The Scriptorium

Anyone who is following the polls for this years presidential election, especially the Gallup daily tracking poll, should read this blog post. It will change how you view tracking polls, and put the current polls in perspective for you. They’re a great media tool for shaping public opinion and manipulating elections, but they really mean very little unless you look at the details behind the final numbers. The media doesn’t report the specifics of these polls, because they don’t like the conclusion this information points toward.

Go here and scroll down to the paragraph that starts out “Let’s start with the latest poll numbers”. Start reading there to save time and get right to the point.

Obama is using the dirty tactics he learned during his time in Chicago style politics again. When “hope’nchange” isn’t getting you there, just strong-arm universities into making voter fraud easier. All the votes must be counted! Even the illegal ones and dead people…..as long as they’re liberals. shhhhh.

Norfolk election officials on Friday reluctantly loosened procedures for registering college students to vote after protests from presidential candidate Barack Obama’s campaign and an admonishment from state election officials.

The Illinois senator’s campaign complained that the Norfolk registrar’s policy of sending a questionnaire to anyone applying to register from a college campus discouraged students from following through. The State Board of Elections asked general registrar Elisa J. Long to halt the practice.

The Norfolk Electoral Board agreed to that but said in a statement: “This compliance is with the understanding that the Board strongly feels that by doing so, we are out of compliance with Virginia Election Laws.”

Those who are “discouraged from following through” on voting because they’re asked questions that would verify their eligibility to vote, probably shouldn’t be voting, no? They don’t even try to hide their intentions anymore, just as they no longer try to pretty up their completely communist agenda of redistributing wealth. It’s a scary time when liberals can be openly Marxist and extreme, and still be competitive in an election.

Read the full article here.

Obama has a lot of nerve to come out today blasting McCain with both barrels and blaming him for the mortgage-related losses that forced the U.S. Treasury to take over the quasi-governmental mortgage giants. Obama was second largest recipient of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae campaign contributions, while McCain was sounding the alarm of a looming mortgage crisis and calling for regulatory reform of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Of course, facts mean little to most liberals, and lying about your opponent is just “feisty” campaigning (as the AP called it today….Obama ads are feisty, McCain’s are “dirty” and “attack ads”).

Campaign contributions from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac made to Barack Obama may backfire if the Democratic presidential hopeful wages an aggressive campaign to cast blame on rival John McCain and the Republicans in Congress for the mortgage-related losses that forced the U.S. Treasury to take over the quasi-governmental mortgage giants.

A review of Federal Election Commission records back to 1989 reveals Obama in his three complete years in the Senate is the second largest recipient of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae campaign contributions, behind only Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., the powerful chairman of the Senate banking committee. Dodd was first elected to the Senate in 1980.

According to OpenSecrets.com, from 1989 to 2008, Dodd received $165,400 in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac campaign contributions, including contributions from PACs and individuals, followed by Obama, who received $126,349 in such contributions since being elected to the Senate in 2004.

In contrast, McCain warned of the coming mortgage crisis as he pressed in 2005 for regulatory reform of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

Read the whole article here.