actually the polls now can tell a candidate a lot about what he needs to start focusing on

does that mean things cant change?

of course not, so to maybe the average american it doesnt matter what hte polls say today or tomorrow (although to political junkies they like to follow these polls so they can see where their candidate is lacking or making huge strides)

but to a candidate and his campaign they mean a lot

mccain has to beef up his support across the board

well besides males...

Hey Nat Turner, led any socialist slave rebellions lately?

LOL

What a loser name you picked for yourself!

Don't you know what happened to the real Nat Turner.

His own people snitched him out!

LOL

Call it the Embarrass Rick Davis Act of 2008.

Rick Davis, of course, is John McCain's campaign manager, and has taken a hit for doing business with companies with ties to Iran. Now Barack Obama has signed on as a co-sponsor of a bill to subject American lobbyists like Davis to tighter disclosure requirements if they work on behalf of foreign entities.

During a conference call with reporters, Sen. Chuck Schumer insisted the bill wasn't primarily influenced by Davis, but instead by some lobbying activities by the Iraqi government that were discovered in recent weeks. However, he said, Davis would be affected by the bill.

Schumer invited McCain to sign on as a co-sponsor of the bill -- a pretty aggressive throwing down of the gauntlet, since it puts McCain in the tough spot of either signing on, and making life difficult for all the lobbyists on his campaign, or refusing, and ceding the reformer high ground to Obama.

No comment yet from the McCain camp.

Just remember we shouldn't have gone there in the first place. We all know whose idea it was to "present the facts" *cough* for the grounds to go there.

It's the guy in office now that McCain wants to continue the polices of.

Hey Nat Turner, tell us more about this neo-socialist revolution you and Obama are leading to change America.

The real Nat Turner got all his followers killed.

You should think about changing your name to Booker T. instead.

Nat Turner, no wonder your first rebellion failed! You definitely don't have the smarts to pull off your Neo-Socialist Revolution with Obama.
I guess you would know about the job vacancies at Barnum and Bailey Circus. What happened? Did your fellow clown co-workers quit because they didn't want to work with a radical clown?

What's the latest figure for the Iraq war, $2.4 trillion or something like that. Tell we "republicans", how many roads, bridges, tunnels, dams, levees, etc., etc. could have been fixed in the US, note United States, for that kind of money? All of them? Could New Orleans have been rebuilt for that money? Could Social Security have been funded thru 2075 for that money?

The answer is, all of the above.

We are damning our country with this war and McCain wants it to continue however long it takes to satisfy his sense of honor. He sounds more like Bush every day. Sounds more like the crap we've had for seven years. Isn't enough, enough?

Can Obama ever give a speech or statement with out digging on someone, blaming someone, or hating someone.

Can't he just run on his own merit and give us the details we need.

State the issue, State the plan, How are you going to do this, where are you getting the money for this. Who is going to run it, and so on.

With everything he has promised everyone it is totally impossible to do, Or does he not understand that.

Obama needs to release his under table deal with Rezko for his dream house purchase....

Americans deserve the truth...

Americans deserve the truth...True truth
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Here's a truth for ya, America elected Bush twice, America deserves a burning corncob shoved up it's collective a**.

If you like the corruption and incompetence that's gone on for the last seven years, then vote McCain because that's what your gonna to get for the next four.

Obama may or may not become a great president, only time will tell, but he isn't a REPUBLICAN, that's enough for me.

Americans will vote for the one who we think is the best for this country...

It is democracy and free of speech but majority will decide the fate of this country...

Thanks to Obama, this election is no longer only about the issues matter to American's dail life.. It is mixing of race, religion, patriotism, personal preference...

It has been a lot of personal feel involved for a lot voters and America has been divided sharply, again thanks to Obama's controversies.....

God bless America!!

Can we all say, baaaah?

We all got tax cuts under the alleged "tax cuts for the wealthy". In 2010 when those expire guess what? Everyone's taxes go up. Unless, our esteemed elected representatives deem us worthy of lower taxes. With the Dems in power, who really believes anyone gets lower taxes?

Let's just hope our economy has recovered somewhat before 2010 and before the next President or Congress goes on a spending spree and hikes taxes waaaaay up or we could have another Great Depression on our hands.

