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Barack Obama, John McCain, the Polls, and the Electoral College

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htgfgdff of IA 10:42PM November 04, 2008

I have been watching the polls but no one talks about the great state of texas why is that.They also leave out the entire map in the middle. Are those states not important too.

gwendaline collins of TX 9:19PM October 31, 2008

I am only 16 years old and I even I know who the real winner is. McCain IS the REAL winner in this whole election, no matter what the polls or Electoral College say. He gets things done and he makes the right decisions. Plus, he makes exquisite arguments about Obama and what he "has done". The only argument Obama can come up with is how McCain supported President Bush. I'm sorry for those who would vote for someone like him, when he can't even come up with a reasonable argument about McCain. I mean come on. Plus, Obama couldn't even come up with a sentence to say when his teleprompter broke. It shows that he just does and says what people tell him to. Obama is a follower NOT a leader.

of 5:50PM October 16, 2008

What people don't realize is that Obama plans to meet with world-wide terrorists from around the world. He want's to make "peace" with them and do you honestly believe for a second that these terrorists who don't give a rip aout America... who want to DESTROY American and watch us fall... are going to give in that easily?? Obama is an idiot and if he gets elected... oh there will be changes alright! America's will fall. Not only does he support partial birth abortion... which is the same a murder to me... but he's going to be that stupid to give our country away like that. Honestly.. is Obama the right choice??

Gabbi of VA 9:07PM October 12, 2008

Barack Obama is doing an amazing job. McCain is 90% agreeing with Bush on about everything. McCain may not make any thing better than what they are now. Obama can make the change. You dont want 4 more years of the samething that Bush did.And McCain will do 4 more years of it. Yea im 14 and young but that doen't meen i dont know about whats going on in life, the teacher makes me watch it lol :D But im happy he does because if not i wouldn't even know about them. The only thing i dont agree with is that i think gay rights should be allowed, mostly because im bi, and in ways its defencing.

drucilla of OH 11:52PM October 02, 2008

You can't ignore the big picture, McCain has been around for 30 years his party had the presidency for 8 years and majorities in the house and senate from 2000 - 2006 and look what we have happening today. If they are such financial genius's why has the price of gas and electricity quadroopled, why do we need a 700 Billion dollar bailout, why have jobs traveled over seas, health insurance and pensions down the tubes.
I remember in 1992 the republicans talked about how Bill Clinton would ruin the economy when infact just the opposite happened, I buit up the majority of my retirement during those years by a 401K that was earning 20% per year and a job market in tech the trippled my salary. Those were 8 years of democratic rule from 92-2000, then after 8 years from 2000-2008 of republican rule and poof its all gone.
Both these candidates have negatives and with all the negative ads and half truths being thrown around so who really knows what to believe so why not vote for Obama and give the new guy a chance.

CTL of WI 9:13PM September 30, 2008

McSame is very transparent. He is over his head and he's frustrated. If the American people cannot recognize the stark contrast between the 2 then we don't deserve better than a continuation of a Bush or worse than Bush presidency if that's possible. After observing McSame, he is not even senate material; he's not very bright , acts on impulse, is not reflective, and not a very nice person. Calling his wife a CUNT says a lot about his character, none.

CaroleOddie of CT 11:08PM September 29, 2008

Obama is a greedy booksmart smooth talking fraud who doesn't understand what it is to put country before his own needs. That is why he execuses John McCain of suspending his campaign for his own purposes instead of the country's. He could not imagine that somebody would actually put the country first.
He will not win this election. The majority of Americans do not want a president who has very little accomplishments and is politically imature. He is the largest beneficiary of this entire financial crisis and he blows his own horn constantly about how much he cares about Main Street. That is all part of his smooth talk. Believe that lie and he will tell you another story.
America needs substance not style.
Alex Reins

Alex Reins of NJ 2:21PM September 29, 2008

In a few weeks we will make a choice that will decide our future. I follow an economist named Bob Proctor. He has called the top and bottom of every market crash since the 70s correctly. Also, he perfectly predicted the current real estate market meltdown and the picture he paints about what will happen in the next couple years is terrifying.He thinks it will be worse then the great depression.
The banks in the U.S. are going under one after the other. Countrywide the largest morgage bank in the world,Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch which are 3 out of the top 5 wall street firms. Also, Fanny and Freddy Mae which hold 50 percent of the home loans in the United States. The government took them over because they are essentially bankrupt.If they didn't the entire financially system would virtually shut down, the stock market would crash and we would suffer beyond what any of us have seen before.
McCain just like Bush " doesn't understand the economy".
That not just my opinion its his own words. Not only does he not understand how to fix it but he does not understand exactly what is broken.
It is no surprise that he doesn't. The people that make up these securities use complex mathematical models very few people understand.
Bush and McCain both can take the credit for this mess since they helped deregulate the laws that were protecting us.
Bush's economic advisor Phil Graham wrote the deregulation bill that allowed banks to take huge risks with all of our future.
Now, Phil Graham is the head of McCain's economic policy.He is also McCain's choice for the next secretary of the treasury.
No one in this country can afford for that to happen. The last time Bush met with his economic advisors was in March. He either didn't care or didn't realize that anything was wrong. Phil Graham had the guts to say that we are in a mental recession after he helped create the worst economy meltdown in our lifetime.
It will take the best and brightest minds in the world to get us out of this nightmare. As bad as Bush has done, McCain would be
even more destructive because things are in much worse shape. The next president will not inherit a surplus like Bush did but a tanking economy and a 11,600,000,000,000 (trillion) dollars deficit. Most of it Bush created and it will take decades to pay it back.
If you do what you have always done then you will get what you have always got.
When it comes to policy Bush and McCain are the same 90 percent of the time.
So why are the polls even close then ?
The chairman of McCains campaign recently said that people don't vote on issues they vote on a personality composite. Which means he is trying to sell you personality instead of results.
He believes people will vote against their own interests.
Let's teach him we are smarter than that .
Hold them accountable NOW! while it will still help.
Elect Obama Biden 2008

ObamaBidenNOW of ID 1:30PM September 29, 2008

It is amazing how Democrats always mysteriously seem to lead in the so-called polls near any election. Polls are no more mysterious than the lap-dog media fawning perenially over Democrats. The only surprise is that so many can be so willingly easily deceived by a clearly dangerous man who could never even get a security clearance to be a night-watchman in a gated-community yet can be nominated for President! It is dangerous, dangerous...we will get the government we so richly deserve if foolish enough to elect Barach (Apollo) Obama who has descended from the heavens to save us from inconvenient Reason. That's the genuine "Inconvenient Truth" and if the Big Lie wins then our country is likely then going to be on an unstoppable, slow and tortuous path to self-destruction...It is a sad day if America does not face Truth soon. Let us hope she will awaken soon...33 days left. As Warren Buffet, I believe, recently said, "Heaven help us." If we will not help ourselves, it is unlikely anyone else can or will.

Dan of ME 11:40AM September 29, 2008