Are you panicking over where the presidential race stands?

Can the leaders of the MSM not see what has happened to the country ECONOMICALLY (aside from every other consideration) are they that blind to what is happening around them. If McCain wins, and by extension the republican policies, this economy is going to be sucked into a black hole the likes of which God has never seen. They forget that they are as much a part of this economy as the rest of us peons. Who will afford cable when food is more important. How will GE (owner of NBC) sell us refrigerators? Can they not see that their corporations are standing on the deck of the same ship that their consumers are on?

I AM afraid. People vote with their feelings. Time and time again the Republicans have deftly shifted elections to emotional issues. It amazes me how people vote against their self interests for some knee-jerk buzz words like the usual guns, god and gays. The Democrats try the salme 'getting the facts out" ploy again and again and lose. People voted for the Democrats in 2006 because of Iraq and were disappointed in nothing happening. Say hallo to the Bush 3rd term, just like Putin in Russia if you ask me....

Is in full swing, with the intention of falsifying the 2008 election as it was in 2000 & 2004. What the hell; they got away with it twice because NOBODY could find the courage or the interest to challange these crimes, and it's highly unlikely anyone will this time, either. The caging list of some 900,000 soon to be disenfranshised voters in Ohio isn't even a secret, yet no outcry has occurred, and no action taken. Let's face it; our country has degenerated into a tinpot dictatorship, and nobody seems to give a damn. The first order of business for the neocons is to make the presidential race seem closer than it really is with phony polls. That makes the falsification of the vote count easier to accomplish through Diebold's fake voting machines, "lost" provisional and absentee ballots, rethug chicanery about polling places,and outright intimidation of likely Democratic voters. It's all there in plain sight, so what are we going to do about it? Most likely, NOTHING again.

While I sat sweating in my powerless apartment after Gustav raged over Louisiana, my family sat in comfort in a hotel watching the Republican convention. The first time I saw my mother and sister, not a half hour passes before they begin telling me how wonderful Sarah Palin was in her speech. It took me three hours of intense discussion to get them to see reason again. In the end, my sister came around, but my mother may vote for McCain. Sadly, my mother is one of those that changes her mind when one of these distraction stories arise. I am worried. We need women like my sister and mother. They voted for Bush twice (much to my embarrassment) and were planning on voting for Obama. If McCain/Palin keep pulling them away, we won't be looking at a close race anymore. We will be looking at Obama down 8 or 9 points going into the debates. All Palin has to do is show up and she wins the VP debate so Obama is going to have to part to Potomac to make up for the loss. Here is what I don't get about the democratic strategy. Republicans use smears, distractions and dirty politics. Each time they do, they gain ground. The democrats respond by saying "Well, that's not nice" and lose ground. They expect to win this way. Sorry, but politics isn't for the faint of heart. Get in there and fight and get dirty, or we are in serious trouble.

How in the world did McBush catch up so fast? All I can believe is that people are either nuts, or don't read much, or are blind and deaf to what McCain/Palin are saying. Maybe after the debates things will look better. I even read an article that said Palin appeals to white southern women. Excuse me! I am a white southern woman, 58 years old, who fought long and hard for woman's rights, and I am just not ready to let go now, and watch my daughters, and granddaughters be taken back to the stone age. I care about the environment, healthcare (or lack of it in my case, equal pay, diplomacy rather than war first,in a nutshell, I love my country too much to watch a bunch of nutcases and fruitcakes destroy what my daddy and other ancestors fought to preserve. While the world progresses, the US digresses. This is humiliating.

You are absolutely right, josephconrad. Obama is using a handgun when he needs a bazooka. He is coming across as cool, calm, and collected. The public wants visible passion. You can't fight the Republican slime machine with high-minded rhetoric. He needs to go nuclear negative, and to hell with the pundits. I fear he is not tough enough to do it.

Not panicking, but gravely concerned. Now that Goebbels, er Rove, is working for the McCain campaign, we may have an opportunity to see, together with the last eight years, just how the Nazis managed to take over Germany. Of course, they had a lot more ammo with the aftermath of WWI. The Republicans have manufactured most of the gris for their mill.

