Obama 49 McCain 47
Ras also says McCain is polling significantly lower in his national tracking poll the last two nights. The headline number for the three nights is now O49-46M, and it sounds like Obama will go up, and McCain down, tomorrow, putting it back on the path to being in line with the other tracking polls finally.
GOS/R2K says it's O49-43M now. Seven-point spread on the one-night numbers (O49-42M), so it may be widening.
Jim Lehrer also revealed that he notified both campaigns, prior to McCain pulling out, that he was going to switch the topic to economics on Friday because of the crisis. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
Daily Kos: McCain Hasn't Read Paulson's Plan
ANCHOR: As for the massive Wall Street bailout McCain insists it have... JSM: Oversight that is effective and transparent. We need people like Warren Buffet and Mike Bloomberg and Mitt Romney to have an oversight of this. We can't put that responsibility in the hands of one person. ANCHOR: The crunch question. Would you vote for it as it's presently constructed? JSM: I have not had a chance to see it in writing so I have to examine that.
ANCHOR: As for the massive Wall Street bailout McCain insists it have...
JSM: Oversight that is effective and transparent. We need people like Warren Buffet and Mike Bloomberg and Mitt Romney to have an oversight of this. We can't put that responsibility in the hands of one person.
ANCHOR: The crunch question. Would you vote for it as it's presently constructed?
JSM: I have not had a chance to see it in writing so I have to examine that.
Are the debates still on, or is Obama going to be having a conversation with an empty podium tomorrow?
(Not that's necessarily an either/or.)
He should, if that happens, offer to foot the bill. Ole Miss and the city of Oxford spent a lot of money to get this together, and it really is bullshit, unbelievably selfish, that McCain has done this to them. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
"Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize."
you are the media you consume.
INVESTMENT BANKERS FLOOD INTO MEXICO & CANADA TORONTO, CANADA - Thousands of proud but recently fired investment bankers are flooding into Mexico and Canada in a desperate bid to find steady work and job security that are no longer available in the U.S.! A spokesman for the U.S. Border Patrol says an astonishing 500 to 1,000 citizens are crossing our Northern and Southern borders every day, some with the help of smugglers who charge up to $10,000 a pop to pack them in refrigerator boxes or roll them up in carpets and sneak them over in trucks. Mexican border patrol officers are now working around the clock to stop this new influx of American immigrants. "They used to try to stop us from heading over there, but now they want to come over here," says one member of the Mexican policia whose squad lines up to stop flow of briefcase-carrying freeloaders. "They make fun of us and don't want us over there," he says. "Well, we don't want them over here either!" "I grew up in America and I love my country, but Lord knows, I have to make a living," Peter Starmeyer, 38, says from the makeshift plywood and cardboard shanty he now calls home on Toronto's increasingly seedy west side. "When Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy and I lost my job, I had no other choice. The only way for me to keep living the American dream was to move to Canada where businesses value and respect workers and try to help them hold on to their jobs."
TORONTO, CANADA - Thousands of proud but recently fired investment bankers are flooding into Mexico and Canada in a desperate bid to find steady work and job security that are no longer available in the U.S.!
A spokesman for the U.S. Border Patrol says an astonishing 500 to 1,000 citizens are crossing our Northern and Southern borders every day, some with the help of smugglers who charge up to $10,000 a pop to pack them in refrigerator boxes or roll them up in carpets and sneak them over in trucks.
Mexican border patrol officers are now working around the clock to stop this new influx of American immigrants.
"They used to try to stop us from heading over there, but now they want to come over here," says one member of the Mexican policia whose squad lines up to stop flow of briefcase-carrying freeloaders. "They make fun of us and don't want us over there," he says. "Well, we don't want them over here either!"
"I grew up in America and I love my country, but Lord knows, I have to make a living," Peter Starmeyer, 38, says from the makeshift plywood and cardboard shanty he now calls home on Toronto's increasingly seedy west side.
"When Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy and I lost my job, I had no other choice. The only way for me to keep living the American dream was to move to Canada where businesses value and respect workers and try to help them hold on to their jobs."
And it don't matter who the favourite is, and it don't matter what the exit polls say, it doesn't even matter who anybody actually votes for, it's who the USSC says is President gets to be sworn in. Maybe the bookies have a sweetheart deal with them. keep to the Fen Causeway
And the repugs have barely started their voter suppression stunts yet. keep to the Fen Causeway
In states where the republicans have a lot of control, they might be able to move the results one or two percentage points. Given how close the 04 election was, some shenanigans in Ohio was all that was needed (whether or not the results actually were tainted). In 2000, Florida was so close it was within the margin of error (even within the margins of the best possible design of an election system, in my opinion); from there, the local power apparatus finished the job.
The disenfranchisement of fellons is another issue.
A few other things to keep in mind - Obama is pro business. He is not a left wing radical. McCain is unstable - to the point where I think the business community is worried. Thus I don't see a reason to expect higher levels of corruption than we've had indicators of in the past two elections.
He probably thinks he's being Mr Mavericky, or something, but it's more likely that he's shot his campaign in the head.
Fake outrage is difficult to produce when the entire economy is unraveling in front of the voters.
And they are running out of time.
