McCain takes lead in national poll

Foon,

Instead of the liberal slant, why not publish this important piece of the poll

"In the new poll, taken Friday through Sunday, McCain leads Obama by 54%-44% among those seen as most likely to vote. The survey of 1,022 adults, including 959 registered voters, has a margin of error of +/— 3 points for both samples."

This is just the beginnng. it will be a double digit lead by November.

When Americans start learning/thinking about Obama's connections to the corrupt Chicago political hegemony, McCain's lead will widen.

Keep on DREAMING.......

As the single mother of a son who is autistic, I wept when Sarah Palin said the mothers of special needs children would have an advocate in the White House. I believe she will do exactly what she said; Obama and Biden, however, will do exactly as they have done in the past, which is nothing.

You know what, I would have been dismayed, but now I don't care. I hope McCain and his hillbilly sidekick wins--their party deserves to be in place to take the blame for the sorry state our economy is in. You people deserve the government you vote for; may God have mercy on us all.

These polls are a joke. It is just backlash from the Palin nonsense in the media. They are most likely not capturing the young people that are promoting and hungering for something better and new. No one wants 4 more years of Bush nonsense. Americans aren't stupid, at least I hope they aren't. McCain isn't going to change a thing. This isn't a liberal slant, this is the truth, polls are inaccurate, skewed, and Obama is going to win by a landslide.

GO OBAMA

Welcome to the American political process: 101. National polls mean nothing. Check the state polls.

With unemployment shooting through the roof and the mortgage crisis taking center stage, non-evangelicals know Grandpa John and the PTA lady offer no solutions to the past 8 years of their party's reign.

Also, the young adult vote is being underreported in this election. Pollsters don't call cell phones.

I hope the retreads, err, repubs keep up their smug and smarmy glee. Obama will clean their clocks.

You rightwing trolls are all the same. If a journalist isn't actively sucking up to the right, you whine about "liberal slant". Seig Heil!

To the first two commentators: OK, McCain/Palin have enjoyed their convention bounce--now we have two months, several debates, media interviews to go. Let's see how the McCain/Palin team do with real questions in their face...Can Sarah Palin find Afghanistan on a map? Can John McCain distinguish between Sunni and Shia? Do either of them have a clue on economics?

A McCain / Palin win would motivate me to move out of the country and look at America like the rest of the world does - a country of backward idiots.

The only candidate supporting actual change is Obama!

September 2007: McCain voted against the Webb amendment calling for adequate troop rest between deployments. At the time, nearly 65% of people polled in a CNN poll indicted that "things are going either moderately badly or very badly in Iraq.

May 2006: McCain voted against an amendment that would provide $20 million to the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for health care facilities.

April 2006: McCain was one of only 13 Senators to vote against $430,000,000 for the Department of Veteran Affairs for Medical Services for outpatient care and treatment for veterans.

March 2006: McCain voted against increasing Veterans medical services funding by $1.5 billion in FY 2007 to be paid for by closing corporate tax loopholes.

A Military Hero, or McBush with 95% Bush Vote in Congress?
McCain "Supports Bush/Cheney Iraq War of Choice and Continued Oil Occupation... For Next 100 Years if Needed For Victory"!

McCain Does Not Care About American Soldiers and Their Families!
McCain - me first, country second- ONLY CARES ABOUT HIMSELF!

i dont think i cant take four more years of republican leadership, i think if he were to become elected, that i will not longer participate in the U.S. system. I will devote my life to the development of a new political system, that is by the people and for the people. Mc Cain in the lead clearly indicates that the people are no longer in power, and the business is buying presidents.

AJD is right, lets keep things neutal in reporting. We dont need that liberal slant.

Thanks for listening

Can it be that folks are finally paying attention?

Obama/Biden lack any substance. They're only strategy is to try to link McCain/Palin to Bush/Cheney. It's not working. The lead will continue to grow and after November 4, we'll see how much the Bradley effect played into the polling.

Good news.

The liberral media doesn't get it.
Media is trying elect Obama
People are going for palin!!!

Jerome is right. There will be a double digit lead by November - in favor of the Obama-Biden ticket. Pit a dottering old man of 72 against Havard educated Obama at 47, and Carabou Barbie Palin against Joe Biden and that will show everyone where this campaign is going. The debates will be pivotal. This election is a Bob Dole rerun. This is not about the past but a very uncertain future. The aging war veteran as president fad is over. We are moving into the 21st century with or without you.

I suppose even the most liberal among us can only stand for so much "change" when every time we hear the "change" it is just Nobama looking more and more like McCain. Hey if the guy had even a little experience he would have a chance to realize EVERY campaign is about "change". At some point however, your "change" has to be different than that of your opponent. Maybe the next election when he has 4 1/2 years experience instead of just 1/2 year will help make that a bit clearer.
This is just another example of Nobama’s gross lack of experience and extremely poor judgment that goes along with it. What do you expect; his senatorial experience is 140 days. When he tried to retort Palin for having body slammed him during her acceptance speech regarding the “community organizer” jabs she was hurling – the imbecile came back with how much campaign experience he has on the national stage compared to her then 4 days. Hey Nobama, you’re not running for permanent campaigner. You’re running for President so executive level experience is a bit more important than merely campaign experience.
Can this guy just open his mouth when speaking extemporaneously one time without sticking his foot in it, throwing someone under the bus or bring up the word “change” without including any specifics. Or worst of all, changing his position to match McCain’s? The latest is he wants to hold off on tax increases for the wealthy because implementing them might be bad for the economy – Hell; he should have tried to get McCain on his ticket since they seem to agree on so much lately.

god help us

Yes and its Obama's own fault ...he picked the wrong VP...should have been Hillary.

I am going to vote for OBAMA...because to do otherwise would be CRAZY. I am registered as an Independent....and believe that the GOP should get no more chances. The GOP and Bush the have messed up the country and our economy. McCain/Palin are offering no credible solutions to anything...just the same old fear and ideological mongering.....and McCain/Palin are totally for the 'birds' on most important issues.

Michael NJ

Polls have little value- after all, most intelligent people have caller ID & don't answer the phone to respond to polls.
The Republican politicians are great at campagining- especially negative, character attacks- but horrible at governing once in office. They are experts at propaganda, deceitful, pander & say anything to get elected. America knows this now & won't fall for the geriatic McCain ticket, despite its newfound subserviant celebrity.

If they count likely voters, Obama has NEVER been ahead. That's why they don't report that. So pathetic.

As a Clinton supporter, I gotta say to all you Obama people, "I told you so."

And im guessing people eat this propaganda up.......how is america so stupid?

This is a terrifying trend. There is no way a woman that's been investigated for abuse of power and tried to ban books in her home town that collided with her creationist ideals should be a heartbeat away from the Presidency. Get ready for 4 more years of a weak dollar, terrible deficits, ignorant foreign policy and crumbling economy. Can someone please explain to me how the party responsible for CREATING the disaster is supposed to be "the change we need to fix it?"

It's just a short term bounce, because of the hype. It won't last. Obama had huge bounce once he gained momentum, then people got used to it. When people get used to Palin, THEN it will be more about issues and less about bells and whistles. Palin doesn't have much substance to attract moderates with.

And the poll shows McCain has closed gap in being able to handle economy -- statistically even with Obama after being behind in past weeks by uo to 20%. And as always, economy is THE issue. Seems like the best Obama people can pitch is that "McCain-Palin is four more years of the last eight," but the voters know better -- McCain and Palin are NOT Bush and Cheney. Change is coming -- and someone needs to remind Obama that change if a process, not a destination.

We will see once the giltter and lipstick of Palin wears off. I for one will not vote for McCain now. I love my Lord, but we don't need another 4 years of this country being run by brain washed soulless hypocrites who do nothing to "unite" people in a positive manner. Look into Palin's record! research for yourself instead of relying on the media
Seriously folks, if God forbid anything happens to McCain, this woman is not fit to run a country. She spits out as much bogus religous garbage as good ole' Rev Hage plus you'll also end up with wacko Leiberman pushing for war with Iran.

54%-44% among those seen as most likely to vote!! How did you "miss" that?

The idea that Ms. Palin is a boon to the Republicans will soon evaporate. The reality of her lack of fitness for the office will overwehlm the McCain campaign in due course.

This is too bad,another 4 years of disaster wherein you try and avoid teh blame. Fine,maybe if you admitted this democracy doesn't work anymore. If the Democrats put such a naive nothing in their ticket tehyw ould have never heard the end of it.

Be proud that ignorance and subterfuge rule the day again and you can lead teh country further down the road to rid\icule and disaster. Fools

Wheels coming off Oboma's hot air powered machine.

The dem's house of cards is beginning to crumble. It's funny how even my own friends (i'm 30 something and live in Los Angeles, go figure) argue that resume (meaning the lack of content therein -- can anyone say Obama?) is unimportant. I tell them resume is only unimportant if you don't have one.

Of course, many in this generation have been spoon-fed and are akin to sheeps being led to the slaughterhouse. It is scary how people are so easily mesmerized by colorful words delivered eloquently. (One PBS channel last week aired Hitler's propaganda machinery. Switching to another PBS channel, there was Obama speaking. I flipped back and forth between Hitler and Obama speaking. Conclusion: both eloquent, no substance. Not saying that Obama would do the same thing as Hitler, but one is forewarned to go past convincing argument and consider underlying prior achievements or the lack thereof lest history repeat itself... it is easy enough to speak, but to act?)

