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Re: FOX using the same attacks on Obama they used against Kerry

checksixb17 — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 00:33:58 -0000

I watch Fox for a good laugh but if I thought for one minute that Fox was representing the real America I would leave. Most people I know like America for what Franklin Roosevelt did for them. He stopped child labor overnight, he gave the older Americans a little money to survive, He regulated the banks and federally insured deposits, he created jobs that created parks and roads that are still used today, he created public energy projects like the Tennesee valley project to give electricity to a whole region. No one on Fox has a clue about the real America. The America that struggles every day just to make it. Fox does not represent a philosophy I would support in any country. No one can devide a country and put it back together again. Once it fails, it will take a new brand set of Rooseveltian politics to put it back together again. We are almost there now! Let's see what happens next. I think it will surprise everyone. Oh and by the way HealthCare is a Teddy Roosevelt idea. that's right a Progressive Republican.

Re: FOX using the same attacks on Obama they used against Kerry

checksixb17 — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 01:01:48 -0000

Sarah Palin is a pretty woman but she obviously hasn't read the Constitution. I don't think anyone in the Repub party has read the Constitution. It's probably too liberal for most Repubs. However, the Democratic Party is based on the Constitution of the United States. Read it sometime, It will try to convince you that government is for the people and for the common good of the people. Repubs believe that government is bad and that's why they are so bad at governing. The government is bad bad bad according to the Repubs but, they won't give up the fire department or the police department or the roads and hiway departments or the farm bills or anything else that government provides today. If we had what they want us to have, who would provide protection from our enemies? Who would set street signs and hiway signs. Who would regulate the banks and airports? They say one thing and then live like Democrats.

Re: FOX using the same attacks on Obama they used against Kerry

checksixb17 — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 14:01:40 -0000

I want Obama for President! He may prove to be the best President in a century.
He sure sounds like Franklin D. Roosevelt. I like it. I like him. I will vote twice for him in two succeeding elections.

Thank You Mr. Obama!

Re: FOX using the same attacks on Obama they used against Kerry

checksixb17 — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 14:11:02 -0000

If John McCain wins, so what. Americans love war and he will find one. He's tough using poor kids to fight his wars. He won't support an education GI bill, sowhat. He won't give the poor kids any medical help, so what. After all these poor kids are tough like John McCain. Money, he doesn't need any more. Houses, He doesn't need any more. Cars, He doesn't need any more. You go Johnny. Johnny come marching home again, ha rah, ha rah.

Re: FOX using the same attacks on Obama they used against Kerry

checksixb17 — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 14:16:52 -0000

Take a downer, quick. Don't admit your a Repub, they'll kick your butt out of the Party for cracks like this. Go now and hide, people are not kind to these kind of racists remarks anymore. Slavery has been outlawed for a long time and it's not polite to race bate the Repub base anymore. Sorry, your time is up and you need to either, time warp youself back 50 years or move to an all white society like Japan.

Re: FOX using the same attacks on Obama they used against Kerry

checksixb17 — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 14:19:57 -0000

That was then, this is now. This guy transcends us into the future. It could be one of the best futures ever for the kids. Let hope, let's dream like our fathers did, let's make it happen with Senator Barack Obama!

Re: FOX using the same attacks on Obama they used against Kerry

checksixb17 — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 14:28:16 -0000

I am ashamed and here is my reason. This should have been said years ago when we realized that Mr. Bush was retarded. When he could not adquately speak the english language. John McCain is 72 years young and he can't remember what he said yesterday. I feel sorry for my country when people run for election and have not read the Contitution of the United States. We have suffered so much dumbing down, it's incredible. No one knows anything about our history, the Great Depression, the deregulation of the 1920's and so on. It's really scarry to see the same thing happening today that happened almost 100 years ago.

Re: FOX using the same attacks on Obama they used against Kerry

checksixb17 — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 14:35:45 -0000

You don't have to be outraged if your telling the truth without race bating or lieing! CNN and CNBC are objective points of view. Before they arrived we had Rush Limbaugh, a drug addict spewing lies about liberals. We had Ann Coulter spewing hate and lies about liberals.
Most of our truely great Pesidents are liberals, Franklin Roosevelt stopped child labor, regulated the banks, gave older citizens a bare living pension and medical care. Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves, George Washing freed us from the King of England, all liberal ideas, thank God.

