RK ARCHIVE - Everyone Agrees: Allen's Campaign is the Worst

*"He turned a cakewalk into DanteGÇÖs Inferno."
*"AllenGÇÖs ineptness and, frankly, stupidity, as well as the campaignGÇÖs inability to dig itself out of the mess the candidate makes, has been a textbook case of how not to run."
*"Turned a presidential steamroller into a Halloween nightmare."

Comments

Allen's campaign may stink (libra - 10/27/2006 9:44:25 PM)

and most likely does. I wouldn't know; I don't watch TV, so don't see his ads at all, and Webb's only via the webforsenate website.

But I just saw the results of yet another Rasmussen poll (obviously, the race is now watched closely): Allen 49, Webb 48. Which is not altogether good news...

Only one point between them -- that's the good part. But almost no wiggle room left -- that's the bad part.

If you look at another senatorial race also with one point difference (NJ; Menendez/Kean) you'll see what I mean -- it's at 40/39. That means that there are more than 20% "undecideds". Given an active volunteer force (telephone or door-to-door), you can work on those to bring them to your POV.

In VA, the situation seems to be less "rosy", with only 3% not "locked" into their position, and those 3% likely to be voting for the "independent" candidate (who seems poised for "better offers"from both campaigns. *Some* independence...)

We can hope that the 3-4% MOE is working for us. And we can hope -- as someone mentioned a couple of days ago -- that the polls are not altogether reliable, because so many people (esp young ones) no longer have land-lines and can't be acessed for questioning (and let's hope all those youngsters vote! Against all the conventional wisdom) But, by the same token, those youngsters are not accessible to telephone persuasion, either.

But we can no longer hope for Allen's "spontaneous combustion" (and potential tripping over the foot in his mouth) at public appearances, because there's now a "handler firewall" around him, limiting same (damn shame, if you ask me )

I don't know how I'm gonna survive the suspense of the next 10 days, and that's the truth... :)

One Suggestion To Get The Word Out (norman swingvoter - 10/28/2006 3:15:36 PM)

I'm not good at phoning. One thing that I've started that I can do is this. I got a bunch of Webb brochures from the local office. When I go to the drycleaners, restaurants, drugstore, etc., I pass a brochure to the cashier when I pay. If things are not too busy I will give a short pep talk. People so far have always been polite and taken the brochure. Hopefully it will get a few votes for Webb.

Podhoretz comment on Webb fiction (PM - 10/27/2006 10:32:56 PM)

John Podhoretz at the National Review on Webb's books ---

http://corner.nation...

The Webb Excerpts [John Podhoretz]
Sometimes I'm embarrassed to be on the Right. The outbreak of cynical Babbitry on the part of the George Allen campaign in using sentences from novels written by James Webb against Webb makes this day one of those days.
Posted at 5:18 PM

CBS: Positive Feedback on Michael J. Fox Interview (PM - 10/27/2006 10:45:02 PM)

http://www.cbsnews.c...

Feedback on Fox
(CBS)
We've been getting a lot of e-mails and feedback on Katie's interview last night with Michael J. Fox.
Typically, we'll get 50 or 60 e-mails overnight in the "C&C" mailbox.
Last night, we got nearly 300.
An overwhelming majority of them were from people with Parkinson's, or their families, like this one:
As a 45-year-old daughter of a Parkinsonâ€™s Disease patient, I was obviously moved to tears by this interview, and enraged with Rush Limbaughâ€™s comments and mocking of Mr. Fox. My father was diagnosed with PD when he was 35 years old, and to see years of debilitation has been heart-wrenching.***

I agree with Libra (bladerunner - 10/27/2006 10:46:58 PM)

I don't know if I am going to be able to survive 10 more days of suspence either. But I have been through this many times in the last 15 years with a lot of day after blues. A big turnout is a democratics friend, and bad for GOP--in my opinion. I'll keep chugging along and doing what I can to put George Felix in retirement. You all will be able to hear me scream when Allen gives his concession speech. Heck, I might even go to it and be like Sadirth and video tape it.

At long last, Sen. Allen, have you no decency? (GeorgeAllenVa - 10/27/2006 11:42:20 PM)

In ten days, Virginians will say no to the lies of George Allen and Karl Rove. They will say yes to Jim Webb, a man of independence and character, much like John McCain. McCain had this to say on the jacket of "Lost Soldiers," the book Allen is distorting:
â€œJames Webbâ€™s new novel paints a portrait of a modern Vietnam charged with hopes for the future but haunted by the ghosts of its war-torn past. It captures well the lingering scars of the war, and exposes the tension between the dynamism of a new generation and the invisible bondage of an older generation for whom wartime allegiances, and animosities, are rendered no less vivid by the passage of time. A novel of revenge and redemption that tells us much about both where Vietnam is headed and where it has been.â€
â€” Senator John McCain

NJ (Gordie - 10/28/2006 12:53:06 AM)

Nj Democrats have the good sense to fib a little in these polls and then go out and kisk A-- on election day, so 40-39 looks good in NJ.
VA is hard to figure out. Allen staying at 47-49 percent sounds fishey. How could such a jerk keep his base of 37 percent and 12 percent of the swingers for so long. Sounds like bull slinging is going on. So keep on keeping on and get out the vote. Some how the word has to be gotten to some of the people who think their vote does not count and get them to vote. The only vote that does not count is the one not cast and the ones stolen. Keep a good watch at the poll.