Have you noticed a rash of news stories the past few weeks with the theme that John McCain supporters are depressed because they think he has almost no chance? The real purpose of these stories is to demoralize McCain supporters in a effort to make them them think things are so hopeless for their candidate that they need not bother to wait on lines at the polling stations since the Barack Obama landslide is inevitable. And now the Associated Press is using their own poll to emphasize this theme of hopelessness among McCain supporters as you can see by the very title, "AP poll shows Obama backers gleeful, McCain's glum," of their story, by Alan Tram and Trevor Tomson, today (emphasis mine):
WASHINGTON – That smiling guy walking down the street? Odds are he's a Barack Obama backer. The grouchy looking one? Don't ask, and don't necessarily count on him to vote next week, either.
Notice how the AP is promoting the idea of McCain supporters staying home because things are supposedly going so poorly for their candidate?
Supporters of John McCain, long less enthusiastic than Obama's, have become increasingly glum about the presidential campaign in recent weeks, according to an Associated Press-Yahoo News poll released Saturday. Their feelings have turned more negative during a period that has seen Obama, the Democratic senator from Illinois, take a firm lead in many polls.
Obama's backers have retained a higher level of excitement. One expert says the contrasting moods could affect how likely the two candidates' supporters are to vote on Election Day, possibly dampening McCain's turnout while boosting Obama's.
While 43 percent of Obama's backers said they are excited over the campaign, just 13 percent of McCain's said so, according to the survey of adults, conducted by Knowledge Networks. Six in 10 Obama supporters said the race interests them, compared to four in 10 backing McCain, the Republican senator from Arizona.
On the flip side, 52 percent of McCain supporters said the campaign has left them frustrated, compared to 30 percent of Obama's. A quarter of McCain backers say they feel helpless, double the rate of those preferring Obama.
More McCain supporters also feel angry and bored, while Obama's are likelier to say they are proud and hopeful.
Yes, Barack Obama backers are oh so happy and gleeful. Skipping down the street with big smiles on their faces. Meanwhile those who support McCain are ready to OD on bottles of Prozac. At least this is the way AP seems to be portraying it.
All of this is a bad sign for McCain, according to George E. Marcus, a political scientist from Williams College who has studied the role emotion plays in politics. Negative feelings about a campaign can discourage voters by making them less likely to go through what can be a painful process: Voting for someone who will lose.
"If I'm getting my head handed to me by a tennis player, my brain is saying, 'Do I want a second match? No,'" Marcus said. "Why do something that's going to lead to failure?"
Hey Marcus! We haven't even had the first match yet. It is called Election Day.
Enthusiasm by Obama backers has largely stayed steady since September, though slightly more of them — 31 percent — now say the campaign makes them feel proud.
"I didn't like the candidates before," said Angelique Sims, 38, an Obama supporter from Shawnee, Okla. "I like his character. I like the things he represents. He represents my views."
A closer look at the numbers show how that emotions are playing out to Obama's advantage in several pivotal groups of voters.
Forty-eight percent of those under age 30 who support Obama say they are excited over the race, compared to just 21 percent of those young voters who back McCain. That age group has been a reservoir of strong support for the Democrat.
Just 44 percent of whites supporting the Republican say the campaign interests them, compared to 58 percent of whites and 72 percent of blacks supporting Obama.
The AP should just drop all pretense and go all out in discouraging McCain supporters from voting. They should send sound trucks into neighborhoods all over the country blasting: "ALL YOU McCAIN SUPPORTERS! GIVE UP ALL HOPE NOW! OUR POLLS SHOW YOUR CANDIDATE LOSING IN A LANDSLIDE SO DON'T EVEN BOTHER TO VOTE! YOU HEAR US? PLEASE DON'T VOTE!!!"
—P.J. Gladnick is a freelance writer and creator of the DUmmie FUnnies blog.
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This has been the front
November 1, 2008 - 19:37 ET by BlazerThis has been the front story-propoganda on Yahoo all day.
Translation: Voting is futile, The Chosen One has allready won, muuuuuhahahahahah.
"You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious. "
- Ben Kenobi on Liberals, and the MSM.
" The Cake is a lie."
Voting is futile, The
November 2, 2008 - 04:06 ET by DontFeedTheTrollsVoting is futile, The Chosen One has already won
For the first time in my adult life, I am ashamed of my country.
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Keep the ILLEGALS out, join NumbersUSA to send free faxes to your reps.
APO...
November 1, 2008 - 19:40 ET by AgentAmericanDo we expect anything less ridiculous from Associated Press Obama?