The Democrats will never be a major party unless they get over their hatred of the Republicans and the religious right. Some in the media sill regard President Bush as Mr Bush. Many of us are conservative and belive it or not we are not the evil monsters the liberals make us out to be. My son is following a long tradition in our family and joining the service as soon as he graduates High school. I want a man like John Mccain as their commander. Obama is just not ready. He should have waited four years and ran in 2012.

What ever happend to guys like Gerald Ford and Tip O'neal. They used to go at it in congress and tear each other up. Then they woudl go out and play a game of golf together. When it was done they had a comprimise worked out. Working together. What a novel idea. But with of the conserviatives towards liberals as well as the hatred of the liberals towards conservatives. It will never happen.

Great, just what this country needs is yet another self-serving conservative in the form of Palin. The half-truths she spews would be comical if she didn't have a chance at actually being in charge.

Yes, this is just the beginning.
My question is this:
after 8 years of Reagan,
after 4 years of Bush Sr.,
after 8 years of Bush Jr.,
after 8 years of McCain,
who will you have to blame abortion on? The Republicans run and win on this issue every time, and they do nothing about it because it's almost the only thing anyone is the country agrees with them on. They are using Christians to promote their corrupt policies, and it is disgusting.

This is foolish, the poll numbers are going to vary all the way to election day. These polls are very unreliable.

In this modern age, they who sling the most mud to obscure the most issues shall inherit the White House.

What I would like to know is who is ahead in Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and the other battle ground states.

I assume more seem to have enjoyed the politics of the last eight years than the other polls we have seen reflected..
Is there any chance the people polled are randomly picked from the people that don't pay attention and/or the ones that forgot they did not want more of the same? Or could they randomly be the ones that watched the GOP convention and decided to believe that McCain is truly a maverick-in-waiting, ripping off his old disguise, as the guy that was there "all the time", and is now launching himself into the future of the past he has tried to erase...

Well, AJD, how about because this is a blog, not an article?

If she/he wrote that, it would just be regurgitation of the original article, wouldn't it?

thank you God. NOBAMA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Only in America can we spend millions to get rid of someone
with the name Hussein and also elect someone with the name Hussein.
NOBAMA 08!!!!!!!

Remember Salem.
McCain/Palin, 2008

A Gallup Poll taken yesterday (9/7/08) shows McCain up by 3% which is within the margin of error. In political terms the election is a hundred years away. Anything can happen and often does. I was in New Hampshire two weeks before the Presidential Primary and McCain was in third place in all the polls. He went on to win.

As all candidates know, momentum can disappear as quickly as it appears. Palin looks good right now but who knows what she'll look like in two weeks.

October is a long month and much will and can change.

AJD- You may not be aware of the fact that the category "likely voters" is based on data from previous elections, not an updated basket of population segments from the current pool of voters. As you know, many younger voters have come of age and have registered in massive numbers. They are supporting Obama overwhelmingly, nationwide. Thus, it is not a "liberal slant", as you indicate, but instead, a situation requiring a bit more depth in understanding what these numbers mean and what they don't mean. -XYZ

no surprise here....McCain picks a seemingly exciting unknown in Palin, but as more of the truth cmes out about her (supports forcing women who were victims of rape and incest to have the babies, her book burnings, and her other extreme right-wing positions) the luster will wear off quickly. Most of the poll repsondents didn't evn know anything about her at that time of the poll. She's a an religious zealout and extremist who up until a year and a half ago was a mayor of 9000 people...yeah that would make a gfreat president. This isn't a reality show, it's the future of the country and world, get real. A post convention poll is meaningless. 100% of the time over th last 30 years, whatever the poll results were right after a convention, the one who had the convention "bump" always went down soon thereafter. Interesting how the conservative media doesn't mention any of this.

I am so glad that Mc Cain gets the leading and it will be much more come November. We dont need a president who mocks God and the Bible as Obama did. We need godly leaders in this wonderful country

Many people like Obama because they want change. They may not like it but many of us prospered during the Bush years, and we want four more, thank you. We're voting McCain/Palin!

I agree with Jerome.

Obama is a CNN/NBC media creation who can't be trusted.

At least McCain doesn't promise everything under the sun and sticks to realistic goals like providing security, reducing our reliance on foreign oil, and lowering taxes.

I used to be a staunch Democrat, but Obama's ridiculous political rise in the Democratic party despite seriously limited experience has turned me into an Independent.

I'm not sticking with the Democrats anymore. They pander and promise way to much.

... the democratic mandarins would not listen to Bill Clinton probably the most astute politician of our generation ... Obama is unelectable... he is the payback to the democrats most loyal constituency...he will be the last African American to run for president the next minority candidate will be Hispanic...

The Democratic presidential candidate typically needs to be 5 to 7 points up in a national poll to win the presidency, as the electoral college system adds a slight tilt towards the smaller, more conservative states. So, even if Obama was tied with McCain, McCain would have the edge in winning. So, with McCain up by 10 points with likely voters, that is a big gap for Obama to overcome.

Count me in support of McCain/Palin

Classis case of the media making a story where there is none... How is this peice of tundra trash making any difference really,

This is only a prelude to more election shanagans brought to you by Diebold and comany... they could not even attempt it again without the press handing them a "close race"

Someday, americans are just going to have to face up to the fact that they are willingly ignorant of what is going on.

I pray for us all that you are wrong Jerome. If they win, America is doomed.

Yep, 'where's the beef" has been my mantra since this has started. Apparently I am not alone.

You may want Obama because you want change. Whether you like it or not, many of us prospered during the Bush years, and we want four more, thank you. That's why I'm voting McCain/Palin!

I am much encouraged by this; I hope McCain and Palin continue to get their message out there. I think a lot of people will find that Palin is grounded and rational, and that the Rep. ticket really does want change.

I am trying to get away from partisanship behavior, so I will abstain from Dem-hating remarks, here. Truthfully, Obama is talented and has fresh ideas, too. He needs more time to gain the necessary experience but most importantly, he needs to be an American that loves and takes real pride in America. "I pledge allegiance to the flag..."; it's not just a line in a poem.

Obama needs to stop trying to be bigger than life, and focus more on learning more about Americans that aren't liberals or registered Dems. People that do not agree with everything Hollywood has to say, or even care about celebrity opinion.

A parting thought: Should McCain win, and offer Obama a position on his staff, would Obama accept?

Palin is a tax and spend Republican. When that comes out, McCain will crash. As Mayor, she ran her town from zero debt to tens of millions of debt. She raised spending and taxes.

Now she complains about the media. But what did Palin and all the McCain loyalists say when Clinton supporters complained about the media? They said stop whining and prove yourself.

It is as much, or more, the tepid campaign of Obama. It was his to lose, and he is losing it. The O campaign was based too much on negative attacks on Bush(too easy) and mindless cameo and front page pictures in slick magazines that fewer and fewer people read. His latest debate at Camelback and interview with George S. showed O is not a debater and he is a gaffer-- "My Muslim faith" George S being the mainstream media guy he is corrected the O, and O said "My Christian faith." O has a history of gaffes that were always forgiven like George S did (out of context is used too erroneously and too often reserved for Him) , but now and in the next two months, O and his Press are running out of passes.
As the mainstream press clings to its manufactured celebrities and fawning over its "pay for play" politicians, it is seen as meanly attacking anything good left in America.

Nationwide polls mean nothing. I don't understand why anyone even bothers to report them. If the state by state polls hold up through election day, it's Obama in a landslide. Not that I care who get's elected. America is screwed either way.

How stupid can the American people get. I know our education system stinks but this is a real "no brainer". McCain is so much like Bush I don't see how anyone with half a brain could vote for the same guy 3 elections in a row when things are so bad.

1. Bush got admitted to Yale via its "Negative Action" (NA) program. His was a white double legacy and his family donated much money to the school.

McCain's high school transcripts are not even public record they were so bad. Yet he went to the Naval Academy on the same "Negative Action" program because his father and grandfather were both Admirals.

2. Bush did poorly at Yale yet got admitted to Harvard's business school via NA.

McCain graduated 894 out of 899 students at the Naval Academy yet he went to flight school where only the best of the best get a chance to fly jet again the NA program because he's a legacy.

3. Bush advocated the "tax cut can fix anything" policy.

The "New McCain" has vowed to keep it going and continue to wreck our economy with massive borrowing.

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. You have two guys cut from the same cloth educationally. Two guys that advocate the same policies. Even two Republican white males, if you don't have enough similarities.

How can you call yourself a maverick, when you voted the status quo 90% of the time.

Bend over America. You deserve it if you vote for this ticket.

54%-44% among those seen as most likely to vote!! How did you "miss" that?

When Palin begins to explain her stance on abortion, book banning, and earmarks, it will be clear that she is not the candidate that America wants so close to the Oval Office. I thought that she was just a joke candidate to prepare the way from McCain to accept her resignation and name Lieberman or Romney, but it turns out that he's just an impu8lsive man who thinks Americans are dumb. Sarah Palin represents the "American Idolization" of politics. Had she run an actual campaign, she's be back in Anchorage now along with all the other contenders.

Obama still leads McCain by a wide margin in the electoral college. It doesn't matter if McCain increases his lead in conservative states that he was going to win anyway. Obama has increased his lead in the swing states, albeit it with a smaller margin. So, while Obama drops in the national polls, he is in a stronger position to win the elections.

We are seeing now that experience is needed. A seasoned statesman is required. Had Bush been more seasoned on Middle East history, Iraq would have been handled differently. Obama is the future- 12 yrs from now. Its McCain's turn

i don't understand the gop has almost destroyed america in the last 8 years and people still back this regime? god bless and help us all.

