Closing Arguments: Do Polls Lie?

Obama will win a decisive victory and Dems will sweep House and Senate races from coast-to-coast. This is a transformational election that will realign the electoral map for the next 20 years. The BushGOP was a complete disaster for the country and the mood is angry as hell and ready to throw the bums out and get the nation back on its feet.

I think that polls do lie. Many people vote several times as most polls don’t check if a person has voted more than once. I have lived long enough to know that when it comes to elections, anything can happen. I also believe that people sometimes say what they believe people want to hear, but when it come to the voting booth, they change their mind. I do believe that Obama will win, because as a ex-McCain supporter, the new McCain is not the one I always backed a liked so much. His tactics are not what I expected from him, and I liked the old McCain so much. We deserved more from him. A lot of my friends now feel the same way.

Your bias is showing! what is wrong with ABC, CNN, CBS, NBC. IS IT IMPOSSIBLE FOR ANY OF YOU TO BE FAIR?
THE POLLS LIE.

No, I don’t think polls matter. They really haven’t in the past. Besides the liberal media (T.V., radio, magazines and newspapers) wouldn’t give the truth if it was on the end of their noses!!!! :( They hate conservatives and DON’T remain unbias. I don’t know one person who has been involved in the polls so who are they asking?

Polls are pretty accurate. I believe the majority of the voters really do want a change. We cannot continue in this same state pf chaos. Obama will have a lot of work ahead of him. But I know he can do a better job of what is currently happening.

i see a backlash against the media in their overwhelming support of Obama. Do any of the polls know that formerly strong Democrats will now be voting for Mccain/Palin? No they don’t.

Hey ABC – How did you come to miss the news story on the recent AP Poll showing the election to be a dead heat with 44% for Obama and 43% for McCain? Too close for you to comfortably report to suit the one sided reporting of ABC?
You know what? You might just be at a loss for explanations if enough of us fed up Democrats & Republications turn out and upset this election just to prove you wrong.

Obama will definitely win because too many people are suffering because of the selfishness of the republicans. The only following that McCain/Palin has now are racists who are simply afraid of seeing anyone other than themselves leading America. There is no other reason. All of the repubs tactics have back fired and all they have left are the votes of the rejects of this society who either uneducated small town hicks or upper class snobbs whose noses are too high in the air to even smell the crap that America has gotten into. OBAMA will be PRESIDENT because it is a new day…CHANGE is always inevitable.

Based on my personal experience over the past two weeks; the polls are way off. I attended a non political event in PA last week. People were there from all over the country. Everyone that I spoke to was for John McCain and really afraid of what Obama would do if he ever got in. I have one friend that is for Obama and his only reason is that he is mad at Bush. The slanted liberal news media is in for a big surprise.

Barring a national security crisis right before the election, as in 2004, I do believe that Obama will win the election. I do not however, believe that his lead in the popular vote will be in the double-digits. I think that John McCain should have played it safe and chosen someone like Mike Huckabee to be his running mate. He’s never been one to play it safe though. Choosing Sarah Palin was like a Hail Mary and on November 5th we’ll see if the hockey moms will have made the difference for McCain.

Polls don’t lie, they are just inadequate mathematical models to predict the outcome (or even a realistic glimpse) of the way the vote will go. Therefore they are wrong. There are so many ways to introduce bias in this particular election that they are nearly worthless. Fake voter registrations (ACORN) alone may be responsible for skewing the numbers towards Obama. If you don’t understand then it is likely you didn’t take more than 24 hours of advanced math in college like most of us engineers/math majors. McCains’ numbers at worst are a near tie. Bush was down 6% on election day in’04! Just wait…!

I think lie is a strong word when discussing polling but I would suggest we just look back at 2000 and 2004 to see how close the polls matched the results.
I think only one poll got within 1 point of the actual outcome in the last 2 election cycles, the IBD poll.
Joe

how many people do you know? that have been polled before. i have never once and not any of my friends have ever been polled.