Drill ANWAR
I'm not depressed or
November 1, 2008 - 19:47 ET by NewsbusterbrownI'm not depressed or gleeful. I'm just uncertain as to which way the electorate will go.
“There are no easy answers' but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.” - Ronald Reagan (1964 Republican Convention)
I won't even tell you how
November 1, 2008 - 19:50 ET by motherbeltI won't even tell you how many elections I have lived to see.
But never in my adult life have I seen the media so involved, so invested, so active, and so blatant in their support for one candidate. Not to mention determined to talk the other side into giving up and staying home.
mb - it's not the numbers that matter
November 1, 2008 - 20:13 ET by FastEdit's the way the media operates today - pander, and don't report. It seems that they are in a death sprial, the more they "bias" the more readers/viewers leave, to get more readers/viewers, the more they "bias", repeat until nobody left - seem sto be working!
There is no sense in being stupid, if you can't prove it! - my dad V
HAPPY Republican
November 1, 2008 - 19:54 ET by TN MomI was a little depressed...THEN SARAH PALIN SHOWED UP and wow!!!!
Then the MSM and AP unfairly attacked Sarah Palin and her family, I got a little depressed again.
THEN, JOE THE PLUMBER SHOWED UP and wow!!!
The Republican Party hasn't been this HAPPILY UNITED since Ronald Regan. The MSM has awaken a sleeping GIANT!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The AP doesn't understand conservatives 'cause we don't use words like racism....
Has the press said one
November 1, 2008 - 19:59 ET by ThisnThatHas the press said one positive thing about McCain during this entire campaign? NO.
Has a single conservative "professor" been interviewed yet? NO
Has every single question asked to McCain or Palin been an attack or coveyed in a negative way? YES
Has the entire msm been pro-Obama this entire campain, avoiding any tough questions, ignoring all his faults, and setting him on a pedistal? YES
Why would I think that this particular poll, and its results, were honest and truthful? The answer -- I wouldn't. This is just another lie, stacked up on countless other lies, put forth by the msm and used to support Obama. I don't even believe a poll was taken -- I think, instead, someone simply made up some numbers here.
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Constant voter suppression
November 1, 2008 - 20:02 ET by bigtimerConstant voter suppression by these critters everywhere....one word....
Backfire!
"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh
Mathew 24:24. "For false
November 1, 2008 - 20:03 ET by Dan The Man 2Mathew 24:24.
"For
false Christs and false prophets will arise and will show great signs
and wonders, so as to mislead, if possible, even the elect.
Nuke em til they glow then shoot em in the dark.
yes I am angry
November 1, 2008 - 20:05 ET by katainkentbut why in the h*** would that make me not vote? Couldnt they have just put "neener neener" as their submitted copy and left it at that?
furthermore I am compiling a mental list of every company that backs these MSM morons and seeing how much of their crap I can cease to buy.
Kat,
November 1, 2008 - 22:51 ET by NorthCoasterI've been doing the same thing over the last 8 years. I suspect that the steep decline of the MSM is related to choices made for similar reasons.
Glum & Gleeful
November 1, 2008 - 20:06 ET by Jay in NHToday I picked up a NY Times: (Please, don't ask) and teased on pg 2 was an article about a couple whos's absentee ballots didn't show in India, so they flew to NY to vote. Now I did not read the story, but the country is roughly split down the middle, right? I'm offering 50-1 odds the couple commuted to vote for B.H.O. Any takers?
SOOOO - Jay, you're the
November 1, 2008 - 20:09 ET by FastEdone! Trying to keep the Gray Lady afloat? And, the bet is a sucker bet, who else would they vote for?
There is no sense in being stupid, if you can't prove it! - my dad V
But guys, it's true - I am glum,
November 1, 2008 - 20:07 ET by FastEdwondering why all these folks are so happy to have their taxes raised, have a lier in the WH, as he learns the job, brings socialism to the US, and doesn't trust the or believe in the Constitution.
But I can understand why they're happy, non-workers get a free luch, bigger then what they have now, and I'll be happy when the government gives me the car I need - problem is I own a house, cars, and have a job - so I guess - there goes the car!!
I'm also wondering what happens if the press' "shoe-in" doesn't get the votes - who will wear the frown then?
btw, has anyone looked at the criteria for the yahoo polls? As Arte used to say, "Velly Interesting, - but stupid!"
There is no sense in being stupid, if you can't prove it! - my dad V
Obama will supply all that
November 1, 2008 - 23:05 ET by motherbeltObama will supply all that they need...that's why they're so happy.