Even to the most CASUAL OBSERVER the OBAMA CAMPAIGN appears to be careening SOUTH! Who would ever think a highly intelligent, glib Black Chicago University Professor of Con Law & a Senator would be in a truly tight race with an Old Whiteboy 4-time Cancer Survivor, POW & Senator and a RACIST, IGNORANT White Woman Gov. 'Wannabe'?! The tightness of this race is stark testimony to RESILIANT WHITE RACISM IN AMERICA rather than the Obama Campaign's Inability/Unwillingness to devise a TRUE THROAT-RIPPING STRATEGY to TEAR THE HEART OUT of the Old White Soldier & the IGNORANT White Lady! When the OBAMA Campaign GETS OVER its FEAR OF SMASHING that empty headed 'FLOWER OF AMERICAN WHITE WOMANHOOD' or LEVELING the OLD SOLDIER, AMERICA will win a great victory in 2008 & the CONSTITUTION WILL BE SAVED!

THE SAD TRUTH Of the matter is that the people of this country have lost any sembelence of a social concience, It is all about if we're doing well or even just ok we as a people just don't want to rock the boat(gotta pay those bills). So we choose to ignore the poor and the growing injustice all around us. Until it happens to you personally then you become one of the ignored. The politicians always are talking about patriotism, A true american patriot will stand up for our constitution and values (civil rights,no premptive wars, geneva coventions,etc.)to create a better america and better life for all. Instead we have McShame being elected by corprate interests and religious zealots to further thier agendas while the country that we were raised in fades into the history books to be replaced by facisim and slavery. If these people get elected (again) We are done as a great country and beacon of light in the world! So yes I AM VERY WORRIED! The Question is if these people are elected Then what are true patriots to do?

What is wrong with the Obama group? They are letting the Rove-led McSame campaign walk all over them! Which means that this country could be turned over to an old man & a woman who wants to help bring about Armageddon. Who knows? Maybe Palin is the Antichrist.

...the "conventional wisdom" accepted by so many people in this presidential race thus far has always sounded ludicrous to me. Here we have the first African-American nominee of a major political party in U.S. history and people have been saying things like...he should be much farther ahead than McCain. This has been going on for months. However, despite some of the favorable political winds that may be helping Democrats in general this year, it has never made sense to me that anyone would ever have thought that Barack Obama, possibly the first African-American president in our country's history, would have had an easy time of it. While there are beneficial factors, there are now, and have always been, some significant obstacles for Obama to overcome to become president. To ignore these is to ignore this country's entire history. It is also to ignore the shorter-term history of the Republian Party, which has demonstrated that, while they are incompetent when it comes to everything else, including mismanaging this country's foreign and domestic affairs, they are exceptional at one thing: character assassination against their opponents. Smearing people's character is the one and only thing that the Republican Party is competent at. They do it very well, no matter who the opposing candidate. To me, Barack Obama seems well-positioned. Will it be a cakewalk for him? No. Was it ever going to be a cakewalk for him? No. Can he actually pull it off? At this point in time, it is not just hopeful wishing for me to say..."Yes, we can," it seems to me to be the most accurate answer, because Barack Obama cannot pull it off alone. But, together, can we do it? "Yes,we can." Will it be easy? No, it won't.

Put on your "imagine" hat, and follow me: Imagine that the forces of Evil (Repugs) had chosen a full fledged war hero as their standard bearer for the election. Imagine that this hero had nearly unlimited personal funds. Imagine he had a party behind him that had virtually ruled the government for 8 years, with 6 years of gridlock/filibuster control even prior to that. His party had been in charge of all patronage, including tens of thousands of Federal, and many State/City jobs. Imagine that his fellow Repugs also had a HUGE amount of taxpayer funds, into the half-Trillion$ range, and made damn sure most of it went to friendly corps - from GE to Haliburton, which corps would donate funds AND do anything else in their power to keep the taxpayer's funds pumping into the corporate veins. Imagine that his fellow Repugs would go as far as changing strategy, and allowing some troop withdrawals, if it would aid in getting war hero elected and keep the rape of the taxpayer going. Then imagine that as his running mate he chose a young woman who made the Repugs extremely happy and motivated. Now, imagine that the Dems chose as their prospect a guy who has a funny first name, a funny last name and the name of America's last "enemy" as his middle name. Imagine that the guy was rather younger than US Presidents tended to be and had little governmental experience compared to that war hero. Imagine the guy was REALLY skinny, with ears that look ready to take flight if the wind blows. Imagine his wife was a strong woman, something that also causes vote loss in misogynistic America. Imagine that this guy has a rather loud spoken pastor, whose beliefs add to the already building political deficits of our man. Add to all that the fact that our guy is Black, raised by a single mom and, horrors, admits to the occasional toke in college. Put all this together, and then imagine this: With all this against him, the Black, funny looking, funny named, inexperienced guy is TIED in the polls . . . polls taken immediately following the war hero's Convention bounce. Hell, folks! We shouldn't be getting down on ourselves. If I had taken those "Imaginary" points to you a year ago, you would have told me not to submit such an impossible scenario to any publishers! PS: "Pale-One?" As someone who worked in public housing, I met many single mothers. And, nearly every one was a loving, caring mom who was doing everything she could to give her kids benefits she didn't have. But, the way these mom's were discribed by people I worked with and knew would not let you realize their dedication. They were "sluts", "welfare moms", "ho's" and worse. And a major point, almost always mentioned, was "How stupid does a girl have to be to have an unwanted pregnancy in this day?" Palin's grandkid will be White. The parents have access to health care, and a future that is heavy on money. So, the MSM portrays the mother, Bristol Palin, as the Virgin Mary and her kid as the second coming. So, it seems that if one is the "right" color [Pale-One], having teen sex, and becoming unintentionally pregnant, is akin to doing a Novena. It gets you closer to Sainthood, if you're White and Republican in today's America! Jack Ballinger

