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That's really generous or really illegal

By SEDER
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UPDATE: Washington Post has more examples of oddly politically inactive but really, really, generous donors to St. McCain.

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Part of St. McCain's booty in the days after he decided to advocate for offshore drilling.. or more specifically, advocating for more leases of public land/waters to oil companies... oil companies like Hess for instance...

Alice Rocchio is an office manager at the New York headquarters of the Hess Corp., drives a 1993 Chevy Cavalier and lives in an apartment in Queens, N.Y., with her husband, Pasquale, an Amtrak foreman.

Despite what appears to be a middle-class lifestyle, the couple has written $61,600 in checks to John McCain's presidential campaign and the Republican National Committee, most of it within days of McCain's decision to endorse offshore oil drilling.

It's ironic, of course, that McCain wants to deep six Amtrak. Pasquale sure is generous, imagine that, contibuting that much money to a guy who wants to eliminate your job. I bet 60 grand buys a lot of'93 chevy cavaliers. To be fair, it may have low mileage..

Now this is not ironic, I think they call this, "quite a coincidence":

The donations, first traced by Campaign Money Watch last week, were part of $1.2 million in oil industry contributions to McCain's Victory '08 Committee, 73 percent coming after McCain reversed his long-held opposition to offshore oil drilling. The non-partisan watchdog group said oil executives and their spouses from Colorado, Mississippi, Louisiana, California, Indiana, New Jersey and Florida also donated.

I'm guessing this contribution will be returned soon...

Latest Polls

In order of past performance:

Rasmussen:

Daily Presidential Tracking Poll: The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Tuesday shows the race for the White House is tied once again-- Barack Obama and John McCain each attract 44% of the vote. However, when "leaners" are included, it’s McCain 47% and Obama 46%.

Voters’ Trust for McCain on Key Issues Growing: John McCain is now trusted more than Barack Obama on nine out of 14 electoral issues tracked by Rasmussen Reports. The latest national telephone surveys find that McCain has the biggest advantage on the war in Iraq, by a 51% to 39% margin. Perhaps the most interesting finding of these polls is that McCain has expanded his leads on nearly every issue he had previously had the advantage on, while Obama’s leads have diminished over the past two weeks...

Gallup:

Gallup Daily: Obama Holds 4-Point AdvantageRegistered voters prefer Obama to McCain by 47% to 43%

Zogby:

ATV/Zogby Poll Toss-Up! McCain 42%, Obama 41% as Undecided Voters Increase

Obama loses support among his strongest demographic groups

UTICA, New York – A national Associated TV/Zogby International telephone poll of 1,011 likely voters conducted July 31-Aug. 1 finds Republican Sen. John McCain taking a razor-thin 42%-41% lead over Democrat Sen. Barack Obama in the race for the U.S. presidency.

The margin between the candidates is statistically insignificant, but demonstrates a notable turn-around from the Reuters/Zogby poll of July 7-9 that showed Obama ahead, 46%-36% in a four-way match-up that included Libertarian candidate Bob Barr of Georgia and liberal independent candidate Ralph Nader. McCain made significant gains at Obama’s expense among some of what had been Obama’s strongest demographic groups. For example:...

Conclusion: Despite his overseas photo op, in which he tried to look "presidential," the boy blunder, Obamalamadingdong, appears to be weakening, while McCain is strengthening.

By SheddAugust 6, 2008 - 2:31am