CNN

I already voted for Obama then Straight Dem in early voting.

We hope NC is dark blue this year !!

Obama/Biden '08

I sent my ballot in last week.

I did my part, so everyone else please do theirs, the only way to fraud-proof the election is to have so many democratic votes counted in as many states as possible so republicans have notway of viably cheating the system.

You know they are poised to say that one state voted more republican rather than democrat in a close race. The sooner this appears as a clean win, the sooner "geezer and gidget" will get out of our faces. Don't leave them any room whatsoever to question anything this time!!!!

By the way–May I use this picture for my Christmas cards this year?

John McCain.. How could you have been tested? You have NEVER been President! If you handle an international crisis like you have handled our current economic crisis, WE ARE ALL IN BIG TROUBLE!

"Religious voters moving toward Obama" says a CNN report. This comes as no surprise. I know pastors who don't like what is coming from the Republican camp, i.e., transgression.

Stay focused ... it ain't over till it's over!

Go Rays
Go Barack & Joe

He is the same only older, angry, and more dishonest with American

In the picture Bush looks like a younger version of McCain.

Notice how they coordinated their "hand wave". WOW!! good wrork!

This is one poorly written article as the other jd noted "Democrats last carried North Carolina in a presidential election in 1976, but the poll suggests that Obama, D-Illinois, has a 4-point margin — 51-37 percent"

Not to mention McCain is "is on defense in four of five states that President Bush won in the last election" but later "our new poll suggests that it could again all come down to Ohio and its 20 electoral votes".

4/5 states leaning Obama = it could come down to Ohio. Doesn't make much sense.

Anyone else sick of the polls -that's for Obama and McCain to figure out – let me know about the 1 that matters in November.

Weird that an article which states "it could again all come down to Ohio and its 20 electoral votes" then goes on to make it absolutely clear that with all the other states that are currently newly blue, it couldn't possibly "all come down to Ohio."

Geeze do you think that perhaps McCain is hurting himself with all of his negative ads and untrue rhetoric? He has yet to offer me any reason to vote for his ticket......................................A very negative, bitter man and a a radical female is the last thing this country needs.

polls mean nothing. mason-dixon has obama ahead of mccain 2 points in va. real clear politics has the margin in va as obama by 5-6 points. cnn has obama with a 10 point spread. the important thing is to vote because the polls vary.

By the way, I love how Obama supposedly has only a small advantage in Nevada, when early voting results show twice as many democrats have come out to vote than republicans. Do you really want me to believe that they voted for McShame? Get real.

CNN, I cant believe you refuse to report about Plain’s wardrobe expenditures.

Mari for Obama October 22nd, 2008 4:04 pm ET

I live in a state that always goes "red"—-I just wish the rest of my state would wake up and vote for change!!!

Mari, I'm in the same boat you're in and I too wish that folks wake up!

To: the other jd

I noted that discrepancy too. My guess is that the 37 is a typo, if it were 47 that would equate to the 4 point lead mentioned.

I just voted today!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Everyone in line was voting for B.O. it seemed.

Living in Ohio I am concerned about the republicans buying the election for McCain in Ohio like they did for Bush in 00 in Florida and 04 in Ohio.

Wasn't it the CEO of the company that made the polling machines that promised Ohio to Bush before the Election?

These polls keep showing a close race, but they're only conducted in a few states – not all of them. I think there will be a shocking amount of people in red states voting blue, and I do think there will be a landslide victory in the popular vote. BUT, electorals are the only ones that count, so we'll see how that pans out.

He's old and losing.

You don't win a boxing match with low blows.

General Powell's resume;
Four Star General
Secretary of State
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Republican

He's voting for Obama, shouldn't you?

Why is it that virtually all coverage of McCain by CNN has a negative slant? Really pathetic.

We'd be stupid to vote McSame and Cariboue Barbie –

C'ON HOW STUPID CAN YOU BE????

Washington State here, already voted for Obama, and so did my republican husband.

It is theses states that we need to be most adoment about election fraud in. enough of this Acorn crap, voter fraud amount to didly b/c the fake voters never cast a vote anyway. We need to make sure the election fraud is what does not happen. refer to the article on CNN.com front page about GOP election fraud schemes involving call centers. this is the real fraud.

McCain and Palin stump speeches.....1 noun, 1 verb, and Obama!

All they do is attack, attack, and attack Obama.

They can no longer focus on the real issues.

"Playing defense" = He's losing. Lost.

The more Obama's chances of a win go UP ; the more the stock market goes DOWN . strange

Sarah Palin was not wrong on the youtube video. The VP is the President of the Senate.

