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Pumas,

Take your witch Hillary and go home. We have won without you.

Palin 2012

GO JOHN/SARA 08

HILLARY 012 IF.. OTHERWISE, PALIN012

OBAMA 20024 – JUST FOR HIM TO HAVE EXPERIENCE

I cannot believe the things I am hearing on TV from these campaigns. Our service men our dying in Iraq & Afghanistan, people are loosing their homes and their jobs, companies are being bailed out and the talk is about lipstick on pigs! How pathetic! I was a McCain supporter, but not anymore. In Senator Obama I now see dignity,sincerity, and I see a man who should be President. He is trying desperately to stay on talk of issues, but the McCain camp keeps coming up with idiotic accusations that take the focus off the issues. They are doing this on purpose because they have NO ANSWERS to the issues. For God's sake Americans wake up and force them all to discuss the issues that effect us on a daily basis and that will affect our country. This is too important for nonesense.

I vote the way Oprah does!

Instead of applauding Sen. McCain for turning his campaign around and finally being in a tie or slightly leading Obama, shouldn't the media and voters look at what cost he has done this? He has run one of the most negative, demeaning, "Rove" campaigns in recent history even though he initially said he wanted to run an "honourable" campaign. He broke that promise too. The media has supported him gladly by posting his attention-getting negative ads (The One, Celebrity, Lipstick on a Pig, etc.) and giving him free air time. They are actually helping to "swift boat" Obama. So much for democracy. Do you wonder why everyone around the world has a curiosity about your concept of real "democracy"? People should be able to run and win on issues and honourable campaigns. Obama has had to go a bit negative just ot confront so many smears. How sad for your election system. Right now McCain can only get crowds and attention when an unknown, Gov. Palin, is with him. Doesn't that tell you something about the man in the top spot?

Those needles plummeting towards zero are Olbermann's and Rachel MadCow's ratings......

Momar Kadafy is the latest world leader hoping that Nobama wins the election along with China and Russia.

Just another reason NOT to vote for Nobama.

If the world wants him so bad then Nobama should leave and go rule the rest of the world.

AMERICA NEEDS TO BE INVOLVED IN ANOTHER WAR. WAR'S MAKE A FEW PEOPLE RICH. THE RICH PEOPLE IN AMERICA ARE THE ONE PERCENT WHO CONTROL FORTY PERCENT OF THE WEALTH. JOHN MCCAIN IS A MEMBER OF THAT ONE PERCENT CLUB. ELECT SENATOR MCCAIN FOR PRESIDENT,,,,,,,MORE THAN LIKELY,,,,,THE COUNTRY WILL RETURN TO HAVING A DRAFT FOR THE MILITARY,,,,,,AMERICA IS RUNNING OUT OF YOUNG PEOPLE IN THE MILITARY. OUR NEXT WAR'S WILL PROBABLY BE FOUGHT USING THE """'SALVATION ARMY"""' THE WHITE HOUSE HAS A KNOT-HEAD IN IT AT THE PRESENT TIME. WHY NOT REPLACE IT WITH A "'HOT-HEAD"' LIKE JOHN MCCAIN

Phony outrage? you mean like the time Obama camp got outraged over the 'fairy tale' comment from Bill or when they got outraged over HIllary saying that Lyndon Johnson should get some credit for the civil rights bill or when they got outraged over what Geraldine Farraro said about Obama's racial historical factor? Where was Obama to give the benefit of the doubt then? and now, he wants voters to give him the benefit of the doubt over calling a first viable woman vp as a pig with lipstick?

Give me a break! Obama must think all voters are stupid!

It is this simple...

News organizations make their money by providing info-tainment.
I have not heard a single – not one – pointed question or any investigative journalism yet in this race.

So take that away. And learn from 20 yrs of history...

Dems - balanced budget, 10 billion surplus during Clinton admin
Repub – record deficit, in record time 10 trillion and counting in debt.

Dems - US well respected in the world, many allies.
Repub - US lying to the world, invading and occupying a sovereign country. The world has no respect for the Repubs, and they will not stand by them in the case of a real crisis.

And if that alone is not enough...

Truths and Lies...

Repub campaign...

Obama will raise your taxes – Lie (only small increase for those over 200k)

Obama wants sex ed taught in Kindergarden – Lie (basic safety)

We are about change – Lie (90% voted with current admin)

We are progressive about green energy and independence – Lie (on record votes against wind, bio fuel)

I know how to win wars – Lie (was a bomber pilot and POW not even close to being in charge of anything).

So please, unless you get your facts, stop being distracted by the shiny objects. You were fooled twice, and are watching your country go down in flames (insert tasteless joke here).

Just vote properly, no one needs to know, this is between you and your country.

Peace.

HYPOCRITE! HYPOCRITE1 HYPOCRITE!

McCain criticized Wasilla earmarks in 2001

McCain criticized about $3 million in Wasilla earmarks in 2001 statement

Palin already faces criticism for initial support for "bridge to nowhere"

Palin forced to work within the system to obtain "critical funding," campaign says

Records show Palin sought about $450 million in earmarks in first 2 years in office

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (CNN) - Republican presidential candidate John McCain criticized two of his future running mate's hometown projects in broadsides in 2001 against congressional "pork-barrel" spending, records from the Arizona senator's office show.

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin campaigns in Lee's Summit, Missouri, with Sen. John McCain Monday.

McCain and running mate Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin have criticized such spending as a central part of their campaign for the White House. McCain has made pork-busting a centerpiece of his maverick pitch for years.

But when Palin served as mayor of her hometown of Wasilla, outside Anchorage, she obtained about $27 million in federal "earmarks" during her last four years in office, according to the watchdog group Taxpayers for Common Sense.

In a 2001 statement opposing a transportation spending bill McCain singled out for criticism about $3 million worth of those projects. McCain's list of "objectionable" spending included a $2.5 million road project for the town that then had a population of 5,500, as well as a $450,000 appropriation for an agricultural processing plant there.

McCain's campaign responded Wednesday by saying the record on pork-barrel spending "is one we are eager to discuss." Watch McCain rail against earmarks »

"As mayor of Wasilla, Gov. Palin was forced to work within the current system to obtain critical funding for a growing city," the campaign said in a statement. By comparison, it said, Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama "has consciously attempted to manipulate the system by requesting nearly $1 million every working day he has been in the Senate."

Palin already has been facing questions about her stump-speech claim to have said " 'Thanks, but no thanks' for that bridge to nowhere up in Alaska." Palin originally supported construction of the infamous bridge from Ketchikan to its airport on sparsely populated Gravina Island, but canceled work on the span in 2007 after the price tag increased from about $200 million to nearly $400 million and it became a symbol of congressional excess.

*****McCain earmark claims examined
*****Obama accuses Republicans of 'swift boat politics'
*****Palin backed 'bridge to nowhere,' then opposed it

The governor hasn't faced reporters since August 29, when McCain tapped her as his running mate. But her lieutenant governor, Sean Parnell, said Palin has reversed her support for earmarked spending projects because "I think she saw what they were."

"As you're in office longer, you see the cumulative effect from Wasilla to Pensacola, and you see the corruption that can come from those," Parnell said, referring to earmarks.

Parnell is now locked in a still-unresolved GOP primary with "Bridge to Nowhere" advocate Don Young, the state's sole congressman for more than 30 years. Palin backed his challenge to Young in the Republican contest.

But longtime Alaska journalist and former Palin staffer Larry Persily said the governor "is telling only half the story, as far as the earmarks."

"She was hungry for funding from the federal government that could help her community," Persily said.

Palin not only sought money from Alaska's congressional delegation, but she hired the former chief of staff to veteran Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens - now under indictment in a wide-ranging corruption probe - for help. The result was that Wasilla won $600,000 for a new bus facility, $1.75 million to upgrade its dispatch center and $2.4 million to improve water and sewer facilities.

"We did well," Palin scrawled in the margins of a City Council memo on federal funds from 1999.

Since becoming governor, she has cut the amount of money her vast, oil-rich state asks for from the federal government. But for the 2008 budget year, Alaska had more earmark requests per capita than any other state - $500 for every resident.

Palin sought about $450 million in earmarks during her first two years in state office, according to federal records. They include nearly $8 million to improve a remote airport in the Aleutian Islands, a former Navy airfield that handles eight scheduled flights a month; $4 million to research sea crab stocks; and $2 million to research rockfish.

As a people, we have lost trust. It is lost in our leaders, our politics, our media, our teachers, our mentors, our protectors, and each other. We are a very divided nation and nothing will change until we all staet pushing in the same direction.

Labelling Sen. Obama with a slew of derogatory names is only a camouflage for your true sentiments. You'd rather lose your home, job, child to war and even a row of teeth than vote for Obama because his ethnicity does not suit the profile you envision for the White House.

Ha, we will win this without you pumas, no more kissing up to you hillary supporters. Palin is the new Hillary.

Palin 2012

McCain = The Draft being reinstituted

Dear Senator Obama:

You chose......poorly.

Hillary 2012

Stay focused Obama. The GOP is trying to win a popularity contest and not an election.

Neither side will focus on the issues. McCain will paint himself a Maverick and throw Obama's reliability into question, putting Obama on the defensive, while Obama will try and connect McCain to Bush's policies.

to: Dr Emma Norton

I know it's a no-brainer, but it's all about ABORTION. I'm a Christian and my views align with Palin, except for a few variations. Overall, I just dont get it. They are very religious, yet, they dotn follow the ways of God. Jesus supports helping the poor and the needy, but their agenda is the total opposite of it.

God expects that the RICH do their parts and contribute to taxes and to society. If they align with God's viewpoint, the RICH should want to contribute to the welfare of America.

Palin did not support fundings for special needs kids, then how will she ever want to help America?

Guess what people....Bush isn't running this time!

A young Jimmy Carter/Louis Farrakhan prototype IS....

Hey pumas,

Take your lipstick on a pig Hillary and go home. We can win this election without you. You were used but now you are no longer needed. We have Palin. So, go bake me some cookies.

Palin 2012

It's nice to know that for all the accusations that the GOP practices 'polarization' in politics that Democrats have focused ONLY on the 'real issues' affecting the country.

Like whether Sarah Palin was for or against the Bridge to Nowhere. Or whether she wanted to ban books that didn't even exist. Or whether her child is really hers. Nice of Democrats to focus on such issues of earth-shattering significance and whine about how Republicans aren't.

Polls now mean nothing. It will only matter at the ballot box.

Here are four quotes from history that I think best represent the tactics and philosophy of the McCain campaign:

"Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it."

"All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach."

"How fortunate for leaders that men do not think."

"It is not truth that matters, but victory."

McCain is avoiding the issues, making up lies to distract the American people from the real problems, and trying to make himself an agent of change when it's clear that it is all just talk and hypocrisy. So who said the quotes above? One of histories most despicable and evil leaders but one that managed to fool people effectively, Adolf Hitler.

I love my country and have been following politics here closely for 40 years. It is because of this that I know it will be a historic mistake if McCain and Palin are elected. Nothing will change for the better if they are elected, and they will prove once again that lying to and misleading Americas is the way to win an election.

Please post this CNN.

Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!
What the heck has gone so horrifically WRONG here?!?! I thought this was all in the bag and I could just continue with disguise my snide remarkfest as a legitimate news show!!!!

