Game On: Here Come the Votes

Good news for those ahead in the polls if a significant number of people vote early. That, of course, includes McCain/Palin. Bad news for the shallow one.

we all know taht history ahs showen us that all teh republicans know how to do in a election is cheat…bush had his brother cheat for him in florida in 2000. he lied and cheated by teh swiftboat crap to win in 2004… so i know obama and his team are watching the most evil political party in the history of man the republicans to make sure they dont cheat.

It’s amazing to me that the only ones ever caught cheating in an election is the Republicans, yet they can’t help themselves (standard operating procedure) from pointing fingers everywhere else.

so good obama just hammered mcbush on cnn. why would we elect a guy taht by his word voted 90% of the time with bush the guy that got us in this horrible economy. how is mccain going to clean up all the greed and profiterring?? by giving the rich greedy a tax cut…that is os out of touch the last 8 years the rich have been raping america now i say let them pay for the mess they made.

Of all the comments on this election I have yet to see one factor that I believe is of prime importance to our country. John McCain is an old man of 72 years (so am I). He has had health problems more than once. There is a real possibility that if elected he will die in office. This leaves his Vice President as our President. Has anyone actually considered this prospect? If not why not. It is important. Is she ready to be and capable of being our Commander in Chief?
Surely it is not indelicate to bring this up. Our future rides on just such important questions. Palin may be a woman and a headliner but she is not able here.

It seems strange to me that we want to blame the President (Democrat or Republican) for the economy. Congress controls the money. How much were you paying for gas 2 years ago before the Dems took control of both house of Congress what was unemployment then how was the stock market then?? If you realy want change we need to change congress. I wish we had 3 strong parties so they would have to work together and not stone wall each other but we don’t.

tom- Me again, Please do me a favor, do not bring JFK up in the same light as you do Obama. If JFK was alive today he would be closer to the Reps then the Dems. Take a look at his policies and you will find that he was not even close with the Dems. but very close to the Rep. This is why I left the Dem party gone to far and I mean far left.

I’m sorry for going so far off topic. I keep forgetting …
“This election is not about issues”
Rick Davis, McCain Campaign Manager

The US economy has sucked since 9/11. Everyone tries to say it is Bush’s fault – it really is not.
US needs Oil bad and innovative energy solutions in a hurry if they want to get their economy back on track.
Bickering about tax structure A vs. tax structure B is frivolous. It makes little difference – and the arguments on both sides are just smoke and mirrirs.
Seriously – the Republicans strategy for dealing with energy and the war on terror is most appealling.
Palin seems to understand this the most.

McCain had a small boost after the convention which gradually evaporated. With Fannie, Freddie, Lehman, AIG, Merrill Lynch going down the tube Obama got a huge advantage now. For next 6 weeks, worry about economy will be front and center and will result in a big Obama win. It seems that Obama will take Ohio, Virginia and North Carolina. That is massive.

Great news for Obama. Bad news for Rep’s. Rep’s better not stop votes from voting this election. To many lawyers on hand this year so Rep’s can’t turn away voters.

mar – do you realize American soldiers are fighting currently and have fought and DIED for your right to vote? And to vote for Palin because you think you can relate to her is to laugh in the face of these soldiers and their sacrifice. You are not thinking clearly. You’re not. You are making an emotional vote and not an objective one. Palin brings nothing to this election except an American Idol like quality, which while exciting, evaporates quickly. Barack has talked about nothing but substance — you just haven’t been listening. By the way – Palin and McCain (remember, McCain, the guy running for president??) represent THE EXACT OPPOSITE OF EVERYTHING THAT WILL BE GOOD FOR THE MIDDLE CLASS. mar – I care about you and people like you and I don’t want them to make the biggest mistake of their lives, and the lives of children who will come after us. Please, for God’s sake, stop and think clearly about who you are voting for and why.

I predict big time voter fraud on the McCain side. He learned dirty Washinton poitics and how to screw everybody out of a victory. Check out his ties to Bush. I heard a pundit say this election will make the Bush/Gore/Florida debacle look like a tea party and could very well take a month before all is settled and we really know who got what votes.

s mebep-Obama wants to exercise all energy forms. Wind, solar, hydro. These will create more jobs than a few oil rigs. And he’s more concerned with long term effects on the environment than McCains oil buddies. Palin is shallow. I just hope one day I can lift my head and say I am a Republican again. But so far I am siding with Obama and Biden for the future of our children. 5% of big businesses rule 95% of America. Just look at the Energy lobbiest right now. You can be a Free Thinking Liberal Republican. They also tend to think about change.But to being to Conservative can keep you in a rut.

OBAMA/BIDEN 08′ Because we all know the ending to the last 8 years!

