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[sodahead - Blogs] Obama Up by 10 Points as McCain Favorability Ratings Fall: Rather, recent strategic shifts may have hurt the Republican nominee, who now has higher negative ratings than his rival and is seen as mostly attacking his opponent rather than addressing the issues that voters care about.
[IndiBlitz.com] McCain faces uphill battle in key states as Obama surges ahead: Three other new surveys from Quinnipiac University, the Wall Street Journal, and WashingtonPost.com suggest McCain is significantly behind in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan and Colorado - a state that hasn't voted Democratic in 16 years and one where a loss could prove to be a fatal blow to McCain's White House hopes.
[Guillermo Vazquez] November Presents Opportunity for Unprecedented Victory: President Bush's approval ratings did not approximate 35 percent until the summer of 2006 but have since fallen into the teens - a record low. On top of public unrest over an increasingly unpopular war, the country is now in the midst of one of the worst economic panics since the Great Depression.
[The Flack] It's Over: Why Bill Ayers Won't Save John McCain: I would really like to understand why Israel will be worse off under an Obama Presidency than a McCain presidency, assuming that McCain will duplicate Bush's efforts, Prior to Bush's election, Israel was closer to peace than it is today and anti American sentiment is high enough to cause any politician who runs against the U.S to get elected.
[Suzie-Q] New Poll: Obama Leads McCain By 10 Points: It also indicated that voters trust Obama to guide them through these troubled times. Registered voters preferred him over McCain to handle the economy by a 53 percent to 37 percent margin.
[Asia News] Obama leads McCain by 10 points in new poll: Democrat Barack Obama, propelled forward by mounting economic concerns among Americans, now leads his Republican rival John McCain 53 per cent to 43 per cent, a new opinion poll showed today (October 13).
[Blogs Of The Day] Top Posts: Something interesting happened to Apple’s share price at about 3:45 p.m. Thursday, just as the bottom was falling [...]
[Inside Politics] CA poll shows Obama with 10-point lead: initiatives - Californians say the process is flawed and that there are too many initiatives on the ballot and that they’re too complicated. However, 38 percent say initiatives should be the guiding force in determining policy, while 32 percent choose the legislature and 20 percent prefer the governor.
[Osirisjournal2's Weblog - also visit http://osirisjournal.blogspot.com for older posts] Bush the Bubble boy bragged about he was saving the economy in ...: “And secondly, yesterday Hank Paulson announced new recommendations to strengthen oversight of the mortgage industry, and improve the way the credit ratings are determined for securities, and ensure proper risk management at financial institutions. In other words, we’ve got an active plan to help us get through this rough period.
[NONE SO BLIND - BLOG] It’s Over, Says Howard Wolfson: Just as President Bush’s failures in Iraq undermined his party’s historic advantage on national security issues, the financial calamity has shown the ruinous implications of the Republican mania for deregulation and slavish devotion to totally unfettered markets.
[The Moderate Voice] Two Gallup Polls Show McCain’s Huge Challenge In Battle Against Obama: unless McCain can convincingly and substantively convince Americans that Obama will create new problems and worsen existing ones and that he can offer specifics to tackle growing problems.
[Dick Stieglitz's Change Blog] RECOVERY FIRST, THEN CHANGE: They both lost points for failing to acknowledge the merits of alternative viewpoints, although Obama seems the more recalcitrant of the two. Unfortunately, they both appear to be dazed by the recent economic events and neither has offered a solid plan for recovery let alone change.
[talkleft] WSJ/NBC Poll: Obama/Biden Widen Lead: I think it is a testament to the tone deafness of the McCain campaign to ratchet up the character attacks as the economy continues to drive people's fears. It becomes evidently clearer why they are tanking in the polls and the notion that the character attacks will stop the McCain slide celebrates the clueless campaign that Schmidt and Davis are helping him run.
[Beall Financial Planning blog] The Crisis of Faith: Actually spending less than you receive in revenue for a few years to learn some fiscal discipline and operate the way the American household operates and show that we all play by the same rules would go a long way to restoring our faith in our institutions.
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