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Politics : President Barack Obama -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: RetiredNow who wrote (40636)	10/27/2008 5:54:06 PM
From: puborectalis	Respond to of 149317

Obama grabs healthy lead in Monday's Gallup Poll By Yael T. Abouhalkah, Kansas City Star Editorial Page columnist Barack Obama is coasting to victory next week. That's what Monday's Gallup Poll shows, as Obama holds a commanding 52-42 percent lead over John McCain among all voters. Obama's margin, while smaller, is still quite encouraging among likely voters: 50-45 percent, or the same as in Sunday's poll. That's eight straight days for Obama to be at or above the victorious 50-percent figure in the likely-voter poll. For McCain, the news is monotonously bad. He continues to trail Obama in all of Gallup's national polls, as he has for weeks. And McCain still trails in swing states as well, such as Missouri. McCain's only hope is to stage miraculous, last-week rallies in states such as Missouri, Ohio, Michigan and Florida. That's simply looking more and more unlikely.

To: RetiredNow who wrote (40636)	10/27/2008 6:01:09 PM
From: Little Joe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

That will be the proof of the pudding. Little joe

To: RetiredNow who wrote (40636)	10/27/2008 8:30:12 PM
From: koan	Respond to of 149317

Wanted to repost this part: " This precedent would be unnerving enough for Democrats by itself, but the truth is that the circumstances Obama will confront are infinitely more daunting than those that Clinton faced at the outset of his administration. The recession that facilitated 42’s rise was shallow, and by the time he took office, it was already in the rearview mirror. And although the mounting deficit compelled Clinton to abandon much of the new spending he’d envisioned, the fiscal situation he inherited was nothing like the house of horrors awaiting Obama. Add to that the collapsing real-estate market, the credit crunch, a weak dollar, and rising unemployment, and Obama will find himself staring down the barrel of a downturn so steep and ugly that it could easily consume his whole first term. Oh, and did I forget to mention that the country is at war—in not one but two countries? All too aware that, should he win, these cascading crises will leave Obama with no time to gain his sea legs and terrifyingly little margin for error, he and his people, to a degree few realize, have been planning their transition from campaigning to governing for months with characteristic care and rigor. Like so much about Obama’s historic bid for the presidency, the first few days and weeks and months will be like nothing we have seen before—and all of it grounded in the insight that, mind-boggling as it might sound, winning was the easy part. These are Democrats they’ll be dealing with, after all.""