Poll Watch
By NoQuarter on July 24, 2008 at 12:30 PM in Barack Obama, Electability, Electoral College, Iraq, John McCain, Michigan, National Security
McCain Makes Significant Gains in Four Key Battleground States, Washington Post:
Republican John McCain has quickly closed the gap between himself and Democratic rival Sen. Barack Obama in several key battleground states even as the Arizona senator struggles to break through the wall-to-wall coverage of Obama’s trip to Europe and the Middle East this week.
McCain and Obama are in a statistical dead heat in Colorado, Michigan and Minnesota while the Illinois senator has a more comfortable double-digit edge in Wisconsin. …
63% Say Trip Does Not Make Obama More Fit to be President, Rasmussen Reports:
While Barack Obama has touted his travel to the Middle East and Europe this week as a “fact-finding” trip, 63% of Americans do not believe it makes the Democratic candidate any more qualified to be president.
A new Rasmussen Reports national survey, taken Monday night, also finds that less than a third (32%) think Obama will learn from his trip to Iraq. Forty percent (40%) say his mind is already made up about policies to deal with the war there. The Democrat has been accused by liberals in his party of softening his long-standing opposition to the war in Iraq in an effort to appeal to more moderate voters. …
Here’s much more from Rasmussen’s fascinating report:
In a separate survey this week, 45% said Obama is too inexperienced to be president. This number has risen from 41% over the past week. But the same number — 45% — believe the Democratic candidate does have the necessary experience.
Slightly more than half (53%) of Americans in the new poll do not approve of candidates making statements contrary to U.S. government policy while visiting U.S. troops in a war zone. Only 29% believe that it’s okay to do so.
But 49% say it’s fine for a presidential candidate to make a highly-publicized trip to a war zone, while only 26% disagree.
Less than half (47%) believe it is better to have a president with military experience directing a war, but 38% say it doesn’t matter. Seventy-three percent (73%) of Republicans see military experience as a plus, but 57% of Democrats do not. Obama has not served in the military, while McCain was a Navy combat pilot in the Vietnam War. He was shot down on a bombing mission, imprisoned and tortured in the infamous “Hanoi Hilton” for six years.
Among those who have members of their immediate family in the military, 48% say military service makes a president better able to conduct a war, while 36% disagree.
Another Rasmussen Reports survey this week finds that while voters trust Obama more on most issues, McCain has a double-digit lead on his rival when it comes to national security and the war in Iraq. Overall, Obama and McCain remain very close in the popular vote contest as measured by the Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll.
Only 39% of Democrats say Obama’s travels this week make him more qualified to be president, while 42% disagree. Eighty-six percent (86%) of Republicans and 67% of unaffiliateds feel the same way. The gap widens when how an individual plans to vote is factored in: 44% of likely Obama voters see the travel as a positive, while 89% of those who plan to vote for McCain disagree. …
READ ALL: 63% Say Trip Does Not Make Obama More Fit to be President, Rasmussen Reports.
I hate polls.
Yet, I can’t help but read every single one that has been posted here.
Thank you for posting.
Hit the comments section there, too. WaPo is teeming with Obots these days. A lot of people will read this article, and it’s good news for McCain… BAD NEWS FOR BAMBI.
Well obama is planning on making a comeback with the ringing endorsement from this guy….
http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080724/NEWS/807240387/1001/news
URGENT
Take a look at Pumaparty.com
They are all talking about giving up
The front page has been taken over by SPAM
They are allowing penis enlargement pills spam, and saying it lightens the mood!
hey wowzers… sounds like YOU need some enlargement pills of some kind…
Mommy dropped you on your head didn’t she?
This just in: Obama’s ego seen towering over Big Ben in London. Film at 11.
TeaMug, the poster from the UK, commented that the Brit press isn’t buying the Anointed One’s dog and pony show. I had suspected that the Brits’ natural cynicism wasn’t going to be tainted by BarackLove.
After all, they’re not the ones who went apeshit over David Hasselhoff!
David Hasselhoff..what?? Baywatch, I don’t watch it. Just posted below on this thread with the regards to speech now over!!