Taking an honest poll at the present time would show Obama ahead about 1%.
ABC is adding about 10 to the true polling results, hoping to sway the election in Obamas favor.
To make their last poll befor election day look accurate, when compared to the elction results, they will have to gradually add a lesser amount of fake points as we get closer and closer to election day.
By election day an acurate poll will show McCain about 1% ahead, which will be backed up by the election itself, which of course is the only thing that has any real importance.
Ed

Maggie Smallwood, where are you from? I married a Smallwood who passed away in 2000. I’m from TX.

I do not think the polls are accurate. The media is so biased that they only look for news that is favorable to Obama. They along with the Hollywood groupies put a negetive light on anything reported about McCain or Palin. I don’t know why they think it is their duty to interpret what has been said. I think the public is smart enough to discern for themselves what the message was. The silent majority may surprise everyone on election day. How long did it take Nightline to find a democratic Maveric in TX to show in their viewpoint that McCain is No Maveric. Why aren’t they digging up something on Obama?

People are not hearing or listening about the financial support that Fannie Mae gave to Obama. Their CEO also called Obama part of the family!!!!! Clinton sent companies overseas not Bush. Clinton is a snake, but the Democrats don’t want to see the mess he made in Arkansas and the White House. When he has no morals as a President, he is a VERY weak leader. You can’t trust him as he lied too many times.

Amen, Glenda. If we go down,it will be because Americans don’t care to do the research. They just want their ears tickle. A black guy at the GOP meeting Monday night said that if people would really listen that they would realize that Obama is so long winded that he DOESN’T answer the questions!!!!!

I believe polls are a good gauge of what people are thinking at the moment but I would not bet the farm on them.
However, I believe people will be stunned at how many vote for Obama. Where I live you do not dare say you are voting for Obama nor do you put his signs in your yard…especially in the smaller communities. It is just better and easier to let the neocons rave on about the lies the Palin/McCain continue to spread about Obama…then quietly go vote for him.

I’m simply amazed at all the right wing idiots blogging here! The mccain/palin base, stupid, ignorant, uneducated, racist, bigots, yep, these are there base, wink, wink, lie, lie, more wink!

If we listen to you ABC News, McCain is already defeated..But, guess what? A lot of us are waiting until election day to vote because the simple reason, I hope and pray they throw out all the early votes because of the fraud that has taken place..So, don’t count McCain out just yet..A lot of us are biding our time.

Joseph your statement about experience is right on. Dems carry on about Sarah Palin being inexperienced and one heartbeat away form bing president but they will vote for someone and havee no doubt about an inexperienced person occupying the presidents chair. Just can’t understand that!!!

So many delusional posts about the polls lying. Look, people, polling has been going on for a long, long time and while it’s not perfect, it gives a pretty good feel for who’s ahead, especially when you consider more than one poll. Furthermore, the national polls are not nearly as important as the state polls, which will actually decide the election. Gallup and Rasmussen are probably the two most reliable and stable pollsters and even they are showing a 7-9% national lead for Obama right now, as well as leads in almost all the swing states. Face it, Obama is winning by quite a bit right now. BTW, the polls in the last couple of weeks leading up to the elections in 2000 and 2004 were pretty darn close to being right … you know, the years when Bush won. Funny how all of a sudden now “the polls lie.”