This is Tammy from Hackensack New Jersey

We love Obama but we think he made a hugh mistake by not picking Hillary Rodam Clinton for this Vice President.
He still needs to let us know more about what he will do to better our Economy,
Health Care and Immigration

yes it will be double digit ....for obama, the mcsame platform and the pitbull from hell have had their day. again it was the same old retoric, if americans don't see the war as the greatest tax layed on them in decades then they deserve these morons. canada and mexico can expect a large migration into their countries if these bozos get elected.

Unbelievably S C A R Y is what this is...

"Foon,

Instead of the liberal slant, why not publish this important piece of the poll

"In the new poll, taken Friday through Sunday, McCain leads Obama by 54%-44% among those seen as most likely to vote. The survey of 1,022 adults, including 959 registered voters, has a margin of error of +/— 3 points for both samples."

By adding the words, "most likely to vote" this survey removes all people ages 18-25 from the poll. These young adults lean Obama 90% of the time. It is convienent to leave out most of Obama's foundation when you take a poll of voting. I guess it will make republicans feel warm and fuzzy until the extra 30% of voters who are considered "unlikely" show up and put McCain behind by 20%.

Obama lead was 4 points and was a solid lead, McCain has a 4 point lead and its narrow. The media have shamed themselves and now are a clear obsticle between Americans and their Democracy.

The American people are beginning to realize the Obama just absolutely cannot be trusted with the fate of our precious country......with the people and our children and their children. We do not know Obama and probably never will. McCain/Palin can lead this country honorable and patriotically.

I'm not sure why the Americans might think that Palin is worth energizing over. I'm a little freaked out that my own views seem to be so different from what the polling suggests today.

Do Americans, generally, want a woman's right to choose determined by Washington? Don't the Republicans always say that Washington is already too much in our lives.

Do Americans want tax breaks for only the wealthy? McCains plan is aimed at more trickle down theory while Obama's asks that those who have benfitted the most from this great country pay a little more while we fix our roads, bridges schools and so on.

Do Americans think that banning books is a good thing? Didn't we all have to read Lord of the Flies? It's a disturbing book, but I remember great conversations generated from this material that made us, as students, think.

Would American's be comfortable with a President who believes that our brave soldiers are "Messengers from God?" Isn't that what the radicals we're fighting in the Middle East tell their own people?

There are other annoying little items, such as the exaggerations about the Bridge to Nowhere (Palin supported it) and the Ebay Sale (plane actually sold thru a private broker at a loss). To be fair, the Dems are exaggerating too; Obama's tax plan would mean taxes would not increase for 81% of Americans, not the 95% he states. The 95% only applies if you have kids (dependents).

Can someone please tell me what Pailn TRULY offers without bringing up her gender or family?

Thanks.

The American people are beginning to realize the Obama just absolutely cannot be trusted with the fate of our precious country......with the people and our children and their children. We do not know Obama and probably never will. McCain/Palin can lead this country honorable and patriotically.

Nothing against Obama, but perhaps he peaked just a bit too early.

Hey, AJD,

Since we're picking apart the so-called slant, it also states that:

- Post-convention polls signal the election's outcome only about half the time.
- The Republican's ties to President Bush remains a vulnerability. In the poll, 63% say they are concerned he would pursue policies too similar to those of the current president.
- McCain's acceptance speech Thursday received lower ratings than the one Obama gave a week earlier: 15% called McCain's speech "excellent" compared with 35% for Obama.

Post election bumps are usually not a good indicator of what is actually going on in voters minds and there are vulnerabilities on both sides. Independents are notoriously fickle and their moods shift from week to week resulting in shifts in polling data.

We may get a better sense of where things are going after the first televised debates when the candidates are forced to provide specifics and even then election day will be the only real indicator.

May God help us.

These polls are conducted among voters who have landlines, therefore are VERY misleading due to the multitudes of young people with only cell phones who are Obama supporters!

It is hard to believe that after 8 years of the worst administration in history that we are considering putting another Republican in with the same failed policies of the last 8 years. The shame of it is that Obama is a brilliant guy who has run a first class campaign. When interviewed he speaks to the issues and has a better plan for this country. The Republicans have the same failed policies under which all but the very wealthy will be worse off. What hurts the most is that the vile, baseless, anti-American, constant vitriol has worked to date. It really denigrates us as a country, but that appears to be the aim of the extreme right. Guess I'm old and out of touch, but I still have faith in the American people, even after 8 years of Bush.

Nice "reporting" Foon. Who cares how long Obama has been getting loud crowds when comparing it to McCain? The only timeframe that matters is when people show up to vote on Nov. 4th. The key point is that McCain/Palin have energized people in advance of election day. Obama doesn't get extra credit for drawing crowds for a longer period of time.

Also like how you refer to McCain's lead as narrow, funny didn't see those types of comments from you when Obama was clingiing to his slim lead when he should have been enjoying a double digit edge.

Finally did you blog following the Democratic convention about its anti-McCain drumbeat? Don't think so, and I also noticed you didn't mention the much more significant bounce the Republicans received following its convention than the Dems and Obama/Biden did.

Thanks for showing your true colors, meanwhile the electorate continues to see Obama for what he truly is, a great speaker with no real accomplishments and no record of ever reaching across the aisle to pass any legislation of stature either in the US or Illinois Senate.

Sorry that this new poll is so discouraging to you and the Globe writers.

Finally, the WHITEHOUSE will be restored to AMERICAN VALUES. Sarah Palin is a women, mother, and wife. In my eyes, she would be a mother bear protecting her country. Hell hath no fury like a mother scorned! She has her finger on the pulse of America and knows what this country need not wants. Thank God for women. Behind every man is a great women.

Sarah Palin is leading the ticket, not John McCain. McCain does not have much drawing power and people show up at rallies to see Sarah Pailn (not John McCain). When McCain and Palin jointly appear at rallies, the energy is clearly with Palin. In such settings, McCain portrays an image of secondary person on the stage. Palin has the celebrity image and McCain appears to be the stage hand (at least as I see the images on television).

The jump in tracking polls is the work of Sarah Palin, NOT John mcCain.

Doesn't mean anything. Obama is going to win this election by a landslide. People are fed up with the Republicans. Remember the mid term elections back in 2006, when people ran the Republicans out of Congress? Same thing is going to happen in this election.

And no, I'm not an Obama supporter, or a McCain supporter.

My favorite people in the world are the whack jobs (Both Rep. & Dems) who attend the conventions and chant their little hearts out. Did these people take vaction time from work to do this or are they all trust fund babies. Did anyone see the giddy guy screaming his lungs out "Cindy!!! Cindy!!!" as Mrs. McCain took the stage... it was uncomfortable to watch. How about the people who were actually getting "teary" listening to God Obama recite a speech that he didn't write.

One guy is a Pro-Life - Pro-Gun - Pro-War 125 year old fossil who calls himself a maverick but makes the most politically motivated VP selection in the history of this country. While the other guy is less experienced than your average town selectman and is at an absolute loss for words when he's taken off the tele-prompter.

Well I guess they're both better than Kerry or Bush.

God help us.

McCain 2008, win or lose, is definitely the best run presidential campaign of all time.

So you guys want a one party religious dictatorshirp like the arab countries?

AJD has it in one. Note the AOL poll which has consistently had McCain in the low to high 60s v. Obama in the low to high 30s for the last few months. 300,000 to 500,000 people updating their opinions--weekly. During the Democrat Convention the numbers dipped to 62/38; they have surged up to the high 60s again after Republican convention. So they are clearly trend right.

The swing states are full of 6500 people towns where mayors are hands on, as Palin was. Obama knocking that showed he "doesn't get it."

Remember that Hillary won the Democratic states; Obama won the Republican ones in the Democratic primary.

So you guys want a one party religious dictatorshirp like the arab countries?

my percent numbers may be wrong here, but they're close.

The current issue of the Economist, hardly a partisan publication, quotes a poll of UNDECIDED ( key word here ) voters. The poll stated that 21 % of Undecided voters stated that the choice of Palin made them Less likely to vote for McCain, while only 6% said that the choice made them More likely to vote for him. (The article is on page 40 of this week's issue). It's a long way until November 4th, so I would caution either candidate from picking out new drapes for the White House just yet.

Thank providence and Sarah Palin, Barack Obama's strangle hold on the nation is finally broken.Now, maybe, people will listen more closely to exactly what Obama is saying.

Change, Change, Change, Obama Chants. "Change we need, Change we can believe in," "change because Bush has been a bad president and John McCain is more of same."

Well, Obama has met his match in Sarah, the new Pied piper on the block, a butt-kicking "Soccer Mom." Who would've thought it?

"Look! Up in the sky. Its a bird! Its a plane! No, its Super Soccer Mom, a not so mild mannered American Mom, who believes in getting back to "The American Way." "You go, Girl."

Sarah Palin is a fake and will be proven soon!!! McCain, though a true hero is an old man. Give him a statue or something and be done with it. I mean does anybody want Palin as president?

Isn't it amazing? Lincoln's adage of fooling some of the people all of the time is right on target. Imagine another four years of the same right wing policies that brought us a destructive, unjustified and deadly war in Iraq; an economy which has plunged us into deep deficits from solid surpluses; a chance for a President McCain, or worse, a President Palin to nominate more right wing ideologues to the Supreme Court so as to make the Constitution so impotent and render our rights so abridged, that George Orwell's "Animal Farm" will become a normal way of life. All this while becoming a wholly owed subsidiary of China, India and Russia; allowing the Earth to disintegrate while the Repubs insist that global warming is an unproved myth and becoming poorer by the day. God help us all if this comes to pass.