The POLL of POLLS now has OBAMA/BIDEN ahead by 3% 47 to 44. BYE BYE MCSAME/FLAVOR OF THE WEEK..

My fellow Americans, what has happened to accountability? Millions of Americans have suffered due to an administration and party that has put their interest before the American people. Where I come from its simple, your party had 8 years and they failed horribly and have let the American people down. The Reps have failed us in all facets 8 strikes your out!!!

Why is Obama’s Health Care Plan better?
For starters it’s because McCain doesn’t have one. Now for the rest of the story:
The big threat to growth in the next decade is not oil or food prices, but the rising cost of health care. The doubling of health insurance premiums since 2000 makes employers choose between cutting benefits and hiring fewer workers.
Rising health costs push total employment costs up and wages and benefits down. The result is lost profits and lost wages, in addition to pointless risk, insecurity and a flood of personal bankruptcies.
APSustained growth thus requires successful health-care reform. Barack Obama and John McCain propose to lead us in opposite directions — and the Obama direction is far superior.
Sen. Obama’s proposal will modernize our current system of employer- and government-provided health care, keeping what works well, and making the investments now that will lead to a more efficient medical system. He does this in five ways:
- Learning. One-third of medical costs go for services at best ineffective and at worst harmful. Fifty billion dollars will jump-start the long-overdue information revolution in health care to identify the best providers, treatments and patient management strategies.
- Rewarding. Doctors and hospitals today are paid for performing procedures, not for helping patients. Insurers make money by dumping sick patients, not by keeping people healthy. Mr. Obama proposes to base Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements to hospitals and doctors on patient outcomes (lower cholesterol readings, made and kept follow-up appointments) in a coordinated effort to focus the entire payment system around better health, not just more care.
- Pooling. The Obama plan would give individuals and small firms the option of joining large insurance pools. With large patient pools, a few people incurring high medical costs will not topple the entire system, so insurers would no longer need to waste time, money and resources weeding out the healthy from the sick, and businesses and individuals would no longer have to subject themselves to that costly and stressful process.
- Preventing. In today’s health-care market, less than one dollar in 25 goes for prevention, even though preventive services — regular screenings and healthy lifestyle information — are among the most cost-effective medical services around. Guaranteeing access to preventive services will improve health and in many cases save money.
- Covering. Controlling long-run health-care costs requires removing the hidden expenses of the uninsured. The reforms described above will lower premiums by $2,500 for the typical family, allowing millions previously priced out of the market to afford insurance.
In addition, tax credits for those still unable to afford private coverage, and the option to buy in to the federal government’s benefits system, will ensure that all individuals have access to an affordable, portable alternative at a price they can afford.
Given the current inefficiencies in our system, the impact of the Obama plan will be profound. Besides the $2,500 savings in medical costs for the typical family, according to our research annual business-sector costs will fall by about $140 billion. Our figures suggest that decreasing employer costs by this amount will result in the expansion of employer-provided health insurance to 10 million previously uninsured people.
We know these savings are attainable: other countries have them today. We spend 40% more than other countries such as Canada and Switzeraland on health care — nearly $1 trillion — but our health outcomes are no better.
The lower cost of benefits will allow employers to hire some 90,000 low-wage workers currently without jobs because they are currently priced out of the market. It also would pull one and a half million more workers out of low-wage low-benefit and into high-wage high-benefit jobs. Workers currently locked into jobs because they fear losing their health benefits would be able to move to entrepreneurial jobs, or simply work part time.
In contrast, Sen. McCain, who constantly repeats his no-new-taxes promise on the campaign trail, proposes a big tax hike as the solution to our health-care crisis. His plan would raise taxes on workers who receive health benefits, with the idea of encouraging their employers to drop coverage. A study conducted by University of Michigan economist Tom Buchmueller and colleagues published in the journal Health Affairs suggests that the McCain tax hike will lead employers to drop coverage for over 20 million Americans.
What would happen to these people? Mr. McCain will give them a small tax credit, $5,000 for a family and $2,500 for an individual, and tell them to navigate the individual insurance market on their own.
For middle- and lower-income people, the credits are way too small. They are less than half the cost of policies today ($12,000 on average for a family), and are far below the 75% that most employers offering coverage contribute. Further, their value would erode over time, as the credit increases less rapidly than average premiums.
Those already sick are completely out of luck, as individual insurers are free to deny coverage due to pre-existing conditions. Mr. McCain has proposed a high-risk pool for the very sick, but has not put forward the money to make it work.
Even for those healthy enough to gain coverage in the individual insurance market, the screening, marketing and individual underwriting that insurers do to separate healthy from sick boosts premiums by 17% relative to employer-provided insurance, well beyond the help offered by the McCain tax credit.
The immediate consequences of the McCain plan are even worse. The McCain plan is a big tax increase on employers and workers. With the economy in recession, that’s the last thing America’s businesses need.
Finally, Mr. McCain does nothing to bend the curve of rising health-care costs downward. He does not fund investments in learning, rewarding and preventing. Eliminating state coverage requirements will slash preventive service availability.
The high cost-sharing plans he envisions will similarly discourage preventive care. And as he does nothing about the hidden costs of the uncovered — expensive ER visits, recurring conditions resulting from inadequate follow-up care.
Everyone agrees our health-care financing system must change. But only one candidate, Barack Obama, has real change we can believe in.