I think they are bemused at all the attention he is getting. We don’t get that over here, our elections are so boring compared to yours. I think it will be more of a somber affair when he meets with Tony Blair(poodle) for breakfast, then The Prime Minister, then David Cameron (David might be in a bad mood, because someone stole his bicycle today outside a shop)
I think at the end of the day the BBC are trying to get there heads round it all, and are in a confused state. They are trying to ask good questions but all they are getting back is the lovefest!! I just wish they would sit down with Obama face to face.
I posted about David earlier…. you must have missed it.
The last time Germany went so gaga over someone from the US was whenEVER David goes over there to (cough) sing.
it was an ironic joke of sorts
I just wish they would sit down with Obama face to face.
Many of us would like to see that also. However, I heard on radio that Obama has not allowed any one-to-one interviews with the foreign press.
(Tea - Dawnelle explained the “Hoff” reference. Sometimes in quickfire shorthand my posts aren’t so clear!)
In a nutshell, Germans love David Hasselhoff… and now Obama, too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zXiClnK8oE
This is a must see!
It doesn’t seem to happen much that he is face-to-face with anyone. Look at all the secrecy around him on this trip–just another really weird thing about it. I mean he is schmoozing the media, but at arms’ length. And who knows what he’s saying to the high and mighty. Who goes with him? Where are the Secret Service? In front of the curtain of his plane… I think all he has to give an interlocutor is platitudes out of his little pocket Bartlett’s anyway. If anyone asks him about specific issues, those tend to become the “distractions” from the “real issues” and thus the clock is run out and nothing revealed.
How can this be?
I read nothing but how much everyone loves him in the MSM…
Wasn’t the point of the overseas extravaganza to give Oblowhard some foreign policy cred?
Oh well, back to the drawing board.
How does taking a trip give anyone credentials?? So much bullcrap surrounding Obumba.
I don’t know. Visit the Eiffel Tower and you just feel like you can build it yourself, right?
meanwhile, latest polls show mccain LOSING his home state of AZ, losing in VA, losing in NC, Losing in Colorado, etc.
Somehow, those numbers never get reported.
that’s the problem with you dead enders, like Hillary, you cannot seem to count.
PS
that hillary poster on your front page shows her in profile, the nazis made posters with people in profile…
therefore, Hillary reminds me of hitler.
I thought you were out sick today.
Only in your own twisted little world, Stevee. Doesn’t the tinfoil in the hat get hot these fine summer days or is mommy and daddy’s basement air conditioned?
Noticed you didn’t cite the polls.
Yawn…
I have a four-letter word for you: Ohio.
So does this mean you don’t NEED MY VOTE???
But..but I thought The One asked all of you to play nice and ask us to “get over it”????
Reminder: There are no caucusus in November!
My vote will NOT be for Obitter…ever!
PUMA
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/07/obama-scrubs-vi.html?cid=123648048#comment-123648048
ABC is reporting that Obama scrubbed a visit planned to a military hospital.
That will play well.
Only if you call a steady 10 pt. lead losing (?) AZ. I hope he keeps it up all the way to election day, too.
Ditto NC where McCain is up 5 pts. And Rasmussen just put McCain ahead 1 pt. in VA. The same pollsters give Obama a 3 pt. lead in CO, but Quinnipiac/WSJ/WP says McCain just pulled ahead 2 pts.
I get it, though! You’re a dyslexic troll. Well, now I think more highly of Obama for being an EO employer.
But please go bother someone else. We’re up-to-date on current events and won’t just swallow your stupidity.
thank you for addressing that w such detail. You notice the troll did not cite specific polls.
No problem. I like how he just showed up citing a poll and when asked which one, he said “google it.” Aren’t Obama supporters the loveliest people?
Anyone running for public office would LOVE to
be “losing” an election by by a ten point margin in their favor.
Oye. The illogic of the Obamanation is on par with that of the Bushnation.
Sboy - I come to this blog infrequently and your entries always capture my attention because they flagrantly run counter to any common sense or reasoned thinking. (for example: contrary to your complaint, numbers that support Obama always get reported!)
(Perhaps this lack of maturity explains why you’re not Steveeman instead of Steveeboy?)
Here are some poll that show you are wrong. Now show me the polls you are citing.
Rasmussen Reports
http://tinyurl.com/6m5rqq
Friday, July 18, 2008
The presidential race in Virginia is now dead even, with Barack Obama and John McCain each drawing 44% of the vote, according to a new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of voters in the state.