WWRMD?
What Would Rachel Madcow Do?!?!?!

Realistically, we all hopefully know this election should not be voted along party lines. I am a Republican and the last 8 years have been dreaded for my business and my family. Do I want 4 more years of this suffering? Heck no…This election is a NO brainier. You either choose the well educated leader Obama or the same politics of a old man with no ambition to change our direction or end the Iraq envision which has destroyed our US economy. Basically the way I see it, you are either a racist or just plain ignorant if you do not see the light as yet. Signed by a white (realist) American Man from PHX, AZ

Max, if Obama was a white man with the same message he has now, this race would be over. Jessie Jackson and Al Sharpton has nothing on Obama.

We as black Americans are not looking for a president that will cater to one race; we are looking for a president to include all races. Obama has earned the support from people of all races and I believe he will be a president of the american people no matter where they are from or what race they were born in.

Obama did not make the political choice by choosing Hillary, he made the best choice in choosing the best person he felt is best able to help him work for america. This is not about making history. There is a true call for the "urgency of now," that is some times placed in a man's heart to make certain decisions. The sad condition of this country brought on by the Bush administration in thename of war on terror. That is why Obama decided to run for president of the United States at this time.

People need to forget about race and vote for their future. Forget about gender and vote for what is best for all people. At this time, it is Obama/Biden.

the race wouldn't be so tight if americans - mostly middle america - paid attention to the issues and not the republican sideshow (pigs, palin, lipstick, lies, lies, lies).

6000 dead in 911, very sad
4000 dead American soldiers in Iraq, very sad
600,000 dead Iraqis since Invasion, very sad
1500 dead in Georgian surprise attack on Ossetia, very sad
800 Coalition deaths in Afghanistan, very sad
3,700 and probably closer to 5,000 Afghan civilians killed by the end of 2002 as a result of U.S. bombing, very sad
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very sad

How can this race be close? What do Americans value?

Constitutional Rights? Fear has replaced sanity. Oh, they're willing to defend the 2nd Amendment, which is great but how about the 4th? Government intrusion on our private financial records, personal communications, and now there is talk of "preemptive detention?" No need for probable cause, due process, judicial review?

What is wrong with Americans that they are willing to discard the liberty so many have died to protect? And how can you defend intruding into our most personal decisions?

Borrow and spend economic policies under Reagan, Bush #41, and Bush #43 have all resulted in the same outcome: huge deficits!

Those 3 all campaigned, just like McCain, on the promise to reduce the size of government. The only president that actually did reduce the size of government recently was Bill Clinton.

Bush Administration officials have actually said that outsourcing your jobs is good for America! Do you seriously support that? John McCain does.

How many of you are one or two paychecks away from being homeless? If your company announces a closing tomorrow and your health care is gone, it will only take one serious illness to bankrupt you. And will your 401k be there for retirement or has the company raided it?

What are your priorities?

Hey isnt McLames claim that he knows how to catch Osama Bin Laden kind of treason-ish if he doesnt share his BRAINSTORM (HMMM more like a light drizzle) with the appropriate authorities? His claim that hes 'Won wars" is very puzzling. What war is he given credit for winning? I must have slept through that one.

The sad thing is that people on both sides will argue that their candidate is better, instead of questioning why their candidate of choice is polling just as well as the other.

Could it be that neither of these two are the best choice for America right now?

You know, I actually feel sorry for you people. All this fuss and hating over politics. Politicians come and go. Ideology comes and goes and policies both failed and sucessful come and go. And guess what? The country survives, our institutions continue to function and we move on with our lives. No matter which ticket wins, the country will be fine. When you see me panicking, you can panic.

I for the life of me why any one considering voting for Mccain, I can undertstand the men, they want a chance to get in bed with Sarah, John will be first in line for that. I suppose the Mccain camp is busy preparing the questions for V P debate, you know they are buying the moderators off on this, cause they know Sarah doesnt have the knowledge to answer them. Look how the forum went out in California Mccain knew the questions thats why he ansered them so quick. So do you think this was actually fair, wake up american we do not need four more years of Bush, and a person in the white house who has commited adultry. All these religious people who are now for Mccain I guess the dont know the ten commandments very good. If it was a task of god for the Iraq war, hopefully it will be a task of god to let these two clowns lose the election. The lord works in mysterious ways.

It is time to wake up.

The economy is in distress
America´s image abroad is terrible
Security has two fronts: foreign relations and military expertise
Healthcare needs reform

The US cannot afford ANOTHER 4 years of lost time....

For America´s sake..... Obama and Biden....

Just look at the Obama Democrats responses here and ask yourself if this is the kind of 'Change' you want? If it is then you would probably like to live in Russia! Say 'NO!' to Obama and the Liberal Democrats!

I don't see how the people of Pennsylvania could even consider voting for Nobama after he talked about them being bitter Americans clinging to their religion and guns with antipathy towards others.

Of course Obama can bounce. He bounces all over the place like a little rubber ball. Remember he was going to fillibuster FISA then voted for it. He was for public financing then rejected it. He has a pretty good pattern of not doing what he says.

So with that track record little leftists how can any of you still trust him on anything? He may change his mind and INCREASE the troops in Iraq. He dont seem to care about what you little leftists have to say about anything.

As a former Republican turned non-partisan, I had a close eye on Obama and was initially quite impressed. Fortunately, I don't watch CNN, MSNBC, FOX, CBS, NBS, ABC. I prefer to use the internet and public records to research my candidates. Barack Obama is a sham, and I really hate saying that, because while I honor McCain's huge sacrifice during Vietnam, I don't want to see him as President.
Obama has ethical issues that are undeniable and a little "real" research onlne bares this out.
Hope and change...I heard that during the Carter Administration and those of us in our 40's and up remember how that turned out. While I don't see eye to eye on things with Carter, he is at least, an honorable man. If this country thinks it is screwed now, you wait until we have had four years of Obama. He is nothing new. He is dirty, back door politics at its worst and he is and his wife are obviously racist. To think that he is just hearing about his preacher's feeling toward the US is just a sham. His lack of follow through with programs he was involved with is undeniable. I would love to see a black President, just not this black President. Yes, I said black. Black people in Canada do not refer to themselves as African-Canadian. President, just not this one. Guess I am stuck with Paul, Nader or Barr.
Everyone in this country should have to read Ralph Waldo Emerson's, " Self-Reliance". We might just re-learn something.

How come we are not seeing Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton on the campaign trail with Obama?

Obama '08!

Although I do completely agree with Paul and Nader that the two party system needs to be elmininated. We are no longer living ina true democracy when 3rd party candidates are not allowed to debate with the major two. It is a real shame and goes against everything America SHOULD stand for.

I don't think the republicans understood the popularity of their vp pick. The 18 million cracks reference by Palin was an obvious plead to the Hillary vote. The polls are clear though, women are equally divided, and men are plus 15 for Palin. The question then becomes not who do you want to have a beer with, but which candidate do you want to have sex with?

If they only knew. I think you can look forward to a woman being on the republican ticket from now on. The question becomes now that the McCain campaign knows about this new base from which to draw votes, will they change their campaign to cater to it to try to get even more horny men to switch their political affiliation? That is to say can they get more men to swing to the right without getting a backlash from jealous wives?

Wow, interesting how the candidates can stop the ridiculous sword fighting for a few hours to remember those who were lost 7 years ago, but that you psycho prozac needing posters are incapable of doing the same.

God bless those who were lost and God bless out troops.

I just don't believe the polls. I just don't see anyone excited about John McCain. Palin is enjoying her introduction to the public. But eventually she is going to get exposed. Obama just needs to keep doing what he's doing. Call out stupidity, and stick to the issues. The press will not report on the issues, but the people in the rallies and town halls care about education, the economy, and healthcare. Obama barely mentioned Palin and now it's "Obama shouldn't focus on Palin" Never mind the fact that he gave a brilliant common sense speech on education. But who cares about education when McCain is making up fake controversies.

This is good news and democrats should stay focused and not be distracted by the background noise from McCain and his Propaganda Ministry!
The ratio of the voters that are not polled because they only have cellularphones is 6 for Obama and 1 for McCain! There is absolutely no cause for alarm.
McCain and his team will be exposed for the phonies they are because people are not stupid and will never be fooled again.
If defrauding the state with per diems is a true sign of leadership and Reformer, then robbery of a bank must be encouraged by the GOP as the best way of initiating people into capitalism!
DoesGOPs have any moral standards left?
Enough with all those self deceit! America is bleeding to death due Bush's policies! McCain will even be worst and it will be cheap for foreign countries to buy major corporations and infrastructures!

Of course you're sick of polls. They don't say what you want them to say.

American politicians continue to think issues trump personalities and "compelling life stories." Why they believe this is beyond me.

Doesn't anyone remember Ronald Reagan? Or John Kennedy? Or Bill Clinton? Or what happened to Mondale? He wasn't TV -friendly.

In his painful candor, Biden got it right.

Clinton got it right, too. She said Obama can't win. He'll fold under relentless and unfair Republican attacks. That's what we have here.

When Obama got to choose, he rejected Clinton.

Who cares whether he "likes" her, it was Hillary or losing.

How dumb can you get?

When you brush aside all the crap, Obama will win. McCain is running a nasty and ugly campaign. That's the only way Repubs think they can win. Playing nasty and dirty. How do you think McCain will run this country? Nasty and dirty! It's a new day. Obama is our next POTUS! You know it and I know it.

Does any one else notice that most pro Obama posts talk about something substantive while most pro McCain posts say something about Obama being a loser or some other opinion based claim. I think this is representative of the parties. The repubs have nothing real to talk about so they fire both barrels at peoples emotions where most independents and democrats have been paying attention to the issues and have real stances.

Obama-the first what?

Obama Suporter

Check Gallop....
McCain up 48-43... those 243 aren't statistic's anymore...

Funny how the same Obama supporters (including the media) that criticized McCain's selection of Sarah, as an act of desperation, that this proves that John has no leadership, he's too old and out of touch, he didnt ever vet Sarah, etc ... these same folks are now stating that this was the GOP plan all along, that this is a well thought out strategy to defeat Obama and its working ...

So which one is it folks ... do you all think McCain doesn't have a plan ... not that it matters what you people say anymore ... America has woken up finally ...

McCain/Palin 08

GOOD Obama is going to lose...Long live the queen! Hillary 2012. I can't want for the dems to learn their lesson. THey deserve to loose for how they treated Hillary. Let Obama sink lower and my heart leaps!!

Obama will never ever win the presidency. He knows it now and so does the whole of America.

The DNC, super delegates, Pelosi, Dean, Reid et al. selected and did not support the candidate Americans deserved, Hillary R. Clinton.

Obama is like a tabla rasa and his handlers are projecting an image upon him for Americans to visualize. Fill in the missing elements is their mantra.
They handled him like a product to be sold to Americans, but just like most products they are always lacking in substance, and realism.

Marie Ontario –

You said , "... I would remind you that the outside world won't keep supporting stupidity with the blood of their young men and women. If you want a war monger as your president then you better be prepared for the draft as it is the only way you will be able to continue on with your holy wars.

You would be wise to remember the "outside world" includes radical muslims who WILL "keep supporting the blood of their young men and women." WE did not start this "holy war" but we do have an obligation to our children to continue to protect this nation from future attacks. If Canada wants to wimp out that's their choice, but someone needs to stand firm.