There is little I can do about the Obama/Biden campaign. But I'll do something. Last night, we volunteers for a progressive governor celebrated a close win in our Democratic primary. Now the big push to beat the Republican contender who ran only because his party couldn't find anybody else. Am I worried? Yes. Our voting computers with no paper trails cannot be secured. But I think there will be such a groundswell that it will be too large a difference to get away with shifting enough votes to change the outcome. Now to drive around my progressive candidate for county council later this week. I'll be doing phoning for both candidates. I'm surprising myself. I'm getting good at it. Perhaps I'll do some phoning for Obama/Biden too. I am disabled. I do look after an elderly parent. I do handle the affairs of a disabled adult son. I'm not going anywhere. My family and my country need me. When I took my mother to the polls yesterday, I proudly announced that she had voted for FDR. Pat Williams

Rove rove rove yer boat ... cynically down the stream ... ENOUGH! ENOUGH! ENOUGH! Already! I'm just gonna watch Keith and Rachel and Sunrise Earth until election day and then decide to cheer or cry. Yes, Australia sounds nice. Are the American people really this STUPID? Falling for the repub campaign ploys so easily? Oh well, wtf, we'll either sink or float ... either way we can row row row our boats into victory or off the edge of the world ... unless the mckracken gets us!

Check out this YouTube piece...... forward it to everyone you know and get them to forward it to everyone they know. We need all of the help we can get. For those won't aren't musically savvy, Crowded House (band who did the underlying music piece) are one of our groups down under here. I thought it was really awesome that the person who put this together used an Aussie piece of music ;-)

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=oElJy_eFeLk

I don't sleep well at night right now. I'm as angry at the MSM as I am at the ReThuglicans. The LIES!! The SMEARS!! Where the HELL are the "journalists?" Here's the thing. McCain is intellectually shallow. He speaks in short sentences. The American public is stupid. (They elected W twice.) They like short sentences. They listen to short sentences. They understand short sentences. They listen to the lies and believe them. They don't watch Jon Stewart or Keith Olberman or Bill Mahr. They hate the truth tellers. Also, Let's not forget the way the bastards steal elections with voter registration purges and hackable voting machines. I weep for this country.

... as someone who drove weekend after weekend from Indy to Dayton to register 2004 "Kerry voters," and probably lost my job and house due to my anti-war stance, let me say this: I was pissed in 2000, scared in 2002, and simply distraught in 2004. Panic is no longer a factor. It's over. The idiots have won. In psychology there's a paradigm called learned helplessness: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learned_helplessness Right now I'm the rat floating somewhere in the water maze, knowing that there's no way out and unwilling to drown myself trying to find one. I've seen this play before, and I know when to expect the fat lady stage right. That moment is coming in the next week. I don't know why this is. Nice guy syndrome? Weakness? Selfishness? Too damned much empathy? The NSA having the dirt on everyone (or merely exploiting the fear of closet skeletons)causing Dems to clam up? Whatever, the deck is stacked and the crooked dealers are in control. Game over. I am making plans to protect my family as best I can. I have no money to spare, and have stuck my neck out too many times to do it again. Obama had better have some brass balls, or we're doomed. Good luck to you all, you'll need it. And WTF is up with the lack of carriage returns in this comment form? Really Buzz, it's the 21st century.

deebee My passport is in order!

