I think the surge in support for John McCain is partly the result of his choice of Sarah Palin for VP. It demonstrated that he is not so "old" , behind the times, stuck in the 70s as his opponents would like to have us believe. This pick shows him to be very diverse and quite attuned to the present. The other part of his support is coming from people who are now tuning in to the election and see John McCain to be the strongest candidate. I noticed a small weakness in Obama when he let the Clintons push him around, and now he is running against Sarah. because he cannot seem to get over her popularity. Not the actions of a president.
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Posted By: deconnel @ 09/14/2008 7:52:50 PM
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Posted By: Omaar @ 09/14/2008 7:51:56 PM
http://www.time-blog.com/swampland/2008/09/the_mccain_tax_increasescontin.html
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Alan Greenspan: said McCain's Economy Plan would be a.... Disastor !!!!
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McCain Top Economic Adviser: He Will Raise Taxes
"Whether you're a Republican, Democrat President or a Martian, Taxes will be Raised"
Though Mccain has said Throughout his campaign "I will Not, Raise Your Taxes"
His Top Economic Adviser says that a LIE....Obama will Raise Taxes on those that make More than 250,000...
The under will have a Tax Break and Tax Cut.
Douglas Holtz-Eakin, a former Director of the Congressional Budget Office and current chief McCain economic advisor, is an honest man--which means he's something of a liability on the Straight Talk Express. A few months ago, he admitted to my colleague, Michael Scherer, that Barack Obama's economic plan would reduce taxes for most people. And now, in a forthcoming book by Fortune columnist Matt Miller, he makes it clear that the next President is going to have to raise taxes.
"If you do nothing on the spending side, you're going to have to raise taxes whether you're a Republican, a Democrat or a Martian," he tells Miller...and then he immediately makes it clear that the "spending side" part of the argument is nothing more than a political fig-leaf.
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Posted By: Dave.Williamson @ 09/14/2008 7:51:16 PM
How does the media come up with these polls? Yesterday McCain and Palin were ahead then overnight someone says hey they are tied. Amazing stuff how the media is tries to sway an election.
I see the comments on here go with the type of people that get the magazin as well, but like I have always been taught don't believe anything you read and only part of what you see.
For those of you who want Obama then vote for him, for those of you who want McCain then vote for him. But I reall wish you would keep your personal comments about the President and current administration as well as congress to yourself. Your opinion will not change mine. Keep it to yourself. Also be glad you can even think those things cause if you were in any other country in the world, you would be put in jail.
The electoral college is why our government is in the shape its in, time to lose this antiquated system where everyone thinks thier vote counts when in fact they need to find out who and how these people voted and hold them accountible for the government they put into office. McCain Palin is my vote btw.
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Posted By: 4mccain2008 @ 09/14/2008 7:35:18 PM
Obama would eliminate our defensive weapons. All you have to do is search the web to hear this in his own words. For those serving in the defense department and the military this strategy would be pure insanity.
Obama allegedly has a lot of radical associations that calls motivations into question. These allegations are also all over the Web. How can we trust him? Keep America safe!-
Posted By: SEA Observer @ 09/14/2008 7:50:02 PM
Don't worry, Obama can talk anybody's head off! no need for weapons.
BTW, do you know when was the last time that a really bad guy was talked into doing good? For you flower children out there, the answer is: NEVER!!!
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Posted By: mikecohen @ 09/14/2008 7:49:40 PM
Keep America safe??? Yeah, let's put another "war monger" like John McCain in! We went over to Iraq to look for weapons of mass destruction and Benladin. We've been there long enough, and we've had enough of our youth killed! For what, to keep us safe? No, it's all "politics"! And, anyone who doesn't realize that by now, is totally blind!
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Posted By: Omaar @ 09/14/2008 7:49:17 PM
http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/player/popup/index.php?cl=9711671
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LOOK AT THIS [POOR YUKON LASS] TRY TO LOOK AS IF SHE KNEW WHAT SHE WAS TALKING ABOUT !!!
JOHN MCCAIN....
A MAN READY TO DIE IN OFFICE !!!
OR A MAN READY TO BECOME GRAVELY ILL AND CANNOT SERVE OUT HIS PRESIDENCY.
LEAVING THE U.S. VULNERABLE TO A NEOPHYTE VP WITH SECESSIONIST TIES [TODD PALIN] A 7 YR AIP MEMBER HUSBAND, WHO, IF MCCAIN DIES, COULD VERY WELL, APPOINT HER [DANIEL BOONE] HUSBAND, TODD PALIN, AS HER VICE PRESIDENT !!