I wonder who Gen. Patraeus will be voting for? Maybe moveon.org will get its on room in the White House....

OHIO is OBAMA COUNTRY!
GOHIO!!!

I think the polls are flawed. They use land lines to call people and ask questions. In our house we have 5 cellphones that are answered and a land line that no one ever answers. If the primaries were any indication of how voter turnout is going to be, you will see how far off your polls are. If you aren't using the internet and reaching through cell phones for polling in 2008 I can't imagine how they can possibly be accurate.

This campaign has a long way to go yet. The truth about Palin will surface sooner or later. There has to be a reason that the Reps are keeping her hidden. It's because they are scared to death that she will stick her foot straight into her mouth once they let her out on her own. Personally, I'm looking quite forward to that day because I'm getting a little bored with the speech she keeps giving over and over again.

I'm not even a little bit nervous.........Obama will be our next president as I have faith that I don't live in a nation of complete idiots! NO MORE REPULICANS!!!!

Why hasn't Palin been allowed to talk to the press or anybody for that matter yet? What are the Repubs afraid of? I cannot recall any other candidate in ANY election not talking to the press for this long. All we know is that she can deliver PREPARED zingers over and over and over. We know NOTHING about this person who could end up leading our country. Very Scary... Come on folks, wake up!

Let's talk ISSUES.... How about discussing McCain's voting record AGAINST WOMEN & CHILDREN....

McCain VOTES AGAINST WOMEN & CHILDREN EVERY CHANCE HE GETS...

* McCain voted AGAINST Equal Pay for Women

* McCain voted AGAINST Violence Against Women Act

* McCain voted AGAINST Title X Womens Health Care Services

* McCain voted AGAINST Children's Health Insurance Program-SCHIP

* McCain voted AGAINST aid to Children of Domestic Violence

* McCain voted AGAINST Emergency Funding for Victims of Hurricane Katrina

* McCain voted AGAINST Funding Law Enforcement

* McCain wants to bring back the DRAFT

* McCain voted AGAINST GI Bill

* McCain voted AGAINST Funding VA for Vets

* McCain voted AGAINST Funding Military Equipment Shortages in Iraq

* Palin continues to LIE about the bridge. Palin SUPPORTED the bridge, TOOK THE MONEY for the bridge, KEPT THE MONEY for the bridge and SPENT THE MONEY for the bridge.

* Palin AND her husband AND her children BILLED the taxpayers of Alaska, $16,000.00 so the Palin's could have Family Time.

* Palin REFUSES to answer questions from reporters. In fact, Palin REFUSES to answer reporter's questions on her plane... SUSPICIOUS?????!!!!!!

I wonder if FOX NEWS would like to discuss the above voting record & truths about McCain/Palin?

Obama would be way ahead if he had picked Hihllary for veep. She had over 18 million supporters, and now many of them are going for McCain.

Let's be real about this:

The only thing Obama has proven that he can change is his mind.

No just once but all the time. Where is he going to stand on the issues next?

The comments are now unreadable as it is too hard to separate them from the identifying info. You need to fix this or you will lose readership

WHY ISN'T THIS ON THE TICKER... This should be a topic w/a litle picture

FactCheck.org comments dated 09/10/2008:

“A McCain-Palin ad has FactCheck.org calling Obama's attacks on Palin "absolutely false" and "misleading." That's what we said, but it wasn't about Obama.
Our article criticized anonymous e-mail falsehoods and bogus claims about Palin posted around the Internet. We have no evidence that any of the claims we found to be false came from the Obama campaign.

The McCain-Palin ad also twists a quote from a Wall Street Journal columnist. He said the Obama camp had sent a team to Alaska to "dig into her record and background." The ad quotes the WSJ as saying the team was sent to "dig dirt."

With its latest ad, released Sept. 10, the McCain-Palin campaign has altered our message in a fashion we consider less than honest. The ad strives to convey the message that FactCheck.org said "completely false" attacks on Gov. Sarah Palin had come from Sen. Barack Obama. We said no such thing. We have yet to dispute any claim from the Obama campaign about Palin.”

-V

I can not believe how some Americans can be so stupid to go for the same policies that Bush had for the last eight years to vote for Mccain.

Polling now is pretty much meaningless. These "so-called" experts and pundits have done nothing but grabbed at straws this entire election cycle. They fail to grasp the fundamental issue in this country, the 500 lb gorilla in the room. When people walk into the voting booth and close the curtains, they will ask themselves: Can I vote for a black man? Hilary Clinton and John McCain both have used subtle attacks without saying what everyone is thinking. McCain is using every trick in the book to give that potential voter an "out" to vote for him.

I am not using the so-called "race card" here. Rather, through conversations with my friends and family I have learned that this, more or less, is the issue. Most Americans think that we are not on the right path. The economy is faltering, the government is in disarray, oil is up and wages are down. The Democrats should be winning and winning big...

But the question looms: "Can I vote for a black man?" My answer is YES! Go Obama!

One thing the polls don't include are COLLEGE STUDENTS, MILITARY... two big groups that support OBAMA.

I just want to know who they polled because my phone isn't ringing and a lot of NC people support OBAMA. But I will work w/ the folks in NC to turn this state blue.

McCain says he knows how to find Osama Bin Laden and will find him when elected. So I guess if we don't elect him he will keep this knowledge to himself. Better yet, why don't he tell Bush how to catch him right now and save all of our lives.

too anon... on your question of how it can be a close race? fear mongering, hate filled, racist, really, really ignorant replublicans who apparently want 4 more years of a dreadful economy, plummeting stock prices, subprime woes, rocketing gas prices, stagnating job growth, war-mongering machine, a devastating environment, no freedom in the country of the free, more talk about chasing (and not suceeding) because why would they catch osame (the public might really turn against the war, the worst world perception in decades... aparently these people like the state of affairs.....

How many times do we have to be hit over the head before we realize who's hitting us....ENOUGH! We're sick of McCain/Bush/Rove politics dividing the country and hoping thier side gets more than half... ENOUGH! Proof that McCain cares more about an election than his country. Country first my a$$.

FUNNY THINGS ABOUT ALL THESE POLLS:

They don't call cell phone numbers– it's true. Only home phone numbers.

WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? A much larger sample of older voters than younger ones.

Until they actually start taking representative samples : Especially in states like Florida where most young people in Miami, Tampa, Orlando, etc...use cells exclusively this is all just conjecture.

But the real question is how long can Sarah Palin act like the COWARD she is and not face a hostile room of...gasp! Mean reporters with PENS?!!! And dictaphones?!!! And questions?!!!!

If she's a pit bull, what is she SO AFRAID OF?

Before the VP's were picked I supported Obama but was thinking McCain would not be so bad either. Now I believe that Obama is the only chance this country has for positive change. If I hear another word about Sara Palin I think I'm gonna scream. Ever since she came around this campaign has digressed away from issues and to the stupid repulsive tactics of tit for tat junk that Republicans are famous for perpetuating.

NOT surprised......because these bloggersacting as Dems, who are really repubs getting PAID…McCain daughter Meghan's present for finishing at Columbia University was a $700,000 loft in a hip section of downtown Phoenix, whose only job at moment seems to be blogging on her father's behalf….PAID FOR BY CASH….More TRICK OF TRADE to FOOL the American VOTERS……

The choice is very clear for everyone across the world. It is either a butch of liars,war mongers full of selfish lobbyist or an articulate Democrat who has policies to make our counrty move on. If you want liars with NOTHING to offer,vote Mcain/Palin.If you want Policy and SUBSTANCE,vote Obama/Biden. Am Republican who loves his Country and enough is enough.

Quick! You guys better publish a few more pseudo news articles from names like matt daemon supporting your guy Obama (What does Matt Daemon know about anything... the idiot pretends for a living) and downplay anything McCain might be doing.. unless its negative of course... oh and dont forget to filter the heck out of what gets published here...

I'm nervous, but optimistic that Senator Obama will come out on top. When I look at the two candidates, I see a short-tempered bully and a thoughtful, level-headed statesman. After having a bully in office for the last eight years, we need a statesman to restore our image abroad and bring back some of the respectfulness we seem to have lost for one another here at home. God help us all.

I really don't get it.

Exactly what do McCain and Palin bring?

His only claim to fame is that he was a POW and voted for Bush policies 90% of the time.

Her claim to fame is that she is a pitbull with lipstick.

The only reason that I can figure out for her placement as VP on McCain's ticket is her chromosomes have no 'Y' in them. Her past and present are both a bit shady.

So far as I can figure out McCain is senile and out of touch with the "regular American",

Why does it seem that the only time these polls matter is when they show Obama leading?

They should-a picked H – i – l – l – a – r – y !

In response to anonymous:

Obama DID say $250,000 for a family of four. He has since reduced that number to $150,000 (again for a famly of four)

If you are SINGLE and make more than $75,000 you will et a tax increase.

He only mentions the $150,000, but doesn't explain that it specifically addresses a FAMILY OF FOUR!!!

Do your reseacrh. Don't just believe the man.

It's like his health care plan. He says it doesn't include illegals, but the number he uses in his plan (47 million) INCLUDES illegals.

This was written about in the NYTIMES Editorial page (the editors not a contributor).

Look it up!

BTW In this 9/11 world of ours, and on this anniversary day, I think Bush and McCain have made us more safe, but we are still not completely safe. We need strong leaders, not some weaklings in the high office. McCain will protect us and our country and our values. I am not sure that Obama will.

In fact I doubt that Obama has the strength to do so.

By the way lipstick wearers, why do you let Obama dis you? Why didn't Obama say "well put a suit and tie on the pig and he is still a pig?" But no, Obama had to once again "dis" the females. He could have used male adjectives, but he had to put the dig in against women. I am shocked.

He didn't pick Hillary and even Joe said, “Make no mistake about this, Hillary Clinton is as qualified or more qualified than I am to be vice president of the United States of America. Let’s get that straight,” Biden said testily. And Biden also said, "Obama is not ready to lead." Obama could have picked Hillary who Biden said was more qualified than he, but Obama dissed women again by picking a man who was not as qualified as a woman. That is almost unforgivable.

Obama called us mid westerners "bitter." Seems he is getting to be quite the elitist and "uppity" and likes to "dis" us, Americans. I am shocked.

So you have one candidate that is giving a woman a chance at the Office of Vice President and on the other hand you have a candidate dising women and mid westerners. You choose.

I choose McCain.

Yes, Obama is the real thing and the only hope for the America way of life to survive!!! McCain will privatize everything and the rich will get rich and we will become a third world country!!! Look what has happened to health care!!!! People are getting rich on death and disease!!! Obama is bringing out the big guns now and hopeful McCain will be shot to the moon where he belongs!!!!!
Obama/Biden for the salvation of the USA

It saddens me to see the hurtful comments on the blogs. Why are Americans so judgmental of each other? Why can't we approach this with an open mind? Why must we insist on referring to Obama as an "elitist" and Sarah as a "hick". They are both very different individuals, but both bring value to our culture and we should try to focus on the positive attributes each of the four public servants bring to this race.

We criticize the candidates for using personal attacks, yet it seems to be the first thing we do.

I am an Independent and the candidates will each have to earn my vote. I will not be swayed by the nasty personal attacks, but by their actions (character) and their policies.

