The Obama wave, by the numbers

It isn't a coincidence that Obama has huge numbers of people at rallies, over 3.1 million donors to his campaign, and money flowing in at an astounding rate. These numbers tell you something that polls can't--that his base is very enthusiastic about an Obama president, something that can't be said about McCain's campaign. It may come down to the number of people who decide to turn up on election day, and at this point, Obama supporters will be lining up before the polls open.

I voted the first time in 1968 and have been kind of a wonk ever since. I've never seen a campaign that matches Obama's...not even close. If his administration is half as well run as his campaign he will be a truly great president and, lord knows, if we've ever needed a great one we need one...the one?...now.

Excellent! Keep it up! We'll have him in the White House in no time.

The polls are sewing toward a Democratic victory- in an attempt to dishearten McCain-Palin supports and influenced undecided folks.
It's STILL America (last time I checked) and YOUR VOTE COUNTS!

Vote McCain-Palin 2008 -
There are an awful lot of PUMAS supporting McCain (Party Unity My A**/aka Hillary Supports).

The Silent Majority will go to the poll and make a difference!

And please- if you are a Hillary, Huckabee, Romney, Barr, Nadar or Barr support- PLEASE don't waste your precious vote by "writing in" your candidate.
We have a 2 party system here folks.
It's going to be McCain or Obama.
You KNOW that "they" are saying the polls are close- but YOU are the ones that will make the difference.
If you have early voring in your state- take advantage of it.
I'd hate to see long lines discourage people from voting November 4th.

Don't let the moveon-obama-mania-media keep you from casting YOUR precious vote.

McCain-Palin 2008

I am impressed by this use of money to pay peaple to work on this compaign
thats why its change more people have worked this compaign to earn a pay check they have encouraged many to go out to vote they have and they are showing change
more power democrats more power OBAMA

All rhetoric aside, like the above poster stated, record donations mean quite a bit. McCain is done and he knows it. Look for more mudslinging from McCain and record turn-out for Obama.

I am SO excited about an Obama presidency. I can't wait to share my wealth and deal with a terrorist attack! His administration will be guided by some really superior people - Nancy Pelosi (who has already promised us a $300,000,000) tax hike, Harry Reid and who can forget Joe Biden? AND then there is Colin Powell who doesn't want to send our armies anywhere - which fits right into BHO who voted against funding the troops! And don't forget our new First Lady - do you think she will refer to our country as "mean" or will she finally be proud of us because we elected her husband? BOY, the future looks BRIGHT!!!!

Barack Obama will be our next U.S President!!!!

Post #4 Alec, you need to check your stats about the PUMAS that old news is not floating and hard core numbers, just hard core Republicans in Democrat Drag.

Do you really want to pay for Palin's clothes and hair dresser for the next 4 years? That may triple the National Debt.

Masses are easily swayed by demagogues. If it could happen in Europe, it can (and is happening) here. God save us if Obama gets elected... But he won't be. There are enough Americans with some brains left to overcome the "Obama wave".

It appears to me that Reanomics has finally shown what it really can do, and that is destroy the free market condition. This along with the complete ineptatude of the sitting president, makes it inperative that Obama win.
Anyone that wants more republican narrowmindness running the country should take some time to study history. We need someone in the leadership role with true Christian principles, not religious bigotry

I think the Republicans are about to learn that the majority has stopped being silent - they're shouting "Yes we can!"

Alec,

You, like the party your support, are in a fantasy world. The chickens are coming home to roost. The Republicans have run roughshod all over the middle class, poor and the rest of the world: stealing and withholding basic rights. You have the ability to Vote for anyone you please but don't think it's going to matter much. Obama is going to win in a landslide. The Republican Reign of Terror and Error is

Obama 2008

Daniel

If it’s STILL America (the last time he checked), why has Alec decided for the rest of us ‘folks’ that it’s strictly a 2 party system? Sounds decidedly un-American to me.

Vote Robert L. Barr, Libertarian 2008

It all comes down to one point; Can Obama do any worse? The fleecing of America is about over. There is nothing left to steal.

Alec, If you really think anyone will support the GOP because their upset over Hillary forget it .Your Palin is not or never will be the replacement.
Most Dems Know the score , You Lose, Nice Try.

Dear Alec,

You were Benjamin on the US News Article I just read. You posted this exact thing there! So here I will post my response to your comment.

