Presidentsverkiezing VS #33 Attention,Please board on gate..

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Op woensdag 3 september 2008 08:46 schreef Caesu het volgende:

Reckless Judgment Threatens AMERICA (UPDATED-Watch in High Quality)

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Op woensdag 3 september 2008 10:07 schreef Boze_Appel het volgende:

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Obama niet?

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Bristol Palin's boyfriend heads to convention

WASILLA - The boyfriend of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's unwed, pregnant daughter will join the family of the Republican vice presidential candidate at the GOP convention in St. Paul, Minn.

The young man's presence could set off a media frenzy around the young couple as photographers and cameramen scramble for pictures. On Monday, Palin and her husband, Todd, said Bristol planned to have the baby and asked the media to respect the couple's privacy as has been the tradition with children of candidates.

Sarah Palin is scheduled to address the convention Wednesday night, and traditionally her family would join her at the conclusion of her speech.

Sherry Johnston said she was worried about her son dealing with all the attention. She said it is difficult enough for teenagers to deal with any pregnancy; having the entire nation watching makes it worse.

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Op woensdag 3 september 2008 10:58 schreef AlanSmitheeJr het volgende:
Ik kan mij eigenlijk niet voorstellen dat McCain verder kan gaan met Palin nu bekend is geworden dat haar man tot 2002 lid was van de "Alaska First"-partij. Dat het zo lang duurt voordat hij haar dumpt getuigt ook weer van slecht leiderschap.

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Op woensdag 3 september 2008 10:59 schreef Wheelgunner het volgende:

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Zoals ik al eerder zei, veel Amerikanen vinden juist dat Staten het recht moeten hebben om te mogen afscheiden.

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Op woensdag 3 september 2008 10:59 schreef Wheelgunner het volgende:

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Zoals ik al eerder zei, veel Amerikanen vinden juist dat Staten het recht moeten hebben om te mogen afscheiden.

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Op woensdag 3 september 2008 08:11 schreef SuikerVuist het volgende:
Natuurlijk, vooraf was ze de favoriet (door haar man), maar Obama is enorm door de media geholpen o.a. door hem als De Messias te verklaren en Bill Clinton af te schilderen als een racist.

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Op woensdag 3 september 2008 09:22 schreef Montov het volgende:
McCain heeft een interview met CNN afgezegd omdat CNN te ver zou zijn gegaan met een interview met Tucker Bounds over de buitenlandse ervaring van Palin waar zo mee wordt geschermd:

Tucker Bounds on Palin's National Security Experience

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Op woensdag 3 september 2008 09:22 schreef Montov het volgende:
McCain heeft een interview met CNN afgezegd omdat CNN te ver zou zijn gegaan met een interview met Tucker Bounds over de buitenlandse ervaring van Palin waar zo mee wordt geschermd:

Tucker Bounds on Palin's National Security Experience

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Op woensdag 3 september 2008 12:18 schreef ub40_bboy het volgende:
Is het nou zeker dat Sarah en haar man lid zijn geweest van die onafhankelijkheidspartij? Want op CNN hebben ze het er nooit over, alleen over de teen pregnancy en troopergate.

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McCain More Likely to Drop Palin, Bookmakers Say Mark Deen


Sept. 2 (Bloomberg) -- The smart money thinks there's a better chance today than yesterday that John McCain will dump Sarah Palin as his running mate.

Before the Republican senator's presidential campaign disclosed the pregnancy of Palin's 17-year-old daughter, bookmakers in Britain and Ireland were offering 20-1 odds or higher on a bet that she would be forced off the ticket, meaning a 1 pound ($1.78) bet would pay 20 pounds. Now that same bet will pay no more than 8 pounds.

``While it is rare that a VP candidate gets dropped, it's not completely impossible,'' said Ken Robertson, political betting analyst at Paddy Power Plc, a Dublin-based gambling company. ``Lots of our punters are betting `Shocking' Sarah's days are numbered,'' he added, using a nickname he came up with for the first-term Alaska governor.