How absurd to see people raging about her when she was RIGHT!

Sheesh, people! Way to come off like idiots to the rest of the globe!

It's almost over folks. Just do your part and vote.

The polls show that McCain's negative campaign is deservedly hurting him. Good for us!

The comments on almost all the CNN articles are 20-1 in Obama's favor. He pulls 100,000 in St Louis just to see him. This thing will be a landslide.

I'm so mad, I decided to vote for Bob Barr

McCain keeps saying he has the Democrats "Right where we want them." Could it be that the Republicans, behind closed doors, know that the last 8 years have been disasterous for this country, and they actually do not want to be in power for the next 4 to 8? Who ever gets elected will have incredibly difficult challenges during his term(s) in office. If Obama takes the election, the Republicans may very well have an opportunity to blame everything on him (people have incredibly short memories, as evidenced by this blog), and then sweep triumphantly back into power in the next cycle. Setting Obama up to win can be the only logical explanation for the abysmally incompetent way McCain and Palin have run their campaign. Certainly it can't be that seasoned and tempered politicians like these two could be so idiotic, unethical, childish, and apparently terminally stupid. Certainly these two are smarter than they appear. Certainly these two cannot be the best the Republican Party has to offer. What an absolute train wreck!

To N.S. Even though the economy is in the muck and mire there are people who are not comfortable with Sen. Obama even though he makes sense while his counterpart and his winking doll are tripping over themselves. Issues don't matter – physical appearances do.

Go on the defence. Unlike Ms. Palin, I can't afford a $150,000 wardrobe and I don't have a sugar daddy or his handlers to pay for it. So much for the hockey mom and joe six-pack.

I'm lucky just to have a job and a roof over my head. What an elitist bunch they are.

Do not get complacent about the lead for the Democrats. Go vote early.......

Registered Republican "voted" Obama/Biden 08

And I quote, from McCain's own lips: "I voted with President Bush 90% of the time. More than many of my republican colleagues." What could be more straight talk than that? And let's face it, Sarah "Bara-clueless" would be terribly scarey replacing the quickly deteriorating McCain with her finger on the nuclear response button. She would push it and then ask, "oh, what was that for, it didn't do anything".

I'm a very prideful American. What I can't stand is all of these people wanting the rich to pay for the poor. I'm a broke hispanic college student who pays for everything. I think that there is money to be made, people just don't want to get out and make it. I think that most people who make alot of money deserve it. Obama is not going to show up and rescue everyone from their financial problems. All of the lazy people who think Obama is going to save them will have a rude awakening. GO OUT AND GET A JOB!!!! Also if you don't want to have a baby...well then you know what to stay away from. No child should be punished for an Adults careless mistakes. I think all of you people are crazy for following Obama like a bunch of sheep. Especially a man who doesn't have the American Flag on his campaign!!

Obama's going to lose all these states. I can't wait until you stupid Liberals/socialists/Commies/Losers are all crying foul!

We aint gonna elect a messiah.....you idiots!

Sorry that your welfare utopia is not going to happen.

Change......baloney.......

4-point margin — 51-37 percent — ??? I dont get the calculation CNN.
51 – 37 is not equal to 4.

Please send this poor woman back to Alaska from whence she cometh so the rest of us can be put out of her misery!

There just isn't any way to make the math work for McCain.

Even if he wins Florida and Ohio, which is looking less and less likely as this point, if Obama wins Virginia and Colorado, plus the states Kerry won, hello President Obama!

I once predicted Obama would win between 300-320 electoral votes. I'm starting to think I was too modest in my prediction. 350?

Keep pushing ahead....go, go, go Obama!

How can we believe your electoral college map if it is all going to come down to Ohio? You have Obama at 277 even now, and McCain at only 174.

It seems pretty obvious that Obama could lose Ohio and still win the election. It's a must-win, but only for McCain.

Why is this race so close. I cannot believe people would still consider voting for McCain/Palin who has brain cells less than 10%.

Now I know why these major companies are outsourcing their positions to other countries, people do not think over here!

Does McSame and Mcbarbie have a defense other than the same lame crap they have been spreading this entire campaign? I think not, I get ill every time I hear either of them talking. If I hear the crap about the surge, socialism, Ayers, Acorn etc. out of them one more time I am going to surge my lunch!!

The DOW just dropped 500 points. Shouldn't Johnny suspend his campaign again?

When is CNN planning to move VA from lean Obama to safe?

Excuse my ignorance but I what I don't understand is this:

If the "base" is such a powerful voting bloc in the Republican party but they don't like McCain, how is it that he was able to win his party's nomination so early on?

