Why Is McCain Spending So Much Time in Pennsylvania?

Call me paranoid, but I think this effort is just cover for Pennsylvania to be the new Ohio. Republican supporter made electronic voting machines will supply a victory that will not make any sense given the pre-election and exit polls.

Maria, Bush was ahead of Gore in 4 of the 5 tracking polls in October. In 2004, Bush was ahead of Kerry for all but a few days in October.

It's the internet, you can look things up! Try it!

Exactly when was it proven Obama is a citizen of the U.S.? Last I heard, he was to provide the ORIGINAL LONG FORM of his cert, because the one he gave did not have a seal on it and it appeared to have been altered by Photoshop.

Also, you Obamanuts may like to know, that even on election day, Bush was behind 6 POINTS! Guess who won! I don't presume to know who will win. But, I do know that from many polls in the past, they are just not very reliable. It could still go either way. Some people have reported their cars being vandalized because of their McCain/Palin sign. Some pizza parlor is offering free pizzas if you bring them any McCain/Palin sign (so they can dispose of it of course). It shouldn't be this way, but many people do not talk about voting for McCain because of this.

Whatever happened to free speech? Is it only good for liberals?

I also agree about Grandma......if she is in such bad shape, why wait two days?????? Sympathy votes? WHy not, they are already trying to buy the election.

Does anyone else notice how poor Biden's grammar is? I mean anyone can make a mistake, but "shoulda, coulda, gonna." Gee whiz!

CORRECTION.......I meant to write "far out of their reach...........not rich. why is nobody talking about the fact that MCCAIN WAS ABANDONED IN HIS CAMPAIGN BUS? HE WAS DISCOVERED THE FOLLOWING MORNING BY TWO WOMEN..

I like the stubborn state of denial from the Mccain campaign. If they care, they should stay in PA but this race is far out of their rich. So sad this is coming from one of Mccain's "old boys network"...................this is my best punch line from Obama.....the old boys network? in the Mccain campaign, thats called a staff meeting.....

@jamesferrel

I don't think you can call Dunkin Donuts a regulatory agency. Unless your department audits the number of chocolate sprinkles per product.

Nearly everything in your post is wrong, so whatever it is you do, you're not in finance.

Barney Frank in the minority party for 12 years was the main cause?

Fannie and Freddie made the banks write subprime loans? Sure they did. And of course, no mortgage salespeople ever oversold the qualifications of borrowers just to make a commission. Naw, no one would do that.

I work for a regulatory agency and saw it first hand. It's true that the Bush administration has stood for light regulation of capital markets. But it did not invent this approach. By the middle of the last decade, experts across the spectrum believed that U.S. financial institutions faced outmoded restraints on their ability to innovate. Thus, the Clinton administration, supported by then-Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, refused to tighten regulations on financial derivatives, memorably dubbed "financial weapons of mass destruction" by Warren Buffett. The 1999 repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act, a Depression-era law separating commercial banking and investment banking, passed with overwhelming bipartisan support in Congress and was signed into law by President Bill Clinton. Barney Frank and Frankin Raines were the primary blame. FNma policies coerced banks into making subprime loans or prime loans would not be guarantee. They wanted to increase home ownership regardless if someone could afford it. They packaged the loans as securities and sold them on Wall Street. The pools got too saturated with bad loans. Obama as an attorney for Acorn punished banks with lawsuits houlding up branch applications unless they located in downtrodded neighborhoods.

Uh, some people really do believe everything at face value...

John McCain co-wrote a bill that would have saved Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae?
And those rascally old Democrats didn't let him?

Hmmmm.

Well. How is it that?

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109th CONGRESS
1st Session
S. 190
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
January 26, 2005

Mr. HAGEL (for himself, Mr. SUNUNU, and Mrs. DOLE) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Afairs++

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McCain didn't sponsor or co-sponsor the bill?

And how was it that the Republicans controlled both the House and Senate AND the Presidency...and it didn't pass?

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109th Congress (2005-2007)

Majority Party: Republican (55 seats)
Minority Party: Democrat (44 seats)
Other Parties: Independent (1 seat)
Total Seats: 100
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FYI that bill only changed the regulatory boxes around, it would have done nothing to avert the mortgage lending crisis NOR would it have done anything about the Credit Default Swaps that brought down A.I.G.

In fact, that bill would have weakened both Freddie and Fannie by forcing them to sell off assets that helped them to diversify:

And here is an article that shows the Republicans were WRONG and the Democrats were RIGHT:

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From Allbusiness:

The Republican-backed measure would require Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to sell portfolio assets unrelated to their mortgage securities businesses. A Democratic alternative would have permitted the regulator to reduce the GSEs' portfolio without requiring such cuts.

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Don't diversify? That's the GOP's and John McCain's financial wisdom?

Evidently there were enough folks out there who thought it was a bad idea the way the bill was written.

Just goes to show, John McCain doesn't know Economics OR Finance.