BECAUSE SHE'S SUCH A "MAVERICK"
SARAH PALIN: "IF I'M GOING TO APPOINT A VP, WHO BETTER THAN MY HUSBAND TODD"
THE FROZEN TUNDRA AND QUEEN EARMARKS AND HER HUSBAND TODD PALIN...
THIS [AIP SECESSIONIST] TODD PALIN, THE POTENTIAL VP IN WAITING...
IT WILL BE THE YUKON QUEEN OF [EARMARKS] & THE ALASKAN FRONTIERSMEN POLITICAL COUP OF THE CENTURY !!
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DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER: "NO MAN SHOULD BE PRESIDENT, OVER THE AGE OF 70"
PARAPHRASING....GOOGLE IT UP "MY FRIENDS"
MCCAIN HAS ALZHEIMERS OR DEMENTIA....
HE SAYS "MY FRIENDS' A THOUSAND TIMES A DAY !!!
MCCAIN HAS NOTICED A BIG DIP IN HIS AUDIENCE WHEN HE'S NOT WITH SARAH PALIN !!
AN WHEN SARAH PALIN SPEAKS AN MCCAIN FOLLOWS HER REDUNDANT SPEECH, THE AUDIENCE DWINDLES AND ARE LESS ENTHUSUIASTIC OR THEY SIMPLE LEAVE, WHILE MCCAIN STATES IN EVERYOTHER SENTENCE, "MY FROENDS" !!!
THATS ONE TELLING SIGN !!!
THE POLL NUMBERS ARE [EVEN] AFTER THE RAH RAH RAH AT THE DNC, THE WAY PALIN HAS LIED AND EVADED THE PRESS, MCCAIN HAS BLATANTLY LIED AND TRIED TO COVER UP PALIN'S LIES, REGARDING "THE BRIDGE TO NOWHERE" "PALIN BEING THE EARMARKS QUEEN] [TROPPER GATE] [HER HUSBANDS MEMBERSHIP WITH THE AIP]
THE SECCESSIONIST MOVEMENT AND THEIR GOALS THROUGH PARTY MEMBERS BECOMING A PART OF THE 2 MAJOR POLITICAL PARTIES, KEEP IN MIND, THE AIP IS THE 3RD LARGEST POLITICAL PARTY IN ALASKA !!!
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PALIN IS A FRAUD...PERIOD !!!
PS: SINCE THE RNC BIG TIME HATE FEST AND SURGE IN THE POLLS, THE [ POLLS ARE DEAD EVEN] AND THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE FAVORS OBAMA !!! [348]
ALL OBAMA HAS TO DO IS GET TO [370] 1ST AND HE'S IN THE WHITE HOUSE
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Posted By: greenspeechie @ 09/14/2008 7:39:53 PM
It saddens me that this is what our country has become. A president should be elected based on issues, not race or gender or middle names. If you want to have a civilized debate, feel free, but I see no need for name-calling and insults. These comments prove that children can vote after all. Is anything really going to come from calling someone else a redneck or a racist? No. Nothing good, at least.
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Posted By: SEA Observer @ 09/14/2008 7:46:44 PM
but mom....!!!! they liberal started it!
Hate is the engine that has kept the liberal going for the past 8 years. They wouldn't know what to do if you take it away from them.
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Posted By: dakota123 @ 09/14/2008 7:46:30 PM
Interesting to find the number of people supporting candidates like Palin without knowing what she stands for. These campaigns are all about emotional rhetoric--many people don't even know what their candidates stand for. It's sad---this is why the founding fathers didn't trust the masses--needed electoral college--
Heck--even our elected reps admit that they don't read what they're voting on--that is, if they vote. This country was based on some great ideas--- too bad emotion, religion and ignorance---and greed are becoming the basis for deciding our future path.
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Posted By: KingOfBadlands @ 09/14/2008 7:45:03 PM
I have a solution to the presidental problem, elect Glen Beck for president..... problem solved!
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Posted By: sherdon1 @ 09/14/2008 7:43:03 PM
LISTEN PEOPLE: George Bush has put this country worst off than it has ever been on every front possible. While John McCain is not George Bush he and no one can argue that their views are way closer than Bush's and Obama's. I ask your self if Obama were a white man would there even be a competition? Search yourselves before you answer this! You know the envirmenment is green adn so is your money. The economic state of this country has no color and the men and women who lost their lives in Iraq, a war fought on false pretenses and lies; their blood is red. So I ask you to search inside of yourselves for the real reason why this race is a tie when Obama should clearly be ahead. This mindset is what is causing America to lose its place as head of the free world. The world is changing and so should we.
