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Anonymous

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The latest national polls put Obama ahead by 7.8 points nationally. The Washington Post notes that in the most recent 159 national polls, Obama has led them all (Both Gallup polls put Obama at +10) . He also leads in all the states John Kerry won in 2004, giving him a base of 252 electoral votes. He also has led all year in Iowa and New Mexico, bringing his total to 264. Thus he needs to find five or six electoral votes in states Bush won in 2004. Today's polls suggest Florida, Ohio, and Virginia as good hunting grounds, as he leads in all of them. In addition, he has led for weeks in Colorado and is effectively tied in North Carolina and Indiana. He even has a shot at North Dakota and Montana. McCain has to win all of them. If we assume that all eight of these states are 50-50, then McCain has to flip a coin and get heads eight times in a row. The chances of this are 1 in 256. But it is worse than that since a number of these states, especially Colorado, look a lot worse for McCain than 50-50.
http://www.electoral-vote.com/

Electoral Vote Poll
Obama 364
McCain 171
Ties 3

Senate Polls
Dem 59
GOP 41

House Polls
Dem 250
GOP 183
Ties 2
 
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Sandhusker said:
How does this change the fact that Obama is a racist Socialist with a shady past?

Maybe folks think its going to take a little of what you call "Socialism" to correct the mistakes of the past 8 years....

The American people are slow to wrath, but once that wrath is kindled, it burns like a consuming flame. - Theodore Roosevelt

Therefore, I believe in a graduated income tax on big fortunes, and in another tax which is far more easily collected and far more effective - a graduated inheritance tax on big fortunes, properly safeguarded against evasion and increasing rapidly in amount with the size of the estate.
Theodore Roosevelt

We demand that big business give the people a square deal; in return we must insist that when any one engaged in big business honestly endeavors to do right he shall himself be given a square deal
Theodore Roosevelt

We wish to control big business so as to secure among other things good wages for the wage-workers and reasonable prices for the consumers.
Theodore Roosevelt
It is essential that there should be organization of labor. This is an era of organization. Capital organizes and therefore labor must organize.
Theodore Roosevelt

Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the President or any other public official save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country.
Theodore Roosevelt
 

MsSage

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Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it... The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it. Woodrow Wilson

We must have a citizenship less concerned about what the government can do for it and more anxious about what it can do for the nation. Warren Harding

Socialism is a fraud, a comedy, a phantom, a blackmail. Benito Mussolini

Fascism should rightly be called Corporatism, as it is the merger of corporate and government power. Benito Mussolini
 
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Anonymous

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Sandhusker said:
How is Socialism going to fix anything when it has been a proven failure everywhere it has been instituted?

It appears to me that the Greedy on Wallstreet just proved that unregulated, unpoliced Capitalism doesn't work either.... :wink:

GW went way overboard on his support of the wealthy elitists and the Big Corporates- so now its time to even out the playing field.....

Like Teddy believed in- the Corporates and Big Business need to be regulated to guarantee their actions are in the best interests of the country and the populace as a whole....Not just the few elitist buddies GW catered to.....
 

Sandhusker

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Oldtimer said:
Sandhusker said:
How is Socialism going to fix anything when it has been a proven failure everywhere it has been instituted?

It appears to me that the Greedy on Wallstreet just proved that unregulated, unpoliced Capitalism doesn't work either.... :wink:

GW went way overboard on his support of the wealthy elitists and the Big Corporates- so now its time to even out the playing field.....

Like Teddy believed in- the Corporates and Big Business need to be regulated to guarantee their actions are in the best interests of the country and the populace as a whole....Not just the few elitist buddies GW catered to.....

I'll agree that corporations have way too much power in this country, but capitalism has worked in this country for over 200 years, and you haven't refuted the fact that Socialism has NEVER worked. Two wrongs don't make a right.
 
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