Re: FOX using the same attacks on Obama they used against Kerry

checksixb17 — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 14:39:25 -0000

I like his reply and I could understand his or her reasoning. However, I dare anyone to explain what Sarah Palin just said on TV. If you can make some sense out of that sentence I will eat chicken for a week.

Re: FOX using the same attacks on Obama they used against Kerry

checksixb17 — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:18:09 -0000

You are more than absolutely right! Billo is such a bully, I'm surprised that someone hasn't beat heck out of him. How much would you give to see some poor little old lady being bullied on his show, just take a club out of her purse and club heck all over his head. First of all he is a Repub which means your are a racist, you are willing to lie, cheat, steal and do anything to get elected. Repubs will defend their hacks to the death, irregaurdless whether their candidate has an I.Q. of - 2 or racist or just plain not qualified to do the job. They always say the government is bad, bad, bad. The Constitution says that the government is for the people and by the people. I guess the people are bad, bad, bad.

Re: FOX using the same attacks on Obama they used against Kerry

checksixb17 — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:31:45 -0000

Turn yourself into a drug treatment center or seek an intervention. If Fox news is fair and balanced, Bill Clinton is gay. In fack if Fox is fair, I will eat chicken for a week. Fox is THE most unfair and imbalanced reporting in history. I don't think Joseph Stalin was as unfair and imbalanced as Fox News, and he was a terrible dictator.
Neo Conservatism is just another word for the good old boys of the KKK and the old time plantation owner. The good news is, now that the fear factor is gone and light has finally come to the Democratic party, especially those who usually stayed home during the last two elections, we might finally elect someone with a brain that actually works.

Re: FOX using the same attacks on Obama they used against Kerry

checksixb17 — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:36:02 -0000

Yes we can! Yes we can! We are the ones that we have been waiting for! This is a contitution written for the people, by the people and for the common good! Yes we can! Yes we Can.

Vote for Barack Obama!

Re: FOX using the same attacks on Obama they used against Kerry

checksixb17 — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:43:09 -0000

Shawn Hannity is Joe McCarthy incarnated. Shawn has the most outrageous guests that spew hate and lies. He makes a lot of money to make Democrats made. The Repubs love the race bating and the lies and they will pay a lot of money to those that will spew that hate. There is a lot of money to be made on the dark side and he is getting his. He will be very rich but he sold his soul but then that's what rich people do. It will be easier to put a camel through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the gates of Heaven. You go Hannity.

Re: FOX using the same attacks on Obama they used against Kerry

checksixb17 — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 11:52:44 -0000

You better read it again. You didn't get the point. Fox News isn't news it's a news system led by a dictator (Rubert Murdoch) who emphasizes aggressive nationalism, militarism, and often racism. Now, go back and read it again and again until you understand what was written. Then make a comment that really supports an informed view.

Re: FOX using the same attacks on Obama they used against Kerry

checksixb17 — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 11:55:23 -0000

New York times endorses Obama this morning with a scathing editorial about the McCain campaign. Unbelievable! The best piece of editorial news in a national newspaper.

Re: FOX using the same attacks on Obama they used against Kerry

checksixb17 — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:01:13 -0000

SEAN HANNITY is a Fascist. He spews hate toward liberals and Democrats and anyone with common sense. He is a conservative. I guess that means he would like to bring back the good old days of child labor and slavery, tax breaks for millionaires like himself, deregulated banks and airlines (oops, most are gone), lynching and the really good things like no government and no accoutability. If Sean Hannity had his way we would be living in the dark ages with that old buyer beware philosophy that make millionaires billlionaires.

Re: FOX using the same attacks on Obama they used against Kerry

checksixb17 — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:16:59 -0000

There is a movement in this country for change and I believe that we have to change. I believe that we can change. I believe that we can have healthcare for everyone. If we can rescue the Big Wall Street boys, I think we can rescue the poor people who need health care so desparately. If we can fund a war in Iraq to the tune of 10 billion a month for years and years, we can fund healt care for every American citizen. We are on the verge of a very serious ecomonic disaster and we need a collosal change in the way we do things. Let's hope that we can rid ourselves of the "every man for himself' repub thinking and try to work together to solve our problems.