The odds, based on wagers made online with Paddy Power and William Hill Plc and in their betting shops, also suggest that McCain is less likely to win the White House because of his vice-presidential running-mate choice, announced Aug. 29. Both gambling houses, along with rival Ladbrokes Plc, place Democrat Barack Obama, 47, as the favorite to triumph in the contest.

``Ever since he appointed her, people have stopped betting on McCain,'' said David Williams of Ladbrokes in London. ``He went down like a sack of potatoes as far as the punters are concerned.''

Odds for Palin

Today, William Hill cut the odds that Palin, 44, would be sacked to 8-1 from 20-1. Paddy Power now puts the odds of Palin leaving the ticket at 14-1, compared to 28-1 before yesterday's disclosure about Bristol Palin, the daughter. The Paddy Power betting house is also offering 33-1 odds that she will go by the end of this week. Ladbrokes is offering 10-1 odds that Palin will quit the race.

Intrade, a Dublin-based peer-to-peer betting Web site, opened a contract on Palin to be withdrawn as the Republican vice presidential nominee. The latest price was 12 cents, up 9 cents today. Each contract at that price will pay 88 cents per contract if Palin leaves the ticket.

Political betting on financial markets outperforms polling as an elections predictor, according to a University of North Carolina study and figures from the Iowa Electronic Markets. Only twice in the century through 2004 -- the 1916 election and the 2000 contest between Bush and Democrat Al Gore -- did the betting markets get it wrong on the popular vote.

Eagleton's Demise

The last time a vice presidential candidate was dropped from the ticket was in 1972, when George McGovern's pick for the job, Tom Eagleton, left the Democratic campaign after disclosures he had undergone treatment for depression. McGovern went on to lose the election to Republican Richard Nixon.

``It would be disastrous for his campaign were McCain to sack Palin, but it is not impossible that she could stand down should party chiefs feel that she is too controversial a choice who might end up costing McCain votes,'' said William Hill spokesman Graham Sharpe.

The betting houses also say punters are shifting toward an eventual Obama victory in November. Paddy Power said Obama is now favored 4-9 compared with 1-2 before the Palin appointment. William Hill said Obama's odds shifted last week to 4-9, where they now remain, from 4-11 on Aug. 21 and 2-5 before that.

Ladbrokes also puts Obama as the 4-9 favorite.

Odds on victory for McCain, who is 72, are 13-8, according to both Paddy Power and William Hill. Ladbrokes gives McCain a slightly better chance of winning, offering 6 pounds for every four bet on that outcome.

McCain advisers Stephen Schmidt and Mark Salter told reporters in St. Paul, Minnesota, yesterday that the campaign learned of Bristol's pregnancy when the mother was vetted.

Obama, campaigning in Monroe, Michigan, said yesterday Palin's children should be ``off limits'' and cited his own mother, who gave birth to Obama when she was 18. Obama named Senator Joe Biden as his running mate last month.

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Op woensdag 3 september 2008 10:31 schreef Caesu het volgende:

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http://www.adn.com/palin/story/513880.html



moet zeker van het McCain-team.
om zo het beeld van een gelukkig stel af te geven.

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Op woensdag 3 september 2008 10:17 schreef Wheelgunner het volgende:
Obama is niet impulsief, een beetje emotioneel soms, maar verder heb ik de indruk dat hij meer gebalanceerd is dan McCain. Beide hebben de potentie om voorbij partij-politiek te gaan, en ik hoop dat Obama die indruk ook waar gaat maken.

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Op woensdag 3 september 2008 12:59 schreef Monidique het volgende:
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De 22-jarige Lohan heeft een advies voor Palin. "Ze moet al haar aandacht richten op beleidsplannen die meer impact hebben dan dat van de Democratische running mate Joe Biden", vindt Lohan.

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Op woensdag 3 september 2008 12:40 schreef Monidique het volgende:

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En de media moeten ook liever zijn voordat ze met de Ervaren, Voorbereide Sarah Palin mogen praten: "Davis demurred when asked when Palin will sit for interviews with major news organizations, pointing out that now would not be the right time given the "combative" attitude the media has seemingly adopted toward Palin."

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