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Notorious: "Obama has been on a steady, relentless decline for the last 3 months."
You have a funny definition for "steady," unless you mean "holding steady." You're not too swift with "relentless" either. Obama has stayed at more or less the same level with voters throughout the summer, losing a couple of percentage points at times, but whatever. You are projecting your own desires here. We all know you want Obama to lose. That's fine. But don't get yourself all excited over some minor fluctuations at the polls. You're likely to wet yourself ("The Notorious Wets?").
Notorious: "Was getting beat by 40 plus points in primaries after he had the nomination locked up."
Right, he lost by a wide margin in West Virginia. I don't think it was 40 plus points -- you have some problem with exaggeration kiddo? It might have been 30 plus though. That was in West Virginia, where people didn't even bother hiding their racism during interviews.
Notorious: "And everyone thinks the next speech is going to turn it back around. The speeches are getting old."
Who is this mysterious "everyone" you're referring to? Naturally, people want Obama's speech to result in higher favorable ratings. Also, since he tends to give a rousing speech, and since this one's going to be seen by and reported by quite a few people, there is an expectation that Obama will come out ahead. Why does that bother you?
Why does any of this bother you? We know you don't want Obama to win. But what else are you about? What do you care about outside of your political carping?