As a single working mother of three kids under 13 years old, and as a resident of west palm beach, florida. I am amazed that anyone who works for a living and never gets ahead, food prices going up, rent, gas, electric, water. I have been turned down by this government for food stamps to help ease this pain I feel week after week and it seems no is listening. I am a Hillary Clinton supporter, therefore I am an Obama supporter. These republicans say they care about us poor people….they do nothing but lie right to our faces and offer no real hope for those of us who struggle just to fight another day. I used to be a faithful person, but these last eight years have changed my views drastically. Real folks are concerned about feeding and sheltering their families, not about abortion rights. Is John McCain he best the republicans could scrape up. I will end this by saying that I was, a Reagan Democrat who cannot believe what these guys have done to our beautiful, imperfect America? Did they move it to Alaska and forget to tell the rest of us?
Go Obama Go…..

I’m sorry for McBushers out there, but I have taken close notice this round at both canidates. I’m probably one of few that actually understands Obama’s economic plan, because I didn’t try to over complicate a simple statement. As I have watch McBush over the last few months I have some questions about his mental state. Him babbling on the other day about fish swimming around oil rigs. YIKES!! Refering to Spain as Latin America? Then when corrected called them an Adversary? Not knowing how many houses he owns? And his “educated guess” he made with his speach on Friday 09/19/08, hmmmm I think I have heard that before about preditory lenders starting this colaps in the housing market. Oh yeah Obama has been saying it for over a year now.

There we the business owners who always voted republican, for obvious reasons, and there were the workers who always voted democratic, again for obvious reasons. There was that group that wasn’t voting, the religious group. In a historical move, the republicans campaigned TO THEM, saying if you were a Christian, you’d better not vote for a democrat. Hence, the religious right. Christians, in their devout nature to be loyal, go vote for republicans…..why? They are probably less religious a group than any other group in America. They do not love their fellow man, deport them, no health care, low wages, selfish, uncharitable, indecent profits, indecent behaviors,….what more do Christians need to see to make their minds up for themselves? Don’t they see they have been used, abused, duped, and laughed at by the “real” republicans? I am a Christian but I am a worker. I will vote for Obama so he can formulate policy to help my fellow Americans even though at times I wonder if they understand ….. they are willing to take the Social Security, the employer-paid health care, the 40-hour week won by the unions, the GI benefits, student loans, and on and on, but they unwittingly bite the hand that feeds them by voting for the party that has fought against all these hard won benefits. Wake up Christians!!

Of course, as a woman in the White House,but not just any woman. Palin does not respresent many women I know.Please,ladies, think, read, pay attention to the truth. I had considered voting for McCain BEFORE he made the rash decision to select Palin. He’s energized, all right, but ends up misrepresenting the truth and putting forth a bravado that’s not backed up by facts. THINK, WOMEN, THINK. Does Palin REALLY represent you?
I like her glasses, but that’s about it, once I did a bit of reseearch. We are counting on American women to stand up and do the right thing. Most of us are not racist and most of us are caring individuals. Don’t follow a man off the cliff…use your right to vote and vote for Obama, a man who truly respects women…he doesn’t just use them and then throw them aside…he doesn’t cheat on the woman who gave him 2 beatiful girls. He’s proud of his wife, not because of her money, but becuse of her mind. If we use our minds and don’t allow the mistreatment so prevalent among our men, we’ll vote for Obama.

i think mccain has more experience then obama but everyone has there own opinion so don’t take me personally but Mccain rules wooooooooo hooooooooo

It really is funny to hear republicans prattle about socialism. The story to americans laid off due to global competitition was that creative destruction is great.
Now that it’s corporate america they are all lining up to get bailed out by us the taxpayers. We should show them the same consideration they showed us.
it’s time for creative destruction to clear out every republican who stuck with the mantra that deregulation and tax breaks for the rich was going to be good for us.

Republicans must pay. Time to clean house, america..this is why we vote. I know everyone blogging here has made up their minds i’ve already voted for obama so let’s see what happens. Hopefully, the better man ( one wife, family, doesn’t lie constantly, and cares about the poor) will win. If not we’ll all be paying for it like we are now with bush, and i for one will be boycotting and not spending one dime on anything except food, house, utilities, and transportation.