I love the sound of the polls. I do not believe them. Obama said it best - continue playing this as if he is the underdog. Do not get complacent, do not believe that it is wrapped up. Keep that sense of urgency, and get everybody out to vote (regardless of who you support, get out and vote).

I'll be excited on 5 November...

This is the problem, why put up this picture of Bush and McCain under this old story? Good reporting or bias support for Obama's message of trying to tie both together?. What a shame in a country that pride itself of press freedom and objectivity. Looking at the press coverage of this election thus far, I sometimes wonder if I am in Zimbabwe.

Nice CNN. You guys are so smooth – any chance you can get to have a photo with Bush. Very cheap shot.

Very tricky boys, have to give you credit.

I noticed the math problem too...

"Obama, D-Illinois, has a 4-point margin — 51-37 percent — over McCain among likely voters."

I wonder what the polls will do once everyone hears that Palin has either 1) never read the consitution & doesn't have a clue what it says or 2) wants to rewrite the constitution so that the VP "is in charge of the senate."

It is hard to imagine that Alaskans would even want her back. She is not a good spokesperson for that state.

Typo ? – the article says Obama has a 4 point lead in N. Carolina – but then says 51 to 37 – is this supposed to be 51 to 47? – if this is true, only 2 % are undecided?

so close to the finish!
obama voters, hit the poles hard!
dont let them have 4 more years!
one more $25 donation!
one more vote for obama!

4-point margin — 51-37 percent — ??? I dont get the calculation CNN.

Yes Debby-or until the Diebold machines flip the vote.

Everyone in VA: Please do not feel too comfortable. We still have a lot of work to do. There are others polls out that show the race much tighter in VA so it's not a done deal yet. It's good to see that Obama is leading McCain by 2:1 up here in "fake Virginia" (as one of the McCain surrogates put it a few days ago.) But remember, every vote counts so make sure you go to the polls early. We need to turn VA blue this time. Same goes to all of you in NC, CO, MO, OH, and NV.

People google "PNAC and john mccain" and you will understand why mccain received Al Queda's endorsement today.

I am an Obama Supporter..................BUT.................This SLY,Crusty old dog McCain will have something exotic, and Nasty up his sleeve. They are not spending all of those hard to come by dollars in Pennsylvania to lose ! These people ....hiding behind religion.....are ruthless and guiltless. These are not the Ronald Reagan Republicans of Colin Powell, or George Shultz. These creatures know how to win at all costs.....They know how to generate a base that will vote NO MATTER WHAT !!!! and TRICK you into thinking that you are ahead . WE NEED TO VOTE FOR OBAMA EARLY !!! These folks are counting on large confusing turnouts on Nov. 4th

GO OBAMA

Debby October 22nd, 2008 4:03 pm ET: And if the Republicans have their way, new registers thrown out.

Vote NO on socialism

Vote NO on Barry Obama

It scares me that McCain still has a chance. Americans need to wake up and realize McCain can't even run a campaign. How will he run the country?
McCain needs to put "Country First" and realize he is not the right choice for our country at this time.

Well that is what happens when you say that the real America is only in the right leaning areas of the country. Nobody likes that kind of talk and even the right leaners are coming out against McCain.

You and Palin are bad bad people and your evil tactics are going to come full circle round.

These polls dont mean a thing if we do not go out and vote my fellow Obama supporters! PLEASE GO OUT AND VOTE!

It will be a landslide for Obama/Biden. McCain/ Palin is running out of time. I just came from early voting here in Texas, and the lines are long. This is republican country but I am willing to bet Obama comes very close to winning this state.

Someone explain to me how a jet fighter pilot on a ship during the Cuban Missle Crisis has been "tested" in geo-political international relationships.
Somehow, the "Etch A Sketch" toy keeps coming to mind whenever the McCain/Palin ticket spout off their nonsense irrespective of the subject matter.
When you have nothing to say you say anything. Reading off of note cards, winking and unbecoming personal attack behavior is not going to do it. Decency is apparently not fundamental to the fundamentalists.

That's it– the poll of poll will be our next Secretary of State.

Please let November 4th come quickly! I have had it with the McCain/Palin campaign- the dirty lies, the smears, the pics I keep seeing of them! He is a creepy, petulant old man and he's not even wanted in AZ anymore!!

Good to see! Nice to see that voters are seeing how the Republican policies are killing them economcially.
I hope these leads can stay up. It's still going to be a long 13 days.

It's all about the Electorial map folks. If the undecided's have a say they would have to vote for Obama. At this point of the McCain campaign it would be hard to believe anyone with a brain would pick this ill informed, out of touch,hate machine, that has made history of the worst run campaign ever.McCain has completly lost independants with his "Fool Americans Express Tour" and then there is Palin.

