For the first time, there is a clear front-runner (Obama)

The Globe and Mail ^ | September 28, 2008 | John Ibbitson

[TheWasteLand]

Montreal maroons are the worst :)

Nice find on the poster, BTW.

[TheRedSoxWinThePennant]

uh huh! Heard this before and we all know how it has ended in the past.

[dforest]

Yeah, I will give my opinion. McCain has botched it. Instead of coming out, taking the free market approach and opposing this bailout bill, he has caved to the George Bush=democrat plan to socialize our ecomomy. This was a chance to step up, act Presidential, and broker a better way using non taxpayer funded solutions. His no earmarks stuff pales in comparison. He could have tied the dems and Bush as working in unison on this, and he has blown his opportunity to shine.

He has blown it. Gawd, it angers me.

[Thumper1960]

...And that could happen in a possible bloody civil war or revolution against them.

If that is to be, let them make the most of it. I, for one, am ready if it is their desire.

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

Well, any poll can be wrong, as we have seen in the Rasmussen poll for the Dem primary in Vermont, which had Obama up 24 points.

And of course the real vote probabilities change as time goes on. You saw that the Ohio Sec. of State now allows voters to register and vote on the same day, so the college students who don't live in Ohio could possibly add hundreds of thousands of votes to Obama there, if they show up.

The polls seem to show a drift towards Obama now, and that is consistent with the economic news. Yes I know the Dems really share the blame, and McC is not Bush, but you know how it works in a Presidential election. Voters blame the current POTUS's party.

Sometimes the polls mean something, and IMO right now they do. Tomorrow is October, and (again IMO) McC will have to get very lucky to win now.

I could be wrong. Maybe we should bet a bottle of wine, but Palin Syrah is sold out:

[DoughtyOne]

I would like to think folks were able to see through Obama, but you never know. You could be right.

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

>>I would like to think folks were able to see through Obama<<

.... and Clinton (both), Carter, Bush, McCain ....

Me too. Seems to me that Nixon, GHW Bush, and GW Bush gave their Dems great political gifts. It’s as if Reagan was the only one who cared whether Dems took the white house. McC is pulling all the surprises he can come up with, but that may not be enough. The way I see it, some voters (and not just the far left) are so unhappy with Bush that voting for Obama is their way of getting back at Bush.

If O. wins let’s hope you are right about Republicans making congressional gains in 2010. If Obama wins he may be swallowing a poison pill (the economy, which likely will be bad for a while).

[DoughtyOne]

As much as I’d like to think otherwise, this nation is on a death spiral. If we don’t pull up soon, we’re headed right into the ground.

We have got to quit settling for (R)s instead of (C)s. Otherwise, just let the Dems have it. That’s all an (R) is these days, a (D) that is too embarrassed to admit it.