I think McCain has a pretty good chance
That is what I thought in the beginning even though he was low on my list of possible candidates.

Then all the non-stop media hype of Obama and trashing of McCain started to affect me for some reason. I pretty much felt it was inevitable Obama would win.

Now I am back to thinking McCain has a damn good chance I personally think the last week has changed alot and most recent polls show this.

My unpopular opinion (here anyways) is that he will win both the popular and electoral vote. I could be wrong, but I want it on the record just the same. I am fairly confident in this.

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I don't know if you are real or just an advertiser, or why you are an Austrian advertising Vietnam, but I'm guessing your opinion there is unpopular because a lot of Muslim and Socialistic sympathizers exist in a Communist country. Slate.com has an article that says some "Poll" predicts Obama at 87% chance of winning. I hope that is a mistake.

I don't think he will win, although I'd prefer if he did. I think his biggest mistake was trying to win the women voters over by picking Palin as opposed to picking someone who'd be a strong running mate like maybe Romney.

At this point though I am on election burn out. I am sick and tired of both of them saying "well he said and did this or that" instead of telling me what they would do to make things better. I am sick and tired of all the ads talking about how bad the other guy is, and I am tired of my kids running around saying "I'm (fill in the blank) and I approve this message"!

pokes head and checks thread and slowly moves back to regular threads...

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Those who have taken authority as the truth, rather than truth as the authority. --Gerald Massey

McCain is just Bush lite. And if there is one person out there that really thinks that Bush did a good job, well, there is nothing I can tell you to get you to not drink the Kool-Aid.

I know there are people out there that are going to roast me on a spit for saying this, but, if McCain wins this country is going to be in really big trouble. I truly believe that the United States will never be the same again.

I don't think anyone should be roasted on a spit for an opinion. The ones who should be roasted are the ones who don't know enough to have an opinion, or are afraid to speak for what they believe in by voting. This is still a free country. I 'm just not sure if it will remain free if an anti-second amendment socialist gets voted in. I can't see trusting someone who followed an anti-white Rev. Wright for 20 years! Thank goodness for checks and balances, and no thanks for a self- serving bunch of liberals who are ingrained in our legislative body.

I laugh every time I hear someone say this. Early on, the Democratic party made this its mantra and instructed all its members to say it over and over......and like a bunch of lemmings running off the side of the cliff - because they couldn't think for themselves and just followed the pack and did like all the others - that's all Democrats have to say.

I'm not drinking the Democrat's kool-aid, nor am I drinking the Republican's kool-aid. I prefer to step back and look at the situation objectively - and do my own thinking and not blindly follow the party line and preach the party's mantra.

And as far as this election goes...I don't think either candidate is going to be able to change a damn thing.........because neither will be able to reign in big business (who really calls the shots in this country), and regardless of who wins, it's going to be life as usual in America.

So keep on banking on the notion that McCain is Bush-lite and Obama is actually gonna bring about change...and we'll see you four years later...and hear you repeat the same thing over and over again - the only difference being different candidates running for office.

Coming down to the wire Obama has a substantial lead with Big Mac solidly starting to close in, it seems according to some polls. I've been swayed from one side to the other and back a couple times. Not because I lack conviction, my convictions lie in the direction the country needs to go, not in any specific ideology. Both candidates have many pros and many cons. Most economists are comparing this time in history to the depression and how raising taxes during that time catapulted job loss and prolonged the dperession. This is undeniable fact. Many money wise people say we will head into a stagflation period, much like the seventies. I began to consider the seventies and eighties. The more I considered everything that happened back then , the more it seems like dejavu all over again. There are many , many paralells one can make between the seventies -eighties and the current climate, economic, geopolitical and otherwise. Today everything seems much the same exceot there is much more at stake. I see an Obama presidency that can quite possibly turn into one that will mirror the Carter years. Nothing good came out of the Carter years. He is a good man but he was a lousy president with bad ideas. Those of you who are old enough to consider those times and compare them to today may see what I am talking about. The country does not need another carter presidency. I am solidly in the McCain camp until I cast my vote. History may not repeat but it does Rhyme, according to Mark Twain. Cheers!

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Well, the time is nigh, and I hope the country gets the presidential thing over with so that we can get on with getting back to some sort of normalcy. I'm hearing that some thinkers believe that the terrorists are concentrating on Pakistan now, and Iraq & Iran may be pushed to the back burner. I don't look for a lot of good coming out of that area. I will predict that we will get Osama, but not when; and no idea whether that will deter the terrorism to a great degree. We will be fighting fundamentalist Muslims for years to come, unless we wake up to the fact that Christians and Jews don't need to give up our nation in order to coexist with them.