Obama's own internal poll which was leaked only shows him up 2.

"Obama's campaign mistakenly released their internal poll numbers for PA which showed a two point spread between the two."

ROFLMAO.

Never thought I would see the day where a right winger took Daily Kos and a radical left wing DJ at face value.

"McCain in 2006 co-wrote a bill for reform,"

McCain cowrote nothing. He cosponsored a bill (that was intro'd in Jan 2005) in May of 2006.

The lesson as always? Right wingers lie.

"Obama is only where he is due to caucus states. His famous machine pulled out the votes by any tactic necessary. When it was up to the STATES per primary voting to choose, they chose Hillary."

Obama won 8 primary states.

"Obama over polls as well."

Actually studies found he underpolled because he brought so many new voters in.

The lesson as always? Right wingers lie.

You may all want to listen to the news just a tad better. Obama's campaign mistakenly released their internal poll numbers for PA which showed a two point spread between the two.

Perhaps thats WHY McCain is there, hmmmm Jake?

You might also want to remember Jake, YES, when Hillary's poll numbers were up, she usually won, but when Obama's were up...who won????? Hillary. Need I say South Dakota? New Hampshire?

Obama is only where he is due to caucus states. His famous machine pulled out the votes by any tactic necessary. When it was up to the STATES per primary voting to choose, they chose Hillary.

Obama over polls as well.

You may all want to remember that.

Now, perhaps someone will have a DECENT debate instead of acting like children and threatening people with death?

What flavor is the koolaid today?

Let's see.

Dodd, and Franks said there wasn't a problem. Bush 17 times this year alone, called for reform on Frannie, and Freddie.ACORN who endorses Obama, pressured banks into giving out risky loans, knowing they couldn't pay them back. Clinton by his own admission said it was his revision to CRA that set the wheels in motion to the financial downfall.

McCain in 2006 co-wrote a bill for reform, on Frannie, and Freddie, and all Republicans voted yay, Democrats nay. Franks a month before the fall out, still said, they were stable.

Yet this is still Bush's fault, even though he called for reform, for years...and when a bill was brought to the floor, not even Barack would take a leadership role, and go against the grain, to vote, for reform.

Jake, so the guy tells a big whopper or two on his conference calls, what do you expect from a lobbyist?

Oh, excuse me "former lobbyist". And I take it as an article of faith that he will stay a former lobbyist because the way that Rick Davis has 'managed' this campaign and destroyed the McCain brand, people would have to be crazy to hire him as a lobbyist.

I sure hope the McCain camp pays him well though, because now that he's not getting any more walking around money from Freddie Mac he'll have to live on unemployment insurance for a few months before he can pick up a new job in this Republican economy.

I sure wish everyone had wisened up sooner. Who knows what would have happened if we hadn't spent 12 of the last 14 years under a Republican Congress and the last 8 years with a Republican president (who McCain is all lips and teeth with on monetary and tax policy).

I'm guessing we wouldn't have $10 trillion in national debt;

AND gotten stuck in two quagmires that have gone on longer than WWII;

AND, as the conservative Mayor of London observed - destroyed the value of our global brand image for democracy and capitalism.

Thank you GOP. Heckuva job!

Oh, what was it George Bush said?

Fool me once, shame on you...

Fool me twice, uh....

Fool me three times?

OPEC is having a meeting, to cut production, and drive up oil prices. Get ready to go back to $4 a gallon. Especially if Pelosi, and Reid get their way, and place the ban back on offshore drilling.

"Ryan, her father was in the army, and he, his wife, and previous children all lived in Germany during his time there.

Good thing she's not running for President"

If he was a citizen, she is a citizen.

The whole ineligible to run stuff is loony for both sides.

LOL, the Moron probably forgot he has been there for days. What an idiot. I cannot believe anyone with a single ounce of common sense is taking this idiot seriously.

FIRST, BIDEN TOLD THE TRUTH ABOUT THE WORSE WORLD CRISIS THAT WILL OCCUR IF OBAMA WIN THE NOVEMBER ELECTION. /BIDEN CHILLING REVELATION ABOUT MESSIANIC OBAMA, ARE WARNING THE AMERICAN VOTERS, THAT NOW ARE VERY CAUTIOUS AND NOT BELIEVING EVERYTHING ON NEWSPAPERS AND TV THAT. ARE AVOIDING TO NOCAUT THAT TICCKET ON TIME./ PLEASE READ BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE WHAT IS WRITTEN ON THE BOOK= DREAMS OF MY FATHER.////////////////////

Yavo Lem said: 5.) We know the middle initial ‘H’ expands to Hussein, but what did the initial ‘J’ expand to?

I'm a conservative, but I will go out on a limb on this, to show I can be logical, and fair.

Perhaps this was a typo. The h, and j keys are right next to each other, and could easily have been a typo, that was over looked. Which would explain why the next year it was changed.