In the words of George Bush himself on the reason why McCain is fighting for states he (President Bush) won in 2004:

"There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again."

LOL!!

Obama/Biden 08

Because he's LOSING...Going, going, GONE in T minus 13 days! Can't come soon enough for me!
OBAMA/BIDEN '08 & '12 YES WE CAN!!

I am watching the election on all major US TV stations, and as a UK citizen I am amazed and dumbfounded at the very low level of intelligence of your average American and I include the McCain Palin ticket.

Obama said it first, do Republicans and their supporters take pride in their inane stupidity, from what I see and hear he was spot on the Button yes you do.

Good grief ! Bush was intellectually challenged and these two prize specimens McCain and Palin are even lower down the pecking order of intellect.

What an indictment of the Republican party, these are supposed to be the best they have to offer.

God Help the USA

If John McCain is so low in your skewed liberal polling results, can you explain why John McCain is kicking Obama's butt by a mile in AOL's straw poll of well of 100,000 voters as opposed to your measly 697 people? The elitist liberal media is absolutely salivating at the thought that they may have had something to do with trying to propagandize this entire election. I am one member of the silent majority that knoews this will be a VERY close election. Obama may win (God help us all) but it will be much closer than the liberal 'pundits' wish.

GEE and Biden can't spell and obama doesn't know how to vote in the senate...gee seems like McCain is the only knowledgeable one around.

I imagine there's a good chance that the popular vote in most states will be tight (like in the previous two elections).

The difference this time is that Obama will win these traditionally red states and due to the electoral system, create the illusion of a landslide victory. This will help his propaganda machine greatly…

I want my president to be smarter than me and neither john or sarah are....

John McCain please close your campaign offices in Pennsylvania and take them to one of your seven houses. Or better yet quit why you are behind and please take your AIP supporter drop her off in Alaska and really retire at seventy-two it can be done these days and have Bush 41 and 43 over to one of your houses, but forgetting to tell them where!

Yes We Can 08/12

Obama/Biden you betcha!

This is what Senator Obama means when he talks about – One People and One Nation – These United States of America!!!

Vote For Change in 08. DONT FALL FOR THE OKEY DOKE AGAIN....
Tooooo Much at stake this time..... If you have kids, neices & nephews vote for their future......Vote for Barack Obama!!!!

Obama/Biden 08!!!

And that's how we like it! The states that gave Bush the honor to serve our country will not make the same mistake twice. "Fool me once shame on me, fool me twice shame on you". That is exactly what the people of the swing states that voted for Bush the last election will say to the Mccain/Palin ticket. Mccain may not be president bush but his policies are the same. We cannot only change the face of a president, we must change the policies.

Stop with all the polls. There is only one that matter and that wil be the most acurate and the final say.
November 4th- not here soon enough!

Whatever McCain!

I imagine there's a good chance that, the popular vote in most states will be tight (like in the previous two elections.

The difference this time is that Obama will win these traditionally red states and due to the electoral system, create the illusion of a landslide victory. This will help his propaganda machine greatly...

John McCain is a good man, even if he did select the incompetent Sarah Palin as his running mate. The problem for McCain is this is simply not his time nor the Republican party's time. After eight years of George Bush and all the intense and complicated problems his administration has brought to our country, the American people are looking for change and they have found it in a highly educated, very intelligent, well-spoken and forward-looking Barack Obama who the counry sees as the future of America. McCain should have won the presidency in 2000 and not Bush. That would have been his time and I absolutely believe, had McCain won in 2000, this country would not be in the sad state that it is in today. McCain has served his country with honor – he should be proud.

Debby, don't you mean that it's not over until all the votes are suppressed? That's what McCain is counting on. He has no chance of winning a fair contest. Cheating is his only option now. Good thing that the dems are very aware of this tactic from 2000 & 2004.

Come down to Ohio? If Obama wins VA/NC, VA/CO, Ohio is inconsequential. I'd posit that if VA goes blue on election night, you can turn off the TV.

Obama is in for the smackdown of the century! Let's abolish the Democrat Party! Let's send them home so they feel what it's like to live under the woes wrought by the Democrat controlled Congress! What is the Democrat controlled Congress approval ratings again? And some idiots want these schmucks in power?

I'm sure Mr. Obama has ACORN to thank for that.

CNN and others OVERPOLL democrats and overly estimate new voters, plus with the new FEDERAL INVESTIGATIONS on new voter registrations...

Mr. Obama is going to be suprisingly shocked when he loses the election.

