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To: i-node who wrote (401468)	7/24/2008 6:54:30 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 1575947

During the primaries 55% of the under 30 crowd said they would vote in the general, now that's down to 30% . same old same old

To: i-node who wrote (401468)	7/24/2008 7:25:26 PM
From: bentway	Respond to of 1575947

Dave, forget the polls (even though they also favor Obama), check the trade bets: realclearpolitics.com Intrade Real Time Quotes Obama 64.9 McCain 32.6 It's OVER dude. You might as well stay home with Ten on election day.

To: i-node who wrote (401468)	7/24/2008 9:42:05 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575947

German Press Agog Over Obama By Brian Knowlton thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com If Senator John McCain’s campaign aides are envious of all the press coverage from the American media corps traveling with his rival, Senator Barack Obama, on his overseas trip, they’d be clenching their teeth even more if they were reading the German press today. The level of coverage of the Obama visit has been gushing, to say the least. The Die Zeit Web site is live blogging the visit every few minutes, and even has this dialogue between Senator Obama and Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier: DPA [the German news agency] reports that Steinmeier greeted Obama with the words: ‘How’s it going?’ The daily Suddeutsche goes further, reporting that Obama then replied, ‘Hello.’ Die Zeit remarks with some surprise that Americans seem to be paying less attention to the visit than Germans are. It notes that a full 80 percent of respondents to an online poll by N-TV agreed that the media hubbub was “too much.” Yet most of them also acknowledged that they were watching it all. There was a similar breathless nature to this item from a live blog at the Web site of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, the Frankfurt daily: Foreign Ministry, Blue Hall. The second photo-op with Steinmeier lasted 15 seconds. It would have been even shorter had it not been for an American who approached Obama as he exited, to thrust his (the senator’s) book under his nose and ask him to sign it. ‘Did he say anything?’ asked one photographer in the scrum. When no one replied, he asked, ‘Did he breathe?’ And the Web site of the Berliner Morgenpost noted that ahead of his much-awaited speech in the German capital, Obama — who in Israel had said he was so tired he could fall asleep on his feet — nonetheless spent time in the fitness center of the Hotel Ritz Carlton. He was wearing a T-shirt, black sweat pants and white gym shoes.