Re: FOX using the same attacks on Obama they used against Kerry

checksixb17 — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:18:19 -0000

I agree with Barack Obama completely. He is the change that we need.

Re: FOX using the same attacks on Obama they used against Kerry

checksixb17 — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:19:24 -0000

Barack Obama for President
Hyperbole is the currency of presidential campaigns, but this year the nation’s future truly hangs in the balance.

The United States is battered and drifting after eight years of President Bush’s failed leadership. He is saddling his successor with two wars, a scarred global image and a government systematically stripped of its ability to protect and help its citizens — whether they are fleeing a hurricane’s floodwaters, searching for affordable health care or struggling to hold on to their homes, jobs, savings and pensions in the midst of a financial crisis that was foretold and preventable.

As tough as the times are, the selection of a new president is easy. After nearly two years of a grueling and ugly campaign, Senator Barack Obama of Illinois has proved that he is the right choice to be the 44th president of the United States.

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Mr. Obama has met challenge after challenge, growing as a leader and putting real flesh on his early promises of hope and change. He has shown a cool head and sound judgment. We believe he has the will and the ability to forge the broad political consensus that is essential to finding solutions to this nation’s problems.

In the same time, Senator John McCain of Arizona has retreated farther and farther to the fringe of American politics, running a campaign on partisan division, class warfare and even hints of racism. His policies and worldview are mired in the past. His choice of a running mate so evidently unfit for the office was a final act of opportunism and bad judgment that eclipsed the accomplishments of 26 years in Congress.

Given the particularly ugly nature of Mr. McCain’s campaign, the urge to choose on the basis of raw emotion is strong. But there is a greater value in looking closely at the facts of life in America today and at the prescriptions the candidates offer. The differences are profound.

Mr. McCain offers more of the Republican every-man-for-himself ideology, now lying in shards on Wall Street and in Americans’ bank accounts. Mr. Obama has another vision of government’s role and responsibilities.

In his convention speech in Denver, Mr. Obama said, “Government cannot solve all our problems, but what it should do is that which we cannot do for ourselves: protect us from harm and provide every child a decent education; keep our water clean and our toys safe; invest in new schools and new roads and new science and technology.”

Since the financial crisis, he has correctly identified the abject failure of government regulation that has brought the markets to the brink of collapse.

The Economy

The American financial system is the victim of decades of Republican deregulatory and anti-tax policies. Those ideas have been proved wrong at an unfathomable price, but Mr. McCain — a self-proclaimed “foot soldier in the Reagan revolution” — is still a believer.

Mr. Obama sees that far-reaching reforms will be needed to protect Americans and American business.

Mr. McCain talks about reform a lot, but his vision is pinched. His answer to any economic question is to eliminate pork-barrel spending — about $18 billion in a $3 trillion budget — cut taxes and wait for unfettered markets to solve the problem.

Mr. Obama is clear that the nation’s tax structure must be changed to make it fairer. That means the well-off Americans who have benefited disproportionately from Mr. Bush’s tax cuts will have to pay some more. Working Americans, who have seen their standard of living fall and their children’s options narrow, will benefit. Mr. Obama wants to raise the minimum wage and tie it to inflation, restore a climate in which workers are able to organize unions if they wish and expand educational opportunities.

Mr. McCain, who once opposed President Bush’s tax cuts for the wealthy as fiscally irresponsible, now wants to make them permanent. And while he talks about keeping taxes low for everyone, his proposed cuts would overwhelmingly benefit the top 1 percent of Americans while digging the country into a deeper fiscal hole.

National Security

The American military — its people and equipment — is dangerously overstretched. Mr. Bush has neglected the necessary war in Afghanistan, which now threatens to spiral into defeat. The unnecessary and staggeringly costly war in Iraq must be ended as quickly and responsibly as possible.

While Iraq’s leaders insist on a swift drawdown of American troops and a deadline for the end of the occupation, Mr. McCain is still talking about some ill-defined “victory.” As a result, he has offered no real plan for extracting American troops and limiting any further damage to Iraq and its neighbors.

