Palin Energizes the Ticket with a Strong ProLIfe Message

Sarah Palin has energiezed the Presidential Ticket With a Strong Pro-Life Stand.
Unfortunately Gilmore continues to trail badly with his Pro-Abortion stand for upto eight weeks.


Poll Finds Pro-Life VP Candidate Sarah Palin More Popular Than Barack Obama, Even McCain

Here is a article from Steven Ertelt at Lifenews.com

by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
September 5, 2008

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Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin has sparked such a revival of interest and support among the American people that a new poll finds the pro-life Alaska governor more popular than pro-abortion presidential candidate Barack Obama. She’s produced such excitement and has been so well-received, she’s more popular than John McCain as well.

While most Americans had not heard of her a week ago, more than 40 million people viewed her acceptance speech -- as many as saw the Obama coronation speech even though Palin’s was shown on fewer networks.A new Rasmussen Reports poll finds Palin is viewed favorably by 58% of American voters with just 37 percent taking an unfavorable view of the governor.

Looking at voters with the most intense views, 40 percent of the public has a very favorable view of Palin while a scant 18 percent have a very unfavorable view.Before her acceptance speech, Palin was viewed favorably by 52 percent and just one week ago, 67 percent had never heard of her.

Rasmussen’s analysis of the poll indicates, “The new data also shows significant increases in the number who say McCain made the right choice and the number who say Palin is ready to be President. Generally, John McCain’s choice of Palin earns slightly better reviews than Barack Obama’s choice of [pro-abortion senator] Joe Biden.”

“Perhaps most stunning is the fact that Palin’s favorable ratings are now a point higher than either man at the top of the Presidential tickets this year. As of Friday morning, Obama and McCain are each viewed favorably by 57% of voters. Biden is viewed favorably by 48%,” Rasmussen noted.

Palin does well because she has scored big with Republican voters and is viewed favorable by independents, too.

About 89 percent of Republicans view Palin favorably along with 59 percent of independents while 33 percent of Democrats have a favorable view of the Alaska governor.
Palin earns positive reviews from both women and men with 65 percent of men and 52 percent of women giving her a favorable rating.

Meanwhile, though Palin has come under fire from the media for her teenage daughter’s pregnancy and the decision to keep the baby rather than have an abortion,51 percent of the American public say the media is unfairly attacking Palin and the attacks may have had the effect of mobilizing support for her.

Rasmussen’s poll also indicates the Palin pick has improved Americans’ view of John McCain as 42 percent had a favorable rating of him last week and that has now jumped to 54 percent.

Among unaffiliated voters, favorable opinions of McCain have increased by eleven percentage points in a week -- from 54% before the Palin announcement to 65% today.

“Fifty-one percent (51%) of all voters now believe that McCain made the right choice when he picked Palin to be his running mate while 32% disagree. By way of comparison, on the night after Biden gave his acceptance speech, 47% said that Obama made the right choice,” Rasmussen indicated.

Eighty-one percent (81%) of Republicans say that McCain made the right choice while just 69% of Democrats said the same about Obama.

As We see McCain's standing in the polls helped dramatically_ McCain leads by a range of 2 to 10 percentage points. Jim Gilmore continues to trail his opponent Mark Warner. When you take a look at the recent Survey USA poll of this race you see Gilmore trailing by 21 points. More importantly when you look at the crosstabs you see that while Warner is getting the support of over 90% of the Pro-Abortion voters Gilmore is only getting 55% of the Pro-Life Voters and Warner is getting 40% of the Pro-LIfe Voters.

See link to Survey USA Poll

One has to wonder what would happen in this race if Gilmore had a strong ProLife position instead of supporting killing babies until the 8th week.

link here http://www.surveyusa.com/client/PollReport.aspx?g=6ca1688e-186e-4fe6-b3a3-80750285ee8b&c=77

Election Novena

A Prayer for our Nation as we Prepare to Elect our Leaders


For nine weeks, from September 1 to Election Day (November 4), Priests for Life calls upon believers to participate in the “Election Novena” by saying the following prayer each day:


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O God, we acknowledge you today as Lord,
Not only of individuals, but of nations and governments.

We thank you for the privilege
Of being able to organize ourselves politically
And of knowing that political loyalty
Does not have to mean disloyalty to you.

We thank you for your law,
Which our Founding Fathers acknowledged
And recognized as higher than any human law.

We thank you for the opportunity that this election year puts before us,
To exercise our solemn duty not only to vote,
But to influence countless others to vote,
And to vote correctly.

Lord, we pray that your people may be awakened.
Let them realize that while politics is not their salvation,
Their response to you requires that they be politically active.

Awaken your people to know that they are not called to be a sect fleeing the world
But rather a community of faith renewing the world.

Awaken them that the same hands lifted up to you in prayer
Are the hands that pull the lever in the voting booth;
That the same eyes that read your Word
Are the eyes that read the names on the ballot,
And that they do not cease to be Christians
When they enter the voting booth.

Awaken your people to a commitment to justice
To the sanctity of marriage and the family,
To the dignity of each individual human life,
And to the truth that human rights begin when human lives begin,
And not one moment later.

Lord, we rejoice today
That we are citizens of your kingdom.

May that make us all the more committed
To being faithful citizens on earth.

We ask this through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.