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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (54162)	11/2/2008 6:50:29 PM
From: Carolyn	4 Recommendations Respond to of 224717

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To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (54162)	11/2/2008 8:04:49 PM
From: Ann Corrigan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 224717

9% undecided Ken: IBD Poll: McCain Only 2 Points Behind Sunday, November 2, 2008 4:46 PM John McCain is trailing presidential rival Barack Obama by just two points heading into Election Day, according to a new tracking poll released Sunday by Investors Business Daily. Overall, McCain trails Obama by 2.1 percentage points — 46.7 percent to 44.6 with 8.7 percent not sure — in the tracking poll released Sunday by IBD and its polling partner, the TechnoMetrica Institute of Policy and Politics (TIPP). The latest numbers continue a tightening trend that shows McCain steadily gaining while Obama’s support around 47 percent of respondents is holding firm. Independents who'd been leaning to Obama shifted to McCain to leave that key group a toss-up, according to the IBD pollsters. McCain also pulled even in the Midwest, and moved back strongly into the lead with men. He is padding his gains among Protestants and Catholics, and is favored for the first time by high school graduates. The newest poll shows that McCain has made steady gains in the West, up from 37 percent of respondents to 44 percent. He still leads Obama in the South, 50 percent to 45, and he is tied in the Midwest, 45 to 45, with 12 percent still not sure. In terms of age group, McCain still is virtually tied with Obama with respondents in the categories between 25 years of age and 64. Some 9 percent are still undecided. He leads among voters 65 and over by two points, 45 to 43. It is only among the young respondents, those 18 to 24, that Obama has a commanding lead. But that group's reliability on Election Day varies tremendously. Among party faithful, the poll shows that McCain is holding onto Republicans by an overwhelming margin – he has 89 percent locked up – and is winning now among self-described independents, 45 to 43 percent. McCain also has a 15-point lead over Obama among voters who earn at least $75,000 a year, and now holds a 54 percent to 40 percent edge among male voters, up from a 4-point lead just several weeks ago. The poll has a margin of error of +/-3.4 percent. According to IBD, its polling partner TIPP was the most accurate pollster during the 2004 election season.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (54162)	11/2/2008 8:15:46 PM
From: Ann Corrigan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 224717

Leads in battleground states strikingly slim By Karen E. Crummy, The Denver Post 11/01/2008 11:49:30 PM MDT Republican John McCain continues to trail Democrat Barack Obama in five of eight battleground states that the Arizona senator likely must hold on to to win the presidency, according to new polls. However, the divide separating the candidates is narrow, and there are still a significant number of voters in these states — anywhere from 4 percent to 9 percent — who are undecided. McCain leads Obama in North Carolina, Ohio and Missouri, while Obama is ahead of McCain in Colorado, Florida, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Virginia. All but Pennsylvania are states President Bush won twice. But Coker added a caveat: Nearly all the states have a higher than usual number of undecided voters, and anywhere from 81 percent to 96 percent of them are white. "There is the potential for white voters to break heavily for McCain, just based on history," said Coker. Both McCain and Obama have blitzed the battleground states in the final days of the election. Tom Kise, spokesman for McCain, said that the polls are narrowing as voters realize being president "takes leadership and integrity — neither of which Obama has." "As undecided voters begin to focus on what Obama says as opposed to how he says it," Kise said, "they are realizing that he is not prepared to be president." The Obama campaign could not be reached for comment Saturday. On Friday, campaign manager David Plouffe said in a national conference call that he believed undecided voters in battleground states would not align toward either candidate en masse and instead divide more evenly. In many of these battleground states, McCain is combatting circumstances out of his control, such as the economy and an unpopular president. Ryan Erwin, a Republican consultant in Nevada, said that given the option, state voters are more likely to vote for the GOP candidate. "The question is, has McCain given them enough of a reason?" Erwin asked. "Obama seems to have the lead, and it's going to take an incredibly strong turnout effort for McCain to win."

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (54162)	11/2/2008 8:41:31 PM
From: lorne	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224717

Political Punch Power, pop, and probings from ABC News Senior National Correspondent Jake Tapper Republicans to Try Burning Obama on Coal November 02, 2008 3:23 PM blogs.abcnews.com “I’m calling on behalf of John McCain and the RNC to tell you that coal jobs, which are so important to our community are in jeopardy,” says the robocall being made to voters in Pennsylvania and Ohio, among other coal-producing states. Continues the robocall: “Listen to Barack Obama's plans to bankrupt the coal industry.” The call then plays this quote from Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill.: "So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can; it's just that it will bankrupt them because they're going to be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that's being emitted.” You can listen to the robocall HERE. The quote comes from a January 2008 interview with the San Francisco Chronicle; the Obama campaign says the quote is being “wildly” taken out of context, that in the full interview Obama praises coal and says that the idea of eliminating coal is “an illusion.” “The line they pulled out is in the context of cap and trade program,” says an Obama spokesperson. “The point Obama is making is that we need to transition from coal burning power plants built with old technology to plants built with advanced technologies -- and that is exactly the action that will be incentivized under a cap and trade program.” Is it being taken unfairly out of context? You be the judge. Here’s the entirety of Obama’s remarks: “I voted against the Clear Skies Bill. In fact, I was the deciding vote -- despite the fact that I’m a coal state and that half my state thought that I had thoroughly betrayed them. Because I think clean air is critical and global warming is critical. “But this notion of no coal, I think, is an illusion. Because the fact of the matter is, is that right now we are getting a lot of our energy from coal. And China is building a coal-powered plant once a week. So what we have to do then is figure out how can we use coal without emitting greenhouse gases and carbon. And how can we sequester that carbon and capture it. If we can’t, then we’re gonna still be working on alternatives. “But ... let me sort of describe my overall policy. What I’ve said is that we would put a cap and trade policy in place that is as aggressive if not more aggressive than anyone out there. I was the first call for 100 percent auction on the cap and trade system. Which means that every unit of carbon or greenhouse gases that was emitted would be charged to the polluter. That will create a market in which whatever technologies are out there that are being presented, whatever power plants are being built, they would have to meet the rigors of that market and the ratcheted-down caps that are imposed every year. “So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can. It’s just that it will bankrupt them because they’re going to be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that’s being emitted. That will also generate billions of dollars that we can invest in solar, wind, biodiesel, and other alternative energy approaches. The only thing that I’ve said with respect to coal -- I haven’t been some coal booster. What I have said is that for us to take coal off the table as an ideological matter, as opposed to saying if technology allows us to use coal in a clean way, we should pursue it, that I think is the right approach. The same with respect to nuclear. Right now, we don’t know how to store nuclear waste wisely and we don’t know how to deal with some of the safety issues that remain. And so it’s wildly expensive to pursue nuclear energy. But I tell you what, if we could figure out how to store it safely, then I think most of us would say that might be a pretty good deal. “The point is, if we set rigorous standards for the allowable emissions, then we can allow the market to determine and technology and entrepreneurs to pursue, what the best approach is to take, as opposed to us saying at the outset, here are the winners that we’re picking and maybe we pick wrong and maybe we pick right.”