Mr. Obama was an early and thoughtful opponent of the war in Iraq, and he has presented a military and diplomatic plan for withdrawing American forces. Mr. Obama also has correctly warned that until the Pentagon starts pulling troops out of Iraq, there will not be enough troops to defeat the Taliban and Al Qaeda in Afghanistan.

Mr. McCain, like Mr. Bush, has only belatedly focused on Afghanistan’s dangerous unraveling and the threat that neighboring Pakistan may quickly follow.

Mr. Obama would have a learning curve on foreign affairs, but he has already showed sounder judgment than his opponent on these critical issues. His choice of Senator Joseph Biden — who has deep foreign-policy expertise — as his running mate is another sign of that sound judgment. Mr. McCain’s long interest in foreign policy and the many dangers this country now faces make his choice of Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska more irresponsible.

Both presidential candidates talk about strengthening alliances in Europe and Asia, including NATO, and strongly support Israel. Both candidates talk about repairing America’s image in the world. But it seems clear to us that Mr. Obama is far more likely to do that — and not just because the first black president would present a new American face to the world.

Mr. Obama wants to reform the United Nations, while Mr. McCain wants to create a new entity, the League of Democracies — a move that would incite even fiercer anti-American furies around the world.

Unfortunately, Mr. McCain, like Mr. Bush, sees the world as divided into friends (like Georgia) and adversaries (like Russia). He proposed kicking Russia out of the Group of 8 industrialized nations even before the invasion of Georgia. We have no sympathy for Moscow’s bullying, but we also have no desire to replay the cold war. The United States must find a way to constrain the Russians’ worst impulses, while preserving the ability to work with them on arms control and other vital initiatives.

Both candidates talk tough on terrorism, and neither has ruled out military action to end Iran’s nuclear weapons program. But Mr. Obama has called for a serious effort to try to wean Tehran from its nuclear ambitions with more credible diplomatic overtures and tougher sanctions. Mr. McCain’s willingness to joke about bombing Iran was frightening.

The Constitution and the Rule of Law

Under Mr. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the justice system and the separation of powers have come under relentless attack. Mr. Bush chose to exploit the tragedy of Sept. 11, 2001, the moment in which he looked like the president of a unified nation, to try to place himself above the law.

Mr. Bush has arrogated the power to imprison men without charges and browbeat Congress into granting an unfettered authority to spy on Americans. He has created untold numbers of “black” programs, including secret prisons and outsourced torture. The president has issued hundreds, if not thousands, of secret orders. We fear it will take years of forensic research to discover how many basic rights have been violated.

Both candidates have renounced torture and are committed to closing the prison camp in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.

But Mr. Obama has gone beyond that, promising to identify and correct Mr. Bush’s attacks on the democratic system. Mr. McCain has been silent on the subject.

Mr. McCain improved protections for detainees. But then he helped the White House push through the appalling Military Commissions Act of 2006, which denied detainees the right to a hearing in a real court and put Washington in conflict with the Geneva Conventions, greatly increasing the risk to American troops.

The next president will have the chance to appoint one or more justices to a Supreme Court that is on the brink of being dominated by a radical right wing. Mr. Obama may appoint less liberal judges than some of his followers might like, but Mr. McCain is certain to pick rigid ideologues. He has said he would never appoint a judge who believes in women’s reproductive rights.

The Candidates

It will be an enormous challenge just to get the nation back to where it was before Mr. Bush, to begin to mend its image in the world and to restore its self-confidence and its self-respect. Doing all of that, and leading America forward, will require strength of will, character and intellect, sober judgment and a cool, steady hand.

Mr. Obama has those qualities in abundance. Watching him being tested in the campaign has long since erased the reservations that led us to endorse Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton in the Democratic primaries. He has drawn in legions of new voters with powerful messages of hope and possibility and calls for shared sacrifice and social responsibility.

Mr. McCain, whom we chose as the best Republican nominee in the primaries, has spent the last coins of his reputation for principle and sound judgment to placate the limitless demands and narrow vision of the far-right wing. His righteous fury at being driven out of the 2000 primaries on a racist tide aimed at his adopted daughter has been replaced by a zealous embrace of those same win-at-all-costs tactics and tacticians.

He surrendered his standing as an independent thinker in his rush to embrace Mr. Bush’s misbegotten tax policies and to abandon his leadership position on climate change and immigration reform.