If “leaners” are factored in, McCain leads by a statistically insignificant one percentage point 48% to 47%.
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
In Colorado, Barack Obama leads Republican John McCain by seven percentage points, 49% to 42%. However, when leaners are included, McCain is more competitive and pulls to within three points, 50% to 47%.
Thursday, July 17, 2008
The race is still close between John McCain and Barack Obama in the traditionally red state of North Carolina. The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey finds McCain ahead 45% to 42% in the Tar Heel State. When “leaners” are included, McCain leads 48% to 45%.
Sunday, June 29, 2008
Since Hillary Clinton dropped out of the race for the White House, Barack Obama has enjoyed a bounce in the national polls and in many state polls. John McCain’s home state of Arizona is no exception, though the presumptive Republican nominee still enjoys a decent lead in the state.
In April, McCain led Obama by twenty points. Now, the latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey shows McCain attracting 49% of the vote while Obama earns 40%. Six percent (6%) say they’ll vote for some other candidate and 5% remain undecided. Twenty-seven percent (27%) say McCain is too old to be President while 50% say Obama is too inexperienced.
McCain leads by twenty-seven points among men but trails by six among women. The Arizona Senator is supported by 81% of Republicans and enjoys a twelve point lead among unaffiliated voters. Obama gets the vote from 75% of Democrats.
Overall, McCain is viewed favorably by 60% of Arizona voters, Obama by 47%.
The margin of sampling error for the survey is +/- 4.5 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence.
I see this poll, which is usually very pro-Obama, showing that he’s going to lose CO.
That actually lines up with my sense of CO.
Ditto for Ohio.
Fl polls are confusing me right now.
I think FL is McCain.
So the latest is weird.
Obama isn’t the darling of people. He’s the darling of the media.
But we don’t like media much.
So I personally think he’ll lose CO, NV, FL, and more.
He’s a Democratic loser candidate.
I’m no responsible.
I was for Hillary
Obama is a long-shot.
And I think he’ll lose.,
Very, very well said:
Obama isn’t the darling of people. He’s the darling of the media.
Thank you Ann, I think that will sum things up nicely come November.
FL is most definitely a Red State. No way does it go to Ibama.
The polls I saw in Va were tied with a slight edge for McCain. I’ll believe Obamaba wins Va when I see it. For the record, your messiah has been running ads here McCain hasn’t YET. I bet when we get closer to the GE that your numbers drop faster than a hot potato.
Since the military can vote in elections (unlike my father’s time in the military) I can’t imagine very many in the military or working for the military voting for Obama.
I live in another state with a large military population — and snObama isn’t popular among military — and as word of his snub to the enlisted personnel spreads — he’ll lose even more votes.
Obama is an inadequate male — who has no business even being a Senator. He is a snob.
I’m stil not getting this whole snob thing. Just what has he got to be snobby about? He’s skinny, flabby, can’t speak without a telepromter, refuses to debate a 72 year old man with cancer, and gets confused about little details whenever he gets flamuxed…so tell me again…what has he got to be snobby about?
I’d rather be called a deadender than support the rearender!
Can’t read can you? Latest polls show McCain leading in CO.
I live in AZ. Not a chance of McCain losing to Obama. Now Clinton, it could be doable.
Actually, he pulled ahead in CO, stevieboy.
STEEVIE OBAMABOT:
Get your head out of Obambi’s Posterior and smell the excrement of the new polls showing McCain and Obamabi in dead heat. As against Hillary tho the numbers of Democratic success go up and the differential is EIGHT 8% percent! Go read your Pollsters, Rassmussen, NBC =All Obamatrolls know how to Google, right OBAMAFASCISTA! And get your sorry ass outta here!
PUMAS ROAR! AND OBAMBI CRAWLS
Anyone trying to watch his Berlin speech? I tried, he’s snapping his head back and forth between teleprompters, like he’s watching a tennis match. I had to put it on mute.
But I heard him tell the audience his dad was a goat herder. (He left out that his dad was in the elite class, ran a goat herding company and attended Harvard.)
He mentioned in America we have freedom of speech blah blah blah except when its not pro Obumba. Hypocrit, especially his ‘unity’ bots.