THREE THINGS

DEFENCE WE NEED A LARGER BETTER EQUIPED ARMED FORCES

REBUILD THE RAILROADS = LESS TRUCKS SAVE ENERGY

LISTEN TO MR T BOONE DO WHAT HE TELL US KEEP OUR MONEY

AT HOME TO GET OUR PEOPLE BACK TO WORK

National polls mean nothing. Polls in battleground states are the only ones that matter (see Bush-Gore, 2000).

That being said, the Sarah Palin bump in the polls will last another week. Then even conservatives will realize how pathetic she is.

I'm a Republican, but if this is the kind of inane decision making that we can expect from McCain... then I'll look forward to our 2012 candidate.

I know that Bush-McCain Republicans can't really handle nuance, but you all might want to check composite poll numbers. Pollster.com has those, and Obama/Biden still hold the lead.

Trusting one poll at the high-water mark for Republican support is a little like describing a murder scene through a keyhole.

I love it, I moved out of MA last year to Indiana (Republican State). I still to this day do not understand how you guys keep re-electing Kennedy/ Kerry into office???? And why the heck are you so libral still?

My vote goes to McCain/ Palin - I will not vote for someone who lies to the country, associates with a known terrorist, throws the American flags away after their dem convention.

At the end of the July, the CNN poll had a 7 point lead for Obama.

How do you twist this that there was no bump for McCain?

USA Today/Gallup TODAY has 10 pt. lead. The first survey that includes ALL days of the Repub Convention

Awaking Voters now have started comparing McCain/Palin's Public & Private life experiences with Mr. Obama's.

Obama's life experience and qualification for President of U.S. are hard to believe.
Mr. Obama graduated from the finest Prep School in the State of Hawaii; graduated from Columbia University; and graduated from Harvard Law School as Editor of the Harvard Law Review!!!
With those wonderful educations, his first job was a Community Activist in Chicago. That to me is Bizarre.
He seems to have never held a legitimate job that might go to real life experience to take to the White House.
If Work-Life Experiences could be measured as a shadow cast by a Candidate, Mr. Obama's shadow is non-existant.
Jack Brennan

What a surprise that CNN has them being tied? They're the biggest liberal butt-kissing organization since the NY Times! I guess that means in reality that McCain is up by a large margin.

I'm surprised they even published it.

Why don't you say who supports the troops more. Obama is a liberal and he will take the terrorists to washinton with him and then take our rite to carry guns when we need them most.

Lets see if I can put into perspective what it would mean to you to re-elect the Republicans into power for the next four (4) years or so:

Have a son or daughter in the military? Expect him/her to come home mentally diranged, missing leg, arm or both. Perhaps he/she comes home perfectly wrapped in the American flag. Worst case scenario: He/she won't make it home at all!

Have a home to live in? You may not have long to worry abou it. Does the word foreclosure means anything to you?

Are you a masochist and enjoy paying usurious prices for a gallon of gas? Got it : Vote Republican.

Have a child going to college but can't afford tuition? Again: Vote Republican.

Want to help Alaska secede from the Union? Vote Pitbull / Barracuda.

Have a daughter pregnant by a rapist? Not even think about an abortion. The Alaskan barracuda will make sure that your daughter won't get one.

Love trickle down economics? Yeap, McCaine is your man.

Well, I think you get the message. Or do you?

As for myself, I'm going to do my sivic duty and vote for Obama. He has a better chance of bringing home your son or daughter in perfectly sound working order.
Really, if you cannot protect yourself, I am going to have to do it for you.

Remember: What you do now will affect your future, provided you do have a future!

What the world needs now is another ride 'em, shoot em' up, we 're going to get 'em dead or alive cowboy.
It seems that the republican's love for stay at home moms and family values suddenly fell by the wayside.

Wow, Americans are easily manipulated!

What is the liberal slant here? Is it because McCain, upon first reference, isn't called "Manly War Hero?" Or because the story doesn't just pick out the GOP-friendly numbers...you would rather discard the overall, unbiased view?

Liberal media, ha. If McCain runs against the media, he will lose. He needs to focus on his opponent, and his elves like AJD need to keep their focus, too.

It doesn't really surprise me.

If the country was stupid enough to vote G.W. in for two terms, than there is no reason to think the Republicans can't win with this pair.

The Globe has just been a tool for the Democrats for years and should be closed for the censorship approach to so-called "journalism" they have applied. The pound their chest about upholding free speech but they publish in the most biased, non-objective manner possible. Discraceful. Did the current editors of the Globe recently come from US magazine?

I can't wait for Palin to ban birth control and then continue to cut funding for teen pregnancy. That will be a perfect way for people to ignore the economy while they focus on making sure their daughters don't get pregnant.

These results could be a reaction to being over exposed to Obama and the liberal agenda. Or maybe conservatives are sick of being called "red meat" voters. What the heck does that mean anyway?

Unless this poll factored in state by state data, because that's how we actually vote, it is relatively meaningless.

I think there a lot of people in this country who are incapable of making an informed decision about their leaders. What is different about McCain than before the his VP's speech? McCain isn't Palin. She herself has questioned what the VP does? But amid the backdrop of a poor economy, poor global opinion and a misguided war, the fact that she can give a speech full of jibes and divisive language, and then boost McCain's popularity, says wonders about the intellectual capability of the average American. I'm scared for this country and I'm scared for this world. If the McCain/Palin ticket wins, our emenies are going have an immense amount of fodder for anti-US rhetoric and again we'll be the laughing stock of our allies.

I think there a lot of people in this country who are incapable of making an informed decision about their leaders. What is different about McCain than before the his VP's speech? McCain isn't Palin. She herself has questioned what the VP does. But amid the backdrop of a poor economy, poor global opinion and a misguided war, the fact that she can give a speech full of jibes and divisive language, and then boost McCain's popularity, says wonders about the intellectual capability of the average American. I'm scared for this country and I'm scared for this world. If the McCain/Palin ticket wins, our emenies are going have an immense amount of fodder for anti-US rhetoric and again we'll be the laughing stock of our allies.

AWESOME!

I LOVE MCAIN AND PALIN!!!!

OBAMA and BIDEN BLOW!

YAAAAHHHHOOOOOOOOOOOWEEEEEEEEEEEE!

GO GO GO GO MCAIN AND PALIN!!!!!!!!!

dennis stanton...typical liberal comment "if the country was stupid enough to vote for GW..no reason to think the republicans can't win with this pair"

what an elitist arrogant liberal...you are the saviors of this country, all us "dum' folk" need help in order to know whats best for us

its attitudes like this that make sure republicans keep winning, for years to come.

i guess we're all stupid unless we vote for your party huh?

State polls going in McCains favor as well. Real Clear Politics just took PA out of the Obama column. THis is going to be a landslide when all is said and done. Should've picked Hill instead of an empty suit

Hey Marty,

Make sure you leave a forwarding address when you move out of the country. Idiot!

It's acceptable and probably McCain/Palin ticket will win in November. As an independent i'll vote for them. It's the Palin factor.

Well, I would like to not believe these polls, but maybe there is some dullness to Obama's campaign to blame too. They should learn from Romney in primaries that money does not guarantee the win. Enough of this "nice guy, positive campaign" nonsense, when the other side is not exactly like that. It is amazing and appalling to see the party, whose platform only entails the worn-out and inaccurate promises (cut tax and drill for oil), is nonetheless convincing the US population how they are the change agents.

No, you're stupid because when the Republicns continually betray you with a country that keeps going down hill, you keep voting for them because they pander to your darkside instead of the better angels of your nature....see you at $6.00 a gallon next spring...

I usually don't comment. But, I can't help it. It seems, like usual, that majority of liberals are voting with their hearts not their heads. I'm not a big W fan. But, to blame him for the economy is ignorant. The executive branch does not create laws. Look to the liberal congress for that. Also, I am so sick of abortion talk. The president cannot do anything about it. That is a judicial task. If we elect a democrat then the Congress, Senate, and Executive branch will be run by the same party. Moreover, the majority of judges are liberal. What kind of balance is that? Also, my 6 year old daughter has more leadership experience than Obama. He abstained from voting more than voting. He hangs around with racists. He wants to raise our taxes (his tax relief plan is to tax you more and give more EIC out). That is not relief that is called higher taxation. And it doesn't matter how many young people like him. They never show up at the polls. And if you are really intelligent answer me this... are you more knowledgeable now or when you were 18? Hopefully you are smarter... why would want to do what the 18 year old would do??? Is that really an argument? So go ahead vote for Obama... see your taxes go up, see more folks struggle to pay the mortgage, see larger government telling you what to do,.. have fun you 18 year old you.

Ms. Chersonsky and others: It's all lip service. Wake up. If you want to see how much Palin supports children with disabilities, check out the Alaska state budgets for the two years she has been Governor. Not a pretty sight. She slashed disability and special education services more than 60%. The numbers don't lie! Oh but that's right. You don't have to worry about other families with kids with disabilities because you live in Massachusetts, where you have a Governor who actually cares.

B.O. is raking in the money from
the Muslim states in the middle
east. He hasn't worn a flag pin
until recently. He hasn't held
his hand over his heart during
the national anthem until recently.
He attended Wright's racist church
for 20 years, and didn't stop until
recently. His wretched wife was not
proud of her country until recently.
He was friends (until recently) with
a man who set off bombs at the
Pentagon. He was friends with Louis
Farrakhan..........until recently.

Hey Timmy boy,

You really want to put all of your eggs in the HOPE that the 18-25 years olds will vote. Oh right....this is the year. So was 2000 and 2004 ...

