Closing Arguments: Can They Win Over Voters?

Niether presedent will be able to accomplish anything more than the status quo. UNLESS, one of them can take the revelutionary track and legalize it. That’s the only way we can kick start this change talk. Thanks.

Are John McCain and Sarah Palin giving separate closing arguments?
They seem to be running separate campaigns.
If the can’t even manage a unified campaign, why should Americans trust them to unify the country?

Not much now either can do. McCain could have replaced Palin with almost anyone else months ago and had a better chance of winning this election.

Obama and McCain cannot predict the future, nor can they tell the undecided voters promises they may not be able to keep. However, they can state that they will try their best to bring America back to America and make our country grow economically. Bring back oversea jobs from the undeseved countries that turn their back on the United States. Secondly withdrawl the troops from Iraq and let that nation protects its own borders and nation.. If Iraq can not do without the U.S., Then we the people of the United States will know the true fact of that war and the stupidity that the Bush Administration republicans made in getting us involve. Our nation is in a financial crisis and it is very ambarrasing. It is time to promise to the voters that either candidate will bring America Back to America. All clothing lables should read like it use to be Made in America. Today it read made globaly, china, bankok, PI, Viet-nam India etc. BRING AMERICA BACK TO AMERICA. Give us the people of the United staes AMERICA. Thats the promise that will count the most in winning an election.>

I think Obama’s consistent message of American unity, restated with force and passion in his closing arguments, will appeal to a large majority of Americans. The GOP has been radically divisive again in recent remarks bout ‘the real Virginia’ etc. Worst comment I think was Palin on pro-American “pockets” in our great nation.
I feel that in times of crisis, a nation longs for a sense of community, a belonging to one and the same family. “Together we rise, together we fall”.
The GOP and the McCain/Palin campaign for some incomprehensible reason appear to have turned that around in stressing divisions.
In that respect I think Obama in his closing arguments struck the same right chords that many people remember from his speech in 2004 during the DEM convention.
Will it sway voters? I wonder if the still undecided voters have been paying a lot of attention in general to this race and to the large differences betzeen the two candidates. But I do think that majority is ready to embrace a unifying vision of America’s future, instead of one that seems to cherish a continuous cold or dirty war between ideologies, parties and social groups in America.
McCain was hammering today, literally with his fist, and repeating the word “fight” some twenty times.
Obama won the closing arguments.

The only way John McCain could possibly win me over is if he got a new running mate before next Tuesday.

Most people have made up there mind. Anyone else, they have a few days to think. The bail out made us all understand that Washington is corrupt, and Sen. Stephens of Alaska today found guilty on 7 counts just puts the icing on the cake. I blaim this mess on the Republican’s they have had control for so long. Now let the Democrats try to get us out of this mess, but I think we are to far gone. God Pray for us all.

My thoughts: we have gone with dumb for the last eight years and look at the mess we find ourselves in. The only thing we got were some wonderful calendars filled with Bushisms and a diminshed middle class that needs to be put on an endangered species list.
This election is so very important. Under Bush we have experienced fundamental changes, creating an enormous gap between the middle class and the rich. Enough tax cuts for the rich while the middle class tax burden continues to grow. America’s standing in the world community has been squandered. We need a statesman, a leader.
I am comfortable and even enthusiastic about going with smart this time. I want a leader who thinks about the issues, takes time, consults other great minds, listens and leads in ways that will grow the middle class and reclaim our position on the world stage. McCain’s temper and judgment scare the heck out of me. His negative campaigning tactics are driving the undecideds to Obama. I don’t think he can or will change his negative attacks, so I look for a huge Obama victory and I couldn’t be more delighted!!!!

I think America needs more negativity right now. That’s what people are looking for in our next President.
McCain needs to run attack ads all week.
The “We suck and have nothing to offer, but listen to this accusation” strategy is a winner!

I wish Obama would run video of the town hall meeting with McCain saying “Here’s what I really think, when you reach a certain level of comfort, it ok to pay a little more”
Then the Russert interview where McCain said “On the most important issues of our time, I have been in full agreement with President Bush”
Then “I cannot in good conscience vote for a tax cut for the wealtiest Americans at the expense of the middle class who so desperately need the help”
Then talk about Palin’s spreading the oil company wealth with the citizens of Alaska.
i.e Point out the hypocrisy that has become the foundation of McCain’s campaign.
But that won’t happen. Obama is too classy, a true leader, and leading in the polls across the board, so why go negative now?

Most people have made up there mind, I guess a few straglers. Maybe they have never been layed off, crossed sickness with insurance problem’s, have worried about food on the next meal, have kids in college to pay tuition cost. Just problems some of us have. I will vote Obama/Biden because I know McCain/Palin do not care about my issues. I am middle class and Obama/Biden do care. I do not buy the rich no tax from the top going down to me the Republicans want to push over the tv all day long. Have never seen it and never expect to. And Sarah Palin needs to stay at home and take care of her down sydrome baby, get a job at home in Alaska to see after him. I do not think VP will let her have much time with him.

