2008 Presidential Poll

Bipartisan is the way to go. I am certain that without some sort of bipartisan system American will falter. This groupthink of red versus blue is pointless it gets nothing done. This idea that one party is better than another is downright silly. People will vote with their party regardless of what that particular person is like or stands for. Just take a look at Bush who had horrible approval ratings but got elected anyway. How is this possible? It happened because people vote with their party.
I recently noticed the obscene amount of signs for candidates and wondered why. I asked somebody and her explanation was that it helps dictate the masses. This is to me ridiculous that name recognition really will change somebody’s mind. I also think that these people for Obama who are walking around door-to-door trying to get people who will be voting for Obama to register is ridiculous. Everybody seems to have his or her own agenda.
McCain would have been a God to me if he had picked a Vice President that crossed party lines, but instead he picked the most republican woman he could find. While it was a brilliant move on his part as far as getting elected goes (because people like their parties) I think it was the worst thing he could have done. I have yet to pick somebody I support in this election but I had been leaning on McCain for the simple reason that I thought his liberal tendencies would make for happy middle grounds for the presidency. Now I am not so sure.

By: Landis Grenville

Both McCain and Obama met with U.S. President George Bush on Thursday afternoon. At the time, congressional leaders said they were close to a deal, but talks on a final bailout settlement stalled late in the evening. They are expected to continue Friday.

“I’m very hopeful that we’ll get enough of an agreement tomorrow so we can make this debate,” McCain said Thursday on NBC’s “Nightly News.”

In an interview with CBS News, however, he remained coy about his debate attendance.

“I understand how important this debate is and I’m very hopeful, but I also have to put the country first,” he said.

Obama has said he will attend tonight’s debate in Oxford, Miss., suggesting that McCain should not be afraid to argue his positions.

“Senator McCain has no need to be fearful about a debate,” Obama told reporters. “He’s a person of strong opinions and he’s been expressing them on the campaign trail.”

CTV’s Tom Clark told Canada AM from Mississippi on Friday that although McCain has kept everyone guessing about his attendance, his staff has been involved in the debate preparations.

This video just released on YouTube. Features Nat & Alex Wolff (Naked Brothers Band) and Natasha Bedingfield:

WASHINGTON (CNN) — President Bush has asked both Sen. John McCain and Sen. Barack Obama to join him for a meeting at the White House Thursday afternoon to discuss the economic bailout plan, a White House officials said. Both McCain and Obama plan on attending and plan to work in a bipartisan spirit and do whatever is necessary to come up with a final solution.

With Wall Street in turmoil and the economy hurting, whichever presidential candidate convinces a swath of persuadable voters that he gets it  and can be trusted to lead the country back to fiscal stability could well win the White House.

A recent AP-Yahoo News poll found that 18 percent of likely voters are up for grabs undecided or willing to change their minds  little more than five weeks before Americans choose between Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain.

Historically, the ruling party loses the White House when the economy is bad, and it’s rare for voters to keep the same party in power for three straight terms. But the poll, conducted by Knowledge Networks, shows that Obama still hasn’t sealed the deal and McCain still has a shot after eight years of President Bush.

The key to unlocking the support of persuadable voters may be this: convincing them that one candidate alone has the ability to identify, understand and fix the country’s ills, especially the economy.

These voters view McCain as far more qualified than Obama, with 82 percent saying the four-term Arizona senator has the experience to be a good president compared with 37 percent for the first-term Illinois senator. However, these voters don’t see either candidate as more likely to understand the problems the country faces.

Original Article  By LIZ SIDOTI