Obama picking up ground in battlegrounds
New polls in three battleground states show Barack Obama surging ahead of John McCain as Wall Street descends into crisis.
In Colorado, Obama leads 51 percent to 45 percent among registered voters, according to the CNN/Opinion Research Corp. survey released this afternoon. About a month ago, the same poll put McCain ahead 49 percent to 44 percent.
In Michigan, the Democratic nominee widened his lead to 51 percent to 44 percent among registered voters, up from a 49 percent-45 percent edge earlier this month.
And in Pennsylvania, Obama picked up 5 percentage points, going to a 52 percent to 43 percent lead, up from 47 percent to 43 percent a month ago.
The surveys were conducted Sunday through Tuesday and have a margin of error among registered voters of plus or minus 3 percentage points.
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I'm wondering about all the comments by right wing bloggers that compare Obama to Hitler & Mussolini. It seems to Me that there is some rewriting of the facts {History} here, as far as Nazism & Fascism, they are similar but not completely the same. They are though steeped in Militarism, Nationalism and Patriotism with Religion, Class, and Racism intertwined in their belief system. The afore mentioned groups would routinely ally them selves with Social Conservatives because of their suspicion of ones not like them, and were exclusive to many Minority groups & sub groups, also this belief system was the complete opposite of Liberalism witch is inclusive to all peoples,beliefs & cultures. The Nazi & Fascist regimes knew that including God would help them control and manipulate the citizens of their prospective Countries so they allied them selves with the Church. Germany w/ Catholic & Protestant religions and Italy w/ Italian Catholicism, this intertwined w/ Patriotism to whip up a frenzy of Discontent and Intolerance. Thus they were able to control those masses w/ a unified or Monolithic thought process. When I hear the screams of God & Country I shudder because it's easy to fool or manipulate folks that are struggling to feed their Families, them selves or saving their Homes & Jobs . keep education out of reach of this countries under class because Education opens all eyes & destroys all Myths. keep the racial & ethnic groups divided and suspicious of each other. Throw in the talking heads saying the problem of this crisis is Mortgages to certain minority and other groups not from deregulation or lack of oversight. How stupid is that? Of course they say Obama is different than You,look at Rains he is a minority and the former C.E.O. of Freddy Mac he knows Obama. Now you have your Villain, look at what they are doing to us they say, Rise up protect your country from these ones w/ foreign ideas they say, some how they are different, not Americans they are a drag on this great Country. Should the far Right get rid of us the ones that are different. Europe tried it & the early Americans did settling on these shores ,are we the villains? I can see it coming but no one is watching. This is one reason why the Founding Fathers wanted Government & Religion separate because of what happened w/ the Crowned governments in Europe. They became intertwined w/ the Church,& we know how corrupt & suppressive they had become.Watch & see little by little your rights are being siphoned away just enough so as where you might fuss a little at any one thing, but throw in a crisis when many are scared, misdirect attention so you don't see the broader picture, then push an agenda by Fear Mongering that could put this group in charge w/ powers that would be Autocratic. No Habeas Corpus {the right to question government about your arrest} where the people would have no recourse. Where the Executive branch would have all the power like a crown, castrating the Legislative branch {States} of any over site or power to challenge, and the judicial branch {Courts} be coming an appendage of the Executive. Do we want a Crowned Autocratic Fascist government here, well looks like we are headed that way.
Re: jonnybullet's lengthy rant:
... and the partisans of the Left say that we Conservatives are the ones who are paranoid conspiracy theorists ??
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