Of course, I'm wondering which one of his surrogate will cry "racism" first.

Then again, it's DEMOCRAT MURTHA who is calling people from Pennsylvania "Rednecks" and "Racist"

What a joke.

Senator McCain IS TRUSTED MORE BY MY FAMILY

McCain/Palin 2008 !!!

Mccain and Bush look like brothers.

Ohio wont' be the clincher this time around. Obama wins Virginia or Colorado and the race is over.

Can't rely on Ohio this time around, they voted for Bush twice cant count on them or Florida. The people are not smart enough there yet.

Colorado & Virginia for Dems!!!!

Leave it to Ohio to drag the rest of the country down with it, afer all they have done it twice in a roll

Debbie, this ballgame is over even before all the votes are counted. Notice how Palin is beginning to distance herself from pops lately? She is setting up for 2016. Have I mentioned that this ballgame is over Deb?

I'm in SHOCK with the way McCain has run his campaign. I voted for Gore in 2000, and Bush in 2004. I regret my 2004 vote but ... that's now history. I was "on the fence" for this election, and McCain's shenanigans and dirty politics made me wonder how he'd run his White House. Dividing this great Country is not decent. I'm sickened by his tactics.

Can we vote already?

ONE NATION

My friends, McCain and Bush are joined from the hip.

In their heart of hearts, Americans believe "as you do unto the least of these my family you do unto me"...and every day in a dozen ways they see more clearly that Obama and Biden are true to this belief and McCain and Palin are not.

The big difference between McCain and Bush is that McCain is old.

I went out today and voted. I'm a life-long Democrat and for the first time in my life I voted a straight Republican ticket!!

This fool with no clear agenda talks about how experienced he is with foreign countries and I still do not recall him having been President.He acts like a fool through the economic crisis and expects us to believe his experience would be good to deal with international crisis when he can't even be trusted to pick a VP that is qualified.One thing McCain is good at is lying to the public and running a different camaign every week.

John McCain & Sarah Palin are not trustworthy just like President Bush & Vice President Cheney.

Election officials have just announced that all McCain supporters can now vote on Wednesday, November 5th! An entire day just for McCain voters. Pencil it in on your calendar!

Such a nice picture! And so accurate!

Sad part is, I would vote for Bush before I voted for McCain.

Math Fact:
McCain has admittedly voted with Bush 90% of the time. Out of pure statistical luck, Bush has been right 10% of the time.
Conclusion: McCain has been wrong 100% of the time!

Why should pops and his intern play defense when this ballgame is over. Obama-Bidenx8 years in the whitehouse.

NC is going BLUE. Obama to the white house that's something this country we need. And the war in Iraq ended.....

They look like brothers.

McCain is a Lier....Why would anyone vote for someone who is a proven lier? The race is over for the lier.

I live in a state that always goes "red"--I just wish the rest of my state would wake up and vote for change!!!

The only way to defeat the Rovian Cheat Machine is a nationwide LANDSLIDE! Early voting is going Democrat 2 to 1....

Caribou Barbie and McSame are going down in flames!

To be honest Obama should be blowing McCain away, McCain is trash with the lid on it, and Pailn dosen't know a thing. So people in the USA get a damm grip. If your voting for McCain because Obama is black you got issues. There is not one thing that I like about McCains plans, not his 5k health plan, not anything.

Don't get me wrong...I love that Obama shows as ahead, but there is something wrong with this math...

Democrats last carried North Carolina in a presidential election in 1976, but the poll suggests that Obama, D-Illinois, has a 4-point margin — 51-37 percent

President BARACK OBAMA

MCCAIN, GAME OVER!!!!

Its not over till all the votes are counted .

Well, Mr. John McCain, Sir. You had your chance.

In all honesty, rather than showing off by superior performance your experience, maturity; successes and knowledge and political savvy, you chose to run one of the dirtiest, dishonest, sleaziest, insulting, vicious and most incompetent campaign that I am aware of.

Rather than demonstrating by your presentation your superiority you ran around chest-thumping telling everybody, who cared to listen, that you were “tested” and had the “experience” and did not need “on-the-job training”.

You chose and an incompetent running mate. You permitted insinuations and insults towards your opponent. You cannot hide your hate and temper in the debates. YOU could have shown that the GOP can be competent and be above the fray. – - – Well, you did not.

To late now to put on a different mantle – you have shown your true colors.

If you lose, and it seems that way, only you are to blame.

LOL you might want to think about strategy here Johnny Boy.

LET'S TURN THE WHOLE COUNTRY BLUE AMERICA! GO OUT IN YOUR MILLIONS AND BARACK THE VOTE!