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3 Days to SC GOP Vote

Posted by: Mike's America @ 10:27 am in Politics  | 0 views

It’s getting nasty!

Political phone calls ave been coming in every hour here at Mike’s America. Most of them don’t even connect, but hang up after I answer.

One call which did connect was especially curious.

It claimed to be an automated poll for the upcoming SC GOP primary on Saturday.

The first question was: “Do you support President Bush?”

I answered yes and the call ended.

A neighbor got a similar call and answered no. The automated “poll” then proceeded to explain why Huckabee is the only candidate who wants to end illegal immigration and that the others, primarily Romney were for amnesty.

The phone number for both calls was:(703) 961-1077.

And caller ID displayed the name: L Hinton

Using a reverse phone number lookup the following information is available online:

L Hinton
13296 LEAFCREST LN
FAIRFAX, VA 22033
(703) 961-1077

This same phone number has been connected to similar calls in Michigan (see this bulletin board discussion) and other states.

TPM Muckraker has the full story as well as the link to a group called Common Sense Issues which is operating a web site : Trust Huckabee.

In a December 17th press release, Mike Huckabee denied any connection to this group: “As I’ve said before, our campaign has nothing to do with push polling and I wish they would stop. We don’t want this kind of campaigning because it violates the spirit of our campaign.”

And yet the slime continues to ooze in the Palmetto State!

Only three more days!

UPDATE- Audio of Acutal Call

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15 comments so far

Snooper
 1Reply to this comment  

This crap is typical of a liberal…Huckabee is finished…Fred is going to take SC and FL.

Rudy is finished. It is essentially a 3-man race:

Mitt, John Fred.

January 16th, 2008 at 10:43 am
ChrisG
 2Reply to this comment  

Mike,

I got a few of these calls here in Michigan. Very directed push questions and shilling for Huck. I kept answering that I would not vote for Huck in the Primaries until the call ended.

I wish the Primaries were all held in one day. Just get it over with so we can move forward. It would cost a whole lot less money in the long run.

On the other hand, at least in Michigan, the Republican votes will count, unlike the Democrats. There is real disenfrachisement. Yet will the Democratic voters hold their party responisble? I doubt it highly.

January 16th, 2008 at 10:52 am
bbartlog
 3Reply to this comment  

Rudy is finished. It is essentially a 3-man race:

Mitt, John Fred.

Rudy definitely looks to be on life support after his 3% finish in MI, but scoring Fred’s chances as better than Huck’s sounds like wishful thinking to me. Fred might be able to catch Huck in SC, but Huck’s national polling is currently a lot better.

January 16th, 2008 at 12:00 pm
Mike's America
 4Reply to this comment  

Chris: It would be a HUGE mistake to have all the primaries on the same day.

If that were the case then the candidates would simply tailor their message to the larger states and ignore flyover country altogether.

Put aside Texas for a minute, do you really want the race decided on what California and New York state have decided?

January 16th, 2008 at 12:03 pm
bbartlog
 5Reply to this comment  

Having some small primaries up front has some advantages. It does give the voters in those states a disproportionate impact, but it levels the playing field in terms of money somewhat. If you had a single nationwide primary, you would need to be either a celebrity or someone with $50 or better $100 million to bring to the game if you wanted to run.
Also, so long as the early state voters are mindful of their disproportionate influence, we can assume that they will spend more time evaluating the candidates than an average voter would under a single national primary system. Presumably this makes for better choices.

January 16th, 2008 at 12:16 pm
ChrisG
 6Reply to this comment  

Point taken. I blame the ear infection I have for lack of enthusiasm on the primaries. I see the reasoning and understand now. Thanks Mike and bbartlog.

Of course, what do I care about being sick. According to our paranoid, spamming troll, we have paid WhiteHouse staffers to do our research for us and do not have to do any work ourselves…… Wow, hearing that was a shock! Curt, why didn’t you tell me? I spend all this time hunting down and collecting information from multiple sources by myself when I could have a staffer do it!