The "silent majority" appears to be people like my 83 year old WW II vet friend Bob who has Obama stickers on his scooter and people like me who work every day and pay my way through school. I don't have much money but I make sure I donate to Mr. Obama whenever I can.

I am voting for him wholeheartedly because as long as I've been an adult, the Republicans have wrecked this country. I'm eager to take it back in honor of my ancestors who fought in every war since the Revolutionary War.

We are now fighting for our country silently, one vote at a time.

Obama 08!

How great it is to see so many new voters fired up about participating in the election process. The historic candidacies of Hillary, Obama, and Palin have fired up the electorate like never before in modern times.

You can moan about ACORN registering Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck if you like, but if you think the record turnouts and voter participation this year are somehow not good for the country, you're just Goofy.

God Bless this great nation, and everybody VOTE!

We need to get the House, the Senate and the White House Democratic to put this country back in order!! I already voted for Obama and believe me, the electoral map WILL be changed this year!

yeah Lady M, the Repugnicans did such a WONDERFUL job these last 8 years... you and all your kind should crawl back under the rock you came from. Go OBAMA!!!

If Obama doesn't win, remember these words: blackbox voting.

Early voters are already complaining about touch screen machines that record a vote for McCain when Obama was selected.

MARYJANE

ARE YOU AWARE THAT THE HOUSE AND SENATE ARE ALREADY CONTROLLED BY THE DEMOCRATS?
ANOTHER IDIOT THAT IS VOTING FOR OBAMA.

AMERICAN GIRL IN FLORIDA

OUR ANCESTORS WERE MORE CONSERVATIVE THAN ANY REPUBLICAN TODAY. THEY WOULD BE DISGUSTED IF THEY KNEW THEY DIED IN VAIN. THIS COUNTRY IS NOT GOING BY THE PLAN THEY CREATED. WITH OBAMA'S PROMISE OF WEALTH REDISTRIBUTION , HIGHER TAXES, ILLEGAL ALIEN AMNESTY, AND MORE ENTITLEMENT PROGRAMS YOUR ANCESTORS DIED FOR NOTHING. DID YOUR ANCESTORS DIE SO THAT A MAN THAT BELONGED TO A BLACK RACIST CHURCH FOR TWENTY YEARS COULD BE THE NEXT PRESIDENT? SO A MAN THAT HAS BEEN FRIENDLY WITH ANTI-AMERICAN ACTIVISTS COULD BE THE NEXT PRESIDENT. YOU REALLY THINK OUR FOUNDING FATHERS WOULD BE IMPRESSED WITH THE DIRECTION THIS COUNTRY IS HEADING. I THINK NOT.

Obama 2008!!!
It is time for a fairer playing field for all of us. We , the lower and middle class have already been spreading the wealth for the last 30 to 35 yrs to the upper 3%. I'm tired of the power hungry, extreme right Republicans. My vote is in ..... OBAMA is the man!!

With the handling of his campaign alone, Barack Obama has proven to be a strategic, decisive, and motivating leader. It will be my pleasure to cast my vote for Obama/Biden on Election Day.

John McCain has proven to be a reckless, knee-jerk reacting, fly by the seat of your pants, and say anything candidate and should have fired his campaign staff long ago.

People – are you serious? Do you really believe just the Republicans have created every problem? Look at the credit and economic mess this country is in? Leaders like Chris Dodd and Barney Frank should have voted to regulate Fannie and Freddie… Are you going to vote for them again? This is just as much a democratic problem as it is a republican problem. This country will continue to lose jobs as long a people continue to purchase products from China (because it’s cheap!) and we continue to tax the people that have the guts to create jobs - I mean small business. Wake up!

I am voting for McCain/Palin. Many in Massachusetts are voting for "that one" instead. Only in Massachusetts!

DON"T BE FOOLED, VOTE YES ON QUESTION 1!

we may be seeing the death knell for the republican party...they may not recover from this stomping...all the dems have to do is execute their plan once they have control...let's hope they can get organized and run governement...with any luck the repubs will be marginalized/minimized in the next congress and the dems will have free sway...there is hope

Go Obama wave. The eight year kleptocracy is almost over.

Hmm... I'm TOTALLY voting for "that one"...

The Republicans don't necessarily deserve ALL the blame, nor do the Democrats... This mess was a long time in the making. That being said, our country is a wreck right now...