The way news ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, NY Times, & puts it, Obama is going to win hands down. The news media as a whole want Obama to be elected and will not let anything like facts get in the way.
IF Obama actually wins it is not because he is qualified. IF he wins it is because of the journalistic dishonesty and lack of integrity of the news media as Famous writer & columnist, Orson Scott Card, refers to in his column “Would the Last Honest Reporter Please Turn On the Lights?”
http://www.linearpublishing.com/orsonscottcard.html
Would the Last Honest Reporter Please Turn On the Lights?
by Orson Scott Card
An open letter to the local daily paper — almost every local daily paper in America:
I remember reading All the President’s Men and thinking: That’s journalism. You do what it takes to get the truth and you lay it before the public, because the public has a right to know.
This housing crisis didn’t come out of nowhere. It was not a vague emanation of the evil Bush administration.
It was a direct result of the political decision, back in the late 1990s, to loosen the rules of lending so that home loans would be more accessible to poor people. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were authorized to approve risky loans.
What is a risky loan? It’s a loan that the recipient is likely not to be able to repay.
The goal of this rule change was to help the poor — which especially would help members of minority groups. But how does it help these people to give them a loan that they can’t repay? They get into a house, yes, but when they can’t make the payments, they lose the house — along with their credit rating.
They end up worse off than before.
This was completely foreseeable and in fact many people did foresee it. One political party, in Congress and in the executive branch, tried repeatedly to tighten up the rules. The other party blocked every such attempt and tried to loosen them.
Furthermore, Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae were making political contributions to the very members of Congress who were allowing them to make irresponsible loans. (Though why quasi-federal agencies were allowed to do so baffles me. It’s as if the Pentagon were allowed to contribute to the political campaigns of congressmen who support increasing their budget.)
Isn’t there a story here? Doesn’t journalism require that you who produce our daily paper tell the truth about who brought us to a position where the only way to keep confidence in our economy was a $700 billion bailout? Aren’t you supposed to follow the money and see which politicians were benefiting personally from the deregulation of mortgage lending?
I have no doubt that if these facts had pointed to the Republican Party or to John McCain as the guilty parties, you would be treating it as a vast scandal. “Housing-gate,” no doubt. Or “Fannie-gate.”
Instead, it was Sen. Christopher Dodd and Congressman Barney Frank, both Democrats, who denied that there were any problems, who refused Bush administration requests to set up a regulatory agency to watch over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and who were still pushing for these agencies to go even further in promoting subprime mortgage loans almost up to the minute they failed.
As Thomas Sowell points out in a TownHall.com essay entitled “Do Facts Matter?” (http://snipurl.com/457to): “Alan Greenspan warned them four years ago. So did the Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers to the President. So did Bush’s Secretary of the Treasury.”
These are facts. This financial crisis was completely preventable. The party that blocked any attempt to prevent it was … the Democratic Party. The party that tried to prevent it was … the Republican Party.
Yet when Nancy Pelosi accused the Bush administration and Republican deregulation of causing the crisis, you in the press did not hold her to account for her lie. Instead, you criticized Republicans who took offense at this lie and refused to vote for the bailout!
What? It’s not the liar, but the victims of the lie who are to blame?
Now let’s follow the money … right to the presidential candidate who is the number two recipient of campaign contributions from Fannie Mae.
And after Fred Raines, the CEO of Fannie Mae who made $90 million while running it into the ground, was fired for his incompetence, one presidential candidate’s campaign actually consulted him for advice on housing.
If that presidential candidate had been John McCain, you would have called it a major scandal and we would be getting stories in your paper every day about how incompetent and corrupt he was.
But instead, that candidate was Barack Obama, and so you have buried this story, and when the McCain campaign dared to call Raines an “adviser” to the Obama campaign — because that campaign had sought his advice — you actually let Obama’s people get away with accusing McCain of lying, merely because Raines wasn’t listed as an official adviser to the Obama campaign.
You would never tolerate such weasely nit-picking from a Republican.
If you who produce our local daily paper actually had any principles, you would be pounding this story, because the prosperity of all Americans was put at risk by the foolish, short-sighted, politically selfish and possibly corrupt actions of leading Democrats, including Obama.
If you who produce our local daily paper had any personal honor, you would find it unbearable to let the American people believe that somehow Republicans were to blame for this crisis.
There are precedents. Even though President Bush and his administration never said that Iraq sponsored or was linked to 9/11, you could not stand the fact that Americans had that misapprehension — so you pounded us with the fact that there was no such link. (Along the way, you created the false impression that Bush had lied to them and said that there was a connection.)
If you had any principles, then surely right now, when the American people are set to blame President Bush and John McCain for a crisis they tried to prevent, and are actually shifting to approve of Barack Obama because of a crisis he helped cause, you would be laboring at least as hard to correct that false impression.
Your job, as journalists, is to tell the truth. That’s what you claim you do, when you accept people’s money to buy or subscribe to your paper.
But right now, you are consenting to or actively promoting a big fat lie — that the housing crisis should somehow be blamed on Bush, McCain and the Republicans. You have trained the American people to blame everything bad — even bad weather — on Bush, and they are responding as you have taught them to.
If you had any personal honor, each reporter and editor would be insisting on telling the truth — even if it hurts the election chances of your favorite candidate.
Because that’s what honorable people do. Honest people tell the truth even when they don’t like the probable consequences. That’s what honesty means. That’s how trust is earned.
Barack Obama is just another politician, and not a very wise one. He has revealed his ignorance and naivete time after time — and you have swept it under the rug, treated it as nothing.
Meanwhile, you have participated in the borking of Sarah Palin, reporting savage attacks on her for the pregnancy of her unmarried daughter — while you ignored the story of John Edwards’ own adultery for many months.
So I ask you now: Do you have any standards at all? Do you even know what honesty means?
Is getting people to vote for Barack Obama so important that you will throw away everything that journalism is supposed to stand for?
You might want to remember the way the National Organization of Women (NOW) threw away their integrity by supporting Bill Clinton despite his well-known pattern of sexual exploitation of powerless women. Who listens to NOW anymore? We know they stand for nothing; they have no principles.
That’s where you are right now.
It’s not too late. You know that if the situation were reversed, and the truth would damage McCain and help Obama, you would be moving heaven and earth to get the true story out there.
If you want to redeem your honor, you will swallow hard and make a list of all the stories you would print if it were McCain who had been getting money from Fannie Mae, McCain whose campaign had consulted with its discredited former CEO, McCain who had voted against tightening its lending practices.
Then you will print them, even though every one of those true stories will point the finger of blame at the reckless Democratic Party, which put our nation’s prosperity at risk so they could feel good about helping the poor, and lay a fair share of the blame at Obama’s door.
You will also tell the truth about John McCain: that he tried, as a senator, to do what it took to prevent this crisis. You will tell the truth about President Bush: that his administration tried more than once to get Congress to regulate lending in a responsible way.
This was a Congress-caused crisis, beginning during the Clinton administration, with Democrats leading the way into the crisis and blocking every effort to get out of it in a timely fashion.
If you at our local daily newspaper continue to let Americans believe — and vote as if — President Bush and the Republicans caused the crisis, then you are joining in that lie.
If you do not tell the truth about the Democrats — including Barack Obama — and do so with the same energy you would use if the miscreants were Republicans — then you are not journalists by any standard.
You’re just the public relations machine of the Democratic Party, and it’s time you were all fired and real journalists brought in, so that we can actually have a daily newspaper in our city.