Perhaps if more Americans took this approach, we would be in a better shape at home and abroad.

The following are quotes from this page alone.
Why are US Dems so hateful?
Aren't you all of the same country?

"No McPalin, no smears,"
"Mc Bush and his pawn of a VP,"
"Americans are not so stupid," ( to vote Republic)
"Americans are so shallow" (to vote republic)
"Most normal free thinking people" (are against republic)
"outside world won't keep supporting stupidity" (of the republicans)
"McSame's campaign is full of crooks and lobbysists. He's not going to change carp. And I can't stand the sound of Palin's voice! It's the whiniest and most annoying voice ever!"
"pow? more like a Pitiful Old Warmonger"
"please take off the Navy hat, it is worn by real men"
"

Obama is in good shape. The republicans rattled him a little bit but he faced this same situation when he was running against Hillary. I'm sure there are a LOT of democrats telling him to focus on McCain, not Palin....

It's a trick by the Republicans and they're using Palin to distract Obama. They're shielding her from the media and they're not allowing her to stick up for herself and defend herself and answer questions....how pathetic that she let them use her like this.

If she's so tough, then let the pit bull loose!

GEORGE MCCAIN/SARAH POWLENTY CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH September 11th, 2008 10:14 am ET

McCain /Palin = Gimmicks first/Country second!

"More Republican lies as outlined below from FactCheck.org."

I guess you are so short sighted that you cant post the lies coming from the democrats. Hypocrite.

People who elected Bush twice deserve McCaine and Paline. Enjoy.

McCain will win because many Americans don't care about issues, it's all presentation and who looks good and sounds good on TV. McCain will make them afraid to vote for Obama because they won't bother to research what he says but take all of his dramatic, scary ads as the truth.

mcclame and his V.Pig has yet to say what they would do for the people yet the people are flocking to them like...if two wrong don't make it right, i don't see how a third term would do any better. now i see why parist hilton and all the other air head celebrity get to be rich and famous; some of us have become addicted to BS. You believe lies, you think fiction are fact and fantasy have become reality. this election have become a personality contest instead of fixing the economy, bring back respect for americans, bring back properity and given everyone an equal chance. when you vote mclame and his V.Pig don't be suprise when he doesn't show up come xmas time like santa clause. mcclame is fiction, his words doesn't match his actions. 26 yrs in congress and now he wants to change, it's harder to straight up a tree when it's all grown up than when it's still small..........mclame and palin, PEOPLE don't believe the hype

What is most important at this stage of the campaign is not the results of individual polls but the trend of these polls. The trend is decidely in favor of McCain/Palin. The American people are catching on to Obama - all rhetoric and no substance. His decision to pick Biden over Hilliary was a major error - even Biden will admit to that. Evidently, Obama would rather slanderize and campaign against Palin when it is McCain who he is running against. That "lipstick" remark by Obama will cost he. Whether or not he directed it at Palin is irrelevant because his audience by their laughter knew what he was talking about and he certainly didn't say anything to the contrary. When McCain made a similar statement he was directing it at Hillary's health plan and not Hilliary. The pro-Obama media fails to point this out. Speaking of the media, perhaps CNN should let its audience know how many minutes have been spent praiising OBama and attempting to slanderize McCain/Palin coimpared to the time reporting the factual information relating to the McCain campaign. Even in panel discussions, the prejudice is so obvious using the same old bias tactics favoring one candidate's supporter over tthe other candidate's supporter. Fortunately, the American people can see through this bias and will give the McCain/Palin ticket the proper consideration.

I've just spent three months in various European and Asian countries working with an international consulting organisation, and returned home to Australia today. The US election is a major topic of discussion in many places at the moment.

I know that Americans like to believe that they are the most important country on earth, but you might like to know that the rest of world is laughing you - people can't believe that Americans would consider voting for an old war veteran who has supported 90% of Bush's policies and a hockey mom from Alaska. Supporters of Palin and McCain are seen as racist, poorly educated and ignorant. Prove us wrong in November and you might gain some of the international respect that you have lost over the last 8 years.

As a Michigander born and raised it saddens me to see many of my friends and relatives lose their jobs, healthcare and prospects for a better life. The most dumbfounding thing is their misfortune has all come about under the current Bush administration and they are still leaning towards MCCain. I wish they would wake up and smell the coffee. I am for Obama even though my taxes will most likely go up. I am for Obama because of the least fortunate who need us to stand up for them because they cannot seem to stand up for themself. I'm for Obama because he does not think $5,000,000.00 in yearly income is MIddleAmerica and he knows how many houses he owns(1 like me).

Gore should have won in a landslide in 2000, Kerry should have won hands down in 2004 and Obama should win in 2008 except the NRA is against him as well as the other two. I cannot support a canditate that is not approved by the NRA.

Did you catch that Palin used a teleprompter and gave the same speech last night when she returned to Alaska and met her family, friends, and community? I was utterly amazed - first that she couldn't give a sincere, from the heart speech in her own state, and second, doesn't she have it memorized by now? Why the teleprompter? She really needs some new material.... this is really getting old.

Obama has nothing in his record to show he is the real thing. John McCain has made the tough decisions all his life to show he is THE REAL THING. He has put the country first every time.

We are going to win this year. Bill Clinton is going out on the road. Obama is the reasl thing

You just gotta love these liberals are their silly chants. Take Paschal for example:

NOWAY, NOHOW, NO MCCAIN, NO MCPALIN, NO MORE FOUR YEARS, NO MORE FEARS, NO MORE WARS, NO MORE LIES, NO MORE SMEARS, NO MORE DISTORTIONS, NO MORE KATHRINA, NO MORE POVERTY, NO MORE NONHEALTHCARE, NO MORE VETO THREAT, NO MORE NONEDUCATION, NO MORE TAX CUTS FOR MILLIONAIRS…

I have to wonder if they wrote it themselves to use at one of their little protests where about 3 people show up and chant. Hilarious. The left has no imagination whatsoever.

Issues Issues Issues!!!!! I can't wait for the debates. Especially the VP debate.

But first I want to see some of the press interviewing Palin. They won't fall for the hockey mom answers. Hopefully they will demand answers with substance.

Obama will become the next President!!!! LOL! Obama in 2009!!!

Obama is already winning even after the best week the republican will ever see (it is over) media don't want to admit they will loose interest in watching
243 + 55 = 298

NV 5 + CO 9 + OH 20 + MI 17 + NH 4 = 55

Just do the math we are going back to Hillary VS Obama and we kept saying Just do the MATH It is again all over
OBAMA is the winner

Things will gel once people actually walk into the booths.

When Americans consider who is willing to give the ultimate sacrifice and commitment–to the nation–without reagard to political correctness–or future aspirations. And which candidate actually demonstrates that quality–and this will be evidenced by the primaries, the election period, and the debates.

McCain will be the man.

Who needs a has been POW with untreated PTSD and a Holy Roller in the White House? The repubs, that's who! McSame and AhPaulin are the best that the repubs can offer, a very sad state of affairs to say the least; However, these two can be cotrolled by Karl Rove. Repubs, you get what you deserve. We, the American people, derserve better and will have it when Obama/Biden are elected.

OLD NEWS!!

Just for today,

Let us pause, put all of our partisan issues aside, and remember our loved ones lost on 911.

America United.

Do these polls actually take into account cell phone users? If not then it is a skewed system.

For the people attacking Sarah Palin and her family, remember:

Obama was born to an unwed 18 year old mother.

Also, I would imagine all these people on these liberal blogs have plenty of skeltons in their family histories and shouldn't be throwing stones.

PALIN:
Knowing what we know now, if you could go back in time would you vote for or against the Iraq war and why?

-V

This is good news for the democratic camp. Competive in Ohio is key.

We have multiple ways to 270, McSame/Pillin' only has one.

I believe the next few weeks will show a slow but steady pull from Sen. Obama. I really hope so, for the future of my country.

A McCain/Palin administration would be an utter disaster. Did the current Republican Administration incorporate those Red State 'values' of 2000-04 for the past 8 years?

Then again...we have undoubtedly the most criminal and ineffective presidential administration in our nation's history, a destroyed economy while being embroiled in a costly illegal unnecessary war.

Good Work GOP.

Ken in Dallas September 11th, 2008 10:10 am ET
Why does the press let McCain get away with wasting so much time ranting about 1% of the Federal budget?
______________________________________________
Not only are they an insignificant portion of overall federal spending, but not all earmarks are the bridge to nowhere or a $100,000 study of the mating habits of the darter snail.

Earmarks are also your local library, improvements to your hospital, retrofiting bridges so they don't collapse, earthquake safety, flood control, senior citizens centers, and park improvements – many things we benefit from and enjoy without ever thinking about how they got funded.

We need to trim WASTFUL government spending, not just indiscriminately axe programs that are sensible and make peoples' lives better.

Obama in the past has shown us he can bounce back when faced with any difficulty. He will bounce ahead again.

Obama built a foundation of solid, steady, support by campaigning for many months. Obama through time earned the support, confidence and trust of many Americans. Obama worked hard and built the trust of millions over a long campaign. His crowds grew steadily and large.

Compare that to McCain, who suddenly jumped in the polls and who suddenly grew larger crowds. This is telling in that McCain grew because he threw out suddenly his bait, Sarah Palin and many Americans bit into it. It was quick and sudden. The crowds grew by those Americans who bit suddenly into a newcomer Palin, an unknown to most, and they then came out for McCain. McCain did not win support by building his campaign by a sound foundation process like Obama.

Obama is the real thing.

Never underestimate the overwhelming stupidity of Democrats.

These moralistic, self congratulatory dullards had to choose between pc and winning. Of course they are entirely predictable, year after year.

All McCain needed was a shot in the arm from Sarah, demonstrating that the idiot Obama only compounded the Democrats' death wish by failing to choose Hillary Clinton as his running mate.

Hubris – the perennial undoing of Democrats. I wish they would surprise me once in a while.

This race is essentially over, thanks to the DNC.

This is only the beginning of the race. Things will change often up until Nov. when we finally vote. One big question that we as voters need answered is – Will the real Sarah Palin please stand up? We have not been allowed to see her interview yet, so even tonight things will begin to change after we see her first interview. If she convinces us that she is ready on day two to be President of the United States, then things may improve for McCain. If not, it will swing in Obama's favor.

I'm so tired of Sarah Palin, she's not the one running for president...McCain is....and she makes herself out to be really tough..BS...her bark is bigger than her bite...i've heard about her little ties to a certain white supremacist group....wait until that explodes!

Over the next 50 days, look where McCain spends his money and time. In all likelihood if McCain spends more time on offense in solid Obama states or the "swing states", then that means that Obama is weaker than what the media wants to portray.

The team who is on offense most of the game, usually always wins.

All McCain has to do is focus on the states where Hillary won which will spell disaster for Obama.

Polls, polls, polls!!! I am so sick of polls I could scream! I have absolutely no idea who these pollsters are polling. And all this constant banter about Ohio, Florida, etc. – EVERY state has been hit hard by this current administration's failed policies and while true, there are dedicated voting blocks in some states, that are never going to deviate from being either red or blue, the majority of America is in hard times. There is only one choice in this election.

Obama for America!

McCain is not GWB.
A military man is the only qualification that can properly address and get us out of Iraq properly.
He was right with the surge; he will get out us out of Iraq.

