Shocker: Palin Cancels Big California Swing

[FOTD]

Another Sign Obama has California sewn up: "Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, who was to star at two major California fundraisers and an Orange County rally for 15,000 next week, has canceled her two-day swing through the Golden State." When the GOP gives up money, you know they are conceding the Golden State.

"The Field poll had some troubling news for McCain-Palin here: The Alaska Gov's addition to the ticket, while strengthening the GOP base, hasn't advanced the ball for the Republican team among the 1 in 5 California voters who are independent or decline to state."
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/detail?blogid=14&entry_id=30444

[waterboy]

quote:Originally posted by FOTD


Another Sign Obama has California sewn up: "Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, who was to star at two major California fundraisers and an Orange County rally for 15,000 next week, has canceled her two-day swing through the Golden State." When the GOP gives up money, you know they are conceding the Golden State.

"The Field poll had some troubling news for McCain-Palin here: The Alaska Gov's addition to the ticket, while strengthening the GOP base, hasn't advanced the ball for the Republican team among the 1 in 5 California voters who are independent or decline to state."
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/detail?blogid=14&entry_id=30444

She also cancelled in Washington. The question is why? A scheduling conflict was mentioned. More important than 15,000 in a packed convention center with money in their pockets?  Curious.

The readers responses were great. Good to see the whole world isn't as blindered as we are here. I liked this republican post:

The Republicans stand for real business investment, that is the new investments by which labor productivity is increased and new products offered. They are to be praised for that; the Democrats sometimes suggest that maximum growth via real productive investment should not be pursued at the expense of the environment, labor standards, explosive inequality, and social cohesion.
But there is no denying the importance of what the Republicans stand for.

Yet at present the financial sector is not unraveling due to the lack of real business investment; rather the financial sector is undermining real business investment.

And the financial sector can't be fixed by free market fundamentalists. Those allergic to the government and those who scapegoat the government are not well suited to work out the new relations we already do have between the government and the financial sector as a result of the astounding recent interventions. People don't want to hear that we need less government or that the government is the cause of the problem; they want someone who can successfully regulate the financial sector and bail it on terms that don't panic the markets and produce even more problems in the long term.
Obama has the temperament for such non ideological and pragmatic intervention. McCain and Gramm are simply free market ideologues who are so hateful of government regulation that they can't be trusted to do their job.[/i]