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Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano came to Madison Wednesday in support of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama to encourage volunteers at Wisconsin-based campaign offices to continue to phone bank, canvass and encourage voters to show up at the polls.
“Wisconsin is a battleground state, and we have got to get the vote out,” Napolitano said.
Napolitano emphasized the differences between Obama and Republican John McCain, who is also from Arizona, saying their economic policies differ greatly, with McCain giving tax cuts to the wealthy while Obama focuses more on the middle class.
“With Barack, you’ve got a very focused and steady economic policy with the middle class and working families at its center,” Napolitano said. “He’s really thinking about what we need to do to stimulate jobs, grow jobs and keep jobs to get this economy moving again.”
She said when there was a bill up for vote to expand the State Children’s Health Insurance Program in Arizona, McCain voted against it, while Obama promotes extending and expanding children’s healthcare.
Although a win in Arizona — McCain’s home state — may be a stretch for Obama, Wisconsin is an important battleground state and will be a key state for Obama to win, Napolitano said.
Napolitano will be traveling across the state to host canvass and phone bank kickoffs and Vote for Change events in Stevens Point, Appleton, West Bend and Oak Creek.
According to Mark Bednar, co-chair of Students for McCain, McCain has always been a staunch advocate for the middle class.
“He believes in steady and fair progress through the working class of America, and he has accomplished this through allowing freedom of choice and allowing businesses to compete around the world in a free trade environment,” Bednar said.
According to Bednar, the fact that the governor of Arizona came to Wisconsin in support of Obama is of little importance to the McCain campaign. He said most politicians will support the presidential candidate of their party, and because Napolitano is a Democrat, it comes as no surprise to Bednar that she supports Obama.
“It’s interesting that she came here to show her support (for Obama), but there are four secretaries of state that have endorsed McCain, and over 200 generals and admirals have endorsed him as well,” Bednar said. “These sorts of prominent and political figures have much importance.”
As to whether Obama has a chance to win Arizona, Napolitano said it is a possibility given McCain has a 45 to 38 percent lead over Obama. Still, she said it would be a difficult win. Bednar said the McCain campaign believes the Republican will win Arizona in a landslide.
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Mr. Obama and the DemocRATS are proposing today to revoke the tax deferred status of 401K personal retirement accounts for all Americans. Why? To make them taxable. The money your parents saved for retirement and to pass on to their children when they die is going to be raided by Barrack Obama and the tax-and-spend democRATS.
You didn’t speak out against the way the Obama hit squad destroyed Joe the Plumber. That poor guy just asked The Messiah a simple question “Are you going to raise my taxes?”. The Obama goons worked him over real good. Got him fired from his job. Ordered his Union to not give him any support. Made sure the national media was camped on his front lawn. Did they also threaten to break his legs, if he didn’t shut up? One can only wonder….
You didn’t speak out against that kind of abuse of power. Many of you applauded, not realizing it could just as easily be you! Well, now the Obama mob is coming for your inheritance and your parents retirement funds. Welcome to the Brave New World of extreme leftist politics!
Hope….. Change…..
“most politicians will support the presidential candidate of their party”
“but there are four secretaries of state that have endorsed McCain”
Have any of them broken with their political party? Nope
O wait, how about Colin Powell, a Republican who endorsed Obama…
Response to 10/23 9:34am Joe the plumber (AKA Joe the Republican’t) put himself in the spotlight by asking a question that he thought would cause Obama to trip up. It seems he did not put much thought into the question or the situation in which he was asking it. The answer given was accurate and fair. As it turns out, EVERYTHING Joe said about himself was a lie. None of this would have been discovered had McCain NOT brought him up during the last debate. But only a fool lies about himself in front of national media cameras, and only an idiot invokes the fools name and holds him up to a spotlight. Do not feel sorry for Joe, as he dug his own hole. Don’t blame Obama because it was McCain who started filling in the hole after Joe fell in. I am sure Joe’s employer and union acted in their own best interests because Joe is a fraud and does not hold the licenses necessary to work as a plumber.