Comment: Not to race to a finish here but if you REALLY want to go to bed tonight but want to be confident you know who won, I can safely say Obama will pull it off. With Ohio & Penn in his corner, it is nearly impossible for this to go McCain’s direction.
Comment #2: Dems will not get 60 votes in the Senate.
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Senator Barack Obama’s ailing grandmother has passed away. Recently the Senator stopped campaigning to visit Madelyn Dunham who helped raise him. Dunham was 85 years old.
While Zrby’s three day average of polls still has Obama leading McCain the pollster says the latest individual poll has some downright shocking news.
“Is McCain making a move? The three-day average holds steady, but McCain outpolled Obama today, 48% to 47%. He is beginning to cut into Obama’s lead among independents, is now leading among blue collar voters, has strengthened his lead among investors and among men, and is walloping Obama among NASCAR voters. Joe the Plumber may get his license after all. “Obama’s lead among women declined, and it looks like it is occurring because McCain is solidifying the support of conservative women, which is something we saw last time McCain picked up in the polls. If McCain has a good day tomorrow, we will eliminate Obama’s good day three days ago, and we could really see some tightening in this rolling average. But for now, hold on.”
The key here is to see if this one set of data is a fluke or a sign that things are actually changing in the race. With only two more full days before election day the only real judge will undoubtedly be the final vote total.
The Washington Times reports that this summer during his European tour Senator Obama paid $700,000 for staging and lighting to a company in Berlin for his much hyped but largely disfavored in America speech that took place in Germany.
As this news hits Obama today pushed back against calls by John McCain & Sarah Palin that his tax policy was tantamount to socialism by saying:
John McCain and Sarah Palin they call this socialistic,” Obama continued. “You know I don’t know when, when they decided they wanted to make a virtue out of selfishness.”
Word from Politico is that McCain will appear tomorrow night on Saturday Night Live. Host is Dem actor Ben Affleck who is supposedly skewering MSNBC host Keith Olbermann in a skit.
In the last week Obama has gone from promising to lower taxes and defining middle class as those making less than $250,000 then, $200,000 then Joe Biden saying $150,000 now Bill Richardson says $120,000.