Interactive Graphic: Swing States on the 2008 Electoral Map

McCain =Bush, Palin=Quayle, its that simple!

As a 24 year old voting for the second time, I am so shocked by the filth that comes from older folks in this country. I mean I am young and in a whole lot of ways I may be unreasonable, but when I hear people who are supposed to be the grown-ups act like children when their candidate starts falling behind in the polls, it really reveals this country for what it is. For god's sake, act like an adult. Name calling and spreading rumors does not really seem like the way to go. Policy differences are fine but bigoted hate speach have no place. My generation is the one paying for your retirement with no one in line to pay for mine. We are the ones who are going to have to solve the energy independence issue. If you are old and ignorant, do your kids a favor and stay home on the 4th. It is time to move this country into the future and that is done with a vote for Obama/Biden.

Racism is a mental disease. You can't make rational common sense decisions when your mind is filled with racism.

Just saying maybe you should research how we ended up in this debacle...
The current economic problem started in 1995 when Bill Clinton Signs Repeal of Glass-Steagall.
Since then Regulation on the Banking industry has been proposed 5 times since 2000. One of the main defenders and stop blocks to so mentioned reforms was led by Barny Frank who made accusations that the country had unfair lending policies to minorities. The race card! Please make sure that your opinion is not thrown out as facts or choose a blog that is slanted to your side. Educate on facts not opinion.

Cheers,
TJT

"SCsmiles alot, I have an MBA in Economics, what are your qualifications? Hmmm...that's what I thought!!!

THE GREAT BUSH DEPRESSION
I follow an economist named Bob Proctor. He has called the top and bottom of every market crash since the 70s correctly.
He perfectly predicted the current meltdown and the picture he paints about what will happen next
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 ,Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch , Fanny and Freddy Mae ,AIG
The government took them over because they are bankrupt. Even with the goverment nationalizing hundreds of billions of dollars in debt the stock market is crashing
the credit markets are frozen and all of us may suffer beyond anything seen in generations
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 how its been broken.
It is no surprise that he doesn't. The people that make up these securities use quantum 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 was the last to know somthing 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. Check out this link to the truth http://my.barackobama.com/keatingvideo
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 budget surplus like Bush did but a crashing 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 ?
Mccains team just said they no longer want to talk about the economy.Instead they would like to spend time talking about obama
which means running the biggest smear campaign in history.
They think they can just tell you lies and you wont be smart enough to see through it
Let's teach him we are smarter than that
Stand up and hold them accountable
Bush isn't on the ballot this year but his policies are
Elect Obama Biden 2008






Check out this video of sarah palins interview and ask your self if she understands what she is talking about.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r36Xc0GG4iQ

No matter your political bent, considering the historical predisposition for political party change, coupled with the current fractured state of the Republican party and the well deserved backlash against the Bush Administration on its mismanagement of the Iraqi War, it was fairly certain that the Democratic nominee would be in the lead for this election. I agree that the platform of Obama is another tasty dose of bread and circus. My only problem with his candidacy is that he seems to be in profession to be elected, and not to lead. He wears his title, but has introduced very little legislation in the areas he is campaigning for now, spending most of his time on the campaign trail. So he sounds good on paper, and from the podium, but I am concerned he is a demogogue ala H L Mencken who defined the term as "one who will preach doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots."

Nice poem but too bad your lying. Congrrats on making over 250K a year but you represent a tiny fraction of the country and nobody cares if you can't afford that 4th car you had your eye on. Why is it now socilaism when he will be restoring the taxes that were in place just nine years ago? I don't remember the cries of socialism then. Could it be that you are losing in the polls and are now desperate? No that can't be it. Maybe it's because your candidate has zero new ideas. Maybe?

Instead of using colors for indicating states for one party or the other(assumed to accomodate the type of people attracted to Obama), why not use D for dumbass and R for real smart?

it shouldn't matter if someone is Demo/Repub/Indep/Green...etc..we should all be reading all the available material and use common sense for what is BEST for the Country, our future, our Grandchildren's Grandchildren.. not what makes us look good today.... if everyone else was jumping off a cliff, would you?? Do the right thing even if it hurts. God is watching...