Just listen to this woman's joy!
in case you didn't catch the link earlier.
And yet another person
November 1, 2008 - 23:13 ET by Scuba DudeAnd yet another person jumps on the "I will never have to work again" bandwagon. And how is this going to happen? By Bambi raising MY taxes to support this lazy, do nothing person.
2004!!!
November 1, 2008 - 20:15 ET by TexndocI was so bummed (and that means YOU TOO, FoxNews) on election night 2004 I didn't even want to watch the results,because all day in the office I was checking in on the internet and listening to some talk radio (ABC News unfortunately does have their updates during Limbaugh). Well, looky looky how that turned out.
(I'm not trying to decrease NewBusters' traffic, but won't you join me in a complete media blackout until every poll in the continental US has closed this year?)
Watch CNN become depressed
November 1, 2008 - 20:22 ET by exLibI'll say that anytime I watch CNN for any length of time (more than 1 minute) I get depressed.
They are laying it on thick.
John King has Obama winning outright on the map.
their sister publication SI took 2 potshots in it's latest issue:
1 - A section on Alabama doing well was called O'Bama
2 - Sarah Palin was blamed for 2 incidents related to her dropping the puck at different hockey games. One was a goalie tripped on a carpet and got injured, the other was a losing streak that started after she dropped the puck.
I am writing a letter to SI calling them on their PDS.
Plus CNN seems not interest in any bad news for Obama, cause their "sick of the negative". So they are only relaying "positives" for Obama and since there are no positives for McCain/Palin they are just not reporting much on them.
Delete
November 1, 2008 - 21:11 ET by PeskyDaneDelete
Pure and simple attempt at
November 1, 2008 - 20:23 ET by Right2thePointPure and simple attempt at voter supression.
If you look around they probably also have a story somewhere saying there will be record turnout by both parties for the election.
Hard to balance both sides of that picture.
Same thing Axelrod tried to feed the media about Hillary in the primaries.
I'm looking forward to Nov.
November 1, 2008 - 20:26 ET by cocodrieI'm looking forward to Nov. 5 when Hussein Obama and Cockamamie Joe become known as Glum & Glummer.
How about,
November 1, 2008 - 22:54 ET by NorthCoasterDim and Dimmer?
Good evening North Coaster
November 1, 2008 - 23:12 ET by cocodrieHow about Hussein and his faithful companion Ojoseph Binhiden?
Thanks Cocodrie
November 2, 2008 - 00:15 ET by NorthCoasterThe question will be:
"Where has Ojoseph Binhiden?"
NC
November 2, 2008 - 00:30 ET by cocodrieUp Chrissie's leg or derriere would be a good place to start.
I'm not letting these lying
November 1, 2008 - 20:56 ET by Scuba DudeI'm not letting these lying aholes of the MSM get me down. I know the citizens of this great country are smart enough (kool-aid drinkers excluded) to see through the BS these guys are laying down.
Come Nov 4th I wll be pulling the lever for McCain/Palin and will be in here to watch Bambi go down in flames.
Look who will probably be going out of business, good ridence
November 1, 2008 - 20:58 ET by lareeOh look it's our old friends at Media Matters of America.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/01/washington/01media.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&adxnnlx=1225586820-obT+0uIAkiIpJ53A+3Flnw
And they are still pushing
November 1, 2008 - 23:07 ET by motherbeltAnd they are still pushing the lie that Rush said soldiers who oppose the Iraq war are "phony soldiers."
I guess they didn't learn even when Harry Reid ended up with egg on his face.
Typical
November 1, 2008 - 21:13 ET by ScandimanYeah Yeah, just another attempt at Conservative voter suppression by our Stalinist media comrades. I am still debating if a potential Barrack presidency will be a revisit of the 1930's or the 1970's.
KING OBAMA.....NOT!!!!
November 1, 2008 - 21:53 ET by JanettaTODAY THE SILVER TONGUED ONE STATED THAT HE WILL IMPLEMENT "THE CIVILIAN NATIONAL SECURITY FORCE". I DON'T KNOW ABOUT YOU BUT THAT CERTAINLY SAID MARXISM TO ME. HE ALSO MADE THE STATEMENT THAT "HE WILL CHANGE THE WORLD". WAKE UP AMERICAN VOTERS. THIS GUY IS DANGEROUS AND NOT TO BE TRUSTED. MAY GOD HAVE MERCY ON THIS COUNTRY IF HE IS ELECTED. MERCY IS THE PUNISHMENT THAT GOD WITHOLDS EVEN THOUGH WE DESERVE IT. BLESSINGS ARE WHAT GOD BESTOWS ON US EVEN THOUGH WE DON'T DESERVE IT. VOTE McCAIN/PALIN 2008
Happy Conservative
November 1, 2008 - 22:04 ET by BigSpoon65BigSpoon65
I don't buy into the Obamunist propaganda. The nastiest angriest people I see in politics come from the looney left. I am not discouraged and neither are any of the people I know who will be voting for John McCain and Sarah Palin no matter what. If I fell getting out of my car and broke both legs I would crawl to the booth. I live in California and I predict the proposition 8 will pass as well and will add an amendment to the California constitution to BAN gay marriage. Apparently the enthusiasm for prop 8 by conservatives has the Obamunist worried because he is still running ads out here. Expect a high turnout of conservatives in CA!