The world's view of us is nasty, and the best way to avoid more terrorist attacks is to quit p**sing people off. Just because we have the biggest army doesn't give us the right to go around beating up all the other kids on the playground. I really doubt McCain can undo all the bad juju that Bush whipped up with our foreign relations.

The economy is in the tank. I frankly would like a smart president, one who DOES understand the economy. I don't think taxing my healthcare benefit (another $550 per month I would be taxed on with NO increase in my own income) is going to help out. And judging how his campain handles finances, I'm not to reassured that McCain can handle the issues. One of the people he suggested to help the economy was Warren Buffet, WHO IS AN OBAMA ADVISOR!

McCain is simply not the guy he was 4 years ago... I have seen a glimmer of him from time to time, but his own campain aides (you know, the guys he hired that smeared him in 2000) are already sending out resumes for their next job. I feel bad for McCain, however, not bad enough to vote for him...

OBAMA - BIDEN '08

Independent soon to be Republican - Your premise doesn't make sense to me. Companies shipping jobs overseas still enjoy lucrative tax cuts. There is no incentive to keep jobs here in America. They get around paying living wages to Americans for cheaper labor in other countries but still get to enjoy a tax break because they are an "American" company. I believe if you are an american company and truly believe in the american worker, the labels on your product should say "made in america." Americans buy cheap products from "China" because they can't afford not to. Other countries are able to export their goods to us, but because the free trade system is so screwed up, we aren't able to export our products (little as they are) to them. It's not balanced. On the other hand, I don't see anything wrong in Mr. Obama's position of giving tax breaks to companies who pledge to keep their operation on American soil and taxing those who ship their operations overseas. Maakes sense to me.

Listen to what Colin Powell said when he threw his hat into the Obama ring. He has known McCain for 25 years, been in a Republican administration and still feels compelled to speak out for what he believes. I echo what he said and have already voted for Obama.

i'm from Massachusetts. Now I live in Oregon. Many are voting for "that one" in every state.

McCain has been running an erratic campaign, no real focus, jumps all over the place, very poor organization, no real skills shown. How do you think McCain will run the country?

Vote Obama 08

Listening to the mainstream media these last few days I've learned a few things about the GOP's VP nominee.

1. From the media I learned Sarah Palin's husband has a DUI conviction from 22 years ago.

On my own, I learned that Ted Kennedy (hero of last month's tribute at the DNC) was drunk while driving a car off a bridge in Chappaquiddick in 1969. That same crash killed a young campaign volunteer with whom he was having an affair. Oh, and that young woman was pregnant with his child.

* Mr. Palin's (who is NOT running for office) DUI came a mere 4 years after Barack Hussein Obama (who IS running for president) SUPPOSEDLY stopped using cocaine and marijuana (by his own admission in his autobiography).

Shocking - It's OK for the presidential candidate to use drugs, or the Democrat party patriarch to kill someone while driving drunk, yet the husband of a VP candidate should be demonized for something done 22 years ago?????

2. From the media I learned that Sarah Palin's daughter is pregnant.

* On my own I learned that Obama's mother was an unmarried street hippy in Honolulu , Hawaii, when she conceived Obama.

* On my own I learned that Joe Biden's (Democrat VP candidate) son was paid a large amount of money as a consultant to a credit card company, MBNA.

That SAME company had business before Senator Joe Biden concerning regulation of consumer credit practices. After the company paid a hefty sum to Mr. Biden's son, he voted in favor of legislation to help that company!!! That same son, Hunter, is also engaged in a legal investigation and suit for defrauding a former business partner!

*Shocking! It's a crime for the republican VP candidate to have a child who's pregnant even though it's irrelevant to how she performs her job, but it's OK if the Democrat Presidential candidate's unwed mother conceived him out of wedlock, and it's OK, however, for the Democrat VP candidate to vote in favor of a company who paid his son over a quarter of a million dollars?????

3. From the media I learned that Sarah Palin should be considered "selfish" for agreeing to run for VP knowing about her daughter's condition. Knowing that at her public role would bring extra scrutiny on the family is selfish and she should have declined, to protect her child (actually heard this on ABC this weekend).