Horus45, Clemsy Diggs et. al.,

I left in December 2004. I'm now a dual Aussie/US citizen living in the nation's capital, Canberra. Moving to Perth in January. I didn't leave specifically because GB won a second term (timing was coincidental) but I've NO plans to come back mostly due to GB. God, I am so glad I am gone. That having been said, though, I've continued faithfully to vote absentee since then. America isn't red, white and blue anymore; it is redneck, white and blue.

Clemsy, I am SO right there with you - "More of us will die if McCain gets elected. Lots and lots and lots. One way or another. I swear I will delete politics from my life if the Republicans win this time. I've had enough." I have had way more than enough. I cried tears and more tears in 2000, how different this country could have been had Gore won that election. (#*()#*(*%&(#*$)(#*$)(#*$()#*0 [rant over ;-)]

If Bush and the Republicans aren't punished for his sins and misdeeds in November, I am washing my hands of US politics and marching into the consulate in Perth and relinquishing my US citizenship and right to vote and turning in my passport. If Obama and the Democrats can't get elected this time, it isn't going to happen folks, ever. Leave now, make your plans, like Clemsy said - "If the unthinkable happens, my slogan becomes "Go, lemmings! Go!"

I am amazed that anyone who has suffered through these last 8 years would buy this crap. Even many who voted for W twice, have buyer's regret. Now they want to put W in lipstick in as veep? GOD HELP US ALL

You know, a couple nights ago I woke up at about 2 a.m. and the thought crept into my head, "McCain may actually win." From there it grew into a sleep eating monster and that was it.

I gotta say, while Obama ain't no savior, he's also not a republican, blind faith, magical thinking nightmare. Twice, enough votes were stolen, and enough third party votes cast to make the difference.

That's the nature of America today: about half blind faithers, willful ignorants and FDA's (the D stands for dangerous, figure the other two out for yourselves), about half people who actually know what's going on, and a bunch who get their opinions from ads and talking heads.

This election is the threshold. If the repubs get four more years, Jefferson's American ideal is done with. Did you see that sea of white faces at the RNC? They believed what they were hearing and saying. Of course they did. They weren't talking to you or me.

They couldn't care less if we live or die. We aren't part of their tribe. Of course Palin is forgiven and protected for her daughter's indiscretion. Of course O'Riley's are ignored and forgiven. Of course Limabaugh's drug addiction is dismissed. They're on the inside.

We're nothing. We're other. To them, we're not even Americans.

Consider this: If the Dems were so much the same as the repubs, we'd be eating moldy bread in some camp in the desert. Now. Today.

Don't think so? Look at what they've already done.

More of us will die if McCain gets elected. Lots and lots and lots. One way or another.

I swear I will delete politics from my life if the Republicans win this time. I've had enough.

As for Obama, let me quote Howard Zinn:

"...Yes, there are candidates who are somewhat better than others, and at certain times of national crisis (the Thirties, for instance, or right now) where even a slight difference between the two parties may be a matter of life and death.

I’m talking about a sense of proportion that gets lost in the election madness. Would I support one candidate against another? Yes, for two minutes—the amount of time it takes to pull the lever down in the voting booth.

But before and after those two minutes, our time, our energy, should be spent in educating, agitating, organizing our fellow citizens in the workplace, in the neighborhood, in the schools. Our objective should be to build, painstakingly, patiently but energetically, a movement that, when it reaches a certain critical mass, would shake whoever is in the White House, in Congress, into changing national policy on matters of war and social justice."

It is a matter of life and death. No question. Vote for Obama. Please. THEN KICK HIS ASS THE DAY AFTER HE WINS.

If the unthinkable happens, my slogan becomes "Go, lemmings! Go!"

And mood stabilizers do become an option.

I am tired of being afraid of Republicans. We progressives have ALWAYS known that Obama is up against their hateful ways and their racism. That is why we have rallied ourselves in force. We must not lose our nerve now. We must get Obama all the money we can spare, we must give our time, our energy, and we MUST be prepared to fight on Tuesday, Nov. 4th for the right of all our people to VOTE. We have always known that Obama's only chance against these people is for us to generate a HUGE turnout of voters. That is where our focus must go now, as ever.