He made one big lie about daddy and two smaller mistakes: To bring it to the attention of Germans that it was the Marshall Plan that created their booming economy and not their brilliant doing, is not an appealing statement. The other is to embrace all the world, along that muslims, is probably not very appealing either.
Good catch:
He needs to blend. Try “My father was a goat herder at Harvard in Kansas.”
Probably because the only ones who are glued to the coverage of Obama are the ones who already support him. Everyone else is going about their business, and couldn’t care less about Obama’s travels.
Wall Street/NBC poll also finds
Funny enough, then after all the damning numbers Murdoch paper mkes an analogy to 1980 election - where they cast McCain as carter and Obama as…Raygun!
http://edgeoforever.wordpress.com/2008/07/24/is-unease-something-like-malaise/
McCain is the tortise and Obama is the hare. While Obama is out grandstanding acting as if he has already won, McCain is slowly and steadily going state to state and talking to the people and gaining votes.
and the Puma will eat the hare AND the tortoise and make a collar out of the shell!
lmao
Baracktrack says stupid things, again:
http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/07/24/obama-lays-claim-to-wrong-committee-in-israel/
what an idiot…
he is more dangerous than bush…
a. hillary
b. mccain
america first!
Just imagine what the Whitey Tape will do when Larry finally gets his copy!
That, and Obama’s real birth certificate, which shows he was born a black liberationist Muslim in Osama bin Laden’s cave!
Boy, that ought to set things right!
And until then, why throw water on a drowning man? Waterboarding has no place in our elections, even when one of the candidates is a closet Muslim.
yes, the whitey tape when released by republicans will be worth the popcorn to watch obots like you try to blame it on HRC….
and even more fun when the birth certificate proves he was adopted at birth and actually was born in Canada, not HI. When obambi is simply shown to be ineligible to run for POTUS because of his naturalized status, his dual citizenship, and his lying on his security clearance application.
oh yes, can’t forget when Rezko finally nails him because he doesn’t want life in prison.
go ahead and make fun, make yourself laugh. we know who will laugh the best and hardest when you and your baby plastic jesus falls over the cliff.
bambi will lose in a landslide to McCain. maybe he can affix his plastic fake presidential seal to his mansion and be the fairy tale that he is.
You mean “white man’s legacy”?
Too bad those aren’t the biggest problems. Did you happen to catch any of the bad housing news today? Wonder how most Americans will react to the 527’s finally getting some news to people about how MOBO and BOBO “financed” their mansion and arranged to defy the housing code and split the yard off? IMHO it is not going to look like he’s the one they’ve been waiting for! LMFAO.
It certainly will. It will put Michelle “I didn’t get elected homecoming queen by white people at Princeton so I’m going to be bitter the rest of my life” Obama in her place!
I am sure such skilled internet warriors such as yourselves can do your own googling and find the same polls I did showing mccain not even winning his home state.
To the extent that mccain does poorly in the west–perhaps thanks to bob barr, then states like ohio and florida become less important.
thanks to Dr. Dean and the 50 state strategy we will see democrats doing better and pulling out victories in locations like Mississippi, Louisiana, Virginia, Colorado, etc.
We have already seen the GOP lose key seats in these states in special elections.
Oh, but I forgot, you dead-enders would rather see McCain win in order to teach those that didn’t support your candidate a lesson.
at the same time, you claim to be the mature ones.
right.
PS
I also note the fascist and totalitarian nature of your raised/clenched fist poster, right above the hitler Hillary poster on teh home page of this website.
why do you dead-enders resort to such fascist imagery?
I know, it’s cause you’re just like hitler, sitting in his bunker while the Red Army rolls into Berlin, refusing to face reality.
PPS
I love the tin foil hat crack, especially since it comes from those who spend their days examining birth certificates and looking for hospital records in an effort to prove that the democratic POTUS nominee is really a secret muslim ready to implement martial law and put osama bin laden in the white house.
AHAHAH. Don’t bring up “Dr. Dean” and his 50 state strategy. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5FzCeV0ZFc
I gotta see it again. Thanks for the laugh!
