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Showing posts with label america votes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label america votes. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Obama Ahead by 14% - CBS/NYT Poll Suggests
Double Digit Advantage
Obama 53% vs. McCain 39%
Hours before the Final
U.S. Presidential Debate,
Obama is 14% ahead of McCain
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama is entering the third and final presidential debate Wednesday with a wide lead over Republican rival John McCain nationally, a new CBS News/New York Times poll shows.
The Obama-Biden ticket now leads the McCain-Palin ticket 53 percent to 39 percent among likely voters, a 14-point margin. One week ago, prior to the Town Hall debate that uncommitted voters saw as a win for Obama, that margin was just three points.
Among independents who are likely voters - a group that has swung back and forth between McCain and Obama over the course of the campaign - the Democratic ticket now leads by 18 points. McCain led among independents last week.
McCain's campaign strategy may be hurting hurt him: Twenty-one percent of voters say their opinion of the Republican has changed for the worse in the last few weeks. The top two reasons cited for the change of heart are McCain's attacks on Obama and his choice of Sarah Palin as running mate....
McCain's favorable rating has fallen four points from last week, to 36 percent, and is now lower than his 41 percent unfavorable rating. Obama, by contrast, is now viewed favorably by half of registered voters and unfavorably by just 32 percent....
But with more than four out of five of each candidate’s supporters now saying their minds are made up, the poll suggests that McCain faces serious challenges as he looks to close the gap on his Democratic rival in the final three weeks of the campaign.
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Saturday, July 19, 2008
Secular America Votes
Too Secular to Win?
"I do not trust him (Obama) he is a Muslim ..."An average woman interviewed on the CNN declared.
Many million Americans will not vote for Obama for the same reason, which is riduculous since Obama is NOT a Muslim. But he seems like a Muslim, enough. He could be a Muslim. His father may have been a Muslim. How ridiculous is that?
Could anyone have said:
I do not trust him ... he is a Jew ... or he is a Catholic?
No. Not today. That would be suicidal.
25 years ago ... Ronald Reagan, while a president, was visiting a school in Oregon, Orlando ... at the end of his speech to students he said something like: "Go home and read you bible".
The media took him for a roller coaster ride.
America had been discovering and affirming its secular voice in the previous decades ...
So, what happened?
Why isn't America so secular anymore?
It is a different world today ... that's for sure ... America had grown more religious? Possibly. The world had grown a lot more religious. I am pretty sure that the Arab-Israeli conflict had something to do with it.
Israel is a Modern Theocracy. Secular Zionists decided to use the Religious sentiments to make their enterprise possible. That came with a price. The reaction to that was an Islamist resistance movement which decidedly used the same sentiment ... religion ... a different religion ... Is it really that different ...?
Jewish lobbies also used the right-wing Christian sentiments in the US. Resurrection of Jesus required building of the Jewish Temple ... and Israel was the pre-cursor for that. So they thought ... or rather, so they thought "The Book" said ...
It is the Armageddon with flying bloody colors ... a self-fulfilling prophecy ... which exists in Islamic, Jewish and Christian religious thought.
Satellite TV came ... and with it the Religious Industry in the US and elsewhere flourished. With Religious Celebreties ... movie-star-like Charisma ... they own their channels or programs ... and they own their private planes ... and raise millions of dollars in donations ... they play on fear and frustration ... and they spread hatred and suspicion.
We have those modern "Breachers" here too in Egypt and the region ... the Movie-Star, Talk-Show religious figures ...
Obama commented on that once ... and McCain used that slip of the tongue ...
You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton administration, and the Bush administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not.
And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy toward people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.
Obama today has to say ... "I pray to Jesus Christ, our Savior ... " to stand a winning chance surely with recommendations from his campaign advisors. Obama, has to put up a show of Christian faith before the voters, to stand a chance. When did people stop thinking that a person's religion is their own business?
Discrimpination has always existed. Only against different people.
What is the world coming to?
Where is Secular America?
Can Obama, if he ever wins, try to help change that? Help pick our world from these trends of rising religious-mania ... starting with the US?
But will he ever win?
My 13-year-old daughter thought that America was not ready for a Woman president (Hillary) or a Black president (Obama) ... although she is a democract at heart (genetic disorder she inheritted from me) ...
Do we have to catch the measles to get immunity?
Can't we just get the vaccination?
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