Mr. McCain could have seized the high ground on energy and the environment. Earlier in his career, he offered the first plausible bill to control America’s emissions of greenhouse gases. Now his positions are a caricature of that record: think Ms. Palin leading chants of “drill, baby, drill.”

Mr. Obama has endorsed some offshore drilling, but as part of a comprehensive strategy including big investments in new, clean technologies.

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Mr. Obama has withstood some of the toughest campaign attacks ever mounted against a candidate. He’s been called un-American and accused of hiding a secret Islamic faith. The Republicans have linked him to domestic terrorists and questioned his wife’s love of her country. Ms. Palin has also questioned millions of Americans’ patriotism, calling Republican-leaning states “pro-America.”

This politics of fear, division and character assassination helped Mr. Bush drive Mr. McCain from the 2000 Republican primaries and defeat Senator John Kerry in 2004. It has been the dominant theme of his failed presidency.

Re: FOX using the same attacks on Obama they used against Kerry

checksixb17 — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:24:10 -0000

Scott McClellan was Bush's press secretary and he just endorsed Senator Obama. Barry Goldwater's grandaughter just endorsed Senator Obama. Last week William F. Buckley junior endorsed Senator Obama. Finally some Republicans with common sense have endorsed Senator Obama.

Re: FOX using the same attacks on Obama they used against Kerry

checksixb17 — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:26:19 -0000

Rush Limbaugh is a drug addict and he is a Fascist like Sean Hannity. See earlier comments about Hannity.

Re: FOX using the same attacks on Obama they used against Kerry

checksixb17 — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:26:54 -0000

Your a Fascist! He is a racist and rages about war and militarism.

Re: FOX using the same attacks on Obama they used against Kerry

checksixb17 — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:28:55 -0000

I am for Senator Obama!

Re: FOX using the same attacks on Obama they used against Kerry

checksixb17 — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:46:15 -0000

Polls point to trouble for McCain
Obama leads in battlegrounds, but GOP nominee plans to keep fighting
ANALYSIS
By Dan Balz
The Washington Post
updated 11:40 p.m. CT, Thurs., Oct. 23, 2008
For John McCain, the batch of battleground state polls released yesterday brought almost universally bad news. The Republican nominee's path to the presidency is now extremely precarious and may depend on something unexpected taking control of a contest that appears to have swung hard toward Barack Obama since the end of the debates.

McCain's advisers acknowledge that his way back is difficult, but they maintain that there is a way. It requires a combination of smart campaigning, traction for his arguments and what the McCain team hopes will be fears among the electorate at the prospect of a Democrat in the White House with expanded Democratic majorities in Congress.

McCain plans in the closing days to focus on taxes and spending, national security, and what one adviser called "the perils of an Obama presidency with no checks and balances."

The campaign will point to congressional Democrats' claims about the agenda they plan in the new Congress, Obama's "spread the wealth" remark to "Joe the Plumber" and Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr.'s comment that his running mate would be tested internationally early in his presidency.

"We will focus like a laser on those messages in the closing days," said the McCain adviser, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to talk about strategy.

McCain's team dismisses the most dire polls -- those showing the race nationally with a double-digit lead for Obama. Advisers believe the contest's margin is in the five-to-seven-point range, about the same deficit, they say, that then-Vice President Al Gore faced at this time eight years ago against then-Gov. George W. Bush. (A Washington Post poll at the same point in the 2000 race showed a tie.)

In the advisers' analysis, the margin narrows or widens based on events. The uproar over Obama's comment to plumber Joe Wurzelbacher tightened polls, they said, and the endorsement of Obama by former secretary of state Colin L. Powell widened them. But their bet is that things will settle quickly, and then they will attempt to move the margin steadily toward the too-close-to-call range heading into Election Day, Nov. 4.

Still, the McCain team has no illusions about the situation, knowing that the environment is extraordinarily difficult for a Republican.

The depth of their challenge was made plain yesterday by eight surveys produced by the Big Ten Battleground Poll. Obama not only leads in all eight Midwestern states by hefty margins but has improved his standing since the last time the group surveyed these states.

