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The Palin problem seems to stem mostly from a concern among voters that she is not yet ready to serve as president should something happen to McCain. A solid majority of voters, 55 percent, now say they think Palin is not qualified to serve as president, while 40 percent say she is qualified. Nonetheless, her personal connection with the American electorate remains strong; 70 percent of voters find her personally likeable, while only 24 percent do not. Palin's appearance on "Saturday Night Live" last week was much noted: nearly half of voters, 49 percent, say they saw the show or have seen video clips. But it appears to have done the McCain ticket little good: 11 percent think the show helped McCain/Palin, 12 percent think it hurt them, and a vast majority—62 percent—think the comedy-show appearance made no difference.

Still, dissatisfaction with the Bush administration and despondency over the direction the country is headed seems to be the biggest factor driving McCain's poor showing in the poll. Only 23 percent of voters now say they approve of the job that George W. Bush is doing as president, a new low for any president in the NEWSWEEK Poll.

This poll was conducted by Princeton Survey Research Associates International from October 22-23, 2008. Telephone interviews were conducted with 1,204 adults, 18 or older. Results are weighted so that the sample demographics match Census Current Population Survey parameters for gender, age, education, race, region, and population density. The overall margin of sampling error is plus or minus 3.4 percentage points for results based on 1,204 adults and plus or minus 3.6 percentage points for 1,092 registered voters. Voter registration status is self-reported. Results based on smaller subgroups are subject to larger margins of sampling error. SAMPLE SIZE/MARGIN OF ERROR FOR REGISTERED VOTERS SUBGROUPS: 1,092 Registered voters (plus or minus 4) 882 Likely voters (plus or minus 4) 299 Republicans (plus or minus 7) 380 Democrats (plus or minus 6) 381 Independents (plus or minus 6) 520 Men (plus or minus 5) 572 Women (plus or minus 5) 900 White (plus or minus 4) 169 Non-White (plus or minus 9) 131 18-34 (plus or minus 9) 174 35-44 (plus or minus 9) 481 45-64 (plus or minus 5) 267 65+ (plus or minus 7) 244 Hillary Clinton supporters (plus or minus 8) 214 White Evangelicals (plus or minus 8) 218 White Catholics (plus or minus 8) 468 Other whites (plus or minus 6) 607 Upper/Middle class whites (plus or minus 5) 267 Working class/Poor whites (plus or minus 7) 447 2004 Bush voters (plus or minus 6) 471 2004 Kerry voters (plus or minus 5) 123 2004 Didn’t vote (plus or minus 10) 145 2008 Early voters (plus or minus 10) 561 Saw Saturday Night Live (plus or minus 5) 522 Didn’t see Saturday Night Live (plus or minus 5) 269 Traditional RV Republicans (plus or minus 7) 131 Social Issue RV Republicans (plus or minus 10) In addition to sampling error, the practical difficulties of conducting surveys can also introduce error or bias to poll results.

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???Nowforsomethingotherthanthetruth??? exemplifies the measures employed by the McCain campaign starting with the anonymous smear emails that began when McC hired the Bush propaganda machine.

This deception campaign tries to benefit from party loyalties. It preys upon hate, prejudice and fear, and on the ???unanswered questions??? fabricated by the anonymous emails this campaign perpetrated. Links to debunks of many of those fabrications are in an earlier posting.

This is by far the greatest extreme ever in American politics. It is a fundamental threat to our political process. It would further entrench the Bush operatives who took over the McC campaign, and the republican lobbyists who represent only the megarich who looted our economy.

McC was a maverick. He promised to root out the lobbyists he said are what???s wrong with Washington. He said he would not take the low road employed by the Bush machine when it smeared him. He sold out when he got behind and subscribed to the ideology that the end justifies the means.

McC would continue the Bush tax give away to the rich that McC previously opposed and called ???irresponsible??? because ???it only benefits the rich.???

McC now wants to give more billions in tax give aways to oil companies that have just reported the largest profits in history for two consecutive quarters, while he claims that lowering taxes for everyone under $250k in after-deduction income will somehow keep businessmen from starting businesses.

???Nowfor??? has employed many of the themes in the anonymous viral emails. He recently said it was ???revealed that Obama has PLO buddies??? referring to Rashid Khalidi to whom McC donated $440k:

http://richmonddemocrat.blogspot.com/2008/10/mccain-funded-rashid-khalidi.html Guilt by association.