If we are so puerile as you seem to think, why bother to come here at all. Since you strongly believe that Obama is going to win in November, why are you bothering at all to speak to the “dead enders”? If we are such a small group of constituents what does it matter what we think as far as your perceived outcome this November? Would not your time be better served by frequenting sites where your talents could be put to more worthy causes? If you are as brilliant as you claim, and we are such unmentionable dead enders, why would you wish to associate with us? A more intelligent mind would wish to gravitate towards its own element would it not? Do you see what I am trying to convey to you? Go and try a blog of your own, or perhaps find work with a college newspaper that will happily publish your great thoughts. Perhaps you could join a civic group in your neighborhood/city and help less fortunate individuals with their drug and alcohol problems, or you could join the Peace Corps and follow Obama to the ends of the earth giving speeches as relevant as his of this afternoon in Berlin. You could even learn to speak a number of foreign languages and join the merchant marines
There are so many wonderful challenges and accomplishments that one such as yourself could take on and achieve! And when you are done with your worldly endeavors, you could write your memoirs and publish them, thereby making yourself widely known as the recipient of the Booker or the Pulitzer!
I believe that you are such a superior human being, what with your highly organized missive and all that you have exhibited here, well I would say that you might even win next year’s Nobel in literature!
Off with you now! Off to the hyacinth horizon! Don’t fall over the edge now as we wouldn’t want to be denied the pleasures of your soon-to-be published autobiography!
Bon Chance!
Stevee, will you be my new best friend?
unterdeckeschwarzeMann,
Werden Sie jemals ein Gehirn wachsen?
Sie haben keine Freunde?
OMG
this thread and the other one about BO’s German speech had me close to coffee spitting a couple times, but Area59, your post is the one that made me splatter the monitor
No he’s really a Black Panther ready to create The Neigborhood Project which will give all the nation’s wealth to undeserving blacks.
New Fox News Pool dated today’s date:
FOX News Poll: No Bounce for Obama From Overseas Trip
Thursday, July 24, 2008
The significant news coverage Barack Obama is receiving on his foreign trip has not translated into a bounce in his numbers, a just-released FOX News poll shows. Obama now holds the slimmest possible edge over John McCain, leading by just 41 percent - 40 percent in a head-to-head contest. In fact, Obama’s support is down slightly from his 45 percent - 41 percent advantage last month.
Same thing from Gallup, where Obama is only +2.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/109060/Gallup-Daily-Obama-Maintains-Slim-Advantage-Over-McCain.aspx
I think this trip was a blunder — it really highlights Obama’s “wannabe” status.
That and the fact he was so easily goaded into it by the McCain People.
They are the tortoise indeed and that HARE Obi group has always tried to hurry things along (like telling Hillary to hurry and drop out)
I can NOT wait for the PUMA feast!
Grrrrrrrrrrowl!
Oh yes, Dawnelle… I’ve noticed the McCain campaign doing its victory dance all week! They so showed Obama who was boss… goading him into that trap!
Please.
Can’t you folks at least give credit to Team Obama for being a highly competent organization in terms of strategy, tactics and execution?
You mean the Black Muslims and Black Panthers throwing people out of caucus rooms if they were going to vote for Hillary? Funny, if they’re so politically astute, why couldn’t he WIN the nomination instead of having the SDs GIVE it to him?
And when is Brazile leaving? She said if the SDs chose the nominee, she would quit the Party. Another flip flop, just like her Boy.
Yeah, terri… I’ve heard that the Iowa branch of the Black Panthers is pretty hardcore. And the NOI mosque in Dubuque ain’t no joke either.
And may I flip your question on its head? Why couldn’t Hillary win the nomination outright… or persuade the SDs to “GIVE it” to her?
At some point, you’re going to have to come to grips with the fact that Obama’s biggest advantage this year… is that he was running against Hillary. “Clinton fatigue” created a lot of resistance to her candidacy. It did with me.
Surely as a black man you’ve heard of the bus?
Hey, we’re all getting “UnderCoverBlackMan Fatigue Syndrome over here”
Why don’t you Obamabot go spread your thyroid-deficiencies at your local hoops and leave us alone! Great name! Did your folk not give you any change money to spend on computer games and got nothing to do with your time? Try joining the ARmy or Navy. You might learn a few things mama and sister didn’t teach ya!
Undercover Black Man - get your sorry posterior over to ObamaForPresident site. Get lost. And I ain’t messin with you, boy!
No.