I can't believe how some of you think! Obama has been linked to Tony Resco, Bill Aires, and Jeremiah Wright. If you don't know who those people are then google them. George Bush has done a bed job as leader of this country I will admit but to say John McCain is another George Bush is not right. This guy sacrificed his freedom for 5 years to give all of us our freedom. Obama talks change then why did he name Joe Biden? McCain is trying to change things that is why he picked Sarah Palin as his running mate. This is a woman who is just like the average American in the sense that she does not come from money! She can actually relate to the American people. Michelle Obama "for the first time in my adult life I am pround of my country?" What a joke that is! How about 911 you ignorant jerk! Sarah Palin's son is going to Iraq this month unlike most politicians who vote for the war but would never send their son or daughter to fight. She has a downs baby and had the option to abort the child and take the easy way out but no she took the card that was handed to her and she is going to love that child unlike all of these pro-choice/murders! How can you participate in the act (sex) and because you did not take the proper precautions to avoid becoming pregnant just erase it by aborting the child???? That is a joke! No one in their right mind and sit there and defend abortion because there is not defense for murder! Don't talk about a woman being raped and becoming pregnant until you show me percentages of woman becoming pregnant from being raped! Not only will John McCain be the next president of the United States but Sarah Palin will also become the first female president of this country as well! You ignorant individuals make up this state of Massachusetts but lucky for the rest of this country most people do not think like massholes!

Sarah Palin will soon be exposed for what she is - a mindless bureaucrat attempting to kiss up to the America people. Her arrogant act will grow old very soon.

I can't wait to see her squirm when Charles GIbson interviews her on ABC and then once Joe BIden gets her in a debate.

Top Ten Things Barrack Obama can ask Sarah Palin when he meets her the
first time.

10- How do you load a gun?
9 - Is hunting scary?
8 - How do you get the bait on that hook thingy?
7 - What's it like having a spouse that isn't angry all the time.
6 - You were Mayor, then Governor, what's a budget?
5 - I've never delegated. Do you have a canned speech for that?
4 - What does "meeting a payroll" mean?
3 - Why do you have so many kids; haven't you ever heard of an abortion?
2 - What's it like actually being an executive?
1 - Yeah, but do the Germans like you?

McCain is really serious about change he would have declared he is running for one term only. But I do not think he is sincere - the old McCain ( a la 2000) may be. To counter the McCain/Palin 'new' change mantra, Obama himslef should declare he is running for one term only to show that he is not interested in winning rather to stop the disaster of the last eight years preventing the country - that will be something. I will vote for the one who will declare he is running for one term only.

Well, Biden told Tom Brokaw over the weekend that it would be uninformed for a voter to vote for Palin soley because she is a woman. I'm not holding my breadth waiting for Biden to also state how similarly uninformed it would be for Democrats to vote for Obama soley because he is part-black.

You McCain/Palin supporters are all idiots.....stupid, ignorant, obnoxious, vitriolic, muslinging IDIOTS!!!!!! Get some education, read up on the economy, stupid! These two "mavericks" (NOT!!!) are not going to do anything to change what's been happening during the last 8 years of BUSH ECONOMICS!!! Coutd it be that most of you are RACISTS?????? Can't stand the thought of an intelligent black man running our Country???? Hiding behind the "how great McCain/Palin are"??? If that's the case.......America is doomed. We need to get out of the slavery days and into the 21st century.
To comment #5, did you know that Palin vetoed a bill that would have helped special needs children in Alaska? Look into her record. Now that she has a special needs child......SHE's going to help!!!!! RIGHT!!!!!

Marty,

I will help you and all of your kind out today.

Let's get you all packing...Please

With all the Fake "liberal media" bias touted by everyone, it is no wonder Mccain is ahead. All of our media is bending over backwards to accommodate the corporate republicans. Media everywhere has been running scared ever since the Rethug convention and their macho talk. The Democratic convention lasted 4 days and stopped at midnight August 28th! The rethud convention started the next morning and continues with coverage of their convention, with footage airing non-stop to this day - 11 days now and running! When does their convention coverage stop? The Republicons have a had very successful propaganda thing going with this fake "liberal media" thing. Go ahead American media - give the presidency to another liar!

Every Lib Here!

You can't have it both ways....

When Obama is leading, the polls are the truth!

When Obama is not, you cry like babies.

Grow up and get this straight:

You Lib’s just don’t get it. There is no way
Obama can win. None. Zero. You have a Dream.
It’s only a Dream.

Facts and History prove that the majority of the population
simply will not vote for such a far left liberal at a time when
the house and senate are controlled by a single party, compounded
even more when they are so far left themselves.

Get used to it. You should be by now.

Just keep yelling the same old thing like you have for so
many years. It only helps Republicans win, every single time.

No, you're stupid because when the Republicns continually betray you with a country that keeps going down hill, you keep voting for them because they pander to your darkside instead of the better angels of your nature....see you at $6.00 a gallon next spring...

Based on recent state polls conducted 9/3/2008,. Obama wins 215+ electoral votes to McCains 300+ electoral votes. Obama appears to be wasting his time in Florida and Pennsylvania. California, Illinois and New York are about Obama's only winning states.

Undecided how to vote? The Demos' stand on energy (or no energy) should be your deciding factor. Everything else is secondary. (NO energy, no defense)

who cares. Obama will win in november unless the repugs steal it again. look at the swing states mccain has to win vs obama. someone made a great point about who these polls target
1. people with landlines
2. people who don't have the sense to not answer a call from an unknown number =
old, white, uneducated, neo-conservative republicans.

have no fear my fellow democrats, we'll make sure we keep em' honest at the polls this time. not this time repugs--- we have this one.

The best part of this will be when McCain wins, and people blame racism pure and simple on his win. It will have nothing to do with the fact that Obambi is a terrible candidate who put people in a euphoric state with pretty words. Then, when people realized that you never make a decision based on emotion, they went with the better candidate. I don't care if he was rainbow colored, still one of the worst candidates ever.

Hey number 123... wow. You're getting a little too angry for political thought. Nothing like insulting half the country and generalizing. And, I am so tired of the race card. Look up the definition of racist up in the dictionary. Not voting for someone is not in there. I am not voting for him because he is not qualified. His race is irrelevant... as is my race.

62 year old hysterical white woman: I speak 4 languages fluently, I have lived overseas and in the US, I have seen more of this world than you ever will, ,I have a cum laude degree in political science, I'm in the national political science honor society and I fly airplanes.

I am more intelligent than you are and I'm voting for McCain-Palin in November.

How incredibly smug, arrogant, elitist and ignorant to think that conservatives are all dumb rednecks. Your post reeks of fear, regarding the latest polls.

Have fun moving out of the country in November.

McCain and Anne Oakley will win. It will be 4 more years of gun totting anti American global rhetoric, further alienating the U.S. The McCain/Palin ticket has no connection with minorities, less fortunate or working class voters and are only targeting right wing, WASPS.
It will be more of the same, the rich and privileged will reap all of the benefits while the poor get left behind. Obama on the other hand is not much better, so we are back to the election of the lessor of two evils. I favor Obama slightly, over a 72 year old out of touch, so called maverick and his hillbilly self proclaimed redneck running mate.

John Moore: What Liberal Media? Media are owned by big corporations, or maybe you're not familiar with NBC, the gigantic newspaper chains, Clear Channel and the rest? AJD, where is the liberal slant?
If anything the story misses the point that regardless of national poll numbers, when adjusted by state, the electoral vote count still favors Obama, 301 to 224. Could McCain win? Sure, but not by adding to his lead in states where he's already ahead. Only by flipping some of those states currently in the Obama column can he come out on top. Alaska has gotten a big bounce, from 44% to around 55% for McCain, but he was always ahead there, and if he adds another 50,000 votes there, it won't make a whit of a difference come November, would it?

i like obama because he makes me feel good inside. he went to harvard so he must be real smart too. i am not so smart so i will vote for him.

I was WRONG about Sarah Palin. As a Republican women from Mass., I was in a panic and disappointed with Mc'Cains sudden pick. (and blogged about it) After seeing her many accomplishments, life story, beliefs, and mostly that home-run speech, I can now see that I made a huge mistake! and am glad my pick of Mitt Romney wasn't chosen. SHE is the real deal!

Forget about turning red states blue, how about blue states red. Michigan looks pretty nice

I was WRONG about Sarah Palin. As a Republican women from Mass., I was in a panic and disappointed with Mc'Cains sudden pick. (and blogged about it) After seeing her many accomplishments, life story, beliefs, and mostly that home-run speech, I can now see that I made a HUGE mistake! - and am glad my pick of Mitt Romney wasn't chosen after all. SHE is the real deal!!!

54%-44%!

54%-44%!

54%-44%!

Fifty-four! Fifty-four! Fifty-four!

Marty,

Some options for you:
Cuba, China, North Korea, Russia, France

please send pictures, idiot !!

What's really funny is all you people posting that Obama will get the country back on track or McCain is what this country needs. Both these candidates are bad for the country. It's just politics as usual with these guys. What we really need is an honest politician that actually would right the quickly sinking ship that is the US; that politician is Ron Paul.

But, as usual, the American sheeple are more concerned with the latest reality TV show than they are with educating themselves and making informed decisions. It's much easier to support the candidates that the mainstream media shoves down our throats.

There's an old saying: "People get what they deserve, not what they expect".

God help this country. We're going to need it.

Does anyone know the educational background of Lady Palin??? Which university did she attend? No one has ever mentioned what field her degree is in. I'd like to know.

