Box out beginning....growing thuggery politics and Naomi's warning

The "Long Strange Trip", I am now using a a metaphor to describe this bloodless "Campaign for Change" that includes the Movement to elect Barack Obama, President is now down to the lynch pin point---OHIO---OHIO---OHIO. Over the weekend the NBC/WSJ Poll in Ohio is now showing that Obama has developed a 51% to 45% where Independents are rushing to Obama's side. This is confirmed by concurrent poll conducted by CNN in Ohio, Obama 51% to 48%.

Essentially both CNN and MSNBC have projected that Obama has 264 electoral votes in the bank with lock and leaning states that are outside the margin of error consistently where the toss up states are now down to eight (8): NV, CO, MO, IN, OH, FL VA, & NC. Nevada is the wild card since it possesses five (5) electoral votes and brings the Obama total to 269 and would move the election to the House of Representatives. This is why Palin visited Nebraska as that state like Maine elects Electoral College elcctors by Congressional District and not statewide. In CD 2 (Omaha) the race remains relatively close where McCain holds a 5 point lead without any ground game but with a strong Obama ground organization working under the radar. Winning Nevada and the one electoral vote in Nebraska brings him to 270.

But that is not the winning formula, that is commando raid. A major political campaign is much like a military campaign. Colorado, North Carolina, Virginia and Nevada are actually flanking moves. In that context, Colorado Springs is on the edge of the flanking move as we are actually playing offense cutting into the base of the opposition and forcing them to use resources here that are needed in pressure points they need to win like Ohio and Florida. Except now McCain can't lose Colorado, Indiana, Missouri, Virginia, North Carolina (which were strong Bush states) either. But back to Ohio and Florida. That is their center line and it is about to break.

Now actions speak louder than words and words are the actions in a political campaign. It is not a coincidence that suddenly over the weekend as the US is embroiled in a economic meltdown or PANIC, that McCain wants to not talk about it. What they want to talk about is character and cultural issues they believe is Obama's weakness in Ohio, but also Pennsylvania, Florida and possibly Colorado, Missouri, Indiana, North Carolina and Virginia. Except the nation is not buying it or didn't when Hillary tried to use. Of course the Republicans are sleazier at it than the Clinton's. What makes it dangerous is how the fringe on that part of society.

INCITING MOB RULE?

Yesterday near my parents home in Florida, Palin held a "hate rally" that started to show an ugliness or mob mentality that mirrors the disease that Milisovec unleashed in the former Yugoslavia. Dana Milbank of the Washington Post made this report, (read the whole thing here):

Not only has Palin discovered the New York Times, she was even able to extract a few small misleading facts from an article. Citing her source like a fifth grader giving her first book report, she told the audience that Bil Ayers was a member of the Weather Underground and that Barack Obama knew him forty years later. Her audience responded with the conditioned Booos required to recieve more winks and nuggets of hate. But they went a bit further than that:

Worse, Palin's routine attacks on the media have begun to spill into ugliness. In Clearwater, arriving reporters were greeted with shouts and taunts by the crowd of about 3,000. Palin then went on to blame Katie Couric's questions for her "less-than-successful interview with kinda mainstream media." At that, Palin supporters turned on reporters in the press area, waving thunder sticks and shouting abuse. Others hurled obscenities at a camera crew. One Palin supporter shouted a racial epithet at an African American sound man for a network and told him, "Sit down, boy."

Rabid hate of the media by extreme right wing voters isn't new, of course. But I think racist insults hurled at a sound man is a new low for them. Then it got worse:

The reception had been better in Clearwater, where Palin, speaking to a sea of "Palin Power" and "Sarahcuda" T-shirts, tried to link Obama to the 1960s Weather Underground. "One of his earliest supporters is a man named Bill Ayers," she said. ("Boooo!" said the crowd.) "And, according to the New York Times, he was a domestic terrorist and part of a group that, quote, 'launched a campaign of bombings that would target the Pentagon and our U.S. Capitol,' " she continued. ("Boooo!" the crowd repeated.)

"Kill him!" proposed one man in the audience.

Yeah. That's where this Palin thing is going. Sure, these were just a few voices. But they evidently felt comfortable enough at a Palin rally to openly advocate assassination. McCain-Palin seems ready to associate with the lowest of the low (and if you read the article, they are promising to get even uglier in the future).

Yesterday as gathered outside Centennial Hall to cast our ballots an individual walking by shouted at us that "Obama is going to die". This is not an abstract issue. By the way you can view our casting on KRDO in their video stories.

HOW CLOSE ARE WE?

Now place all of this in the context that Naomi Wolf an author who has written that this nation is close to outright fascism and a potential coup where even if Obama is voted in the election will be vacated. Here is here riveting You Tube interview of here new book GIVE ME LIBERTY.