*Strange! The same people who said Sarah is selfish for running for VP did not care about any impact on Chelsea when Bill Clinton had his dalliance with Monica Lewinsky. That was a private, personal matter you see. Oh, that's right....these things do not apply to the Democrats in power!! Silly me!!

4. From the media I have learned to be "concerned" that Sarah Palin probably won't be able to manage her family and do an effective job of being VP at the same time.

*Funny - I never heard anything about Hillary's ability to support Chelsea while re-doing healthcare or any of the other feminist icons who say you can balance work and family. They also never mention that Barack will have to balance time with his children while meeting with heads of rogue nations. They never mention that Joe Biden's kids, who don't have a mom, will be fighting for his time while he hosts white house coffee fundraisers and sells nights in the Lincoln bedroom. Then too, they never mention that Nancy Pelosi has five children but has no problem balancing her time.

5. From the media I have learned that Sarah Palin is "too inexperienced" to be a heartbeat-away from the presidency.

* Apparently taking on corruption in your own party and running a state that has at least as many people as Delaware (hint hint: that's where Joe Biden is from) is not really experience?

* However, time spent as a "community organizer" and less than 180 days in the senate where you've authored NO significant legislation is just the type of "change" we're looking for from the top of the ticket???

* Funny - Inexperience at the top of the ticket is a mantra for "change" and "hope" while strong practical everyday experience as the #2 is cause for concern???

6. From the media I learned that Sarah Palin's husband once got a ticket for fishing without a license.

* But, I haven't heard much about the fact that if he were still a practicing attorney, the VP candidate Joe Biden would be disbarred for plagiarism not once but multiple times!!!

It's OK to break the rules if you're a Democrat candidate but not OK if you are the spouse of a republican candidate???

7. From the media I learned that Sarah Palin doesn't know much about Iraq; in fact we wonder if she even knows where it is.

* Sarah's son volunteered into the US military and is now deployed in Iraq . I guess that doesn't count!!!

* Sarah has spent more time with troops in Iraq (as commander of the Alaska National Guard she visited Iraq last year) than Obama has even while running for president!!! In fact, when Sarah went to Iraq she spent time with the troops!!! When Obama went there, he skipped a base visit to instead go work out at the Ritz Carlton!!!

8. From the media I learned that Sarah Palin is a "lightweight" and she better be a "quick study" to keep up with this team.

* Funny, nobody is talking about how, after Barack Obama had "visited all 57 US states" or endless other stupid gaffes that expose who he really is!!! By the way, there are 57 states in the Muslim world!!!

9. From the media I have learned that (gasp!), Sarah Palin's husband was once a registered member of a 3rd party that favored states' rights (man, this is really bad stuff).

* That same media has been silent to the story that when Barack Obama announced his first senate run, he did so in the home of William Ayers. Ayers is an un-repentant terrorist convicted for bombing the pentagon!! This same Mr. Ayers said on 9/11 that he and his group did not do enough to harm our military and he wished he had done more!!! During the same time as that comment, he was serving on a board with Barack Obama!!!

All notes and information about their serving together is now locked up by the corrupt Chicago machine and reporter access to those records are being blocked by the Obama campaign!!!

If we've had any doubts about the bias of the media, it's pretty clear now where they stand. Pass this on to your friends and relatives who get all their information from the likes of Katie Couric, Wolf Blitzer, Tom Brokaw and the gang!!! This is egregious and corrupt!!! The only way to stop it is to spread information using other outlets and make these guys irrelevant!!!

did you know that frogs, when placed in warm water, then slowly heated over a stove, will never jump out. they stay until they are cooked. they become fooled by their comfort early on.
and so it is with american politics. it is hard for many to leave their party after so long. it is almost unthinkable. that is the key... (they don't really think).
my guess is a lot of folks would be leaving the country if mccain won... and vice versa. thank god. go obama!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! let's get some credibility back.

go obama!

I have never been so motivated to get involved as I have with the Obama campaign. It's not just because I hate bush, or the culture of greed that led to this financial crisis we find ourselves in (this crap started in the eighties with Reagan... call it the "Alex Keaton Syndrome"). I'm motivated because I feel Obama's ideas on taxes, health coverage, clean energy research and development, infrastructure investment, and tax credits for companies that keep jobs in the US are some of the most intelligent ideas I've heard out of Washington in years. He, more than all of his running mates in this election, understands where America IS right now and what we NEED to move forward. I voted for Obama already. I hope you do the same.