Since many people seem to think that Bush's policies are the ones that left the economy where it is now let's have a little look at what's happened in the past 8 years.

9/11/2001 - 8 months after Bush takes office the country is hit with the largest terrorist attack in history. The stock market drops considderably, but under Bush, and the republican congress's leadership it rebounds. Since this day there have been several attempts, but no successful terrorist attacks on US soil.

Late Aug. 2005 - The federal government warns Louisiana to prepare for Hurricane Katrina, offering federal assistance for evacuations. The Gov. of LA tells the feds to take a hike and strands several of their people, getting thousands killed. Oil prices rise and the economy sinks, but under the leadership of President Bush (who is now being blamed for Katrina), as well as the republican congress, the economy rebounds and oil goes back down.

November of 2006 - During the midterm elections, democrats take control of congress. Oil prices skyrocket and stay there. The stock market and the economy in general, plummet. The dollar is worth less than it has ever been. The "housing crisis" affects millions of Americans. Bush can no longer get a majority opinion in the Dem controlled congress and the economy stays this way to this day.

Adding taxes to businesses, like Bush and McCain have both opposed, will cause more businesses to leave the US. It won't matter how much tax breaks Obama gives you if you don't have a job to be earning money in the first place.

To the 62 year old white woman:

I'd bet my life savings on the following:
1. You drive a Prius or a Subaru if you own a car at all (and there's an Obama sticker on the back where the "O" is a peace sign)
2. You live in Cambridge, Lexington, or Arlington and have for most of your life
3. You make less than 45k a year
4. You have thick matted grey hair and wash it once a week tops
5. You voted for Deval Patrick and won't admit he's the worst Governor this country has ever seen
6. You don't own a television and are proud of that
7. You sympathize with terrorists, because after all, we didn't have the right to invade their country

The fact is, you expect your Government to rescue you from the life YOU created for yourself. You're a dime a dozen in this state. I just take solace in fact that most of the rest of the country understands the Constitution and will elect the man that has and will live by it.
6. You don't own a television and are proud of that
7. You sypathise with terrorists, becasue afterall, we didn't have the right to invade thier country

The fact is, you expect your Government to rescue you from the life YOU created for yourself. You're a dime a dozen in this state. I just take sollace in fact that most of the rest of the country understands the Constitution and wil elect the man that has and will live by it.

-From the 33 year old black man (who would not vote for Obama in a million years)

I love it - the left is running scared because they now have opponents with more experience in making change happen than they do deflating their whole platform. This country will be FAR better off with McCain and Palin for the next 4 years. We don't need an arm waving, hot air blowing politician in the office like Obama. This State should have learned not to back inexperience from Duval Patrick who has been as lame duck as you can get despite his grand promises of change.

I love how the Democrats point out Palin's "lack of experience" while overlooking Obama's lack of experience. If you can't look at what happened in the Massachusetts election and see a correlation, you're not paying attention. Deval Patrick came in with the message of change with no real plan or substance behind it. He hasn't managed to do much other than get a Cadillac for himself and grow his own department while trying to get other departments to pare down theirs. Congress is going to steam roll over Obama.

I love how the Democrats point out Palin's "lack of experience" while overlooking Obama's lack of experience. If you can't look at what happened in the Massachusetts election and see a correlation, you're not paying attention. Deval Patrick came in with the message of change with no real plan or substance behind it. He hasn't managed to do much other than get a Cadillac for himself and grow his own department while trying to get other departments to pare down theirs. Congress is going to steam roll over Obama.

I do not live in your fair country, but it sure looks like politics is a lot more fun and democratic than in Canada where people are afraid to say what they really think. When George W. Bush ran against Al Gore, to me as an outsider it was like watching the movie Dumb and Dumber. Barack Obama is bound to be just as ineffective as Jimmy Carter was, except as a symbol of healing. If he gets in, maybe you Americans can finally put the rest of your racism demons to rest. Ideally, I would like to see him come close this time, and get in next time when he will be a more known quantity to himself and to your nation. I think he was only running against Hillary for next time anyway, and probably feels like a teenager doing 100mph for the first time - loving it, but scared out of his wits.

if bob barr, ralph nader and cynthia mckinney really care about having a candidate in the white house who will represent and/or address the concerns of their constituents, perhaps they should drop the farce of their own candidacies and suggest to their constituents which of the 2 leading candidates they would endorse and give a small, sometimes tie-breaking margin of votes to a candidate who will actually win the race. aren't they dogged by the reality of the knowledge that their votes are wasted?

Heleina et al:
One of the legislative offerings in Alaska was for increase funding for special needs - another for early childhood education. Ms Palin vetoed both. Two of the many she is proud of. This was not due to lack of money. The federal government (us) and the oil production money has given Alaska billions - and continues to.

People wake up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Abama hates Jews and “whites” as his wife said.

Ask people from Massachusetts.
You don't want another Patrick.
Together we can, but not him, not Abama knows what.

Hey, since we are on the "where did Palin get her degree from", where did Biden get his degree from. Surely Harvard or Yale or Columbia or Princeton.

Even this article, when read completely, describes this race as a tie. Yet, what does the title say? "McCain takes lead".

Think the "deputy national political editor" has a Republican agenda? Perhaps Bush will appoint Foon Rhee director of FEMA or homeland security before he leaves office. I'M TIRED OF REPUBLICAN CRONYISM!

How about a new poll:

"Which of our country's national disasters is most likely to continue or get worse under McCain/Palin?"
a) The Iraq war
b) The national deficit
c) Dependency on oil from terrorsts
d) Ignorance and denial of global warming
e) Falling student test scores
f) all of the above
g)all of the above, maybe even a few more, but aaahm still votin' for Bush! Yeeehaaw!

laverne lewis, ever hear of wikipedia?

she graduated from the university of idaho with a BS in communications and journalism, in 1987

By November maybe we'll see articles about the Keating Five again. Or has everyone already forgotten?

Alex, #142, I am not hysterical or "fearful", as you so "sweetly" put it! I am just absolutely flabbergasted by the people that are on this particular blog... If you are telling the truth about all your "languages, travel abroad, and wonderful education", then maybe you are just too deaf, dumb and blind to hear and see wthat McCain's and Palin's records are. Or maybe you just didn't bother to look into any of it. Can you name one, just one, good thing that McCain has on his record in the 26 years he's been in Washington? Can you tell me what Palin has done in her long career (that's a joke, by the way!). She left her town (where she was Mayor) in debt. She has flip-flop when politically necessary, just like the "maverick" McCain. So, think what you like...but all of the nasty blogs here surely smell funny to me!

Apparently America judges on physical appearances and not the issues at hand and McCain/Palin are taking advantage of that. How many more ways can the Republican's steal from Dems.

Alexander,Caesar,Napoleon,Hitler,george w bush,john mccain ...

I was WRONG about Sarah Palin. As a Republican women from Mass., I was in a panic and disappointed with Mc'Cains sudden pick. (and blogged about it) After seeing her many accomplishments, life story, beliefs, and mostly that home-run speech, I can now see that I made a HUGE mistake! - and am glad my pick of Mitt Romney wasn't chosen after all. SHE is the real deal!!!

Obama is still comfortably ahead in the electoral vote count. The national polls are a beauty contest which don't matter, at ALL. McSame/Distraction, whoops, Palin, will not win as Americans are tired of the same ol same ol.

"Alexander,Caesar,Napoleon,Hitler,george w bush,john mccain ..." - D. White

It's funny that you put Bush and McCain with the other four leaders there, since neither Bush or McCain are good speakers or even the slightest bit charismatic, as the other four are. Also, the other four there brought the message of hope and change, though in the end only brought death and destruction. Barrack Obama is much more in line with the ideals those four promised and is just as charismatic.

To Jerome Jackson, nice try! But you are wrong on all counts! I make well over 45K a year, don't drive a "hybrid", do own a TV, don't sympathize (notice I spelled it correctly, you didn't), don't have "thick matted unwashed grey hair", and I have a wonderful life....no thanks to the government! I don't expect the government to do anything for me and have never asked it to! Can you explain your comment about the rest of the country understanding the Constitution, and will elect a man who has and will live by it? That doesn't make any sense! Are you saying that Obama doesn't understand the Constitution, or live by it? If that's what you mean, that's just a stupid statement.

Nice D.White. Pretty Anti-semitic. I forget when McCain exterminated 6M people. I love how liberals find it ok to smear women, old people, jews, people from anywhere but the Northeast and San Fran, but God forbid we say anything about race.

The fact that Obama and McCain are so close in the polls really breaks my heart. I find it particularly distressing because I know that part of the responsibility for this is the persons who claimed to have been Hillary Clinton’s devoted and loyal supporters. Now some of them have declared that, since they cannot vote for her, they are voting for McCain!?!? How can these people, who claimed that they believed in what she stood for and has fought for her entire adult life, think they are showing any kind of loyalty by casting a spite vote for her ideological enemy? A vote for McCain is a slap in the face and a stab in the back to this amazing woman. I supported Hillary, voted for her in the primary and donated money to her campaign. I was bitterly disappointed when it turned out that I would not be casting my vote for her in the general election. But my emotions do not cloud my thinking enough to make me think that by voting for two people who believe in everything she opposes and support everything she opposes will somehow demonstrate some kind of loyalty or support. A vote for McCain by people who stood by her would, I believe, cause her strife as a Senator having to deal with President McBush, anguish as an American having to live under this regime and deep sadness as a former candidate who marshaled this incredible political force that, in the end, helped her enemies to win. PLEASE don't do this!!!

