If Team McCain needed some "bulletin-board material"—the kind of outrageous taunt from the opposition a coach will pin up in the locker-room to inspire his troops—they got if from Charlie Cook tonight. So confident is the pollster of an Obama victory, he's proclaimed that if McCain wins, he'll go to work bagging groceries or behind a fast-food counter.
Cook was a guest on this evening's Race for the White House. It was in looking at the Electoral College map with host David Gregory that he made his super-sized pledge.
View video here.
CHARLIE COOK: Three weeks ago, we would have said John McCain would have to run the table to win this election. Now, he can run the table and still come up short. He's gotta go find something on other tables.DAVID GREGORY: You think at this point, you wrote it would take divine intervention for him to pull this off.
COOK: If we were talking two weeks ago, I would have said, well, I think Obama's gonna win, unless there's some huge international event or something. And we're kind of past that point now. If McCain wins, and Senator McCain is a terrific man and served our country well. But if he wins, I'm going to be asking "paper or plastic" or "do you want fries with that?"
Note: For the record, Cook attributed what he sees as the dramatic change in McCain's fortunes to the onset of the current financial crisis.
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Oh puhleeze....when has
October 31, 2008 - 19:18 ET by bigtimerOh puhleeze....when has Cook ever been right in the last two elections for Prez to say the least...he has always been over-rated in my opinion.
I can't think of a better place for him than behind a counter asking do you want fries with that....he fits right in.
"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh
Bt...Is that the Kid that Always got Beat up..
October 31, 2008 - 19:29 ET by TheSter...in High School??? I bet he spent half his Senior year inside a Locker!!!
Ster.
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is no basis for a system of government.
Ster...LOL...he wouldn't
October 31, 2008 - 19:35 ET by bigtimerSter...
LOL...he wouldn't have fit!
"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh
ha
November 2, 2008 - 02:01 ET by RowaneOh yes he would have fit, ya just gotta apply the right pressure.
Just another great reason
October 31, 2008 - 19:25 ET by Clear thinkerJust another great reason to NOT vote for Obama. Dang the list is getting long!
Obama Ain’t No Christian!
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Ct... LOL...getting long
October 31, 2008 - 19:34 ET by bigtimerCt...
LOL...getting long and piling up indeed...
Vote Early...Vote Often!
"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh
Time to put on an apron bud!!!
October 31, 2008 - 19:33 ET by BEGRUNT"If a man does his best, what else is there"?
General George S. Patton Jr.
2004
October 31, 2008 - 19:37 ET by TexndocA lot of people (basically the ones in a rabid frothing funk after Bush "stole the election in 2000") swore up and down he would get repudiated in 2004. As I recall the last place Kerry was to campaign was in Florida because Boy Howdy were the Democrats going to get their revenge there. Not only did the media have Conservatives depressed the weekend before the election, on election-day NIGHT even the FoxNews panel was discussing "Where Bush went wrong." Anybody remember this?
I wonder
October 31, 2008 - 19:42 ET by wiseprinceIf he was one of the ones who called California for Obama:
<a href="http://www.voicesinthewilderness.net/diary.jsp?DIARYID=98">FAIL</a>
http://www.voicesint...
Is this member of the
October 31, 2008 - 19:40 ET by KJ_sezIs this member of the faux intelligensia even qualified to run a cash register? I think not.
I demand real change - force a Democrat to speak the truth!
Heck KJ... They don't
October 31, 2008 - 19:49 ET by bigtimerHeck KJ...
They don't even have to know how to count change back anymore...it's done automatically for them...bet it took a conservative mind to come up with that years ago too, anything to make money and help up the masses of dumb-arses that have been educated by a bunch of other dumb-arses in our school system anymore that has been intentionally dumbed down by the leftists to keep their political power...
Sad but true...I just love the Teachers Unions...
"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh
I don't know (or care)
October 31, 2008 - 19:44 ET by ConservativeRexI don't know (or care) who Charlie Cook is, but he proably should have been sacking groceries anyway. And now Obami is saying it's going to get rough just before the election. All I can say to that CS threat is, come on with the come on big boy. We'll get this crap settled once and for all.