Closing arguments?
John McCain is old.

Barack Obama is a liberal who believes that poverty is a condition of inequality that is perpetuated by the wealthy. John McCain is a conservative who understands that poverty is actually an inability to create sufficient value for yourself and for others. This inability is caused by a lack of knowledge, a lack of enterprise, a lack of motivation, and a lack of physical ability.
The lack of knowledge is caused by a non-competitive educational system that traps kids by the zip code they live in, by the lack of skilled trades training due to an aversion to “blue collar work”, and by the lack of personal associations that can provide information on job and entrepreneurial options. The lack of enterprise is due to the disproportionate incentives for foreign outsourcing and the paucity of business start up incubator support that drastically reduce the quantity and diversity of business vehicles for value creation. The lack of motivation is caused by a multi-generational culture that has been shaped by entitlement and housing traps that just about eliminate need achievement. This cultural lack of motivation effectively eliminates knowledge through education and supplants it with value creation in activities associated with criminal behavior. The lack of physical ability is caused by health problems and by family care obligations. These are the folks that need long term transfer payments.
Solutions to the lack of knowledge exist in State wide public school voucher systems that cause competition for enrollment, emphasis on skilled trades training and positive image guidance towards high paying creative jobs that use both mind and hands, and in senior mentoring programs to provide free guidance. Increasing the number of enterprise vehicles starts with eliminating the disproportionate and unfair cost differentials experienced by enterprise in this country. The decision to export enterprise should be based upon an extra cost dimension commensurate with avoided labor benefit costs and environmental controls. Blatant financial rewards for exporting enterprise should be eliminated. Product and services entrepreneurial startups that can service indigenous neighborhoods and beyond should be incubated with mentoring, seed capital, facilities, and initial property tax breaks. High density housing projects should be slowly replaced with dispersed housing in a controlled and non-disruptive manner to foster and reward the work ethic over several generations. Those that chronically disrupt their immediate neighborhood or school learning environments should be isolated. As a nation we should provide positive incentives to loose weight to reduce some of the chronic health problems that preclude value creation and amplify health costs. We should provide more services to take care of dependents so that more time is available for value creation work. Those who are physically and mentally ill should be provided all necessary services and resources. We should provide early intervention for the benefit of children who are in danger of living without parents or loving caregivers. We certainly do not have all of the answers and care must be given to avoiding unintended consequences, but moving forward in the general direction of enabling people to be creative will have astounding results over several generations.

Couldn’t agree more with many who have already said it. McCain needs to send Sarah Palin back to Alaska and find a new running mate. What a disgrace to have someone like her running for a national office! Sounds like she does fine in Alaska. She should stay there. Talk about dumbing down – - . She needs to take courses in government, current events and diplomacy. She also needs courses in English. Or not. In Alaska saying huntin, fishin, and shootin is probably passable pronunciation. I for one do not, repeat, do not want a hockey mom who punctuates her sentences with a wink to represent me. Can’t you just see her sitting down with world leaders, telling them that it’s time to git goin on a meetin and then giving them a wink to signal that it’s their turn to talk? Nope. McCain lost my vote and one of the biggest reasons is because of his poor choice of running mate. I have already voted – for Obama.

obama needs to be prepared for last minute negative campaigh.Mccain needs to win the latino vote

Larry B– Online polls are useless because anyone can vote more than once, you can get away with it if you know how to use a computer well enough.

Win over voters? Obama voted to allow the prosecution of people who use a firearm for self defense of their home. (Illinois Senate S. B. 2165, vote 20 3/25/04.) Obama voted to ban almost all rifle ammunition commonly used for hunting and sport shooting. (United States Senate S 397, vote 217, 7/29/05).
This position is selfish, and does not allow space for other viewpoints.

“The AOL Straw Poll has consistently shown McCain leading Obama by about two to one for three months.”
Hehe and the only people who use AOL anymore are old people that dont know how to use a computer like their canidate John McCain. Anyone got an abacus its time for the state election.

i use to be for McCain until he got palin. she is so ignorant. it is sad that the republican party went this far to try to proove a point since hilary got out. He can not win me over now unless sarah palin is replaced which isn’t happening so my vote is for Obama. and since her only forign knowledge is because alaska is together with russia, then since i was born and raised in Phoenix AZ, then i want to be on the board of immigration solutions. Because AZ is together with mexico therefore i too am an expert. I actually have first hand knowledge on that subject… sarah palin is bringing McCain down, Obama can be an excellent president, If given the same opportunities as anybody ele. But i think he needs more military back ground thats the only thing that makes me want McCain. But with sarah Palin, Obama still has my vote.