January 16th, 2008 at 12:27 pm
Mike's America
 7Reply to this comment  

Chris: So that idiot Philly Steve things “we have paid WhiteHouse staffers to do our research”???

That’s just a variation on the moonbat claim that the PRO VICTORY forces are paid and trained by Halliburton and Blackwater (you might have seen my post honoring Skye at Midnight Blue where that was asserted by the “peace” crowd, many of whom ARE being funded or subsidized by George Soros).

Now, to the other point… I just had a somewhat testy exchange with a paid Rudy staffer over the role of the smaller states. I am all in favor of dumping the sole focus on Iowa and New Hampshire. But if Rudy does pull off what now looks like a miracle in Florida and Super Tuesday, I would hate the consequence to be a focus on the big states.

To elaborate that point further: the Electoral College exists for the sole reason to prevent big states from using the power of their majority population to decide the chief executive.

P.S. Try Echinaecea tea laced with zinc and fresh lemon every two hours for your ear infection. I think Sleepy Time has a brand loaded with the proper balance of botanicals and zinc.

January 16th, 2008 at 1:27 pm
suek
 8Reply to this comment  

Or a New England cold cure…

Juice of 2 lemons
2 oz (1/4 C) honey
2 oz rum

Mix all in a 16 oz glass, and fill to top with water as hot as you can stand to drink. Mix well and drink while still hot.
Go directly to bed.

I’ve never decided if this really is a cold cure or just makes you not care if you have cold. In any case, in New England, the Vitamin C of the lemons might have been a good thing in those old “traditional” days, and believe me, they warm you up for the night! My husband used to swear by them – and it turned him into a veritable radiator!

They don’t taste especially good(imo) so there _must_ be some other reason they drank them…!

January 16th, 2008 at 3:25 pm
ChrisG
 9Reply to this comment  

Suek,

Thanks, I think that was also the Michigan Cure as my father used to use the same thing. My mother’s “Ohio Cure” used tea instead of water. Or was that my father’s too? After the second dose of it, I don’t care ;)

Mike,

Thanks also, unfortunately, this is a bacterial infection… probably from reading the multiple Steve paranoid delusional projectionist spam posts.

January 16th, 2008 at 3:35 pm
Mike's America
 10Reply to this comment  

I might have to try that Suek.

The lemon is supposed to be a natural anti-bacterial as well as providing vitamin C.

Honey is also good for coughs.

January 16th, 2008 at 3:37 pm
Denise
 11Reply to this comment  

We had the same in Iowa. They asked who you were supporting in the caucus and if you answered, they went on to trash that person and suggest Huckabee’s position.

January 16th, 2008 at 5:07 pm
Gregory Dittman
 12Reply to this comment  

For fun there is a presidential calculator. My highest score was Mike Gravel (on 19 states) at 14.44%. The highest known candidate was Giuliani at 11.65%. The highest known Democrat was Clinton at 4.27%. The one I plan to vote for is at 2.28% and the least rated was McCain at .37%.
http://www.vajoe.com/candidate_calculator.html

January 17th, 2008 at 1:37 pm
Philadelphia Steve
 13Reply to this comment  

The calls described in the oponing monologue are usually called “push polling”. They ask a cople of questions to classify you, then go on to test your preference. If you say that you like “candidate X”, then they go on to ask, “would you still like candidate X if you knew (s)he drowned puppies for a hobby?”

Or something along that line.

I recall that they were used against John McCain in the 2000 Carolina primaries, usually implying he had illigitimate (non-white) children either in the US or when he was a POW in Vietnam.

January 17th, 2008 at 1:59 pm
Mike's America
 14Reply to this comment  

Greg: I got the same score for

Duncan Hunter, Tom Tancredo, Mittens Romney and Fred Thompson:

A 95.65% match for each.

January 17th, 2008 at 3:49 pm

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