REDNECK COMEDY CIRCUIT, YES -- PRESIDENCY, NO! Sarah Palin belongs on the redneck comedy circuit. If she convinced us of one thing in her formidable debut last week, it is that she can dish out a one-liner with the best of them. Her timing is terrific, her writers are excellent and she has a genuine natural gift for looking straight into the camera and saying whatever works, without the remotest concept of shame. With the self-assurance of Bob Hope, she intuits perfectly how long to let the laughter die down, and she knows in her blood when to come right back with an acerbic follow-up like – “I put it on eBay.” Who cares if it’s a lie? It’s comedy. Comedy doesn’t have to be honest. It’s like elections – no rules, no referees. Angry white males, from pool halls to editorial boards, unabashed Hillary bashers, are falling all over themselves suddenly, awkwardly agush over Palin, defending her womanhood and sticking up for her faux “feminism.” William Kristol, a neocon mouthpiece whose model for the perfect Vice-President is Dick Cheney, announced his enamorment of the Palin candidacy this week. Kristol gleefully opines that it’s “about time” we had “a Wasilla Wal-Mart Mom a heartbeat away” from the presidency. We can only hope Kristol’s soothsaying about this election is no better than his confident predictions of a short easy victory in Iraq. For a guy who claims a monopoly on patriotism, Kristol seems bent on destroying his country. I don’t understand this whole thing of voting for “a president who is like me.” Sure, I like to hang around people like me – creative types, free thinkers, fun lovers – but I don’t necessary want a president like me. This ridiculous trend started back in the Age of Mediocrity that brought us the 2d worst president in history, a marginal movie actor starring in his most convincing role as “the President who would also make a wonderful next door neighbor.” This approach to picking a president reached its nadir with W, a guy who says “nucular” and hails world leaders with a strapping “Yo!” Never mind that he turned out to be a one-man bubonic plague, an utter fraud who brought to governance what the boll weevil brought to cotton. But Bush just pretended to be a redneck – this lady really is one. If you think Crawford, Texas is off the beaten path, try Wasilla, Alaska – a town where the mayor evidently gets to hire and fire the librarian. Sarah should be out there facing off with Jeff Foxworthy, not with Joe Biden. It really does make a mockery of the American presidency to position an obscure redneck comedienne one raspy little 72-year old heartbeat away from the most powerful position on earth. At least Al Franken has spent many years analyzing issues of national importance and discussing them in depth with experts. Besides, he’s just running for U.S. Senator, and from the state that elected Jesse Ventura as Governor. He just wants a seat in the same chamber that boasts Lindsay Graham, Sam Brownback and Ted Stevens – we’re not talking a very high bar here. But the presidency – that’s a whole other matter. Presidents need to have something on the ball, a grasp of complexities, a macro view of things. Presidents need to know a little something about the Constitution, say, and world affairs. They need to think of the Executive as something more than an opportunity to yank a few books from the shelf, lay off a chef or pull strings to make trouble for your sister’s ex. Hey, didn’t we just try Doofus? Didn’t we just learn that lesson maybe? We elected and even re-elected an average Joe, a president people supposedly most would like to have a beer with. Whooopee. Can we move on now? Once Palin’s ample sense of humor is acknowledged, it should be fair game in a pluralistic democracy to unearth and seriously assess her record as a public official and citizen which, incidentally, appears to have the makings of quite a horror show if the first week of glimpses is any sort of preview. True textbook “elitists” like Kristol, David Brooks and Mitt Romney are parroting the Republican talking point that daring to criticize Palin’s presidential credentials is “snobbery.” They know that the prospect for stopping Obama and for perpetuating Bush-Cheney-McCain will depend on how much the Palin record is exposed and known. All kidding aside -- and at times like this, really, it is all we can do just to count the minutes until the Daily/Colbert shows -- there is actually nothing the least bit funny about the notion of a President Sarah Palin, unless you find fascism amusing or get a good chortle out of the thought of planetary annihilation. John McCain proved one thing in designating Sarah Palin to be the most powerful person in the world should he die in office: he has a contempt for this nation, its people – and for the entire world – of severely pathological proportions. His choice of a successor was a uniquely and overwhelmingly disqualifying act. McCain’s first important decision proves him patently unfit for any position of responsibility.

