Trolling Big Game
Trolling Big Game
The Inside Political Game is On!
The preliminaries are over! The convention theatrics are history. It's now time to get down in the trenches, burn up the phone bank calling, get out the registration volunteers, raise money, and have those four major debates. Oh yes, and hold your breath that something lurking out there beyond our borders or beneath the table doesn't rise up and change the whole course of political history.
In the end, it's all about the electoral college!
But, before we get to the end, it's about what percentage of the populace is Republican, what percent Democrat, and how many of the remaining are truly independent. There's one thing that the prolonged Democratic primary battle did that has helped them. I don't know to what degree the pollsters are changing their formulas for polling; however, if they're using 2004 models, their data won't be accurate.
Five days a week, Linda Graham trolls tattered neighborhoods of this once thriving steel city outside Pittsburgh for unregistered voters she can sign up as Democrats — one of thousands of unknown volunteers whose work outside the limelight has already altered the basic arithmetic of the November election.
Are you registered?
The epic nomination battle between Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton helped put millions more Democrats on the voter rolls while Republican registration declined. Now Graham, 45, has taken three months of unpaid leave from her job at Pittsburgh's Central Blood Bank in the hope of adding to those gains before the presidential vote. She's encouraged by the response here. "They're all feeling the crunch" of lost jobs and a sagging economy, Graham said. "But people are feeling empowered. They're feeling like, you know what, I hold a little bit of power in this."
And one of the biggest hurdles for McCain to overcome is an economy that's tankng big time. Fredie Mac and Fannie Mae are being taken over by the government. The Big Three (auto makers) are wanting billions in loans lest they declare bankruptcy, home foreclosures are setting record numbers, and the unemployment rate just hit 6.1% with another 84,000 people losing their jobs in August.
You can bet the Obama camp will be talking economics in September.
About the Author
As a spiritual-futurist, I interpret current events in light of possible macro-universal forces at play leading up to 2012, but not limited to it.
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