Interactive Graphic: Swing States on the 2008 Electoral Map

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Republicans have called democrat presidential candidates all sort of names including socialist!

Do you think Buffet, Rubin, Powell, Clinton, the 2008 nobel proze winner in Economy would be supporting Obama otherwise. Those are not dummies!

Remenber McCain own words?
Obama is a "decent family man, citizen.................
"He is a decent person and a person that you do not have to be scared about as President of the United States.......
THIS WAS ONE OF FEW HONEST MOMENTS OF McCAIN WHOLE CAMPAIGN!!!!!

For all you Obama voters out there, thank you
Today on my way to lunch I passed a homeless guy with a sign that read ' Vote Obama, I need the money .' I laughed.
Once in the restaurant my server had on a ' Obama 08 ' tie, again I laughed as he had given away his political preference--just imagine the coincidence.
When the bill came I decided not to tip the server and explained to him that I was exploring the Obama redistribution of wealth concept. He stood there in disbelief while I told him that I was going to redistribute his tip to someone who I deemed more in need--the homeless guy outside. The server angrily stormed from my sight.
I went outside, gave the homeless guy $10 and told him to thank the server inside as I've decided he could use the money more. The homeless guy was grateful.
At the end of my rather unscientific redistribution experiment I realized the homeless guy was grateful for the money he did not earn, but the waiter was pretty angry that I gave away the money he did earn even though the actual recipient deserved money more.
I guess redistribution of wealth is an easier thing to swallow in concept than in practical application.

I am so ashamed of the comments of sbiae as he obviously appears to be a racist.Our great country needs to come together as one after these historical elections but persons like sbiae must smell the coffee.Change is here and no racist tones will change the inevitable.
Agent for change

I question the validity of the "solid McCain" statement for the state of Oklahoma,. In my judgement this statement is in error. I have talked to co-workers, friends and relatives, in Oklahoma and by 70%, they are voting for Obama. The other thing is that Oklahoma has 250, 000 more registered Democrats than republicains. So how can anyone be so sure to say that Olahoma is "Solid McCain"?

6. When Karl Rove says your campaign???s lies have gone too far, you???ve gone too far.
McCain???s running a revoltingly sleazy campaign, but it???ll be tough to sink lower than his commercial suggesting Obama wanted to teach kindergartners about sex. (???Learning about sex before learning to read????) The ad implies teachers would be telling kids how to find the G-spot before naptime, but the bill Obama co-sponsored would actually have focused on age-appropriate topics like how to avoid molestation. Imagine if Obama???s ad people were willing to twist the truth like that: ???John McCain doesn???t want little kids to know about the dangers of pedophiles. Does John McCain like pedophiles????

7. He???s Charles Keating Jr.???s ex-BFF.
In the late ???80s, Charles Keating Jr., owner of Irvine-based Lincoln Savings and Loan, also owned McCain???s ass. McCain and four other senators (the infamous ???Keating Five???) received ample campaign contributions from Keating. McCain partied like a pimp on Keating???s dime, enjoying what he called ???Charlie Keating???s Shangri-La.??? Keating actually boasted to reporters about buying McCain???s loyalty. The Keating Five pressured regulators to overlook Keating???s illegal activities, leading to a bank failure costing taxpayers over $120 billion by some estimates. It was a dress rehearsal for our current horror show, with McCain at center stage. McCain officially cut ties to Keating in 1987. His wife???s business partnership with Keating lasted until 1998, but McCain insists he didn???t know.

8. He agrees with Bush 95 percent of the time.
McCain???s trying to distance himself from the unpopular Bush, but in 2007 McCain voted with Bush 95 percent of the time, according to Factcheck.org. Seriously, your dog doesn???t even agree with you 95 percent of the time.

9. He???s very old.
Things McCain is older than: Life Magazine, World War II, the Golden Gate Bridge and Keith Richards. In 2000, McCain himself suggested he???d be too old to run by 2008, saying, ???I think I might be ready to go down to the old soldiers??? home.???

10. He???s in lousy health.
He???s endured four bouts of malignant melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer. Ominously, McCain refuses to allow full access to his medical records.

11. His age and health really matter.
It???s not unlikely McCain would croak in office. Then we???d be stuck with Palin, and W???s administration would seem like the good old days.

Sarah Palin is a mom of 5, a soon to be grandmother, and loves to hunt. She is the Governor of a state of 600,000 and was the Mayor of a town of 6000. She hired a lobbyist to bring in earmarks over 28 million dollars, and as Governor has requested more earmarks than any other state per ca pita.

She is tough. When the news media keeps telling everyone that she did not sell the state jet on ebay, or that she was not always against the bridge to nowhere, she sticks to her scripts. In the face of truth, she is able to repeat her stomp speech and not change a thing. Not many politicians can say that.

She stood up to Charlie Gibson in her interview and said, "Yes, I am ready to be president." She is ready. How many people can say they are ready to be president. Why do the liberals want to ask her questions about her past or what she believes in? This is not fair. She has a right to be VP without explaining herself.

She also stated that she did not blink when McCain asked her to be VP. This is proof that she is a patriot. She will take on Russia, and go to war if necessary to protect our great US of A. She is ready to be VP and even President.

McCain knew it after meeting with her twice that she was his soul mate. McCain's gut told him- now that is the kind of guy that I want leading the country. A man that tosses reason and logic out of the window and goes with his gut. Unlike that wimp Obama; who wants to talk or use diplomacy first.

Proven by all of the things I have listed. Who cares about The Bush Doctrine? She is a mother of 5, not a baby killer. She looks like the girl next door, and has a comprehensive energy plan that includes only drilling. She will not drill in Indiana, Ohio or Michigan, but there will be lots of jobs in Alaska- America's Last Frontier.