Thomas Jefferson~ "I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them".
Mr. Gladnick and
November 1, 2008 - 22:28 ET by TEMr. Gladnick and Newsbusters:
When referring to a story, please provide the names of the people who wrote the piece and not just the name of their organization. Here, the names of the people from the execrable Associated (with terrorists) Press who wrote this piece are the militantly leftist political activists Alan Fram and Trevor Tompson. Thank you.
The writer of this doesn't know the same people I know!
November 1, 2008 - 23:24 ET by TeeDeeReally, I have some lib friends who are pretty grouchy lately - they think 0bamessiah should be ahead in the polls by 20 points or more, and are so worried he's not going to win.
I live in Washington, and he'll probably carry my state, but I keep asking my friends what they'll do if our state turns red.
"It isn't that liberals are ignorant, it's just that they know so much that isn't so" - Ronald Reagan
TD
November 2, 2008 - 03:47 ET by DoktorFranken''Really, I have some lib friends who are pretty grouchy lately - they
think 0bamessiah should be ahead in the polls by 20 points or more, and
are so worried he's not going to win.''
Exactly. Polls are totally skewed and inaccurate all the time BUT even when skewed and loaded, they still show McCain RIGHT THERE with The One. I've read many quotes from the Lefty sites and they are urinating in their diapers. Most of them are like what the MSM is attempting to portray the Right as being - glum. In fact, the Leftoids are almost suicidal, on the brink of a mental breakdown.
The more I see the media stories covering 0bama's negatives this near to election time, it gives me more hope than ever. First Sarah and now this. Why, I'm almost . . . Gleeful!
The Borg collective
November 2, 2008 - 00:32 ET by sccSuzy C. The Borg collective is sending happy thoughts to the Obama supporters.
AND
We are not GLUM!!!!! Fight with me !!!! Fight, Fight,Fight,Fight
That's it! If I ever want
November 2, 2008 - 00:55 ET by Trix RabbitThat's it! If I ever want to get any news I'll get from smoke signals or carrier pigeons rather than the AP (Amalgamated Primates).
Of all the dopey bromides to write: That smiling guy walking down the street? Odds are he's a Barack Obama backer. The grouchy looking one? Don't ask, and don't necessarily count on him to vote next week, either.
What the hell does that mean? Did this alleged reporter interview these individuals or did he/she rely on prejudice to produce this drivel?
Was the smiling guy an urban youth with his pants down to his ass? (an obvious Obama supporter) And was the grouchy looking one an old white fart with checked-pants? (an obvious McCainiac)
Only the Obamatrons at AP could write shite like this worthy of Goebbels.
Liberal: a power worshipper without power. George Orwell
Supporters
November 2, 2008 - 01:31 ET by TheAssessorO supporters in NY are really strange. I spoke to a couple of college kids over dinner last night. They asked my opinion so I told them about the real Barry O. As always the response was, "why don't we know about this"? I tell them about msm and to go to Drudge or NB so they did. Today they are astnonished with what they have learned so started asking friends who they were voting for. Obama. They asked why. "Because he's cute; because McCain can't lift his arms up; because he's black etc etc. One said I don't know, so they told her some of the things they now know about him. Wow she said, "why don't we know about this". Now she's reconsidering. This is just a small example of what the msm has done to this country. I am praying for a McCain win but if not msm has to pay for doing this. It's a gd disgrace to all the men and women who have fought and died for our freedoms.
Barak 0bama - Afraction American
As If We Need Another Reason To Vote McCain. . .
November 2, 2008 - 01:45 ET by Asian Conand drag him across the finish line. It is to stick it in the eye of every Obama loving member of the MSM!!! Rush was right when he said this election is going to be about turnout. Fellow Conservatives, "Stand Tall, Stand United And Get Out The Vote!"