With his 300 plus foreign advisors he goes and makes a speech in the shadow of one of the most prominent hitlerist symbol.
He rubs in the Germans that the Marshall Plan created the German prosperity not the German’s hard work.
His team is probably made up by a lot of very smart people- who, unfortunately are not very well educated in European history and foreign affairs.
The German media is sceptical about him becoming President. They are recognizing that he pretends to be a President.
OK I’ll give them credit for all three, but then do we get to take away points for failing to get the desired results?
hmmmm…
And to Dawnelle’s point about Obama being goaded into taking the trip, I understand what she’s saying. McCain is an experienced politician, he’s weathered many elections including one Presidential. He had planned a visit to an oil rig in LA today, cancelled due to the hurricane.
If he’d done the oil rig visit, he’d have had footage for his future campaign ad contrasting his concern about Americans’ gas price woes while his opponent was overseas grandstanding to foreigners.
That’s called rope-a-dope.
highly
competentcriminal organization in terms of strategy, tactics and execution?NO.
How on earth can a week long trip ( or so…) give one experience on foreign policy????
That is insane.
I took a trip to Italy and France,
I guess now I can be the American Ambassador to either country!!!!! Oh boy!!!
Yes I CAN!
Ya think?
LMAO! yea sure why not?
Its like speed dialing! One touch and your connected.
OOOOOMMMMMMMMMM
Yes, and because you weren’t on the ballot for the Michigan primary, you should get at least 1 or 2 delegates.
Especially when he’s doing nothing but talking and no listening.
beebop, He has no listening skills. I am not being snarky. As a musician that is my professional opinion.
Part of why he stutters and makes statements like “Isreal for Isreal”… is because inside that brain of his, there is an inability to process auditory stimulus and retain it… This condition is further backed up by his inability to speak coherently without assistance.He can’t “hear” himself think.
BO is a visually keyed and can’t recall “lyrics”. Even if he has done a canned speech, he blows it.
The other major indication is if he is “put on the spot” he starts to raise his voice / yell when responding.
It’s sad that he has a learning disability and has not learned to deal with it properly.
Yet a brilliant woman like Hillary spent EIGHT YEARS in the WH and they dissed that experience like it measnt nothing. She traveled the world over and death with foreign dignitaries all the time, but according to MSNBC and other media whores, that meant nothing. But send Obambi to shake their hands and that makes him presidential material.
*meant *dealt
Popcorn and blogging don’t mix!
And when this news gets out it won’t help him — they had campaign posters out when Obama visited the Wailing Wall. http://therealbarackobama.wordpress.com/2008/07/24/klein-obama-campaign-plasters-posters-at-western-wall-advertises-presidential-candidates-website-official-slogan-at-judaisms-holiest-site/
This pisses me off. We paid for this trip, and it was not supposed to be about campaigning. We all knew (here) that it was, but I had no idea his campaign folks would be so blatant.
PUMA!
UG.
I am curious what the laws are in posting banners etc at the wailing wall.
Never mind the fact that it defies any common decency. More Rev Wright teachings as displayed by Obama.
I’m guessing no other dumbshit with half a brain would even consider putting up posters at a holy site, therefore no laws were necessary. But now thanks to barky…
Obama Supporters Becoming Stalkers and terrorists
Chynethia Gragg spotted the sticker — depicting someone urinating on the name “Obama” — Sugar Land police say, she stopped to express her disapproval, and that’s when things got ugly.
Gragg, 35, has been charged with making a terroristic threat after confronting the McKains, telling them the sticker was racist, police said.
Gragg declined to comment, and her attorney, Roy Smith, said he would have to review the police report and talk with his client before commenting.
Doug McKain declined to comment.
According to court documents, police officer H. Norris went to the couple’s house about 3 p.m. Tuesday to investigate a verbal disturbance.
Court documents said Gragg told Norris she saw the sticker on the back of a pickup and stopped in front of the McKain house. She told Norris she confronted McKain about the sticker, saying it was racist.
http://tinyurl.com/5c2ogf
Or how about Erick Erickson of Redstate, who had his all of his personal contact information, including his work phone number, posted at Daily Kos in the comments thread? Site moderators removed his information, but not before Erickson received a number of ominous phone calls and e-mail messages, including one from a writer who threatened to “rape my wife and unborn child.”