We have to do what we must to keep that region stable.
We are still dependent on their energy and their are too many radicals that have no concern for anything but their own agenda.

Sadly, most of America thought this war was was a worthy priority in 2002, and we cannot change priorities with so much at stake, and this task unfinished.

We will have to continue to bear the sacrifice (as they did in 1944) to get this done before we move forward.

We are not seeing the McCain of 1969 (Man of Honor), but we are seeing the McCain of 1979 ( Man of Dishonor).

It is obvious that Palin is not ready for "prime time." The Repbulicans refuse to put her in front of the media - I wonder why? People, if you are fooled by their schnanigans, then you get just what you deserve - they are "using" her to detract from the real issues facing this country - two wars; high gas prices; high food prices; global warming - the list goes on and on. We cannot afford to allow the Republicans to maintain control of this country - WE will be the losers and it will take YEARS to climb out of this mess that they have left us in. I'll bet if you ask George Bush and his croonies if they ae better off today then they were eight years ago - they'd shout a resounding YES and with our guy, McCain back in there, we'll continue to do even better. WAKE UP PEOPLE!

Gov. Sarah Palin made her first potentially major gaffe during her time on the national scene while discussing the developments of the perilous housing market this past weekend.

Speaking before voters in Colorado Springs, the Republican vice presidential nominee claimed that lending giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac had "gotten too big and too expensive to the taxpayers." The companies, as McClatchy reported, "aren't taxpayer funded but operate as private companies. The takeover may result in a

Economists and analysts pounced on the misstatement, which came before the government had spent funds bailing the two entities out, saying it demonstrated a lack of understanding about one of the key economic issues likely to face the next administration.

"You would like to think that someone who is going to be vice president and conceivable president would know what Fannie and Freddie do," said Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research. "These are huge institutions and they are absolutely central to our country's mortgage debt. To not have a clue what they do doesn't speak well for her, I'd say."

And America wants this to run the White House???

Campbell Brown said it last night: Obama's the man for the job. It's a "no-brainer". Anyone who's been following the campaign and taken the time to read The Audacity of Hope knows that this man has brilliance, humility, tenacity, humour and faith in the ability of the American people to build their lives within the democratic model. He has chosen to serve, to help people elevate themselves and to take the high road....but he knows what threatens the system, and it's called arrogance, superficiality and lack of respect for the other. If these aren't the things that count, what does?

Let's see what the "polls" say after Palin is properly vetted under the national spotlight......

By the way, it's been 3 weeks and she has yet to give a "real interview". She must think that being a VP, is like being an "intern".
Does she even realize that she is running for the second highest position in the world?

Bye, Bye Barry. Should have listened to the Hillary supporters and now I guess Biden is even trying to tell you. Oh well, you had your chance.

Being from Ohio, I can tell you that while fervor among Democrats is high...I just don't see Obama getting the votes here...if it comes down to the Appalachian part of our state, then he can just forget about it...probably one of the most racist parts of the country...

Once again McCain is using a woman to get ahead. While he sits back waves and give's thumbs up to the crowd the lipstick lady does the dirty work and motivating for him and I can see why. McSAME could not motivate ants to a picnic.

This is one Republican female who will be voting for OBAMA come November.

For those so called Hillary supporters for McCain you are cutting off your noses to spite your faces. If you support McCain you never supported what Hillary stands for.

SARAH:

I would like to see her get asked a question that requires her to think on her feet and give a glimpse as to how she processes and into her core beliefs. To that end, I would like to see this open ended question. Secretary of State Rice, in delivering the keynote speech at the annual Conference of the White House Initiative on National Historically Black Colleges and Universities stated. "I have lamented that I can go into a meeting at the Department of State - and as a matter fact I can go into a whole day of meetings at the Department of State - and actually rarely see somebody who looks like me. And that is just not acceptable," Rice said. "Like so many African-Americans who were fortunate enough to have the benefits of education and all the access that I have had, my story starts with parents and aunts and uncles, and indeed in my case a grandparent, who got their start at historically black colleges," Rice said. Do you think that is a call for hiring quotas by the Secretary, or a call for affirmative action, and how would you resolve this issue if you think it is one?

-V

I am no big fan of McCain but I do like his choice for V.P. I am still sure that I will vote independent as the Republicans and Democrats are still six of one and half dozen of the other.

After reading some of these comments I feel compelled to weigh in a bit. Obama would be a total disaster for America. He may be educated and eloquent while reading a tele-prompter but his far left positions will wreck the economy, embolden terrorists, increase illegal immigration & abortion, send more American jobs overseas, increase taxes and federalize the health care system which is already bogged down with micro management by beaurocrats. His mate Joe Biden is nearly as bad and the two of them are an embarrasement in the eyes of the rest of the world.

I can't imagine anyone being ignorant enough to actually vote for Obama/Biden. Blacks will get more of Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton entitlement dumb down than ever. They have already paid a heavy price, they kill each other daily, their abortion rates are higher than any other race, they are more infected with aids, poverty and un-employment than ever.

Wake-up America, our freedom is eroding rapidly and the New World Order is around the corner.

all mccain and ole girl wants to do is to keep it close, so that their lowdown republican operatives can lie, cheat and literally steal the election as they have done in previous years.

It's up to us democrats to make sure that the rights of all people are upheld and that every citizen's vote will count.

When freedom grants you the opportunity to choose your leaders, you choose the smart ones, not the ones who are "just like you." You choose the smart ones you fools!

Lets all stop the hate today and remember all who were lost.

This day should be a day of remembrance and prayer. So many have lost their loved ones and we should dedicate this day to them by not writing blogs.

Remember what we have lost and thank your God that you have your life today.

May God bless the souls of all who were lost on September 11th.

Never underestimate the ignorance and stupidity of the common American. If McCain succeeds in using the same hate-filled, fear-mongering, smear tactics that Bush used, our country is doomed. After another 4 years, it will be too late. I just don't get it.

> he will rasie taxes on people (without a familty) making more than
> $75,000. I am sorry but somone making $75,000 doesn't need a tax
> increase, but a decrease!!

Oh boo hoo... how about we also give tax cuts to people making over $250,000. Oh wait, this is the McCain/Bush tax plan! How has that been working out over the last 8 years?

AP must be desperate to publish a poll from a micky mouse unknow college as a headline. Did this university poll Lancaster oh where S. Palin was last spoke.

AP is losing its creditablity just like NBC has! A typical left wing news service

Palin flew into Fairbanks last night, gave a speech with a teleprompter inside a hangar, to an audience of supporters because the local paper asked those who don't support her to stay away. Prepared speeches to select audiences. Sound familiar? We need to wake up.

Who cares about what the polls say. Polls have McCain up in Virginia where he will definitely lose. And lose big!!!

No matter what people say, the public is starting to wake up and listen. They are listening to McCain/ Palin and not Obama/Biden: which is a good thing. We don't need Barack Obama in the White House and no it's not because of his skin color. It's because he wants to move the country into the wrong direction. I am joining other Democrats in voting Republican this election year. GO McCAIN/ PALIN ALL THE WAY!!!!

PA voter,

Nope. My vote cancels out your vote.

I love how McCain can trail in polls on CNN and it's good for him, yet for Obama, it's always a bad thing to lead. Just pointing out the obvious.

because of the media and the way the democrats are carrying on heres another independent voting republican

It's tied in Ohio, CNN. You guys are so biased. You convieniently left out the Fox News/Rasmussen poll which has McCain aheady by 7 points. McCain will win Ohio. Obama may get the black vote but he will not win the blue collar voters.

To my fellow Democrats (and "Obama Republicans"

Here is the truth about the numbers:
All of these national polls (including CNN's poll of polls),
have one inherant problem. There is a high degree of "sampling error" containted within.

Keep in mind that these polls DO NOT accurately reflect a true crosssection of America. Most of these polls were conducted via phone, and included input from approximately 50% Republicans, and 50% Democrats.

These numbers DO NOT reflect the huge spike in newly registered Democrats since the beginning of this year. Hence, believe me when I say don't be surprised of Obama wins by a landslide in November.

Note that news outlets like to print articles like this (i.e. a close race), because it sells stories..The only real poll that matters is in early November.

and he will rasie taxes on people (without a familty) making more than $75,000.
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Where does this come from? Obama said, and has consistently said, that if you make less that 250K, his plan will REDUCE your taxes. He can't be more clear. In his acceptance speech he made a point of quieting the crowd and saying this exact same thing loudly and clearly.

Why do people believe what McCain says about Obama's plan, instead of what Obama says? Meanwhile McCain says nothing about his own plans, and people buy into his nonsense.

McCain was a POW.

Proof that Hillary should have been the Dem. VP canidate...even Biden admits that she is better tham him!

Higher Taxes
Less Income for Retirees because of Windfall Profits Tax
Bigger Government
Entitlement and Welfare
More Pork Barrel Projects
Leave the Caribou Alone – No Drilling
Surrender
"Negotiate" with terrorists
Liberal Justices who legislate from the bench
Runaway Lawsuits
Rubber Stamp for Congress
Hollywood Influence
Baby Killing
Elimination Of Christian Beliefs and Morals

Wow.... I'm votin' for Obama!!!!!

Let's see, Obama has a near 40 electoral advantage over McCain, is leading in Ohio, Michigan, Colorado and Pennsylvania and all this after the best week McCain could ever hope to muster up. You Republicans remind me of that fellow in Iraq who kept saying that the Iraqis were holding their own even as cameras captures US soldiers running up right behind me. Please continue the delusions.

After all the petty point scoring (see lipstick and lapel pins) the GOP wants us to believe is important, the fact remains that McCain has a much, much steeper climb to 270. Don't kid yourselves, Pennsylvania is true blue. Obama has many options with Colorado and New Mexico in play. And if he wins Virginia the landslide is officially on.

McCain is at the top of the ticket, not Palin, and after a few more days that will start to sink in with Independants. That's not a good thing for the old fogey.

Obama followers need to listen to what he says and how many times he has changed his mind. How can you trust a word he says??? He will be weak on defense. He wants to cut the military and defense systems like star wars. How good do you think our economy will be if we have more terrorist attacks????

In the past several elections, the Democrats had a huge lead around this point in the election cycle, and as the election got closer the lead evaporated. This time, they don't have a lead at all, and are likely to lose by double digits.

Hope, change and $ 1 trillion in new government spending doesn't sound very good once people start paying attention.

It should be a felony to run for a public office when you very old; Reagan should be the only exception to this sentence. One heart attacks and there goes McBush. Hope he sticks to his garden and scrap book of old memories.

I have had it now as a Republican our party has been takenover by idiots.
For the first time in my life as a Republican I will be voting for Senator Obama.

Americans need to put some thought into this choice. McCain may not be as healthy as he tells us, that means Palin could be running this country. This should be a very strong concern. If you read about her handling of earmarks, it took her a couple of years to "learn" about how they worked and to come around to her new way of thinking about them. Imagine it takes her this long to learn about dealing with foreign threats. Obama may not have a lot of foreign experience, but Biden does and Obama seems to have the calmness and temperament not to sent out the attack dogs unless absolutely necessary.

I just have to say that Obama is going to win come november. If not we are a brain dead country. I have the faith in my fellow citezens that we will make the right decision which is Barrack OBAMA.....the media is just trying to ratings and make it appear close which it IS NOT.....

