According to the RealClearPolitics.com poll of polls, with less than 60 days until election day John McCain has gained a very slight lead over Barack Obama. Meanwhile, Intrade.com still shows Obama with a slight, but declining, lead.
Bob Barr, Cynthia McKinney, and Ralph Nader are still way behind.
I find it ironic that the VP choice who caused me to stop supporting McCain has caused him to take the lead in the polls. I guess America loves Rush Limbaugh in a skirt.
This little nugget from Politico makes me wonder what the Obama campaign is thinking:
Honing an “us versus them” battle cry, Obama is positioning himself as the champion of the working class.Didn't John Kerry and Al Gore try this already? Remember Gore's "people versus the powerful" theme in 2000? How'd that work out? Here's how this tactic always plays out:
Democrats: "people versus the powerful/us versus them"If the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results, then Democratic presidential candidates are insane.
Republicans: "that's class warfare!"
Democrats: "uhhhh..."
Also, while voters currently prefer Obama over McCain on the economy in general, McCain has outflanked Obama on the public's top economic issue: energy prices. McCain is pushing coastal oil drilling and nuclear energy as a way to lower prices, and Obama simply doesn't have a response.
Now, back to your regularly scheduled housing bust.
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Energy is the other big issue that I follow (besides housing bubble and credit crisis). Not the day-to-day fluctuations in prices - I am looking long term decades ahead, and I see it as a looming crisis in the same way that the housing crisis was foretold by many people years ago, and is potentially far more serious.
ReplyDeleteIf you study the issue enough, it brings in all kinds of other potential issues that on the surface might seem to be unrelated. I don't want to try and write a book here, but there are oftentimes good discussions at http://www.theoildrum.com.
In terms of energy, McCain's position is really just pandering. Pretty much guaranteed to not have any chance of success, and yet to the average Joe on the street it sounds good.
With many issues, real life is far more complicated and nuanced than can be expressed in a sound bite. My own view is that I don't see any easy answers, and the public is looking for easy answers. I suppose that with recent decreases in oil prices that the public is less focused on the issue - for the time being anyways.
Don't believe everything you see on the Bush news channel.
ReplyDeleteThere ain't been a single vote cast in that election yet.
Tom S. in Tn.
Yeah, I hear you. The problem with the Democratic nominee is that he has no executive experience and is the product of a political machine (i.e., the corrupt Chicago Democratic political machine.) The problem with the Republican slate now is that the candidate likely to still be alive 4 years from now (i.e., Palin) is also the product of a political machine (i.e., the Republican presidential campaign) and has no more real executive experience than Obama ... albeit at least it's not corrupt experience. Whoever wins, we're on one sorry a$$ed position.
ReplyDeleteNot corrupt, the Republican party in Alaska not corrupt!!!!
ReplyDeleteWhats next, Bush and Cheney believe in global warming..
September 08, 2008 7:21 AM
Blogger Lance said...
Yeah, I hear you. The problem with the Democratic nominee is that he has no executive experience and is the product of a political machine (i.e., the corrupt Chicago Democratic political machine.) The problem with the Republican slate now is that the candidate likely to still be alive 4 years from now (i.e., Palin) is also the product of a political machine (i.e., the Republican presidential campaign) and has no more real executive experience than Obama ... albeit at least it's not corrupt experience. Whoever wins, we're on one sorry a$$ed position.
Palin is a breath of fresh air. Sanity at last. The only reason I was going to vote fro McCain was becasue Obama is EVIL. McCain is way too liberal. With Palin in the game I'm now enthusiastic. Go Palin/McCain!!
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