetting donors. RNC spokesman Danny Diaz said he would not respond to questions from the Tribune, contending that the newspaper was biased against McCain.

So who is Shi Sheng Hao, and what are his means and motives for becoming a mega-donor? No one answers a telephone listed in his name in the 630 area code, and there's no answering machine. Messages left for him by phone and e-mail with several relatives went unanswered.

But this much can be gleaned from public records:

Donation disclosures list his occupation as a businessman with entities identified only by slightly different acronyms: ADECC, AAEC, A.A.E.C.C. On some he is also listed as president of American Chinese Entertainment Ltd.

Hao and his wife, Hsin-Ning, declared bankruptcy in 1995, at the time using the Roselle home as an address and listing as a business a firm called Asian American Environmental Control.

Hao holds an Illinois driver's license that lists his address as the Roselle home, but property records show the four-bedroom house has been owned since 1992 by Robert and Jen Chi, and their last name is on the mailbox. Contacted at the Des Plaines marketing firm where she works, Jen Chi said she didn't want to discuss Hao, though she said she knew how to get in touch with him and would have him call the Tribune. He never did.

"I don't know anything about his business," said Chi, who herself gave $15,000 to the RNC the week after Hao's first donation. "I don't want to be stuck in the middle." Hao's wife, Hsin-Ning, also used the Roselle address when she made a $25,000 contribution to the RNC last year. In September, however, she listed a Taipei address on a $2,300 contribution to the campaign fund of former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.

There is no record in business databases of American Chinese Entertainment Ltd., the firm listed in some Hao donation records. However, an Asian American Entertainment Corp. was incorporated early this year in California with a Shi Sheng Hao as president. Government records show that firm and at least two other Hao companies have connections to the family of Gene and Nora Lum, onetime prominent Democratic fundraisers in the Asian-American community who were convicted in 1997 of making political donations through illegal straw donors.

A Taiwanese firm with a nearly identical name as Hao's new California company, Asian American Entertainment Ltd., is also headed by a Shi Sheng Hao. That firm has been embroiled in a lengthy legal battle in Las Vegas over a soured partnership in an application for a casino license in Macau, the former Portuguese colony now part of China.

A court filing in that case described Hao's firm as a business affiliate of the China Industrial Development Bank, a finance arm of the Taiwanese government. Hao is listed as a resident of Taiwan in corporate papers filed in the case.

It is not clear whether the Shi Sheng Hao in the lawsuit and the California ventures is the same Shi Sheng Hao using the Roselle address. But public records point to numerous coincidences, including corporations with similar names and an overlap of investors. Some political donations from the Roselle address also refer to Hao by a nickname, Marshall, the same nickname given for Hao in the Las Vegas court action.

Federal records indicate a pattern of large and coordinated donations from Hao, relatives and associates. Collectively, eight of them gave a total of $130,000 to the RNC in late September to early October of last year.>>>


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Registered: 03-25-2007
Wed, 10-29-2008 - 3:38pm

The cool thing about the Realclear site is that you can click on any of their (underlined) hyperlinks to see how they've arrived at their numbers.

Sopal

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Registered: 10-20-2008
Wed, 10-29-2008 - 3:56pm
No, nothing like that at all...but thanks for the comparison of one guy with a questionable donation compared with many thousands. Kind of like the lame "Republican voter fraud" you tried to use to distract from the hundreds of thousands of frauds committed by Obama's buds, ACORN, to steal the election.

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