The numbers are startling. Obama leads by 12 points in Ohio, 11 in Pennsylvania and 13 in Wisconsin. In Michigan, where McCain's campaign has pulled out, Obama's lead is 22 points. In Indiana, a strong red state, his lead is 10 points, larger than in other recent polls.

Quinnipiac University also released polls yesterday from Ohio, Pennsylvania and Florida that show Obama leading in all three. In these surveys, his lead in Pennsylvania is 13 points. In Ohio, which is a must-win for McCain, Obama's lead is 14 points.

The one bright spot for McCain, if you can call it that, is Florida, where his opponent's lead is just five points and slightly narrower than it was the last time Quinnipiac surveyed the state. But that's not really a cause for celebration: McCain can't afford to lose Florida any more than he can afford a loss in Ohio.

There may be quibbles with the particular margins in particular states, but the direction of these surveys is consistent with almost all national polls, which show Obama's lead approaching or slightly into double digits.

The Washington Post-ABC News tracking poll has been holding steady this week, showing Obama's advantage at around 10 points. Gallup has had it between five and eight points, depending on its model for determining the most likely voters. The Pew Research Center put it at 14 points. The NBC-Wall Street Journal poll showed a 10-point lead for Obama earlier this week.

Peter Hart, who helps conduct the NBC survey, said that "what has been a tight and competitive race for six months has suddenly and dramatically opened up in Barack Obama's favor."

Hart concluded that after months of doubts, voters "have reached a comfort level with Barack Obama." In contrast, he said, McCain faces significant doubts "that he matches what Americans are looking for in terms of change or hope and optimism for the future."

There are certainly some polls that portray a different race. Some show Obama's margin in mid-single digits, and one poll this week showed Obama with a lead of a single point. Some pollsters see those variations and deduce that in a year like this, with the economy in such distress, the electorate is highly volatile. Be wary, they say, of drawing broad conclusions from even several polls at any given moment.

But even accounting for that volatility, there is no question that McCain is currently losing this race. By what margin is another question. If Obama's lead nationally is in high single digits, then, if past patterns hold, the battleground states are within a few points up or down from that margin.

Take Ohio as an example. Republican presidential candidates generally run a few points better there than they do nationally. That means if McCain can trim the margin to low single digits nationally, he would be in a position to win Ohio. But if the national race looks closer to a 10-point difference, then his hopes of winning the state diminish dramatically. The same dynamic holds for Florida.

What all the polls, battleground and national, point to is that Obama now has multiple routes to 270 electoral votes, the winning number, while McCain has to win virtually everything that is competitive. Pollster.com lists seven tossup states. All were won by President Bush four years ago.

Many analysts have long predicted that the race could stay close until the end but that it could pop open in the final weeks -- and if that happened, it would most likely go in Obama's direction.

The reasons are obvious. The economic meltdown has turned an anxious country into a stressed country. Voters are enormously pessimistic about the future, and that's harmful to McCain as the nominee of the party that holds the White House. In the Big Ten polls, the economy dominates: 61 percent of those surveyed in Ohio and Pennsylvania and 67 percent in Indiana cited it as the top issue.

"The Wall Street collapse has created a very bad headwind," Dick Wadhams, the Republican Party chairman in Colorado, said yesterday morning.

McCain is also weighed down by Bush's unpopularity. The president's approval rating is under 30 percent, and in many of the battleground states, it is far below that. That means the GOP nominee has to win over lots of voters who are unhappy with the performance of a Republican president.

It is often said that the race for the White House is not one campaign but 50, as the candidates battle for electoral votes in one state after another. That's true in tight races, but when the margins open up, it's too much for a candidate to fight state by state.

Obama said this week that he expects the race to tighten in the final 10 days. Some Republican strategists believe that will happen, making some battlegrounds more competitive than current polls suggest.

McCain is hammering his rival on taxes and readiness, and the question is whether, as voters focus on a possible Obama presidency, there will be second thoughts. That is what McCain must hope for, given the headwinds he is now facing.

Re: FOX using the same attacks on Obama they used against Kerry

checksixb17 — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:50:59 -0000

Pretty funny using my Checksixb17 screen name to say I am not for Obama. I am for Obama and I would never vote for a Repub candidate especially after they just robbed the American people of 700 billion dollars. Nice try smart ass.