I think this election will be close.
Dems have not got 50% of the vote since Carter and Obama is even left to Carter.
It is difficult for a very Liberal candidate to get that much votes even though the media is behind him.
Bottomline is Obama has not made himself appealing to vast number of voters and they dont trust him or his background.

THAT WAS YESTERDAY’S POLL DOCTORED BY THE MEDIA.
TODAY’S AP POLL HAS THE ONE POINT APART…MORE LIKE IT

The Polls lie, 2 weeks before the 2004 election the polls and the media had John Kerry winning but thats not what happened, and when Obama looses the media will be trying to figure out what went wrong again.

Obama will win by more than anyone expects.

The Polls lie, 2 weeks before the 2004 election the polls and the media had John Kerry winning but thats not what happened, and when Obama looses the media will be trying to figure out what went wrong again.
Posted by: Susan L | Oct 23, 2008 2:22:45 AM
WRONG.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/bush_vs_kerry.html

If we listen to you ABC News, McCain is already defeated..But, guess what? A lot of us are waiting until election day to vote because the simple reason, I hope and pray they throw out all the early votes because of the fraud that has taken place..So, don’t count McCain out just yet..A lot of us are biding our time.
Posted by: Nina | Oct 23, 2008 1:20:15 AM
lol, there’s been no VOTING fraud. Notice how McCain and Palin stopped talking about Acorn…. Keep dreaming.