One thing that does bother me is that Democrats insist the American Public are not ignorant, but the Republicans count on it, and Bush was sort of elected and re-elected in some way, verifying a high level of ignorance. Given that the corporate media control the flow of information to most people, I am not sure that alternative messages are getting out. It will take a strong campaign presence to make sure that truth is there to intercept the blatant lies of the Republican Party.

If the tickets were reversed this race would be over. Just imagine a Democrat vice president nominee having a pregnant unmarried teen daughter, toting a five month old Down Syndrome baby around on the campaign trail, misleading the world with a jet sale on eBay, flip flopping on the bridge to nowhere and then running on it as if on one side of the issue the whole time, wanting earmarks to have a rail system built from his/her small hometown to an indicted Senator's resort, being under criminal investigation for abuse of power, wanting $1 million in earmarks for research on the rock fish, being the only mayor in the state to have hired a lobbying firm to secure $27 million in earmarks for a town of 6900, wanting to ban books from the community library that are in most libraries throughout the nation, or having been a director of an indicted senator's 527 group. And these are only the issues where the Republicans hypocricy is exposed, whether they are relevent to the election or not. Also, where's the MSM on Sarah Palin's lawsuit of the Federal government to remove the polar bear from the endangered species list to make drilling in Alaska's ANWR an option, trying to pray away gayness, claiming the war in Iraq is God's work, supporting making abortion illegal in all cases including that of rape and incest. This is one freakzoid of a VP choice. How could the Republican ticket have any support at all by the American People? Are some Americans really this blind or ignorant to the facts? Is it all about partisan loyalty? I just don't understand some Americans. This is insane. The hypocrisy is beyond belief. Just imagine these tickets being reversed. Sarah Palin ran for governor on supporting the "bridge to no where" claiming to refuse standing in the way of progress. After getting elected she flip flopped and used the hundreds of millions of dollars of the American tax payer's money elsewhere. MSM where are you? Wake up and report the facts!

Do you believe the unemployment figures? inflation figures? for that matter any numbers reported in the press? I really wonder if there is parity here? I think the plan is to convince the sheeple that its an even race, then two or three days before the 20th, wonder of all wonders, McCain pulls ahead, according to the press and all the sheeple flock to the polls to vote for the winner. Call me jaded, but after 8 years of this stuff, how can one not be?

I see Rove(TURD BLOSSOM) and the CORPORATE CONTROLED MEDIA putting McCain in the White House Come November. The CCM has and always will be in the REPUBLICANS corner how many time do you have to be hit with the TRUTH for you to see that the CCm is in the REPUBLICANS pocket. Either start braking up the CCM or learn to live with there CHOICES.

I think we need to remember WHY we have been screaming for change from the Bush policies. Obama is accused of being inexperienced. Keep in mind that Bush supposedly had experience and look what we got. I believe that it is more important to have the intelligence to get the best advisors and to lead the country out of the disasters of the Bush administration. McCain has said proudly that he voted 90% of the time with Bush. Doesn't that bother anyone? Do you want more of Bush? Are you better off now after Bush's 8 years? More and more people are losing their health insurance. More and more are losing their jobs and their homes.Banks are shutting down, and we have a loss of respect from our allies . Think Katrina! 5 days on a rooftop waiting for help. Heck of a job Brownie! The many many soldiers who were killed because Bush lied us into an unprovoked war and many without their limbs and being rationed by our government on the care they get. We have more and more homeless vets and their families. Republicans vote down benefits for the vets. They were sent over there without the proper equipment and were told they had to buy their own bullet proof vests. Suicide deaths are at an all time high Have you heard of any improvenments to Walter Reed? Do the vets still have to wait months and some years to get medical care? Do they still have vets waiting in a wheel chair for months and the hospital does not even know they are there? Do you still want the administration using the "executive privilege" to cover their secretive sneaky unlawful deeds? Isn't it strange that this Iraq war is suddenly winnable and the gas prices are coming down? Do you think the election has something to do with it? Think of your children's future.

As horrible as this administration has been, I have to be honest ... I am concerned that Obama isn't 20 points ahead, regardless of both candidate's bounces. What section of the country are these polls coming from? I'm from So. West Ohio, an area of ignorant and bigoted republicans, so I expect McCain to win over Obama here. But when national polls have indicated a tight race between Obama and McCain, it makes me wonder if the nation is reflective of So. West Ohio.

we need the debates... we need equal coverage in the news... PLEASE TELL YOUR KIDS TO REGISTER TO VOTE...they always forget that stuff.....

Yes we can!