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Gallup Polls and the Dow Average -- McCain's Problem

For McCain to win this election (which he still can), the furor over the stock market will have to calm down so that popular attention can focus on Barack Obama. For all of the deluge of media that has engulfed the American people, they can only keep one subject on their mind. All media have only one focus at a time. And, if you are in the spotlight, you are almost certain to self-destruct.

Follow this election cycle. Between the summer of 2007 and the end of February of 2008, all focus was on Hillary Clinton's ups and downs. And Obama defeated her decisively. Then in March and April of 2008, Obama was in the focus and the Rev. Wright and the surrounding controversy propelled Hillary to victory. Then, during the summer of 2008, all eyes were on Obama — and McCain gained. In September, McCain was on the griddle. At first, his selection of Sarah Palin let him move ahead. But then his "suspension" of his campaign and subsequent complicity in the bailout package cost him his lead and moved Obama to an advantage just short of double digits.

Now the attention should logically shift to Obama. He is way ahead, and McCain is nowhere to be seen. Few give McCain any chance, and the debate is on whether the race is over already. This is, of course, the ideal environment for a McCain surge. All attention would normally focus on the Democrat.

But it isn't. Every American checks the market before they check the polls. The ongoing anxiety over the stock market is not only giving more and more people reason to hate the Republicans of Wall Street and their allies in Washington, but it is keeping us from focusing on Obama.

If ever the market stabilizes, Americans will be fascinated by the William Ayers-Obama ties and the relationship between Louis Farrakhan and the Democratic nominee. There is increasing evidence that ACORN is committing voter fraud, registering people over and over again in anticipation of stuffing the ballot box on Election Day. As ACORN gets raided by the FBI, it will hurt Obama. He was general counsel to its Illinois affiliate, and Obama channeled millions to the radical group when he got control over the money Ayers got from the Annenberg Foundation.

All of these ties are damning for Obama and will reinforce the doubts that Wright first put in our minds. They will lead people to question Obama's values and his fitness for the presidency. A man whose spiritual advisor is Wright, whose financial backer is Tony Rezko and whose first major employer was Ayers might not be a good choice for president. But for these associations to loom large enough in our consciousness to impact our vote, the market has to settle down so we can hear the campaign over its din.

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Sir;....I wish some one would shine a light on all you hard core blind to life reactionaries. You make your livings dividing the flock and feeding on the culls. Sir, society should not be so eaily divided, and society ought to view you dividers as the worst sort of parasites. People might be justified in their enmity. We all have an instinctual fear of strangers that we can grow out of naturally unless that fear is fed, and exercised by those who make money or power out of it. I would like to catagorize you. I would like to classify you. I do not doubt that I would be justified in doing just that. It is not like the color of your skin, or your financial status at birth, or your given name. Your actions are a moral choice. I teach my children the only decent way to razz anyone is over something they cannot help, like their length, or some infirmity because it does not represent a moral choice. Color of skin, or even the acceptence of ones own given name can be framed as a moral choice, that is, as a stain on ones character. Give it a rest... It does not matter who a person must deal with to accomplish anything meaningful in life because we must deal with others and only have the hope to deal with those who will deal with us. If we first demand that all be without sin before working toward a good purpose then we are done working with anyone. Which sets fine with you folks who want nothing to get done and only want business as usual. Again... Give it a rest. America needs change, and we cannot count on the people in power to change the problems they have created.... Just between you and me; the problem is far too great to change with a change of leadership. It is not a matter of philosophy which neither side has, but with idealogy which both parties share without criticism. I would suggest that America needs to use ideas rather than be used by ideas. A good idea is one that works, and works to explain and manipulate reality. Ideas today, like capitalism do not need to work, and instead are used to manipulate people. If the parties, and if the pundits would quit trying to manipulate people to fit their failed ideologies we could fix the problems to fit the people. Quit trying to fix the people. Fix the ideals that are breaking this place and making it into a third world plutocracy...Thanks...Sweeney

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Posted by: James A, Sweeney
Mon Oct 13, 2008 7:06 AM