"Nowfor" continues repasting that the cause of our problem is a law decades old that encourages loans to qualified low income people.

Alan Greenspan said the cause is that an entire financial system was built outside of regulation; "we trusted" these self-interested looters ???to regulate themselves???. Credit Default Swaps resulted. They increased from $106 trillion in '02 to $531 trillion under R stewardship.

The legitimate news has reported that Fannie and Freddie paid many millions to McC's campaign manager, Rick Davis, who received up to $35K/mo. from Fannie and Freddie from 2000 to while he has been McC's campaign manager.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/22/us/politics/22mccain.html and http://www.newsweek.com/id/164732/page/1

Trillions were looted from our economy because the Rs allowed it. The Rs, including McC's campaign manager, are in the pockets of big money.

Without solutions, it is necessary to campaign with deception, misdirection, fear, smears, hypocrisy.

Attempts to hijack our political process with deceit and abuse of the trust of party loyalties are reasons I'm voting for Obama after 40 years of never voted for a Dem.

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Posted By: rube @ 11/05/2008 9:05:42 AM

Nowforsomemoretruth please quite repasting the same threads over and over...
you obviously dont check your own spewage on fact check.
Get a life dude.
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Posted By: rube @ 11/05/2008 8:59:08 AM

Get over it- go to work and become part of the answer. The past years were dismal at best.
The neoconservatives have no one else to blame other than the worst president ever and the most subversive administration ever! The man Bush, conservatives voted for twice let our nation down period!
If anything was stolen it was out trust, our love of country and out nations equity! Go to work!
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Posted By: 40YearR @ 11/04/2008 11:09:56 AM

???Nowforsomethingotherthanthetruth??? exemplifies the measures employed by the McCain campaign starting with the anonymous smear emails that began when McC hired the Bush propaganda machine.

This deception campaign tries to benefit from party loyalties. It preys upon hate, prejudice and fear, and on the ???unanswered questions??? fabricated by the anonymous emails this campaign perpetrated. Links to debunks of many of those fabrications are in an earlier posting.

This is by far the greatest extreme ever in American politics. It is a fundamental threat to our political process. It would further entrench the Bush operatives who took over the McC campaign, and the republican lobbyists who represent only the megarich who looted our economy.

McC was a maverick. He promised to root out the lobbyists he said are what???s wrong with Washington. He said he would not take the low road employed by the Bush machine when it smeared him. He sold out when he got behind and subscribed to the ideology that the end justifies the means.

McC would continue the Bush tax give away to the rich that McC previously opposed and called ???irresponsible??? because ???it only benefits the rich.???

McC now wants to give more billions in tax give aways to oil companies that have just reported the largest profits in history for two consecutive quarters, while he claims that lowering taxes for everyone under $250k in after-deduction income will somehow keep businessmen from starting businesses.

???Nowfor??? has employed many of the themes in the anonymous viral emails. He recently said it was ???revealed that Obama has PLO buddies??? referring to Rashid Khalidi to whom McC donated $440k:

http://richmonddemocrat.blogspot.com/2008/10/mccain-funded-rashid-khalidi.html Guilt by association.

"Nowfor" continues repasting that the cause of our problem is a law decades old that encourages loans to qualified low income people.

Alan Greenspan said the cause is that an entire financial system was built outside of regulation; "we trusted" these self-interested looters ???to regulate themselves???. Credit Default Swaps resulted. They increased from $106 trillion in '02 to $531 trillion under R stewardship.

The legitimate news has reported that Fannie and Freddie paid many millions to McC's campaign manager, Rick Davis, who received up to $35K/mo. from Fannie and Freddie from 2000 to while he has been McC's campaign manager.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/22/us/politics/22mccain.html and http://www.newsweek.com/id/164732/page/1

Trillions were looted from our economy because the Rs allowed it. The Rs, including McC's campaign manager, are in the pockets of big money.

Without solutions, it is necessary to campaign with deception, misdirection, fear, smears, hypocrisy.

Attempts to hijack our political process with deceit and abuse of the trust of party loyalties are reasons I'm voting for Obama after 40 years of never voted for a Dem.

A 40