In response to #168 (Dingle White)

I'm sorry but what exactly is your point here? Please give me five examples how mccain is in the same league as the others? But I doubt your liberal pea brain can.

Oh and who did you steal this line from?

Alex Taveira- Good luck defending your choice for president the last eight years.
I am not all that anti-republican, it's just that I fear that if McCain/Palin
get elected they will turn the keys to the government over to Lockheed, Haliburton, and Exxon-Mobil like their predecessors did.
The neo-cons ability of convincing us it is necessary to fight the "war that never ends" and therefore funding the military budget that never stops has made me a suspicious of exactly who is running the show.
We already spend more on our military than the next sixteen countries combined!!!
Maybe McCain's decisions when he leads will be based on something other than the profitability of the major corporations.
At least that way when we march off to the next stupid war, or surge, or military action, it will be based on some screwed up ideaology and not economics.
Wouldn't that be great.
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Maybe I'm just a little paranoid.

yes 62 and dennis, please "enlighten" me, show me the path...because i'm an absolute idiot for not wanting to vote for your party right? something must be seriously wrong with me because i dont sit in a starbucks with my laptop, drinking a $6 latte listening to melissa etheridge, and talking how democrats are just so much smarter than everyone else, and republicans (or people who don't agree with them) are just mere peasants.

Can I be a part of your Liberal "democracy"? Please?? So I don't have to "justify" who I vote for anymore. It really puts a damper when I attend my Cambridge parties, with all the smug pseudo-intellectuals.

Dream on McCain. Today is only Sept 8, 2008. Nov 4th/5th is the day, so we still have quite a way to go and still have to see all the debates and results of Palin's "abuse of power investigation". Then we'll see that Obama/Biden will be elected and time for McCain to go to a nursing home and Palin be impeached...

Sorry about allowing facts to interrupt your discussion.

To #162 & 164-

You'd think because Palin's degree is in journalism that big media would rally around her as one of their own -NOT!

Why can we rejoice that we have a ticket (McCain-Palin) where BOTH members did not get law degrees?

Hey, B. Clinton was a Rhodes Scholar and look at the time bomb mess of an economy he bequethed to W- ever hear of the Dot-Com bubble burstering? You can't cherry pick history. And under B. Clinton's watch the terrorists got pilot's licenses to fly a 707 one way, so much for homeland security under Clinton's watch.

You numbnuts Democrats

If the McCain - Palin ticket wins, will the new VP get her own "undisclosed location" ?

Will she and her husband represent the President when there's a discussion of world issues as Lynn and V.P. Dick Cheney have done?

What exactly does Sen McCain envision for her "role" in his administration?

I know that according to the Constitution, she will cast the deciding vote in the case of a tie in the Senate.

I must admit it's a bit easier to envision what Joe Biden would do as vice president and he and Sen Obama have recently answered questions about his role as vice president.

But I read recently that Ms Palin asked "just what does the vice-president do all day"?

So she's curious about her job, just as I am.

You know what, I would have been dismayed, but now I don't care. I hope McCain and his hillbilly sidekick wins--their party deserves to be in place to take the blame for the sorry state our economy is in. You people deserve the government you vote for; may God have mercy on us all.

DRAMA, DRAMA, DRAMA....yawn, yawn, yawn

Palin Rumors

Cripes, this has gotten ridiculous. Folks, look, let’s just run through a list here. (Updated.)

Yes, she is Governor of Alaska. No, she’s not the Lieutenant Governor. No, she’s not currently Mayor of Wasilla. Yes, she was Mayor of Wasilla, some years ago.
Yes, there are people in Alaska who think she’s too liberal.
Yes, she did push for and approve the Wasilla Sports Center. Yes, it did cost a lot of money. (People keep saying $20 million, that article says $14.5 million, but then they also added a $1.2 million dollar food service/kitchen piece. This year, since Palin was out of office as Mayor.) Yes, the city went into debt to do it (how did you buy your house, bunkie?) and raised the city sales tax from 2 percent to 2.5 percent to pay for it. Yes, the city is paying it off early.
Yes, she did want authority to have wolves culled from the air, because they were taking too many moose and caribou. Which people hunt for food in the back country in Alaska. No, she isn’t shooting them herself. I mean, not that she couldn’t, but I’m sure she doesn’t have time. (Thanks to bluemerlin in the comments.)
No, the Downs baby (Trig) isn’t Bristol’s kid, and no, the kid wasn’t born with Downs because (a) Palin flew on an airplane (b) went home to have the baby after an amniotic leak (c) because he was the result of incest between Todd Palin and Bristol.
No, Track (the kid who is leaving for Iraq) didn’t join the NG because he was a drug addict. He may have joined the NG because he was tired of people saying his Mom was getting him into the good hockey leagues. (Yes, that one was original reporting. I’ve got sources in Wasilla.)
No, she’s never been in any porn as far as anyone can find (and God knows I get enough google hits on those very topics.)
No, no one seems to be able to even find swimsuit pictures of her from her beauty queen days; God knows I looked. The bikini pictures that are around are photoshopped, just like the Vogue cover I have up.
No she wasn’t a member of the (wild-eyed libertarian) Alaska independence Party, although her husband once was
No, neither the (Canadian) National Post, nor Marc Armbinder at the Atlantic have troubled themselves to issue a correction. Yes, the New York Times did finally correct their story of September 1 — on September 5. This was after Elizabeth Bumiller was quoted by Howard Kurtz as saying she was “completely confident about the story.” Yes, that was after the New York Times’s source retracted the story. Yes, this should embarrass the Times, Bumiller, and Howard Kurtz. No, there have been no signs of embarrassment.
No, she was never a Pat Buchanan supporter; even when Buchanan claims she was, she was on the board of Steve Forbes’a campaign in Alaska.
No, she’s not anti-semitic. In fact, she has an Israeli flag in her office. (Contrary to popular belief, the usual Evangelical thinks Israel has a right to exist, granted by God.)
No, she’s doesn’t believe that the Iraq War was directed by God. Yes, she did pray that proceeding with the war was God’s will. (Ever hear the phrase “Not my will, but Thine, be done”?)
No, Buchanan doesn’t support her now; in fact he’s supporting Obama. (Buchanan did think her speech was amazing, but then so do 80 percent of the people who saw it.) Or maybe not. Buchanan sure doesn’t like McCAin though.
yes, she was pregnant when she got married
No, so far there’s no confirmation she had an affair while she was married, and they’ve denied it pretty strongly. No, she wouldn’t be the first Christian woman who got a little on the side, if it were true.
No, she wasn’t named as a co-respondent in a divorce; there’s no evidence she had an affair with her husbands’ business partner. The partner tried to have his divorce records sealed because he was being harrassed by journalists who used them to get his phone number.
Yes, barring immaculate conception virgin birth (whatever), Bristol appears to have had sex with her fiancee. No, Bristol didn’t receive only “abstinence-only” sex ed.
Yes, I have it on reliable report that Sarah Levi’s mom has been heard screaming “Way to go Levi!” at her future son-in-law son. No, it doesn’t appear to have been when Bristol broke the news to her family.
Note: I originally understood this story to be about Sarah, not Levi’s mom, in the context of hockey games. As such, it’s shouldn’t be in a Sarah Palin Rumors story, but I like the story too much to delete it.
yes, her 17 year old daughter is pregnant; no, the baby’s father is not an eighth grader; no, having sex at 16 is not statutory rape in Alaska
yes, she did fire the public safety guy — but he said in the Anchorage paper that, for the record, she never, and no one else in her administration ever, tried to make him fire her ex-brother-in-law
and yes, the state trooper (her sister’s ex-husband) she was worried about did: tase her 10 year old nephew; drive his state patrol car while drinking or drunk; did threaten to “bring her down”; and did threaten to murder her father and sister if they dared to get an attorney to help with the divorce.
yes, the state trooper was suspended when he was put under a court protective order
no, the trooper wasn’t fired
yes, she did fire the Wasilla Chief of Police as Mayor; yes, it was because he was lying to the City Council.
Yes, she did try to cut her own salary as Mayor by $4000 a year; yes, she had voted against the $4000 a year raise while on the City Council.
No, she didn’t cut funding for unwed mothers; yes, she did increase it by “only” 354 percent instead of 454 percent, as part of a multi-year capital expenditures program. No, the Washington Post doesn’t appear to have corrected their story. Even after this was pointed out in the comments on the story.
No, she didn’t cut special needs student funding; yes, she did raise it by “only” 175 percent.
yes, she did try, clearly unsuccessfully, to get Bristol married off to her fiancee before the story came out
yes, she did ask the librarian if some books could be withdrawn because of being offensive; no, they couldn’t; yes she did threaten to fire the librarian a month later; no, that wasn’t over the books thing but instead over administrative issues; no, the librarian wasn’t fired either; yes, the librarian was a big supporter of one of her political opponents; yes, the librarian was also the girlfriend of the Chief of police mentioned above; no, this is not the first time in the history of civilization that someone has been threatened with being fired over a political dispute
No the list of books she wanted to ban that’s being passed around isn’t real; among other things, it includes a number of books published after her time in office there.
No, that hasn’t actually deterred people from claiming it really is true even if the list isn’t correct. For example:
“This list might not in fact reflect the books Sarah Palin wanted banned. As more than one person in Comments has pointed out, some of them were not published when Palin was in office. It is my hope that the mainstream media will not let this story drop and that at some point an actual list will surface. The very thought of having someone who once advocated book-banning possibly occupying one of the highest offices of our land fills me with profound dread. It should fill you with dread too.”
No, I don’t understand why a fake list is supposed to fill me with dread, either.
no, it wasn’t a shotgun wedding; Bristol and Levi been engaged for a good while according to his mother. It was either an accident or just an unconventional order.
yes, she’s an was an Assembly of God Holy Roller. No, she doesn’t attend an AoG church now. Yes, she did leave the AoG because they were getting too weird for her.
No, she’s not anti-Mormon. No, not all AoG churches are anti-Mormon. (AoG is even more hard-core about allowing each pastor and congregation to make their own decisions than the Baptists are.) (Thanks to AnonAmom in the comments.)
No, she’s not from another planet. No, I haven’t actually heard that one yet, but you wait.
yes, she apparently believes in some variant of Intelligent Design
no, she didn’t try to force the schools to teach it; she said if someone brought it up, it was an appropriate subject for debate.
No, she doesn’t believe in “abstinence only” education. Yes, she thinks abstinence is an effective way of preventing pregnancy. Duh. Yes, she believes kids should learn about condom use in schools.
yes, she kills animals and eats them, and wears their skins
yes, she was a beauty contest contestant
yes, she was once a sportscaster
yes, she has a college degree in Journalism, but I won’t hold that against her, as she seems to have found honest work as well
yes, she sometimes wears her hair up; no that’s not a “beehive”
yes, her husband is Not A White Person (he’s a Yup’ik; an Eskimo but not an Inuit as my Inuit cousins have taken some pains to explain)
yes, she has on occasion tried to get money from the federal government.
yes, she did finally turn down the money for the bridge. Yes, that meant changing her mind about it.
yes, she was vetted extensively, not just in three days — I’ve got links to press reports about people coming to Wassila on 29 May, and we had her on our Veepstakes at PJM from the first day we ran it.
yes, she want to a bunch of colleges before getting a degree. No, that’s not illegal. Yes, she seems to have made something of herself anyway.
no, they didn’t talk to a lot of the R’s power structure during the vetting; that probably has to do with the fact that she beat them in elections and sent a bunch of them to jail.
Yes, Sarah Palin’s acceptance speech was written by a speechwriter. Duh. No, none of Obama’s, McCain’s, nor Biden’s speeches were impromptu off the cuff things either.
Yes, she did put the Governors plane on eBay. No, that’s not how it was finally sold. Yes, McCain did say it wrong. Bad McCain.
No, Sarah Palin doesn’t have such control of Alaskans that people are afraid to say bad things about her. (What, are you nuts? Look at this list.) No, I don’t think it’s likely that she called Obama “Sambo”. (Good God, man, I’m ten years older than her and I barely remember “Little Black Sambo.”) Yes, I’m sure there are people who don’t like her — I’ve talked with some myself.
No, she’s not a “global warming denier”, and when the crush dies down remind me to explain why the very phrasing “global warming denier” is anti-scientific, anti-intellectual, and a clear sign of a desire to impose your beliefs by coercion. But in the mean time, while I do believe that she has expressed some skepticism that warming is wholly human-caused, the existence of the Alaska Climate Change Sub-Cabinet and the Alaska Climate Change Strategy work demonstrate that she’s considering the problem and has brought together people more expert than she to advise her.