Remember what Gov. Huckabee said at the RNC? He said, "I want to thank the media for doing something that I thought was impossible. Getting Republicans energized and behind John McCain!"
"What do Barack Obama and Osama bin Laden have in common? They both have friends who bombed the Pentagon." - Rush Limbaugh
And Yahoo is more than happy
November 2, 2008 - 02:11 ET by Hawaiian JoeAnd Yahoo is more than happy to lead with this story on there front and bury Obama Aunt story
how
November 2, 2008 - 02:31 ET by RowaneI wonder how "gleeful" these idiots will be when the greatest country that God ever graced the earth with goes down the communist tubes?
Yes, I agree Rowane.
November 2, 2008 - 06:02 ET by radiofitz34Yes, I agree Rowane. Forward thinking, they are not. If there's anything progressive about the democrats, it's been there notion to embrace socialism/communism. Never mind that we spent billions of dollars and 50 years of a cold war to dispense with this stuff.
what are
November 2, 2008 - 20:33 ET by Simple1communist tubes?
S1... An entity you are
November 2, 2008 - 20:37 ET by bigtimerS1...
An entity you are very well embedded in...and quite familiar with.
"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh
Come on Get Happy
November 2, 2008 - 06:16 ET by thericoI wonder if they asked that man walking down the street with a smile on his face if he was on any drugs? Give me enough good drugs and I'll sit through an Obama rally. Of course I may not be conscious but neither is anyone else.
I'm not "glum" I'm MAD AS HELL
November 2, 2008 - 08:04 ET by Jaykeat these sorry sacks who profess to be journalists at the Assholiated-Press! I'm also upset to see so many people crappin' on the Constitution of the United States of America. That includes Odummy. I am a reasonable person but when you trash talk the document that gave us the freedoms we enjoy. "You're walkin' on the fightin' side of me."
I hear people talkin' bad,
About the way we have to live here in this country,
Harpin' on the wars we fight,
An' gripin' 'bout the way things oughta be.
An' I don't mind 'em switchin' sides,
An' standin' up for things they believe in.
When they're runnin' down my country, man,
They're walkin' on the fightin' side of me.
Yeah, walkin' on the fightin' side of me.
Runnin' down the way of life,
Our fightin' men have fought and died to keep.
If you don't love it, leave it:
Let this song I'm singin' be a warnin'.
If you're runnin' down my country, man,
You're walkin' on the fightin' side of me.
I read about some squirrely guy,
Who claims, he just don't believe in fightin'.
An' I wonder just how long,
The rest of us can count on bein' free.
They love our milk an' honey,
But they preach about some other way of livin'.
When they're runnin' down my country, hoss,
They're walkin' on the fightin' side of me.
Yeah, walkin' on the fightin' side of me.
Runnin' down the way of life,
Our fightin' men have fought and died to keep.
If you don't love it, leave it:
Let this song I'm singin' be a warnin'.
If you're runnin' down my country, man,
You're walkin' on the fightin' side of me.
Yeah, walkin' on the fightin' side of me.
Runnin' down the way of life,
Our fightin' men have fought and died to keep.
If you don't love it, leave it:
Let this song I'm singin' be a warnin'.
If you're runnin' down my country, man,
You're walkin' on the fightin' side of me.
saw this at GP: People,
November 2, 2008 - 14:03 ET by TN Momsaw this at GP:
People, please remind America between now and Tuesday that Hope and Change don't keep the lights on ... or the wheels turning.Elect those who will work WITH us ...McCain/Palin Just say nope to the dope of hope
Second Coming
November 2, 2008 - 20:30 ET by melpolhttp://www.associate...
Those that call themselves patriotic Americans and harbor racist views will have a headache when the nation gets its first black president. It is a contradiction to call yourself patriotic when you dislike the skin color of the president . The only mental relief for them would be to enter a reorientation clinic to learn what it means to be an American.
African American fashions and music will become the rage with the new presidency. Some are calling it the second civil rights movement and the end of racism. Old racial prejudices might remain in the hearts of the ignorant. But they will be eliminated as they accept the reality that the first lady in America and her family is black. Racial integration will take on a new meaning as it becomes fashionable to have a black lover or friend. These events will be good news to a world that has been suffering over racial division for centuries.
Those that call themselves
November 3, 2008 - 01:57 ET by Dan The Man 2Those that call themselves patriotic Americans and harbor racist views - Hopefully Obama will not get the Presidency so we dont see him in office. He is exactly what you say an unpatriotic Americanwho has extreme racist views.
Nuke em til they glow then shoot em in the dark.