HEY, ACCOUNTANT GUY:

Do NOT UNERESTIMTAE THE STUPIDITY OF THE VAST MAJORITY OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, ESPECIALLY WHTIE WOMEN WHO VOTE REPUBLICAN.

The McCain campaign put out a statement today saying that after Palin does her interview with Charlie Gibson of ABCNews this evening she will NOT be giving any more interviews. They also say that she will NOT be campaigning alone, but only with McCain so that they can keep an eye on her.

One would think the American people would be outraged that the Republiacns are trying to force this woman down their throats, and that they take it for granted people will vote for them with knowing next to NOTHING about her.

The most pathtic thing of all is that they are correct. The republicans for decades have depended on the ignorance, apathy and laziness of the people!

YES!! Wake up America! Don't be fooled again. I can't believe this is happening. What's the matter with you people?
Obama keep up the fight!

I don't understand how the american people allow themselves to be misled by the lies of the McCain-Palin campaign.
McCain is running a very dirty campaign, full of lies, untruths, and misrepresentations – and the voters are eating it up.
Don't people realize that George Bush did the same thing, and look at our country now.
And the secretive way that McCin is hiding Palin from the press, only allowing softball questions to her, is very scary.
Don't be taken in by these dishonest people known as McCain-Palin.

The entire fuss raised by the Senator McBush-Governor Sarah Phony campaign over the quote from Senator Obama is such a tissue of lies, that it makes one queasy. All the times the phrase was used by Senator McBush is ok, but when the fair-minded opposition uses it, it's an insult. That's what blantant hypocrisy looks like!

Do they really think the American people are that stupid as to believe this nonsense! I hope to God not!

Check out the ABC special that was run just this morning on Gov. Palin and how she fired the head of police who was also a strong supporter of domestic violence. The piece talks about how Palin cut funding for programs for teen mothers and also cut funding for Domestic Violence. They talk about how Alaska has the highest rates of domestic violence and murder by a male spouse. These women at this shelter where not very supportive of Palin and felt that she did not represent them. also at her event yesterday there were a few hundred, yes hundred or so protestors, which it was not shown on tV, only mentioned. She is not as popular as her 80% would suggest.

For those who continually call others uppity, arrogant, conceited, stuck-up, egocentric, presumptuous and any other word they would like to use to degrade that which is better than them.

According to Webster Dictionary:

Uppity:putting on or marked by airs of superiority : arrogant, presumptuous

I find it funny that people continue to avoid calling Obama uppity but continue to call him arrogant and presumptuous. They mean the same thing. Why is it arrogant for a mix race person to study hard, become well spoken, well educated, and make sure to be well dressed. Truly the stench of envy, wrath, and pride of all the people that hold such a man in contempt is enough to suffocate God in heaven.

You complain when they are not educated, you complain when they are educated. Why not just admit the truth. When they are not educated they are viewed as beneath you when they are educated they are arrogant for being better than you. No matter what they do you are not satisfied. Apparently the only option is to be just like you. For you are perfect not to stupid and not to smart. How we forget that vanity is the sin for which the most beautiful angel in heaven was cast into the pit.

Have a nice day 8O)

(I doubt CNN will post this but we can hope for the best.)

We must learn facts to make wise decisions instead of being too emotional. Please read from yahoo news:

"Palin's Ethics Scrapes May Undercut Pledge to End Old Politics"

"Voted for me for change even tho I voted w/ George Bush 91% of the time." America are you really that ignorant?

My math must be awful...I read at least 75% Pro Obama-Bidden comments on the web but polls show an even race?Hmmmmm

I am puzzled. Can you guyshelp me on this one.

Obama 08

spin, spin, spin cnn. You are so McCain, if Palin were a blow up doll Cnn would call McCain a genius. His jaw looks bad. I just wonder if this man still has cancer and we would be electing someone who knows they couldn't finish their term.

Please wake up America! If McCain and Palin get in you are guarantted four more years od misery and lies. McCain and Palin have done nothing but lie and smear, without ever discussing the issues. do not let their smokesccren fool you! They will continue to turn a deaf ear the the suffering of America, and continue with the Bush policy of "let Them Eat Cake" McCain/Palin = Bush/Cheney!

McCai

to all of you that think OBAMA IS LOSING watch out for the cat fight thatis going to be brewing.Thinkm for a moment do you think that HRC is going to let SP/JM get into the white house and make her run for the office in 2012 against another women,I think not. Lipstick on a pig is an old country saying." You can dress them up but they still stink" a saying used by JM in previous speeches.So we ask all yuo repubs "WHERE IS THE BEEF"

We need to focus on issues. the issues ARE THE PROBLEMS WITH THE American Economy, the budget, the WAR, and our borders- Natioanl Security. These are issues that cannot be talked into resolution. They NEED actio, asnd NOW not four or five years from now. We need experienced leaders to get on the stick and ACT immediately. None of this " unhhh let's talk about it" stuff. Think VOTERS do you want thinking or ACTION ? ACTION gets results – quicker. We need a think on your feet and move it people. Not sit around and let it simmer while we discuss the pros & cons.

Unfortunately... no matter who wins the American public will lose because this race has caused bitterness and hatred that will run far after the polls of November 4th.

There will be rioting after the election no matter who the President is.

Sad day for America.

Palin will not release a large amount of emails from the Alaska Governor's office. Why? She is claiming EXCECUTIVE PRIVELAGE. Sound familiar? There is an investigation of wether she used the Governors office to campaign and there are list of emails she will not release, but some of those emails included her own husband. Palin turned in a coworker for using his official emails for campaign use causing him to resign WHILE IT APPEARS SHE DID THE SAME THING!

Obama supporters! Keep your chin up! Let us not fall into the traps that have been laid for us. Let us fight till we drop. This country deserves better than the last 8 years.

Obama , we are 100% behind you.

Insurance companies premiums have skyrocketed.
The number of people living below the poverty line have multiplied.
Gas prices have skyrocketed.
Food prices have skyrocketed.
Bil Oil, Big Pharma, Big Insurance are making more money than ever.
Many of our veterans are left to die on the streets.
Many of them are not cared for enough when they come back from war.

We need the money we spend on Iraq spent here in the US.

Our children need a great education. It is the least a great country can do to provide for their future. Right now, we are trailing in math/science compared to India and China and other emerging countries.

The latest cutting edge technologies are created outside this country.

I know the American people are intelligent to see that we've been going backwards the past 8 years. Let us not continue to slide into oblivion.

Let us rise up and elect Barack Obama. We know we can do better and we will do better. With Obama as our president, we will march forward.

Obama/Biden '08

ON 911 we should all do a little math. Here are Two other numbers that are need to be talked about by every american today.

91 and 134!

McCain has voted with Bush 91 is the percentage of the time. Say it again. McCain has voted with Bush.

And 134 is the number of corporate special interest lobbyists involved in the McCain campaign.

Obama, after this morning when we have done all to remember the victems of 911. I hope you will argue that no one who votes with Bush 91 percent of the time is a maverick. And that someone with 134 former or current lobbyists advising, funding or managing his campaign cannot be considered a reformer.

It's just simple math.

McCain's heroic POW story and his Do Nothing V.P with out having Karl Rove OK IT AND WRITE IT FOR ME PICK. WILL NOT BE ENOUGH TO WIN THE WHITE HOUSE.

Remember they have had 8 years and are the reason we are in this mess.
_________

Bush – Republican is in power when 9/11 happen...Can someone explain to me how can McCain and Palin make the country secure??
No Way, No How, No McBush No Palin!!!!!!!!! Looking at McBush and Palin scares me!
Keep on the issue Obama/Biden, get our country back!

Obama/Biden

When the public comes to and realizes it is being lied to on a daily basis by the McCain/Palin campaign (bridge to nowhere, Reform? Lobbyists running the campaing, etc) these polls will tip in favor of Obama.

We are tired of being lied to, divided and manipulated.

Obama/Biden 08

What happened to mccain's lead last week after the pit bull was released from her cage? Oh i guess people are tired of her rhetoric already. That shows me that some people repugs in particular aren't as stupid as mccain thinks they are.

Please do not vote for a man whose endless wars will spend this country into bankruptcy. We need an intelligent president who knows other strategies besides threats and wars. We can do better America! Do not fall for the hero hype. We need leaders with brains this time, not just testosterone.

Obama/Biden 08

Keep working hard, Senator Obama. We are with you all the way to the White House. You will be our next President of the United States in the Name of Jesus.

No Way, No How, no McCain, No Palin!
We do not want 4 more years of the Same. With God grace we will win in November!

McCain will look like Tricky Dicky on TV. The debates will sing the election back to Obama and Biden. When will Palin talk to the press to answer real questions? Why hasn't she gone on Meet The Press like Joe Biden? She knows one speech and by Nov 4 she will have worn out her welcome.

These Polls are a big joke again I was not polled who are they talking to ?
I hope people in the rest of America who are not being polled will do the right thing in November and Vote for Senator Obama.
Forget about palin Obama she is no running against you for President McCain is .
Don't give her the time of day but go after McCain on the Economy and let him know that now more Americans cannot afford that lipstick like they did before the GOP took over the Whitehouse.
Then you will get those folks who are listening to McCains Campaign attacks which are lies and based on stupity.
Wake up America and remember Bush and the GOP messed up this great nation .
Its time to change who runs this country no more Mccain,Palin and No More GOP .
If you fall for the McCain lies then you will get what you deserve another 4 years of Wars,an Economy that will within 4 years fall part completely.
If thats what you want then Vote for McCain if you want to solve the problems then Vote for Obama.

OBAMA / BIDEN,

THE FALL SEASON IS HERE AS WELL AS THE DEBATES.

DOWN HERE ON THE FARM, THE FALL SEASON MEANS IT'S HOG KILLING TIME.

SO OBAMA /BIDEN, WHEN YOU TWO GO INTO THE DEBATES, LOOK AT IT AS HOG KILLING TIME.

EVEN IF IT IS A 72 YEAR OLD HOG, OR A HOG WITH LIPSTICK SAUGHTER IT.

Obama is toast. H'es made the horrible error of attempting to run against Palin instead of McCain, and every comment he makes about her just highlights HIS lack of experience.

His own VP (Biden) has said he (Obama) is too inexperienced AND has said he (Obama) exhibited bad judgement in choosing Biden over Hillary.

So it comes down to choosing the experienced guy with an inexperienced backup, or the inexperienced guy who's backup doesn't believe in him.

Simple choice to me!

McCain/Palin 2008!

Nervous – isn't that what Barack Obama has been doing for most of his political career? It's certainly not spending time at his day job.

corection to above!

They may NOT agree with a dozen other things, but as long as they have that one issue in common, thAt is good enough for them.

Issues are important - but they will evolve and change over time.
Character is important – and THAT will be the basis upon which future
issues will be decided.

Check them out, and I believe you'll see that Obama is the better choice
heading into the future.

The Presidential election is always a freakshow, it's NEVER about issues. It's just one name or the other.

When the voter goes to the booth, their just going to have two names in front of them and they'll just check/punch/pull, whatever for one of the two, none of these other distractions are going to be in there.

If anything resembling common sense, honor or decency decided this, Nixon wouldn't have won by landslides twice and have come within 1/10 of a point in 1960. Brain-dead Reagan wouldn't have won twice.

