http://people-press.org/report/?pageid=1407

Give it a rest, and go get some sleep, wake up nice and refreshed, and Behold a Pale Horse.

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/produce-obama-...

They get to have fun trading off new, high taxes against cost controls that you may face with your vote-buying spending-spree schemes. There aren't enough devils above $250,000 annual income to demonize and tax (much less at confiscatory rates); as I thought aloud recently, perhaps Obama's bizarre “doughnut hole” in his Social Security payroll-tax-increase plan (which won't save Social Security–only his duncier or truly dunciest faithful believers, believe that) is a setup for the eventual need to reclassify those in the “hole” as “rich” along with those above $250,000. (They'll also likely get hit eventually with the payroll tax increase, too. Don't they realize that? In many cases, no. [sigh)

Everybody (except those of us who have known better all along) believes Someone Else is going to pay for the “pie” that was the recent object of Obama's demagoguery; but more and more are going to do the baking and fewer than expected are going to do the taking. Ha. Those in Washington will have the last laugh, the joke being on the Faithful.

Winner-Take-All: Main divergence began and was actually steeper before now.

http://iemweb.biz.uiowa.edu/graphs/graph_Pres08...

Vote Share: Flirting with 55-45, which is impressive, signal well above noise(s).

http://iemweb.biz.uiowa.edu/graphs/graph_Pres08...

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As for the hyperventilating over the latest poll [sigh] and the hype over the economy (the multi-national summit is overreactive as well as hyped, and I smell bankers' bailout more than a pre-emption of deflation or simply a slump), as I wrote elsewhere about the silly, childish overreaction to Palin's wardrobe provisions — a little maturity from those who are, as always, the ones misbehaving would be, again, refreshing. (We know it's hype about the economy to ridiculous extremes on here when the liberal media have ceased to be hyping this issue every moment; which is currently the case.)

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gkM0JvRRUl81...

Maybe the difference is registered voters vs likely voters; but seriously 44 to 43? The RCP average has Obama up by 6.8 among likely voters. So is it close or is it going to be a blowout? I guess we'll find out.

Obama & DNC Admit All Allegations of Federal Court Lawsuit – Obama’s “Not” Qualified to be President – Obama Should Immediately Withdraw his Candidacy for President

http://www.free-press-release.com/news/200810/1...

(jokes, people!)

Chris -

Yep, good thing there is no racism or bigotry in the Democratic party, huh?

Nobody is perfect. But you have to admit that Democrats in general are light years ahead of Republicans in terms of tolerance.

A good recent example is Colin Powell. As soon as he endorsed Obama, prominent voices on the right cried out and said Powell endorsed Obama because of race. On the other hand, did you hear anyone on the left claim that Joe Lieberman endorsed McCain because they're both white?

Before any possible swing back to some level of conservative politcians, the Democrats will have put 20 million illegal aliens on the fast path to citizenship, will have probably redistricted another 30 Republicans out of office

Considering that the Republicans have never won the White House and both houses by huge margins, I do not see your point. However, historical references provide little evidence due to changing demographics. Pre-1980, elections were over the white vote. In the coming decades, the Republicans either have to start winning the white vote by a larger margin with each election cycle or figure out a way to overcome the racial spoils system in the U.S. to make inroads to non-white voters. Neither is even remotely possible.

I always view politics in America like a giant pendulum – it's self-correcting over long periods of time. The pendulum began swinging to the right the moment Clinton was elected to office, picked up steam in 1994, and just kept on swinging further and further to the right for the next several years. The pendulum reached it's furthest right point sometime in 2005, right before Katrina, picked up steam in 2006, and has been swinging more and more to the left ever since. It's just that this particular self-correction is hard and fast because the pendulum swung *so* far to the right, it has lots of momentum behind it.

At some point in the future (a couple of years, a decade at the very most), the pendulum will reach it's far-left point, and begin swinging back again. Don't worry, Republicans will be back again, now it's more a question of exactly when, and in what form.

Politics is not static, and the problem with controlling everything is you take all the blame.

Chris -

Yep, good thing there is no racism or bigotry in the Democratic party, huh?

The Republicans have tried the quota black or quota Hispanicroute for both candidates and political appintments, They end up with incompetents l ike michael Steele, Mel martinez, or Alphone jackson. Neither of them would ever cause blacks or Hispanics to vote for Republicans.

When whites no longer have safe public schools to send their children to in places like Phonenix, San Antonio, El Paso, or Los Angeles, it is kind of hard to claim that illegal immigration is having no effect. Why should midde class whites suffer with schools filled with poor Hispanics when Democrats like Obama send his children to a school with 3% Hispanics.

All campaigning in black and Hispanics neighborhoods gets is political gaffes. why would a Repulbican go into a black neighborhood where they will be booed and jeered with the disaster ending up on every cable television show.

You can look at Palin this year and see what happends when the Republicans try to advance a non-white, male too fast for the VP on the ticket. When you consider that virtually 100% of black office holders are not only Democrats but very liberal Democrats, there just are no candidates for VP in conservative politics. Just like blacks realize that the only career path in politics is to be a liberal Democrat, now young whites are realizing the same thing.

You can make an argument about better economic policy. If Bush is going to have 20% approval numbers, at least he could have balanced the budget to make everyone mad instead of having massive deficits.

Maybe they could try running candidates more like Colin Powell than Alan Keyes!
Maybe they could stop sending out fliers with black democrats surrounded by watermelon and fried chicken!
Maybe they could stop worrying about Mexicans taking over the southwestern US.
Maybe they could campaign in black and hispanic neighborhoods.
Maybe they could abandon trickle down economics which invariably favors rich whites
Maybe they could run a minority on a presidential ticket. (not Alan Keyes)

Republicans seem unwilling to open their arms to women, blacks, hispanics, non-Christians, gays, people who live in big cities, etc. And the people they pretended to court, small town and rural white men, have been di**ed repeatedly by their economic policies.

It's amazing it's even this close IMO.