When McCain say he is seeking the "Nascar Dad" vote or Palin says she is seeking the "Hockey" mom vote, what they are really saying is that they are searching for the white americans that are too ignorant to care about the issues, but instead care about the color of the next president. This is an insult the all Americans White, Black, and every color in between. How are you going to feel when you wake up Novemeber 5th and McCain is the next president and 2 years after that we are at war with Iran, Russia or North Korea, when diplomacy was never entertained and the middle class is suffering because once again the rickle down effect is not working....but Palin and McCain are hunting game at camp David thinking of how they duped the American people yet once again. Do you really think that McCain-Palin is a better ticket then Obama-Biden. I can only hopw and prey that Americans make the right choice, because if not....God help us all!
I was born and raised in the USA and I love this country, and for that I can put color aside and vote Obama-Biden 2008!
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Posted By: earlrural @ 09/14/2008 7:42:56 PM
These polls don't account for the people who have abandoned land lines for cell phones, who are usually younger and more likely to be Obama voters. Plus the more and more details of Palin's administrative style, which is not about reform but giving jobs to high school friends and church mates, screwing over people who dissent from her, the more people will realize just another Bushy with even more delusions of granduer than Georgie, the more the undecided voters will back away form McCain. God help us if that anti-science, pro-censorship neophyte gets one heartbeat away from the Oval Office.
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Posted By: julian1 @ 09/14/2008 7:42:09 PM
LISTEN PEOPLE: George Bush has put this country worst off than it has ever been on every front possible. While John McCain is not George Bush he and no one can argue that their views are way closer than Bush's and Obama's. I ask your self if Obama were a white man would there even be a competition? Search yourselves before you answer this! You know the envirmenment is green adn so is your money. The economic state of this country has no color and the men and women who lost their lives in Iraq, a war fought on false pretenses and lies; their blood is red. So I ask you to search inside of yourselves for the real reason why this race is a tie when Obama should clearly be ahead. This mindset is what is causing America to lose its place as head of the free world. The world is changing and so should we.
When McCain say he is seeking the "Nascar Dad" vote or Palin says she is seeking the "Hockey" mom vote, what they are really saying is that they are searching for the white americans that are too ignorant to care about the issues, but instead care about the color of the next president. This is an insult the all Americans White, Black, and every color in between. How are you going to feel when you wake up Novemeber 5th and McCain is the next president and 2 years after that we are at war with Iran, Russia or North Korea, when diplomacy was never entertained and the middle class is suffering because once again the rickle down effect is not working....but Palin and McCain are hunting game at camp David thinking of how they duped the American people yet once again. Do you really think that McCain-Palin is a better ticket then Obama-Biden. I can only hopw and prey that Americans make the right choice, because if not....God help us all!
I was born and raised in the USA and I love this country, and for that I can put color aside and vote Obama-Biden 2008!
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Posted By: vajazzu @ 09/14/2008 7:41:56 PM
Obama has 2.5 million donors. Most of these are donors are small donors($25, $50, etc.) These donations are documented because there is a cap on how much an individual can donate. There is nothing illegal going on with these donations. His ability to raise money has been well documented. Sorry to bust your bubble. Don't hate because so many people are donating to Obama's campaign. They do NOT want McCain/Palin! Find something else to hate on because you have nothing here!
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Posted By: true_patriot @ 09/14/2008 7:40:24 PM
After the spectacular VP selection McCain is only tied?
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Posted By: mikecohen @ 09/14/2008 7:33:50 PM
These so-called registered voter polls are nothing more than Republican propaganda! Obama is still way ahead. There aren't that many capitalist/racist/ignorant people in America! Anyone voting to put McCain in, hence Palin when McCain falls ill or dies, has got to be either one of the wealthy elite (like McCain), a racist, or just Palin...oops I mean Plain...DUMB! God help us if McCain and Palin get elected! They both have nothing but $ signs in their eyes...for themselves! Obama/Biden or BUST!!!
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Posted By: SEA Observer @ 09/14/2008 7:38:24 PM
What's the matter? The truth hurts doesn't it? Especially an inconvenient one, right? Don't worry, hurting a little bit will build your character.....
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Posted By: Lee Holmes @ 09/12/2008 7:35:19 PM
Some ''future''
This just in from the ''Ouch''Dept.
One of Obamas new ads is dubbed ''computer''. In it , the Obama campaign deals dross on McCain for his inability to use a computer or send e-mails.
