No wonder Obama put forth so much effort into early voting when he, himself knew that there would be issues surrounding his character and the entire voting process that might make him less appealing in the last minute before entering into the voting booth.
With just three days left until Election Day, a new CBS News poll finds that the Democratic presidential ticket of Obama and Biden leads its Republican counterpart by 13 points among likely voters, 54 percent to 41 percent. Yet Zogby according to (CNN) — Sen. John McCain has inched ahead of Sen. Barack Obama in national polls, but the Democratic candidate holds a steady lead in the most recent Electoral College estimates. http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/09/presidential.polls/
Oh, just shut up already. I personally would put my family before anything in my life- I am a religious person, a Catholic in fact, and I while I believe in God, family for me comes first. I see no evidence that Obama’s family comes first with relatives of every mix, nationality and religion scattered through out the world living in poverty.
Obama has down right, dirty deeded and unscrupioulsy attempted to influence early voters on the premise of reform. What needs to be reformed is the whole idea of early voting. Election day in America is November 4th, not one day before or one day after. We have bent and yeilded the laws to make voting a convenience and it is a slap in the face of the American Voter to think that with out a rational excuse, you can vote early because you might have to stand in line for an hour or so on election day. We have soldiers standing for us on foreign soil complaining they don’t have working guns and some shmuck will compain about the weather on election day. Go figure.
“Obama, bidding to become the nation’s first black president, led in national polls as well as surveys in several battleground states. McCain’s hopes of an upset hinged on winning all or nearly all the states that carried Bush to victory in 2004, and possibly carrying Pennsylvania to give him a margin for error. ” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/01/obama-mccain-visit-red- st_n_139946.html As if all of America didn’t know the color of Obama’s skin, the media must once again state the obvious, Obama is black. Yawning now, most don’t really care what color That One is.
Curtis Gans, director of the Committee for the Study of the American Electorate at American University, says the trend may show the impact of Obama’s get-out-the-vote effort. “It might indicate an advantage, at least out of the early voting figures, for the Democratic Party,” he says. But Republicans could close that gap, he notes at http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/election2008/2008-10-21-early-voting_N.htm
Is it fair to say that early voters might be registered democratics who stand the most to benefit from that One, O’bama’s spread the wealth programs? Yep. Many early Democratic voters can go at thier leisure unlike the rest of many Republicans who actually have jobs and are accountable to a time clock and would not necessarily sacrifice personal paid time off the job to go and vote.
With less than 72 hours I don’t care if you have to crawl uphill both ways to vote on Election Day. Vote and Vote McCain.
Actually Helen, while laws vary by State most have early voting where you can go to the election board and get an absentee ballot or vote in advance of the Election Day. Thanks for the comment.
I agree with Go Team. 1 terrorist attack, 1 city underwater for a week, 2 wars and a financial meltdown later, after 8 disastrous years of Bush in office, our nation cannot afford McCain and his recycling of the Bush policies.
GOBAMA! 2 more days until change!!!
It is not fair that Democrats who tend to dominate in urban areas are allowed to have almost 2 weeks of early voting. The suburbs and rural areas who tend to vote Republicans only have one day to vote, thus imagine if there was bad weather or the like on that one day.
Thank you for the comment. I pray for all Americans if a Marxist wins the Presidency.
The world is afraid of America and we will be more afraid with yet another Republican war mongering president. He needs to resolve his own issues with Vietnam and not continue the policies of American imperialism. We used to all want to be like Americans. Now we are very afraid. Very afraid. The ignorance has to end. I pray that you will develop more of a world view.
While Obama may not live up to the expectations as they are so high, he will change and heal the world.
God bless.