Here’s what will happenon election day:
–none of the convicted black felons who are currently so vocal in their support of Obama will be allowed to vote.
–The Bradley Factor will show itself.
–The Why-bother-Voting syndrome will kick in for the Democrats, resulting in far lower than expected turnout.
–The Youth vote will collapse; they just won’t get out of bed to vote in enough numbes to affect anything.
–McCain’s underdog status is encroaching day by day on the Democratic effort. If the polls are close or tied now, by November 4th, McCain will have overtaken any current Democratic lead.
–The conservative, mature, job-holding, God-fearing citizens of this country will do their patriotic duty and simply turn out to vote.
Ergo: John McCain will handily win on November 4th.
The simpering, tiresome, bleating cries of “racism” will commence on November 5th.

People lie. When it comes right down to pulling the lever on election day … it’s McCain/Palin all the way.

…polls…i wasn’t questioned…like my grandfather said…” it’s all propaganda..”….i’m a former hillary suupporter and now i’m voting for mccain/palin…

Yes! Polls do lie, especially those paid for by the major news media. They have distorted every aspect of this election in Obama’s favor with either outright lies or huge omissions of fact. However,
they don’t realize that they are NOT IN CONTROL! God says Righteousness exalts a nation. Obama is anything BUT that and therefore is not qualified for the office. Being black I honestly admit I would like to see a black man in the white house, but not just ANY black man. Obama with his sordid southside Chicago allies can only destroy this nation. God will not allow that to happen.
Therefore McCain will WIN!!!!!!!!!!

Carter led Reagan in the Polls.
Kerry led Bush in the Polls.
Gore led Bush.
Say no more!!!!
The polls are mostly despicable tools misused by a whore-like media that commits group-think tactics against a public that is too busy or lazy to research and think for themselves. I am an Indigo Child. Somehow I will help expose the bastards (Newsmedia at Channels 2, 4, 7, CNN and CNBC).

What most polls are not counting is that there are more than six million Americans living abroad and that most of the energy is coming from the Democrats Abroad organization! So, my daughter and I just sent our 2 Obama/Biden votes as I am sure thousands others have already. So even if they end up being tied in the mainland, which I would find incomprehensible, all the votes coming from abroad will definitely give the Democratic ticket the edge!ABC should start polling abroad ;-) you can do that by just posting a poll on your website.. Another thought: what most people abroad do not understand is how come Americans support someone who bases his campaign on his prisoner years and shifting politics( plus ignorant VP candidate) when they can overwhelmingly support someone who is showing true leadership and running one of the best and longest campaigns in American history based on issues?

Who did you poll? Everyone I know is voting McCain/Palin. Why doesn’t the Media say Obama is NOT qaulified? Why are you picking on Palin? She is more qualified then Obama? I am frightened for our country if Obama gets elected.

And one question for all of you fearful individuals..
What exactly are you afraid of in an Obama presidency?
Please state some clear facts because I grow weary of the repeated talking points that have already been proven false.

“Do the polls lie?” I don’t know… let’s put it to the test.
Try taking a poll that asks;
“Do you think the news media has been unfair & biased against McCain & Palin during this presidential campaign?”
If the answer doesn’t reveal an overwhelming “Yes!”, then I would say your polls lie.

Count the votes on this informal poll so far and out of 69, Sen. O got 19 and Sen.McC got 50. Hmm, that seems to be 27% to 73% in favor of Senator McCain. Now those figures I can believe.

One last note: Everyone who loves Sen. Obama should rent the DVD starring Robert Redford titled “The Candidate.” (It’s a great movie.)
Be sure and listen to the last line. Sen. O. is “The Candidate.”

Even Obama is behind maccain in the poll, he will win simply because his ground game is far stronger than Maccain.
We are using all techniques and man power.
So, if obama has a slim lead, that will be Obama Landslide.

Strange !
So many national polls are coming in floods…. and not even a single poll has Maccain advantage….
And Obama has great ground game. He has strong human power…. and stronger enthusiasm….
Already early voting shows this.