The best we can hope for is ONE more electoral delegate than McEvil.

It is sad to see these red state (and swing state) voters get caught up in the Palin hype. She has zero credentials to her name and won't make your life (or your kid's lives) any different, safer, or prosperous. She is merely a puppet used by Karl Rove and the republicans to steal your vote in return for 8 more years of Bush policy. This is the truth, sad to see America fall further on this 9/11/2008.

No wonder it's a man's world. Women, especially white women who vote republican, are so ignorant and apathetic.

They zoom in on one issue like a laser beam and if the candidate agrees with them, then they votre for them.

They may agree with a dozen other things, but as long as they have that one issue in common, thAt is good enough for them.

NEVER UNDERESTIMATE THE STUPIDITY OF A VAST MAJORITY OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE!

McCain has a mini-Bush in his pocket that makes all his decisions for him!!!

Bush created Palin to be his evil legacy!

All – do you see how ludicrous this is?????

Obama is a metaphor for "weak and manipulated" – there was never a chance he would be given the keys to the most powerful position on the planet.... Seriously.... Did you really think that? He's a radical – maybe a leader but still a radical.

Doesn't matter what you think of Bush or McCain – Obama is nothing but a bumper sticker.

Why can't he close the deal? He's black! Sad to say but Americans always want people more like "them", so apparently Palin is like "them". I wasn't someone smarter than I am but represents who we are and should strive to be ...

Obama 08

Now that McCain is campaigning without his beard (Palin), we will once again be reminded of who is actually running for POTUS!

Obama is the only sane choice!!

PA voter...you are correct! Obama needs to stay focus on the issues ... and do not get caught up with all the drama. Biden will handle Palin during the debate.

I agree with Michael in Houston, Texas. I am in Dallas, Texas and I have yet to be polled. Who are they polling???

Obama/Biden '08

John McCain is a LAIR, I can no longer respect what he has become, Country first, what a bunch of boloney.

According to the poll results, it looks as though all four states are up for grabs. Senator Obama needs to concentrate more on the economy issue and less on meaningless rhetoric from the McCain campaign. I feel that the McCain camp is evenly threatened by the obama Camp to be fabricating and distorting words of Senator Obama. Both camps needs to focus more on issues and less on childishness. Senator Obama and Senator Biden has absolutely nothing to prove to me, I know they can do the job. On the other hand, McCain and Palin have a lot to prove and has not shown me anything except talk with no action> When will the Republicans start talking about relevant issues such as health care, the economy and education?

This race shouldn't be close. This is a joke. There is only one reason why this is a close race. The last time we had an election and the economy was this bad was 1980. Reagan won 50% to 41%. America just isn't ready and will pay for such a poor decision if McCain is elected.

Sarah Palin is too much of a bald-faced liar to do much good with independants. They're on to her lies, and new examples of her corrupt practices in Alaska are uncovered every day it seems.

Of course CNN won't cover any of that, CNN is more concerned with becoming an appendage for the Republican Ministry of Propaganda, that it is with pursuing objective journalism.

What a poll! In Ohio,Big John has NEVER been behind and you twinks are showing lies.That is to be expected coming from the spawns of Lenin,Stalin,Hitler,Pol Pot,Castro,Amidinjad,etc. ad nauseum

Uh, the article is about polling results in battleground states? I'm sure before the day is out there will be several articles about Sarah Palin, and plenty of opportunities for the usuals to cut and paste their daily anti-Palin talking points into their "comments." If anyone bothered to read the article, McCain is actually starting to give Obama a run for the money. Looks like we might actually have an election instead of a coronation.

The facts about the two candidates tax reform as outlined by TPC:

For Americans making between 38,000 and 66,000 dollars:

Under McCrypt you will bring home $312 more a year.

Under Obama you will bring home $1,012 more a year.

Senior citizens earning less than $50,000 per year will pay NO income tax under Obama. Florida will come around once this fact comes out.

Voting strictly “pocketbook” issues, who do you vote for?

Obama has shown that his judgment is highly questionable. Two large issues:
1. Not picking Hillary, just a monumental mistake, I personally was shocked that he ignored 18 million votes. I attribute that to one main character flaw, arrogance.
2. Response to the Georgian crises. His first response was a Kumb-By- Ya type response, Oh, we all need to sit down at the table and talk. Well Russian tanks kept rolling (did he think talk was going tgo stop a tank?). The he proposed getting the UN involved, even Model UNers know that Russia have veto power, finally after 6 days he got around to a real response.
That is the trouble with no experience. He does not have the data base, the emotional base, the knowledge by getting your but kicked base to make decisions. So he has to ponder, think, ponder, meet with advisors, ponder, think. Great, he likes to do that, but that does not work in a crises. He needs to become a governor for 4 or 8 years, actually run something, and then he probably would make a great president. Now this minority male Hillary supporter is voting for McCain, because I can't pack in my intregrity for the party.

Its really baffling to see those polls being so close when things are so bad in the US under this present administration. One of my concerns is that mccain is advocating change but how long will he live to bring about that change if he wins the presidency?

The race may be tight at this moment, but when the debates take center stage changes in polls numbers will change. What people may or may not realize, is polls are like sample surveys or cluster surveys. It only represent a portion of the entire population. There are many voters eager to vote for BARACK OBAMA/JOE BIDEN. If the continued trend of information leaks out about McCain's VP choice sleazy underhanded tactics, poll numbers will decrease in favor of OBAMA!!!!
Time will tell. WATCH THE DEBATES AMERICA!!!!!!!

I'll wait until November 4 before I pay attention to any polls.

McCain /Palin = Gimmicks first/Country second!

More Republican lies as outlined below from FactCheck.org.

FactCheck.org comments dated 09/10/2008:

“A McCain-Palin ad has FactCheck.org calling Obama's attacks on Palin "absolutely false" and "misleading." That's what we said, but it wasn't about Obama.
Our article criticized anonymous e-mail falsehoods and bogus claims about Palin posted around the Internet. We have no evidence that any of the claims we found to be false came from the Obama campaign.

The McCain-Palin ad also twists a quote from a Wall Street Journal columnist. He said the Obama camp had sent a team to Alaska to "dig into her record and background." The ad quotes the WSJ as saying the team was sent to "dig dirt."

With its latest ad, released Sept. 10, the McCain-Palin campaign has altered our message in a fashion we consider less than honest. The ad strives to convey the message that FactCheck.org said "completely false" attacks on Gov. Sarah Palin had come from Sen. Barack Obama. We said no such thing. We have yet to dispute any claim from the Obama campaign about Palin.”

I'm heartily tired of the incessant reporting of polls. It seems to me that the first duty of responsible political journalism at this point is the protection of the voting process itself. The Michigan Messenger has reported that a Republican county chairman has announced his intention to challenge all votes cast by people whose names are on house foreclosure lists (even though the fact that you are under foreclosure does patently not mean that you no longer live there). It is a move of such breathtaking cynicism, nastiness, and consequence that I do not know why major news outlets have not picked it up. We know Bush didn't win 2000. We also know, if we care to know, that he didn't win 2004 honestly (cf. Ohio). Will we stand by while yet another election is manipulated and stolen by the reckless and the shameless? Will the media silently acquiesce in this travesty?

I am a PA voter and I will multiply my effirts to get Obama elected, starting with voter registration and get ou tthe vote efforts in my neighborood. This election is too important to sit out

FLORIDA IS GOING TO OBAMA, WATCH AND SEE, UNLESS THE REPUBLICANS STEAL THE ELECTION AGAIN. MAYBE THE POLLS ARE NOT CLOSE AT ALL AND IT'S WHAT THEY WANT US TO THINK SO THEY CAN STEAL THE ELECTION??

We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them because we hate them."
Charles Caleb Colton (1780 – 1832)

To paraphrase 'Nervous' up above – So the Obama plan was to have Obama go out to every single town and throw them all the same speech about 'change' and 'working together'.? And it almost worked. He did not have to give any opinion about where he stood on any issue because the American voters are good with being fed the same speech.

Thank God America woke up.

This election is NOT about personalities. It's about ISSUES. If the media would actually cover Obama's entire campaign stops over the last week we could see he IS talking about the issues. But no, the media is only covering the phony accusations from the Lobbyist McCain campaign. Come on CNN, cover the issues that Obama has been talking about all week.

If Obama and McCain are "in a statistical dead heat" in Pennsylvania, then CNN should adjust its electoral map and remove Pennsylvania from Obama's camp.

Obama is ahead in Ohio. This is AFTER Palins best week. Any state he is ahead in after all of this positive Palin spin you know for sure Obama will win. I mean, this is the best shot the GOP have. If McCain loses Ohio he will also lose the presidency. We can finally put a lid on the horrible 8 years of GOP rule.

I really do not understand how people can vote for the boring old man (McCain) and the smart aleck hick (Panel)! The only thing that I can conclude is: many Americans have a "Britney Spears mentality" or else America is just plain Racist.

The McCain campaign has given only the sketchiest policy proposals; it has spent most of its time trying to divert the national conversation away from matters of substance.

Obama said it in Denver ENOUGH! He also repeated it again in Virginia yesterday.
We need to support Obama in claiming our righteous OUTRAGE of what has happened to America since GOP took control of Congress 12 of last 14 years and what they have done with Bush in the last 6 of 8 years. Let’s all join Obama and tell them ENOUGH! Is ENOUGH! We do not only want our country back we are going to take it back from the jaws of mediocrity and incompetence.

Ignorant and apathetic people!

I'm sure the republicans are thanking God for 9/11 so taht they have one more day wehre Palin does not have to answer any questions.

According to a press statement put out today, after the interview with Charlie Gibson of ABC News this evening, Palin will NOT be giving any more interviews and will NOT campaign on her own, but only with mcCain so that they can keep a close eye on her.

That comes directly from the McCain camp. Any itnelligent person would realize that this woman is not qualified and if she can't hold her own in interviews how in the hell is she supposed to deal wtih dangerous world leaders as V.P., or possibly president?

Intelligent people? NEVER UNDERSTIMATE THE STUPIDITY OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, ESPECIALLY WHITE WOMEN WHO VOTE REPUBLICAN.

I dont really care to much about the polls, but if ohio and other swing states are the hardest hit, then I really dont understand how they could ever become a red state this election. hopefully my state(Florida) will go blue, because its one of the worst when it comes to getting a job and keeping a job.

So many of us do not have enough to put our children through college.
So many of us do not have enough to pay our bills.
So many of us do not have enough for gas.
So many of us do not have enough for health care.
So many of us do not have enough to pay our mortgage.
So many of us do not have enough.

But there is something we have had enough of.
Enough of Bush.
Enough of McCain.

Enough is Enough.

–
Kevin B

I'm saying it now: President Barack H. Obama, Jr., 2009 – 2017

NOT TO WORRY.......PALEN CAN'T HOLD MCCAINS HAND FOREVER.....WHEN SHE LETS GO.........THEY'LL BE HISTORY !!!!!!

Why does the press let McCain get away with wasting so much time ranting about 1% of the Federal budget? If McCain were to succeed in abolishing earmarks entirely, unlikely as that is, he would have accomplished nothing.

McCain's story is that he's running a campaign of propaganda warfare, purposefully avoiding substantive issues by hiding behind every kind of smokescreen he can raise. The big story here is that the press isn't doing its job.