But a March 04,2000 article in the Boston Globe found that McCain cannot use a computer,comb his hair,or tie his shoelaces due to ''debilitating injuries he suffered while a POW''.
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Posted By: ritasee @ 09/14/2008 10:28:33 AM
So you're saying that because of his injuries, McCain is handicapped. Do we need this in a president? Our president needs to be as healthy as possible, and McCain with his four bouts with cancer and his war injuries, is not the man for the job! Wake up! And Palin is a nobody that the Repubs have enshrined. The emperor has no clothes, people.
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Posted By: vote4tom @ 09/14/2008 7:37:58 PM
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
Franklin D. Roosevelt was a cripple and relegated to a wheel chair. It has often been said that this great, DEMOCRAT President NEVER would have been elected if we had television in those days and bigots, like the one who just posted, could have seen him in this way. Thankfully, he was judged by his words and actions, not his appearance, and WWII had a great leader. The idea that disability disqualifies one for the Presidency is not just stupid, it is the height of discirmination. These are the type of people supporting Obama. As a disabled man myself, no thanks!
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Posted By: TheVigil @ 09/12/2008 8:36:05 PM
McCain can't use a computer for more reasons than just his physical condition.
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Posted By: Lee Holmes @ 09/13/2008 1:03:56 PM
If this is so VIGIL,then you will provide the same evidence to back your claim as I did.
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Posted By: suzvoter47 @ 09/14/2008 7:25:32 PM
I cannot believe the level of hate filled words being spewed across this comment board. If ou have facts than say them,but stop with the racist attacks. If the people running were all white men or women this would not be occurring.
The civil war ended 142 years ago and the great president Abe Lincoln a Republican I might add ended it. This is about our country and people continue to dag race into the issue, even questioning obama's birth certificate. Well don't forget McCain was actually born on a naval base in panama canal zone and no one here has questioned his birth certificate. Should we ?? I think not. BTW I am a white, independent woman that rather look at the issues and use my brain than contiune the Jim Crow mentality of the past. This country will never unite unless people stop judging others by race and ethnicity and fear.-
Posted By: greenspeechie @ 09/14/2008 7:33:48 PM
Brilliantly put.
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Posted By: bbb654 @ 09/14/2008 7:05:44 PM
Hitler was once called charasmatic and he also came with a promise of change. Sadly he kept his promise. Obama is a racist and his followers support racism!
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Posted By: Isis Skye @ 09/14/2008 7:33:00 PM
George Bush was charismatic and promised change, too. And, like Hitler, Bush ruled by incurring people's fear-based responses. Like Hitler, Bush slowly eroded civil liberties. Like Hitler, Bush expanded executive power. Like Hitler, Bush launched pre-emptive strikes against sovereign nations who didn't even pose a threat to his. Like Hitler, Bush and friends turned language inside out so that everything meant its opposite.
Wanna try again????
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Posted By: ejt345 @ 09/14/2008 7:32:50 PM
Until they are able to start polling people who only or mainly use cell phones I will not believe the current polls. I do wish that one important aspect was mentioned more often. It does and will make a big difference come election day as far as polling goes.
Obama/Biden for America!!!
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Posted By: srpottershouse @ 09/14/2008 7:11:00 PM
Distorting the facts again, it was already proven the Sarah Palin did not support teaching creationism in public schools but simply commented that the discussion should be welcomed. The media's continue attempt to distort her views shows the media's frustration trying to keep their loser candidate Obama from losing the election. Obama is a fraud and they know it. If they would only spend the same amount of time going through Obama's garbage like they are doing Sara Palins they would find the man is unqualified for the office. Thank goodness that we no longer have depend on the main stream media for true and factual information. Buyers remorse is not beginning to take hold of the Democrates and there desperation is beginning to show.
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Posted By: suzvoter47 @ 09/14/2008 7:31:57 PM
Enter Your Comment SR you can ck fact ck .org and listen to Palin's interview she sugested that creationism be debated and discussd alongside evolution in the classroom
Now having worked for a schoold didtrict that just encountered this problem heres the problem: 1. Creatiionism by definition means that a bigger or superior being cretaed the wold. 2. Teachig about superior beings in public schools goes against the constituion on the grounds of seperation of church and state and if you think Im wrong do a google search on a school in PA that took this issue to the state supreme court and it was found unconstitutional to teach creatsionsim because it equaled teaching a secalr viewpoint (religous) and that violates the constitution.
This was put into place by the founding fathers due to reigous persecution.
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