The A.P poll is wrong. It is completely
biased, they polled more evangelicals,
and we all know they are G.O.P koolaid
drinkers.lol

THESE FALSE POLLS ARE SETTING UP OBAMA SUPPORTERS FOR A HEARTBREAK COME NOV 4TH
biden has told us over and over, obama is not qualified.. we ought to listen
many are listeining AND THATS WHY POLLS ARE TIGHTENING.
the media has manilpulated this election
unbelievablE.

In the Dems have had an INCREASE of 1.3 MILLION voters since the last election.
Republicans have seen a REDUCTION of 630,000.
National polls are useless. Electoral votes are the only thing that matters. (A Dem in Utah’s vote is useless with regards to who actually becomes President. So is a Pub in California. It’s a winner take all system.)
There are only 11 states that will dertermine the outcome of the election.
Obama is polling better than McCain in almost all of them. And just by the numbers, there are more Dems than Republicans.
All Dems need is for people to make it to the polls and it’s President Obama.

ABC is of course in the TANK for Obama! The MOST ACCURATE POLL for YEARS has been the IBD! IBD currently has the race DEAD EVEN while your FAR LEFT IN THE TANK POLL SHOWS DOUBLE DIGITS! ABC is a LIAR! MSM is SO FAR to the left of America, America is a CENTER RIGHT Country, not a FAR LEFT RADICAL Country like the ABC’s, NBC’s,CBS’s of the world. You guys are a DISGRACE! The MEDIA has died as a place for fair NEWS, not spin. Why didn’t ABC cover BIDENS gaff? NOT ONE STORY, heck even DAN RATHER said that the Media was showing BLATENT BIAS! The American people are SO sick and tired of you liars in the MSM that many of us are intentionaly giving false reports to make you guys look MORE LIKE FOOLS then you already do… GOOD LUCK MEDIA IN YOUR NEXT JOB, CAUSE YOUR DEAD AS FAR AS FAIR NEW REPORTING GOES!

Supreme Court: John McCain wants justices who’ll interpret the Founders’ intent. Barack Obama wants justices who’ll feel your pain and render social justice. Imagine two or three more Ruth Bader Ginsburgs.
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IBD Series: Obama vs. McCain — The Great Divide
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Presidents come and go. Even our worst ex-president, Jimmy Carter, lasted only one term, so the damage he could do, while grievous, was finite. People could act on their buyer’s remorse at the next election.
Supreme Court justices are a different story. They are appointed for life, and the damage they can do to our nation is infinite and usually irreversible. Who appoints them matters.
The Constitution, it has been said, is a document written by geniuses to design a government that can be run by idiots. It defines and limits that government’s powers and obligations, and lists rights designed to protect individuals from government excesses. It has been under assault from those who would change the Constitution from a document carved in stone into an Etch-a-Sketch.
Obama is one of those believers in a “living Constitution.” Speaking in July 2007 at a Planned Parenthood conference in Washington, D.C., he said: “We need somebody who’s got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it’s like to be a young teenage mom. The empathy to understand what it’s like to be poor, or African-American, or gay, or disabled, or old. And that’s the criteria by which I’m going to be selecting my judges.”
By those criteria, we should not be surprised to see Oprah Winfrey on his short list of future justices. McCain has a different view of both the Constitution and the Supreme Court, one based on the law and not emotion or good intentions.
“My nominees will understand that there are clear limits to the scope of judicial power, and clear limits to the scope of federal power,” McCain has said, citing Chief Justice John Roberts and Associate Justice Samuel Alito as the type of justices he would appoint. Barack Obama was one of only 22 senators to oppose Roberts. McCain, by contrast, supported Ronald Reagan’s failed nomination of Robert Bork.
Obama not only voted against Roberts and Alito, he also voted against the appointment of Janice Rogers Brown and Priscilla Owen to federal appeals court posts. The appeals court is the farm system for Supreme Court justices. Clarence Thomas sat for a year on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, the nation’s second-most-prominent court.
“I would not have nominated Clarence Thomas. I don’t think that he was an exp — a strong enough jurist or legal thinker at the time for that elevation,” Obama said, catching himself before the ‘e’ word — experience — fell from his teleprompter-trained lips. Even Obama knows that Thomas is eminently more qualified to sit on the Supreme Court than Obama is to sit in the Oval Office.
Legal scholar Obama also said of Thomas, “I profoundly disagree with his interpretations of a lot of the Constitution.” One of those interpretations relates to gun control. In the 5-4 Heller decision, Thomas was in the majority in deciding the 2nd Amendment’s “right to bear arms” was an individual right and the District of Columbia’s gun ban was unconstitutional. Obama thought otherwise.
The type of justices Obama would appoint, like Ginsburg, recently decided in a 5-4 decision that capital punishment for child rapists was unconstitutional. Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote that the decision was based on “the evolving standards of decency that mark the progress of a maturing society.”
By another 5-4 vote, the Supreme Court decided that Guantanamo detainees had a right to take their cases for release to federal courts. Obama has campaigned on a promise that “I will restore habeas corpus for detainees.” McCain called the ruling “one of the worst decisions in history,” one that “opens up a whole new chapter and interpretation of our Constitution.”
Justice Antonin Scalia, another judge whom Obama would not have appointed, recently slammed the view of a “living Constitution” endorsed by Obama. Some judges, he told an audience at the Woodrow Wilson Center, were more concerned with promoting their “personal policy preferences” than interpreting the law.
“When we are in that mode,” he said, “you realize we have rendered the Constitution useless.” That’s exactly what Barack Obama has in mind.