Isn't it refreshing that we finally have a ticket (McCain-Palin) where neither candidate has a law degree? You'd have thought big media would have rallied around Palin since her degree is in journalism- ah, what fair weather friends. Just adds more to the backstory that McCain-Palin are outsider's to Washington and that "change in coming"! Go John and Sarah!

Dear Voters -

Don't forget, according to Obama's speech yesterday, if you vote for McCain-Palin then you are "stupid".

It's sure nice to have a presidential candidate calling 50% of America "stupid".

All that tells me is that Obama is losing his cool. He doesn't know how to respond to the Republicans and to Gov Sarah Palin in particular.

Hey people, McCain and Palin are just what this country needs right now.If you will do your own research and seek the truth (and you wont find it on the 10 O'clock news). Come on, use your head! Dont let the mainstream media form your opinion for you. Jump off the band wagon of the uninformed. It's never to late. This country can't afford to have any more panty waste liberals in office. We need kick ass patriots like McCain/Palin.

Where are these poll ##s from?
Among whom???
Only people with land-lines? not cell phones? If cell phones aren't included, does that change the data?--considering many younger voters (like me and my friends) don't have landlines--and us younger voters are often more liberal. I keep trying to find the methodologies and it's unclear.

My friends, please I beg you, don't be so gullible. God gave us a brain, let's use it. Don't jump to hasty conclusions that will cost us our homes, good education for our children, more troops dying overseas, healthcare etc... etc. The McCain/Palin ticket is a death sentence literally.

Take a good look at McCain's background, the man has no morals. He is a clear cold hearted opportunist who continue to use people to get what he wants. He now wants to use the American people so he can screw us up just like he did his ex-wife who stood by his side all those years and as soon as he came back from war and was given hero status, he picked up and marry a rich, pretty girl and moved on to stardom abandoning his family. He left a wife with disabilities from a motor vehicle accident with his children. My God, this man repulses me to the core. Is this supposed to be the next president?? A leopard never changes it's spots. He is the beast that the bible speaks about. Christians be aware! He is a wolf in sheep's clothing. I don't trust him! Neither should you.

He is not for us, Palin is not for us either. They are both two evil deceptive creeps.
Be warned!

Angela seems to be an extremist. Lots of unsubstantiated and emotional rants there. Pity. A lot of those out there, on both sides.

Chasrmartin, on the other hand, took time to do homework and gave specifics. We will hopefully see someone do the exact same thing for Obama.

Can we see more reasoned dialogue, and less emotional splats on the wall, please?

One interesting thing to note is that if you add up Palin's actual time spent serving in govenerment in positions where she actually enabled legislation, it is more than Obama's. So much for the 'inexperience" accusations from Obama.

THE CHICKENS ARE COMING HOME TO ROOST ...
Barack is cryin. He always thought this is mine!
I'm Michele's husband, I'm black, and this is mine!
I just got to step up into the plate ... and, then out of
nowhere, came 'Hey, I'm Sarah Palin' ... and he said
damn, where did you come from? I'm black, I'm
entitled ... there's a white woman stealing my show
... wah ... wah ...

Democrats: Anyone who votes for a Republican is an idiot. Republicans are liars. Red states have lower IQs than Blue States! Red States are flyover states, people with any sense only live in big cities.

Republicans: Then I suppose I am an idiot, a hick, and a retard living in the wilderness, but I am just not going to vote for socialists. Have a nice day.

Remember there is a clear historical trend that we are still in. Republicans have won 7 of the last 10 presidential elections, from 1968 through 2004.

Obama is a big-government, tax-and-spend, promise Peter's money to buy Paul's vote, socialist / liberal.The American public is clearly rejecting this philosophy, yet the Democrats keep trying to elect big-government socialists from big, corrupt cities. The only Democrat to win in recent years was Bill Clinton (from a small state) who got only elected by lying about being a moderate (and other things).

Here's the list:

John Kerry: big state liberal/socialist, LOST!
Al Gore: liberal/socialist, LOST!
Michael Dukakis: big state liberal/socialist, LOST!
Jimmy Carter, sliberal / wimp, Lost reelection
Walter Mondale: Was VP on three separate LOSING Dem tickets over 12 years
George McGovern: liberal / ultra socialist, LOST!
Hubert Humphrey: liberal / socialist, LOST!
Barack Obama: liberal / ultra-socialist ... TBD.

Do you guys see a pattern here yet?

You don't achieve good for some, by robbing others. Socialism is slavery. Stop Socialism!

Bottom - line .....

Sen. Obama would like to create a Socialist State out of America -
He ideas would devistate this country. He is not a regular Democrat - he is a staunch Liberal / Socialist with a purpose to dis-arm this nation and beome more like a single State or kingdom. Sound scary ? Im sure that it does....You who have voted for him have no idea who this man really is. He is using the De. Platform as a veil to conceal himslef from you - He is an extreme leftwing muslim man with a purpose that is not safe for our great land of Freedom & Liberty. He wants to dismantle our American values.
Sen. John McCain was saved for a great purpose than himself. He was saved from the horrible explosion aboard a Naval Ship - He was saved from a Prison
Camp and now he is here to save this great nation !!

McCain / Palin is a vote for True Change that will make America greater than ever before !! John S. McCain is not George Bush - he is his own man - nobody tells John McCain how to vote in the Senate - no pork barrel spending is allowed under his watch. Gov. Palin is the same sort of voice !!

He may be set & ready to win by a comfortable landslide !!
Lets hope so - because this country needs John McCain - and it is no time for on the job training as Joe Biden has stated about Sen. Obama.

Thanx for reading -
Keith M.

Bottom - line -

Sen. Barack H. Obama is the wrong man for this place in history.

John S. McCain is the exact man for this time in history.

They are both Leo's - So they are both leaders - or believe themselves to be.

Se. John McCain was saved for a purpose - Saved from a Navy Ship explosion.

He was saved from a Prisoner of War camp.

He was spared for this specific time in history - to prevent a staunch Liberal / Socialist, who is hiding in the Democratic platform - He is not a Democrat - let me repeat - He is not a Democrat.

Obama wants a welfare state like a Kingdom.

This time - for the love of all America and Freedom in the world - We all need Sen. John S. McCain & Gov. Sarah Palin.

Thanx - Keith

For the single mother with the autistic child (comment #5). You are falling right into the Palin trap - It's shameful that MacCain/Palin think they can use women and children with special needs to get votes. Before you go listening to how Palin will be your advocate, you may want to look at how she cut the budget for special needs children in her state by 60%!!!!

Now that is something to weep over!