Millions like me have just about had enough of the libs threats and taunts. Even when they think it's over, it ain't over.
Please quit polling, Cook
October 31, 2008 - 19:47 ET by GalvanicIt's about time Cook got a respectable job anyway.
Galv... Now that was
October 31, 2008 - 19:54 ET by bigtimerGalv...
Now that was PRICELESS!
...especially for some of us in the world who have done both jobs some time in their lives to make ends meet.
"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh
He'll quit polling
October 31, 2008 - 19:55 ET by kch50428Like Alec Baldwin left the country after Bush got elected...
kch... LOL...You are dead
October 31, 2008 - 19:59 ET by bigtimerkch...
LOL...You are dead right there.
"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh
Charlie the Tuna Cook
October 31, 2008 - 20:01 ET by JanettaI think his remarks about Senator McCain stink just like Charlie. By the way....is Charlie someone of importance? He doesn't look like the kind of guy I would want bagging my groceries or taking my order for dinner. Somehow I picture him peeping through someone's bedroom window. Bye Charlie. Remember your new job will be minimum wage, so enjoy the pay increase!
Yea, whatever Charlie, just
October 31, 2008 - 20:06 ET by GregEYea, whatever Charlie, just like all those celebrities that, if Bush won in 2000 and again in 2004, were going to leave the USA.
Yaaaawn.
Frank's Freudian Slip?
October 31, 2008 - 20:30 ET by mom_roxOn this evening's O'Reilly Factor, pollster Frank Luntz mentioned that he would continue his dial group polling during the first 100 days of the Obama presidency.
Either O'Reilly missed it or just chose to ignore it.
The Axis of Taxes: Obama, Pelosi and Reid (source unknown)
Luntz
October 31, 2008 - 20:41 ET by TexndocI'm not ancient, but there was a time I could remember Presidential elections and debates without "dials". If there's one person besides Obama I want to disappear on Wednesday, it's this tool and his room full of morons.
I also remember when MTV played videos
October 31, 2008 - 21:24 ET by mom_roxand I'm old enough to remember when news anchors and news reporters managed to keep you guessing regarding their bias ;)
The Axis of Taxes: Obama, Pelosi and Reid (source unknown)
Well now it's different.
October 31, 2008 - 21:30 ET by Foolican"Okay, we admit it! We want Obama to get elected. So what! We never claimed to be objective journalists anyway."
It won't be long until newspapers start publishing front-page articles singing the praises of Obama. Oh, wait a minute...
Okay, it won't be long until scientists start praisi--oh wait, they are too, aren't they?
Alright. God will NEVER express His support for Obama. THAT, I am comforted in...
...until the Episcopalians find some way to channel the Lord Himself.
Yep I heard the same thing.
October 31, 2008 - 21:54 ET by GregEYep I heard the same thing.
Does Not Even Know His Own Profession!
October 31, 2008 - 20:45 ET by Gat New YorkPolling, like all other market research, is not a predicter.
It measures an attitude in one point in time and one that has already past.
Maybe Cook should pay attention to what is important which is how these points in time are trending.
Also, what about those undecideds? How does he see them breaking based on the info that they are undecided?
One more great reason to
October 31, 2008 - 20:59 ET by bpjamOne more great reason to vote for McCain!!!
Stop Insulting
October 31, 2008 - 21:07 ET by cayenne523The people that work in the American town I live in and do grocery bagging and fast food work are great people. Stop insulting these people. They would not allow this moron to work with them. Maybe he can go work with the unemployed MSNBC fools that predict Obama as our leader.
Currently on Drudge:
October 31, 2008 - 21:09 ET by ckc1227Currently on Drudge:
ZOGBY: MCCAIN MOVES INTO LEAD 48-47 IN ONE DAY POLLING
Obama's Economic plan: more taxes, more spending, more regulation. Prosperity here we come.
A suspension of disbelief is in order
October 31, 2008 - 21:34 ET by FoolicanThis is an absolute mind-blower to me. I am still trying to comprehend how Pew can have Obama up by 12, but somehow McCain has managed to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat in the Reuters-Zogby poll of all places. However, this is a one-day poll, not necessarily a longitudinal trend-setter.