I had to produce my birth certificate in order to obtain a passport, to go to school, get a driver's license and other things. Why is porducing his now such a big deal for Obama? I have always found that one who secretes things that most would not object to, has something to hide and is not to be trusted. To those who are in favor of Obama's tax policy, remember that when taxes on business goes up, one of two things MUST happen - either consumer proces go up or the company must cut overhead, typically resulting in a loss of jobs. So, a vote for Obama will result in either inflated prices (which the working class will have to pay( or loss of jobs, again resulting in hardship to the working class, A vote for Obama is akin to a vote to cut your own throat.

25 Reasons McCain Sucks
How does John Sidney McCain III suck? Let us count the ways . . .

1. He???s a closet neocon.
According to Rolling Stone, McCain privately calls himself ???the original neocon.??? McCain began pushing for war with Iraq in the ???90s, and within hours of the World Trade Center attacks he was on talk shows insisting Iraq was developing WMDs. Pre-war, he repeatedly stated we would win easily. Later, after the war became a disaster, McCain pretended he???d always been against it. ???The American people were led to believe this could be some kind of day at the beach,??? he said in 2006, ???which many of us fully understood from the beginning would be a very, very difficult undertaking.???

2. Elect McCain, and you can expect more pointless, bloody wars.
McCain clearly has his sights set on Iran, for starters. Retired general John H. Johns, McCain???s former friend, says if McCain???s elected, he???ll be ???Bush on steroids. . . . He puts military at the top of foreign policy rather than diplomacy.???

3. He doesn???t know when to hold ???em or fold ???em.
McCain???s got a gambling jones. He blows thousands per game playing craps. John Weaver, McCain???s former chief strategist, told Time, ???Enjoying craps opens up a window on a central thread constant in John???s life. . . . Taking a chance, playing against the odds.??? Suddenly it makes sense why McCain chose a moose-hunting beauty queen for his running mate: It was a huge gamble. We can???t risk McCain ???rolling snake eyes??? with America???s future.

4. He???ll destroy what???s left of the economy.
McCain has admitted that ???economics is not something I???ve understood as well as I should.??? With the economy so grim that every morning you pray your corner ATM still dispenses cash, do you want to hand things over to a guy who declared this March he???s ???always for less regulation???? One of the Keating Five? Mister ???The fundamentals of our economy are strong???? Elect McCain, and blame yourself when your family is staying warm by burning your useless checkbooks.

5. That awful woman.
I don???t even want to get started on Sarah Palin, or this list will quickly turn into 25 reasons why she sucks. Let me just say that Palin is so horrible that people who like her are a danger to themselves and others, and shouldn???t be allowed to walk around without protective headgear.

19. He???s a self-described ???computer illiterate.???
In an age when a cyber-terrorist attack could cripple America, should we elect a dude who doesn???t understand what the kids are doing with those infernal machines?

20. ???Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran.???
McCain criticized Obama for publicly discussing his plans for Pakistan . . . after McCain announced his own aggressive intentions toward Iran in song form.

21. His ???senior moments.???
McCain???s had troubling memory lapses. He referred to the ???Iraq/Pakistan border,??? forgetting Iran is between those countries. He addressed a rally as ???my fellow prisoners,??? suggesting he may be having ???Nam flashbacks on the campaign trail. In an interview, he mistook Spanish Prime Minister Zapatero for the head of a Latin American dictatorship, refusing to say if he would meet with him.

22. His environmentalist talk is a bunch of greenhouse gas.
He told The Orange County Register ???addressing climate change effectively??? is one way he???ll distinguish his administration from Bush???s. But in 2007, McCain earned a zero score from the League of Conservation Voters, and if he dies in office, we???ll be stuck with Ms. Drill-Baby-Drill.

23. He ???palled around with terrorists.???
In the ???80s, McCain was on the advisory board of the American branch of the World Anti-Communist League, an ultra-conservative group linked to Nazi collaborators and Central American death squads. McCain claims he resigned in 1984, but the group has no record of his ever leaving. And McCain has the stones to attack Obama for briefly serving on an educational board with a ???60s radical-turned-tweedy professor?

24. He supports torture.
In 2007, McCain rightly denounced waterboarding as torture, noting that it was used in the Spanish Inquisition. But he later hailed Bush for vetoing an anti-waterboarding bill, and voted against it himself. McCain???s been tortured himself, he knows firsthand how horrible it is . . . and he supports torture.

25. Mr. ???Straight Talk??? has no integrity.
McCain has cozied up to the fundamentalists he once dismissed as ???agents of intolerance.??? He???s pushed for the tax cuts and oil drilling he once opposed. He???s hired the guys who sank his 2000 presidential bid with a whisper campaign about his ???illegitimate black child??????the same guys he once said deserve a ???special place in hell.??? And, oh yeah, he now supports torture. During McCain???s August appearance at OC???s Saddleback Church, he described himself as a ???very imperfect person.??? Well, at least we know he???s honest about something.

Everyone shoud really calm down on the whole socialist thing. It is truely comical how you repubs bounce from one talking point to the next. Rather than attack Obama, I urge any McCain supporter to explain 1 new idea that McCain is propsing for the economy that has not been a Republican agenda for the last 20 years. The truth is the only idea is cut taxes and hope businesses decide to not just pay themselves more and instead decide to employ more people. Fact is, this does not happen and we all know it.

I understand people being skeptical of Obama and that is fine but when you go into the voting booth think about who could restore America's image to the world and you will see that it is not John McCain.