Let not be confused.
NOT all Democrats will vote for Obama.
NOT all Independents will vote for Obama.
NOT all Republicans will vote for Obama.
People will wise up and see Obama fr who he is. All TALKS, NO ACTIONS.
All the money in the WORLD CAN NOT buy the Presidency of the US.
This is American Presidency, Not Foreign Interests.
Obama wants to be President of the World!
Maybe he should run from Kenya, a Birth Place.

I’m SO SICK AND TIERD of International polls! Please, oh please LIBERAL FAR LEFT MSM keep showing the Germans and French and Arab Countries want Obama as President! Please keep doing this… because the VAST VAST MAJORITY of real AMERICANS, yes I said it, REAL AMERICANS, could give a rats butt what the World thinks of the GREAT U.S.A.! Tell the stupid French and Germans and Arab Countries to get thier own house in order, tell them to provide for thier OWN DEFENSE, tell the Countries of the World and the U.N., to KISS OUR BUTT! Real Americans do NOT care what the “World”, the we have SAVED MANY TIMES, thinks or wants! REAL AMERICANS want a TOUGH foriegn policy, not one that ceeds our defense and security to the horrible U.N.! So again, please keep doing our work for us MSM! Keep telling your lies!

ABC is of course in the TANK for Obama!
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Fox has Obama up by 9 points.
But their obviously “in the tank” fo Obama right?

“When we are in that mode,” he said, “you realize we have rendered the Constitution useless.” That’s exactly what Barack Obama has in mind.
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Too late…Bush has already rendered it useless. Where was the rightwing nut concern when Bush suspended Hapeaus Corpus? Or when he made Congressional legislation useless with a signing statement???? Puh-lease, all you rightwing fanatics ever do is pay lip service to your Fake patriotism. When Sen.Obama becomes President he will have to clean up Bush’s filthy corrupt mess, and he will re-store America’s Integrity & Honor!

Apparently, according to the McCain campaign, “real Americans” only exist in small towns.
I’m sure the people of NY will love to hear that even though the twin towers fell in their city, their not really “real Americans”.
Polls are correct. Obama is winning and will win. We “unreal-Americans” are fed up with devisive politics and facist ideology that comes from the Republican party.
Freedom is for all citizens, not just for those who agree with your small minded view of the world. We have the same right to change our leadership, and contrary to popular belief, there’s more of us than there are right wing neo-cons.