Honestly, would you all stop buying into the media-fed sound bites and do your own research?

BOTH Obama & McCain have talked about the issues. And they have both gotten digs in on the other guy.

It's called politics in the USA. Don't like it? Move!

"Baracks talk to the nation after he is elected"

Baracks Bills -
1. 2006 Transparency bill = expose corrupt lobby $ that lobbyist give to politicians so we the people can either impeach them or not re-elect them
2. TECH PLAN = 2007 = http://www.USAspending.gov = expose all government spending so the citzens can see where their tax money goes
3. 2008 = SUNSHINE bill = SUNLIGHT FOUNDATION = http://www.sunlightfoundation.com/ = http://www.sunshineweek.org/sunshineweek/candidates = EXPOSE future spending. This is acomplished as Barack and his newly elected cabinet point out to WE THE PEOPLE , negative porkbarrel spending so we the people can rally against a certain senator or congress person or committee to stop it before it goes up for vote or support it if it is good for we the people = honest government finally controlled by WE THE PEOPLE. Who knows maybe one day in the future we won't need politicians as we the people stay involved in what is going on in all 3 branches of government and we use the computer to approve the direction of our country / government.

Barack will be holding weekly / monthly speeches, to WE THE PEOPLE, guiding them as to which negative earmark / porkbarrel spending should be stopped (removed from a future bill) by the people rallying together online before a bill with that earmark goes up for vote!
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Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL)

Obama has outlined an ambitious transparency plan that incorporates technology to "help connect government to its citizens and engage citizens in a democracy."

Among the proposals in Obama's plan to open government are: putting government data online in accessible formats; airing live webcasts of agency meetings; restoring scientific integrity; allowing people to track federal grants, contracts, earmarks and lobbyist contacts online; and allowing five days for public to review and comment on legislation online before its signed.

In an October 2007 speech, Obama pledged to "turn the page on a growing empire of classified information, and restore the balance we've lost between the necessarily secret and the necessity of openness in a democratic society by creating a new National Declassification Center."

Past is Prologue

One of Obama's most visible Senate actions on the open government front was his co-sponsorship of the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act, which went into effect Jan. 1, 2008 with the launch of USAspending.gov, a Web site that gives people access to information on government contracts, grants and other awards.

As an Illinois state senator, Obama co-sponsored the Verbatim Record Bill, requiring public agencies to video or audio record closed door meetings, The First Amendment Center reported, noting the law was the first of its kind enacted by any state.

Obama is the only remaining candidate to have signed the Reason Foundation's Oath of Presidential Transparency, and, according to The Washington Post he is the only leading candidate to have released his income tax returns.

It seems as if the Republicans are getting their knickers in a knot over Michelle Obama. And getting ready to take aim at her over the next few months. But maybe they should take a look in the mirror and ask themselves what are they so “proud” of? Maybe they should revisit what Michelle Obama has seen from her American leaders since she was born the year after President Kennedy got killed. And then, no matter what they come up with and manage to spin, I’ll still take a straight shooter who doesn’t mince words - the Michelle way. That’s American. That’s the American way. And the choice of spouses also tells me loads of the candidates themselves. And not the way you think. http://angryafrican.net/2008/06/12/michelle-not-a-stepford-wife/

Only Hillary have real solutions for our economy and health care, and the war in Iraq.I dont trust Hussein, he will throw our country under the bus.If not Hillary, it is McCain.Never Hussein Obama.

When The American People enlighted and see the big picture, will see that president Bush is the greatest president of our time.Hussein Obama will never come close to him, he should not even be a nominee,if he sold drugs to Larry Sinclair in 1999 in the limo and had gay sex with him, he sould be in jail with all the other criminals.

Republicans use racist fear of the black man while they continue to screw over whites and everyone else as they laugh all the way to the bank.

Yep, republicans are counting on whites to ignore 7 years of getting screwed without vaseline because they think fear of blacks will trump any problems they have with bush/cheney and mccain.

I would vote for McCain, but he keeps sending these little messages that he same crap as Bush. There is no change to old America or new America, there is no vote from me.

Yay Go Obama! Show them what McCain's really about. I love Obama, but there is no way he can win. He's just involved in too many entaglements and potential scandals. Most of them have not yet hit the big news sites but are listed on the www.realdealreport.com website.