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Goppy1 year, 1 month ago
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Nice try RIChris.
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Barack Obama has received over $60,000 in donations from active duty troops overseas. (This information is all over the internet - if you choose to do a search.)
McCain? ... ... ... A little more than $10,000.
I guess our troops don't like the fact that McCain has been fighting them on everything from releasing classified information on MIAs to fighting against the GI BILL.
Our troops are funny that way.
They expect loyalty.
If any of you want to support the troops ... vote for the candidate THEY support ... Barack Obama.
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lovemylibs1 year, 1 month ago
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Not only are they wrong, they are misleading.
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All of my liberal brethren made great efforts a few months ago to create headlines to the effect of: "Troops Support Obama 6 to 1 over McCain."
In deference to Paul Harvey, here is the rest of the story.
This 6 to 1 figure is accurate when you consider the caveats of the data.
Caveat # 1 - These figures represent active, overseas military who made contributions of over $200.
Caveat # 2 - Donations of these type for Obama = 134 donations.
Caveat # 3 - Donations of these type for McCain = 26 donations.
Caveat # 4 - These donations are through June 2008.
Caveat # 5 - Since Palin was announced these numbers have changed.
Caveat # 6 - There are approximately 250,000 active military in overseas operations.
SO - using a handy calculator, these statistics show that the donors to Obama represent a sample size of less than (0.1%). That is statistically too small of a number to use to correlate into a liberal stance of "Troops support Obama 6 to 1."
It is not reliable to say these numbers can be extrapolated, as is standard polling practice, into a general statement of the same level of support in terms of overall numbers. Polling asks questions, donations represent monetary gifts.
One can not be used to represent the other. It is wrong.
Any headline at the time that read "Troops support Obama 6 to 1" was a lie. Howard Dean even made it a talking point for the base to use, as shills are prone to do-
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tatf1 year, 1 month ago
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With so many questions concerning the sources of the donations that Obama has received, I have a problem believing that the donation from active duty GI's for Obama is not another of the Socialist left getting money into Obama's coffers illegally.
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DeauxNut1 year, 1 month ago
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Great mis-leading story there "Goppy". Here, read this:
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"The analysis of campaign records found Obama has raised more than $60,000 from 134 military service men and women who are deployed overseas. McCain has raised $10,665 from 26 donors."
Now you tell us how 134 + 26 represents "The Military" overseas. So don't go and tell us that troops overseas don't support McCain. They also don't support Obama, donation-wise. If the greater percentage of troops support Obama, fine, I can live with that but don't expect us to believe "out of context" figures that don't support the totals. -
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automan9091 year, 1 month ago
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My son is in Iraq right now and says that everyone he knows is for McCain and that
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they don't trust Obama. They still remember how Obama voted to not fund our troops during the war and how that vote had cost them unnecessary lives and injuries. They hate him.-
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