I am an Independent and one of the things that scares me most is an international incident on the scale of the Cuban Missile Crisis. If the Palin-McCain ticket somehow steals the election via voter suppression I am 95% sure America will face a crisis that puts the whole world at risk and the will be McCain and/or Palin that incite it.

This is just one of many reasons I voted last Tuesday for the Obama-Biden ticket; in fact I voted a full Democrat slate. I only hope the Democrats can pull off a 60+ seat Senate and hold their majority in the House. Vote early - Vote Obama-Biden.

IMAGINE SARAH PALIN COMMANDER IN CHIEF!!!!!!!!.......... OH GOD.. HAVE MERCY!

MIND YOU.... AILING SENATOR MCCAIN COULD BE IN HIS LAST QUARTER OF LIFE....

ONE WORD TO A WISE MAN...... VOTE OBAMA

The Federal government has to ensure that the Republicans do not pull any dirty tricks like voter suppression- I see that happening already in Florida where the relevant officials(who are nearly all Republicans) try to make it as difficult as possible for early voters to cast their votes, sensing these mostly favor Obama. They are a disgrace, especially given the fact that this is the state which screwed it up a big time in 2000.

clarifications:
palin was never in Iraq, afaik, only kuwait

the big issue with her hubby is his terrorist connections
the indepenence party, who's found was killed buying C4
she supported them, and he joined AFTER the founder was killed an its agenda known...they hate America and want armed insurrection...

her son volunteered, ALL volunteer now, no draft...was he pressured for politcal ammo? probably...

slip of the tongue, 57 states:

Palin: greater incoherence has never been uttered...
That’s why I say, I like ever American I’m speaking with were ill about this position that we have been put in where it is the tax payers looking to bailout.

But ultimately, what the bailout does is help those who are concerned about the health care reform that is needed to help shore up the economy– Helping the — Oh, it’s got to be about job creation too. Shoring up our economy and putting it back on the right track. So health care reform and reducing taxes and reining in spending has got to accompany tax reductions and tax relief for Americas. A

And trade we’ve got to see trade as opportunity, not as a competitive scary thing. But 1 in 5 jobs being created in the trade sector today. We’ve got to look at that as more opportunity. ALl those things under the umbrella of job creation.

This bailout is a part of that.

I rest my case:
beuty queen runner-up, ok
TV journelism associate degree in 5 years from 5 third tier colleges, ok
mayor of a town of 5000, maybe
gov of AK, questionable
VP of th US, no way

palin: witchcraft, nuff said
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A grainy YouTube video surfaced Wednesday showing Sarah Palin being blessed in her hometown church three years ago by a Kenyan pastor who prayed for her protection from “witchcraft” as she prepared to seek higher office.

Remember, remember the Fifth of November,
after the election,
The Gunpowder patriotism by Barack...

I know of no reason
Why the Gunpowder Barack
Should ever be forgot.

Barack! Barack!!  t'was his intent
To blow up the Bush King and corrupt estabishment!

One-hundred million barrels of voting powder below
To prove old facist America's overthrow;

By God's providence he was voted in..
To reverse Americas rot and sins..

Dan

original:

Remember, remember the Fifth of November,
The Gunpowder Treason and Plot,
I know of no reason
Why the Gunpowder Treason
Should ever be forgot.
Guy Fawkes, Guy Fawkes, t'was his intent
To blow up King and Parli'ment.
Three-score barrels of powder below
To prove old England's overthrow;
By God's providence he was catch'd
With a dark lantern and burning match.
Holloa boys, holloa boys, let the bells ring.
Holloa boys, holloa boys, God save the King!

Here's a question - what is it about this election that has more people than ever so incredibly passionate and involved? People are blogging, arguing, talking in the middle of the street - we're not just sitting back, feeling that nothing can change, nothing matters, that nothing we do will make a difference. That in and of it self is a miracle. I am fascinated by the fact that I am terrified what will happen to our country and my family if Palin becomes VP (I could tolerate McCain b/c I remember him in 2000 - just worried because I think he'll need a food taster if elected). I read others who are equally terrified if Obama is elected, - the thing I have been literally praying for - and I have not uttered a prayer in years. How can we all feel so deeply and so differently? We must find a way to respect one another. We must find a way to bridge our differences. Otherwise, no matter who is elected, we will never get anything done.