Still if we all went by polls, the Patriots would have won the Super Bowl, the Red Sox would have won the World Series, and Hillary Clinton would be getting close-up shots outside the White House doors following McCain's concession.
...
Actually, that doesn't sound so bad.
Hey Charlie Cook: At least
October 31, 2008 - 21:18 ET by TN MomHey Charlie Cook: At least bagging groceries and flipping burgers is a RESPECTABLE JOB!! Unlike being a Sell-Out with your suck-up polls.
Ol Charlie is a TV TROLL...
TN Mom
October 31, 2008 - 21:22 ET by bigtimerOl Charlie is a TV TROLL...
I am laughing at this...how much better can anyone put it regarding Charlie...you are a winner TN Mom!
I love it!
"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh
big
October 31, 2008 - 23:00 ET by TN MomCharlie Troll!!! lol
Insanity is about to reign
October 31, 2008 - 21:53 ET by Lame CherryI see that Zogby after being outed here and on my blog is covering his posterior revealing John McCain has taken a polling lead.
Mr. McCain with Gov. Palin are now making crushing inroads into thee American voting block in blue collar Democrats and NASCAR voters.
Come on PUMA players come home to Johnny and let us route Barack Obama. I personally will for you Clinton Democrats go on an appeal to turn you loose legally on the Obama crime syndicate in all their fraud. You get Hillary's backing and I will push for you to take hold of the FCC so you people can fine, fine, fine the networks until they start firing people like Olbermann, Chetry, Matthews, Williams, Gibson, Couric.
It is a new day my PUMA friends. Let us stop attacking each other and go on the quest together.
PS: I make it that Buffett, Soros and the MSM in Teddy Roosevelt fines are worth about a trillion to seize in what they have stolen and committed in crimes stealing people's money.
Do not you think that Hillary would like to lead in the Senate a bill signed by President McCain giving all American families a several million dollar rebate check?
Can not Hillary Clinton then solve health, education, debt, welfare and retirement with a package like this for all Americans?
PUMA people get your groups out to vote and watch those Obama crooks so they don't steal the election like they did in Iowa.
God bless.
agtG
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Do you promise, Charlie?
October 31, 2008 - 22:07 ET by msh1973Do you promise, Charlie?
Cook Who !!!!!
October 31, 2008 - 23:02 ET by sccSuzy C. The # 1 reason to vote for Senator John McCain
IS
Barrack Obama
Forget the polls and keep THE CHANGE
See ya at the Safeway...
October 31, 2008 - 23:32 ET by wnaegele...and please keep the frozen food together.
Attention Charlie Cook: Liberals have removed paper & plastic
October 31, 2008 - 23:53 ET by Rush FanCharlie Cook appears to be out of touch with his liberal brethren in many parts of the country. I live in the Los Angeles area, and liberals in many surrounding communities have pushed to pass laws eliminating both paper and plastic from supermarkets and other businesses. Everyone is encouraged (forced) to "go green" and bring their own shopping bag from home.
National Review Online has an excellent article by Victor Davis Hanson titled: The End of Journalism
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The most important change we can make is to vote out the Democrats and RINOs in Congress!
I"ll take plastic bags
November 1, 2008 - 01:30 ET by dark_dsI"ll take plastic bags
No thanks Charlie ...
November 1, 2008 - 07:31 ET by Crash... I brought my own bags.
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charlie
November 1, 2008 - 08:13 ET by totalkaosdaveTotalKaosDave
Hold the pickles and supersize it Charlie!
Charlie Cooked
November 1, 2008 - 08:52 ET by Sergeant ROCKPromises, promises... liberals are such liars.
PALIN/McCain 2008
"Cleanup on aisle 3."
November 1, 2008 - 10:02 ET by SickofLibs"Cleanup on aisle 3."
...
November 1, 2008 - 13:06 ET by LedeAgendapaper please
baggin' und servin'
November 1, 2008 - 14:52 ET by WesenO's shot at the House will be blocked.
Why would Charlie not want to be a Cook?
Charlie,
November 1, 2008 - 21:17 ET by NorthCoasterDon't let the door hit you in the ##S on the way out of the door.