I dont really care to much for the polls, but if ohio and other swing states are the hardest hit, then I really dont understand how they could ever become a red state this election. hopefully my state(Florida) will go blue, because its one of the worst when it comes to getting a job and keeping a job.

Polls are meaningless anyway... why don't they tell us where Caribou barbie is today and whether she's ever going to answer press questions?

People are waking up, just like I did!

Obama has 8 years of ILL politics as his experience. While in ILL politics, he accomplished nothing, other than 180 present votes.

He has NO foreign policy experience! He has one year of US Political experience (he began to run for President after one year).

If the ticket was reversed, I would be more inclined to vote for Biden/Obama.

He particpated in an anti-white/anti-usa church for 20 years!

He received a deep discount on a house from a felon, who then received political favors from Obama.

He just doesn't have the experience needed to keep our country safe!

And, Obama's health plan covers illegal aliens, and he will rasie taxes on people (without a familty) making more than $75,000.

I am sorry but somone making $75,000 doesn't need a tax increase, but a decrease!!

Silly CNN. That margin of error gets applied to both candidates' numbers. So if a poll has a 3.1% margin of error, that means the numbers for both Obama and McCain could go up or down by 3.1%, creating a 6.2% spread. This means Pennsylvania is well within the margin of error, sad as that might be. And if Pennsylvania is within the margin of error, why do you have it as leaning Obama on your map? I'm all for Obama winning in a landwlide, but I would hope you guys could at least get your numbers right and be consistent with your magical boards.

Ohio, Ohio, Ohio.

The buckeye state has been struggling with the loss of jobs under eight years of Bush and a Republican Congress for six of the last eight years.

That's why McCain won't win Ohio- no way, no how. Ohioans would beg to differ when the McCain campaign says issues are not relevant, personalities are.

McCain has no chance at getting to 270 without Ohio.

Enough is Enough no mcain no palin NO WAY NO HOW !!!! TIME FOR REAL CHANGE TIME FOR OBAMA/BIDEN NO MORE REPUBLICANS HOW CAN THE PARTY THAT HAS NEARLY DESTROYED THIS COUNTRY BE THE PARTY TO FIX IT NO WAY !!!!!

If Florida upsets the election again this year, we should just sell it to Cuba!

McCain is physically and mentally unfit to be president.

Do we really need this poll every other day saying the race is tight in battleground states? It's going to be tight right down to the wire. That's why they're battleground states.

McCain was a POW.

Unless Obama dumps Biden for Hillary (CHANGE) which I imagine he would do if Obama get's too far back in the polls, the far left media and loons ought to start getting use to hearing President McCain/VP Palin....as our next leaders.

Your polls mean nothing. There is no way that any polls adequately reflect the amount of support that Barack Obama has. The attendance of people that participated in Democratic state primaries and the national convention far outnumber those who participated in the GOP. The amount of money Obama has generated from small donations the number of people that donate to Obama's campaign outnumber McCain. People on the streets are talking about how great Obama is and how low McCain has sunk in order to win his parties nomination and his attempt to win the presidency.

I hope America see how divided we are as a Nation. Ever since McCain go momentum America has been divided. McCain is talking about change. What change divide the country the Republicans have done that already. Obama is trying to unite us. Get it together America wake up wake up.

OK, I'VE HAD ABOUT ENOUGH OF FLORIDA.

AND I LIVE HERE!!

IF FLORIDA SCREWS AN ELECTION FOR A THIRD TIME STRAIGHT I HOPE THE STATE GETS HIT WITH A CATEGORY 10 HURRICANE.

ENOUGH IS ENOUGH WITH YOUR NON-SENSE FLORIDA!!

IS THE HEAT MELTING YOUR BRAINS OR WHAT??

I just have one question for the Republicans who believe Bush has kept us safe for the past 7 years. Have we captured or killed the terrorists responsible for 9/11? REPUBLICAN HYPOCRITES!!!!

I don't know what to make of these poll numbers. I do know that I am tired of hearing about them. It should be generally accepted that due to the very unique nature of this election and the considerable divide within the American People, that this election will remain extremely tight, pending some major event or bit of news that will dramatically influence the electorate.

As a lifelong Republican and Obama supporter, I hope that most Americans are able to see through the lies and distractions of the McCain camp. Obama continues to focus on real issues, real concerns, and real solutions, while McCain and his people talk about lipstick and celebrity. It is truly disturbing that while America continues its downward slide, the right-wing conservative branch of the Republican Party continues its use of Rove-style politics.

I think both sides need to step up their game but the thing that puzzles me is how is the race soo close when only one side addresses the issues of the American people?!?!

Doesn't the fact that they are BATTLEGORUND states mean the race is tight? Is there a battleground state where it is a blow out? If so, it wouldn't ba called a BATTLEGROUND STATE!!!!!!

CNN has the dumbest and most leading article titles, like "Obama slams GOP on community organizer comments" for a item that talked about othe issues and only mentioned the community organizer reference in the last SENTENCE!!!

Hey CNN, try interpretting the news and reporting FACTS instead of campaign talking points!!!!!! Ask Sarah, she knows what journalism is since that is her only degree (BA).

The only poll that matters is the one on Tuesday, November 4.

Will the People of the United States of America be FOOLED AGAIN by the FEAR MONGERING GOP? Will theY accept their economic lot in life or want better for themselves and their posterity?

WAKE UP AMERICA! DO NOT BE FOOLED AGAIN BY THE GOP!

NO WAY! NO HOW! NO MCCAIN! NO PALIN!

McCain is really the Maverick he claims, he shoots from the hip and does not ponder the consequences, Obama thinks carefully every step he takes. Isn't this country and the world hurt enough from 8 years of poor thinking and stubborness driven decisons? How could this be a tight race??? Can't we learn from our mistakes? Wake up America!

MCCAIN …………. OBAMA
Income ……. Avg tax bill ……. Avg. tax bill
Over $2.9M …. -$269,364 (-4.4%)… +$701,885 (+11.5%)
$603K and up…. -$45,361 (-3.4%)… +$115,974 (+8.7%)
$227K-$603K…… -$7,871 (-3.1%)…….. +$12 (+0.0%)
$161K-$227K…… -$4,380 (-3.0%)….. -$2,789 (-1.9%)
$112K-$161K…… -$2,614 (-2.5%)….. -$2,204 (-2.1%)
$66K-$112K …… -$1,009 (-1.4%)….. -$1,290 (-1.8%)
$38K-$66K …….. -$319 (-0.7%)….. -$1,042 (-2.4%)
$19K-$38K …….. -$113 (-0.5%)……. -$892 (-3.6%)
Under $19K ……… -$19 (-0.2%)……. -$567 (-5.5%)

Polls would certainly look better for Senator Obama if the public would focus on issues. All the disgusting advertising and loathsome attacks that the mccain camp is putting out is a distraction.
I don't care about Sarah Palin's personal life or beliefs, however, I can't imagine that former Hillary supporters will vote for her, she is exactly opposite of everything the women's movement is about.

Go Obama Go

Why can't Obama close the deal? With the economy the way it is, you'd think a democrat would be a cake walk!

We will win the key battleground states Ohio, Michigan, Virginia, Florida, Missouri, Colorado and the majority of the electorate!!!

People are starting to see through the lies & rhetoric of the McClown & McPlain Smearpaign. It's just a matter of time!!

Obama/Biden

Obama, Please stay away from palin. Biden will have the debate with her. You need to focus on the issues and MCcain. Keep fighting the good fight!

pow? more like a Pitiful Old Warmonger

please take off the Navy hat, it is worn by real men

Okay but no one has still polled Texas!

McSame's campaign is full of crooks and lobbysists. He's not going to change carp. And I can't stand the sound of Palin's voice! It's the whiniest and most annoying voice ever!

These polls are fixed, why don't you read the Huffington Post "Poll Madness." The sampling that is done for these polls is not reflective of the total number of registered voters. You might learn something about reporting correctly CNN, however, I seriously doubt you will even put my comments on this website.

It might be wise for Americans to pay attention to what is happening outside your country. Right now Canada is in midst of an election and the Conservative Party has stated a firm date for a complete withdrawl of Canadian troops from Afghanistan.

The above is a direct result of rising public opinion created by U.S. polls showing McCain has half the support of Americans. Most normal free thinking people are becoming more and more convinced Americans care more about world domination than they do about the state of their nation at home.

If you don't think this matters I would remind you that the outside world won't keep supporting stupidity with the blood of their young men and women. If you want a war monger as your president then you better be prepared for the draft as it is the only way you will be able to continue on with your holy wars.

I hope the folks in those states are really paying attention to the real issues and not made up controversies...

America is waking up.

Good-bye Obama.

Time for real leaders to step up.

America is in full support of McCain-Palin '08.

Obama is worn out, but McCain seems invigorated. So, what's the age issue? Maybe Obama looks so beat down because he knows it's all slipping away. His long, slippery tongue isn't fooling as many people now as it did a few months back.

Sen. Obama simply needs to stay focused on the issues and let the Repbulican machine self-destruct. It seems to be doing that quite well as its tactics are becoming more and more obvious to the American public.

Keep pushing forward, Sen. Obama. We're behind you.

“Look, I know the area, I’ve been there, I know wars, I know how to win wars, and I know how to improve our capabilities so that we will capture Osama bin Laden — or put it this way, bring him to justice. We will do it. I know how to do it.” John McCain June 2008

According to this quote John McCain is aiding and abetting the exact terrorists that are responsible for 9/11. If he knows how to capture them why is he keeping it a secret. If he truly puts his country first then why isn't he offering his plan to the CIA and the military who are sacrificing lives in their attempt to capture and kill the terrorists.

John McCain: I would rather win an election than get the terrorists. County last, career first.

Hypocritically selecting a VP with 640 days of experience in state and federal government and using phony outrage has succeeded in closing the gap for McCain. It's pathetic that so many Americans are so shallow that they can be so easily distracted from issues and truth.

McBush and his pawn of a VP will lose. Americans are not so stupid as to believe anything they say, the two of them are exactly like Bush!!

Obama/Biden '08

Truth about Sarah Palin –

Palin's office approved a state job for a friend and campaign aide with whom she shared a land investment, financial records and interviews over the past two weeks show. She hired a former lobbyist for a pipeline company to help oversee a multibillion-dollar deal with that same company.

And she sent campaign e-mails on her city hall account while serving as mayor of Wasilla - conduct for which she later turned in an oil commissioner on ethics charges.

So the McCain Palin's plan is to have Palin go out to every single town and throw them all the same red meat speech that she gave at the RNC? And it will probably work. She does not have to give any opinion about where she stands on any issue bc the American voters are good with being fed the same speech. Forget about getting her in front of the media,

NOWAY, NOHOW, NO MCCAIN, NO MCPALIN, NO MORE FOUR YEARS, NO MORE FEARS, NO MORE WARS, NO MORE LIES, NO MORE SMEARS, NO MORE DISTORTIONS, NO MORE KATHRINA, NO MORE POVERTY, NO MORE NONHEALTHCARE, NO MORE VETO THREAT, NO MORE NONEDUCATION, NO MORE TAX CUTS FOR MILLIONAIRS…

ENOUGH!

OBAMA/BIDEN 08

It's sad, but the bradley effect will be in full swing and it will get even worse for Obama.