HEY MARK,
Again you fail to acknowledge that your beloved FOX NEWS has Obama up by 9 POINTS.
Even the heavily biased GOP cheerleader can’t ignore who is going to be the next President.

To: Eyes Closed To The Truth, I mean Eyes Blinded By The Far Left Media, I mean Eyes Open,
Did you read the I.B.D. poll ??? It has been proven and cited as the MOST ACCURATE POLL over the last 6 Election cycles… Even the MSM talks about it as one of the best…
Look at it, DEAD EVEN, in margin of ERROR, and McCAIN GAINING ground…
So who has thier EYES OPEN ???

Once again good ol mark wants to keep the blinders on.
There is only one thing that matters. The electoral votes in 11 states. All others have already been decided.
Obama is kicking butt and McCain is scambling just to hold formally red states. It’s a lost cause.
Quote any poll you like. The Pubs were outmatched by a comminity organizer. How ironic is that? He will win because he was by far superior in organizing his campiagn.
Your self delusion is not healthy.

No one polled ME here in OH. In fact, I like Sarah Palin so much, I changed my vote to McCain/Palin. The more liberal comments/polls I hear from ABC, CNN, etc., the more I want to vote for McCain. How insignificant to mention Sarah’s clothes…money well spent, I say. And Obama campaign spent 60 million on polls?!!! PLEASE,….GO MCCAIN/PALIN–YOU’RE WINNING !!!!

I doubt obama will win. The republicans have stolen both of the last two elections. Why would this one be any different? Simple lust for more above all else rules the game. And don’t forget the good old fashioned rovian fear tactics! Besides, they think they are better than every one else and would never consider letting a black man run the white house. Shame on you for believing their arrogance. Unless you make over 250,000 a year! Then screw the little people, right? We’re on to you.

In a race this close, I’m not counting on the poles. Look what happened to JK against W.
But does anyone know what is up with this?- http://www.obamacrimes.com/
Is this even possible?

I wish you could see all of the McCain-Palin car stickers & signs all over North Florida!! I have seen literally hundreds in support of McCain & Palin & only ONE in support of Obama. So remember the polls tend to poll those who aren’t busy, hard-working on the job (spreading the wealth) citizens because we are AT WORK during the times these polls are being conducted. Look at history…the media & the polls ALWAYS slant toward the liberal democratic ticket but did NOT get it right… George W. Bush (Won twice) & Reagan won despite what the polls said…the conservative base will give this victory to McCain & Palin.

George, when will you become unbias? Why don’t you check out the Clinton supporters talking about the Obama supporters trying to intimidate them (Clinton supporters) from the VERY beginning. These bullies still are. http://www.newsmax.com/timmerman/obama_voter_fraud/2008/10/27/144303.html?s=al&promo_code=6E3F-1

Thank you, Larry. You have proved my point. The liberal media is trying to have the McCain supporters to give up, but guess what! We don’t give up easily nor are we threatened by bullying!!!

Anna, you make no sense!!!! What are you on?

Can see through him, I agree. I think and feel that we will be sorry if he does get elected. I’m not a Democrat or Republican. I vote for values not the person. We have killed (murdered)millions of babies (abortions) yet we are upset over the war? Don’t get me wrong. I don’t like war, but the men and women chose that, but the babies didn’t get a choice.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/10/14/151519/61/145/630389

I’m an independent from New York City who is a moderate and voted for Obama along generational lines and not party lines but I will not be voting for him again nor will be voting for Sara Palin under any circumstance. I do not like the republican’s who are globalist corporate fascist who are bought and paid for by multinational monopolies. The Democrats also globalist transitional omni-socialist.
Both parties have been bought and paid for by the wealthy globalist of the world and both parties are attempting to destroy The U.S. constitution and U.S. sovereignty through unconstitutional treaties and laws. All these candidates are Manchurian candidates. And remember the popular vote actually doesn’t count folks. So what does it matter if you do vote and they only use your vote like a cheap little survey to post on TV. What ever happen to Ron Paul?