It is kind of scary that Obama believes in income restribution and Obama thinks Supreme court should be involved it.
I think this goes fundamentally against American values, Americans like to earn their wealth and keep it and not as Obama wants.
Obama is running for Presidency in the wrong country, he should be trying for Europe or latin America.
I used to support Democrat candidates in the past ( Gore), but I will be supporting McCain as Obama is too radical for this country.

McCain needs to stress that this election is a choice between
“Capitalism & Freedom” or Communism & Poverty for All
& that the Dems had a great deal of control over Congress & the country for the first 6 yr. of Bush -
NOW the Dems have had control of Congress for the past 2 yr. – they have also caused all of the financial problems & they are making it worse with all of the ‘Bailouts’ -
Conservative Values will win every time – & we need to vote in all the Republicans to Congress who are up for elections – & they ALL need to pledge to remain REAL CONSERVATIVES !
Drilling everywhere & eliminating the trillions of expense of the illegals will put our economy on the right track in short order !!

McCain needs to dump Palin and he needs to show that he’s not Bush — something he can’t do. He IS Bush.
In 2000 McCain was swift boated by Bush, yet he hired the very people who swift boated him. That’s honor? That’s somehow different from Bush?
NO THANKS. In 2004 McCain helped enormously to reelect Bush,,, and where has that gotten us? NOT in a good place.
So, thanks but no thanks McCain!

John McCain almost had me with the experience argument until he chose Palin. I no longer recognize this John McCain. The John McCain I would have voted for was the one who stood up to torture, who was against the Bush Tax cuts and the one who at the end of 2000 refused to run negative ads in protest of the smear campaign being waged against his own family by Bush. As I said I no longer recognize him and will now have a distrust for all things Republican that will last for years to come. I will happily put my trust in a person who against all odds has tried to stay above the fray, Senator Obama.

Yes. Let people know their stand on LIFE issues: choose life or to abort; euthanasia; embryonic stem cell research or adult stem cell research; cloning; married life between one man and one woman or homosexuals.
The candidates would do well to address the issue of Supreme Court Justices as a KEY TO LIFE ISSUES. What will our NATION become continuing abortions?

Barack Obama needs to assertively layout his plan for individuals with disabilities. Sarah Palin has a lock on voters’ perceptions, because she exploits her child’s disability, and yet her so-called plan pales in comparison with Obama’s published plan.
Obama cannot cede this high-ground to Palin. Her “aw shucks, gee whiz” factor is concealing empty promises. And yet, desperate families nationwide hang on her every word, because she “feels their pain.” Nonsense. Obama’s plan is far better, but he has not featured it–shared it with voters. He has not called her bluff and stood toe-to-toe with Palin on this issue.
In a battle of SUBSTANCE, Obama has an opportunity to show that his plan is far superior to Palin’s one-pager. Obama also has an opportunity to vividly illustrate the difference between the McCain/Palin stance and his on a matter that is deeply personal. For affected families, this is a matter that transcends party and policy.
For many affected families, Palin has managed to make this is a one issue campaign–and that one issue is disabilities. Obama can’t let her get away with that when his plan is so vastly superior to Palin’s plan.
In Alaska Palin all but turned her back on disabilities. In Colorado, Palin declined to support Amendment 51, which offers support to disabled individuals who have been on waiting lists that stretch 14 years or more. Even former Republican Governor Bill Owens’ wife supports Amendment 51. Palin thinks that Colorado just needs to “reprioritize” our money–in other words find someone else to do without.
Palin thinks school vouchers are the answer–but with few exceptions, private schools won’t enroll individuals with disabilities. They have no mandate to support this population, so why would they? The vouchers will be worthless.
Please, Barack Obama, stand up for disabilities AND stand up against Palin’s mere shadow of a plan for individuals with disabilities.
Jim

The Palins are Terrorists!!
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/10/14/151519/61/145/630389

What a fake, if BO did not have someone writing his scripts, or if he does not pick the staff that actually have a high IQ, he will sink quicker than the Titanic! How many of you are afraid to post something on “Change.gov” in fear that they will trace it back to you, “Joe the Plummer”…and have your life turned upside-down??? Because he is all for intimating everyone who does not agree with him and pay off everyone who does. Give me a break, if they required a minimum IQ to vote this year, he would never have won! He is the one who made this a black and white issue, not McCain. I did not vote for whom I voted for because of the color of the skin, but I do know many people who did! I would have supported Condolesa Rice, or Colin Powell, not because of the color of their skin, but because they are experienced, intelligent and want what is best for America. I asked others why they were voting for BO, they could not give me a reason, more than “we need change,” well, guess what, “keep the change!” I hate to see our American society get worse, but if that is what it takes to get BO out in four years, then I’m willing to live less to see that happen. I for one have already started
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