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To: Road Walker who wrote (432278)	11/3/2008 10:48:39 AM
From: tejek	2 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572941

These people are hilarious. They now have rewritten history to suggest that they have been all sweetness and light the past 8 years. ROTFLMAO! O'REILLY MUST NOT WATCH HIS OWN SHOW.... John Cole noted yesterday, "I am watching CBS Sunday Morning, and they are interviewing O'Reilly, and he said 'The meanness of our discourse upsets me.' I almost dropped my damned coffee." I thought John might have been kidding. He wasn't. "[T]he meanness of the discourse, in general, bothers me," O'Reilly said. "Okay, now some people say, 'Well, you were mean to Barney Frank and you were mean to this one or that one.' Sometimes I go overboard, okay? But that's not my theme." O'Reilly thinks he has a theme? The man gets paid to tell people to "shut up." And those are his good days. On his bad days, he has on-air meltdowns and shuts off the microphones on those who don't play by his rules. O'Reilly's demagoguery is at least partially responsible for the "meanness of the discourse." Those who make a mess don't get to whine about afterwards with a straight face.

To: Road Walker who wrote (432278)	11/3/2008 10:50:58 AM
From: tejek	1 Recommendation Respond to of 1572941

WITH JUST ONE DAY TO GO.... On the eve of Election Day, four national pollsters have released their final surveys of the season. If there's good news for the McCain campaign in these final results, it's hiding well. USA Today/Gallup: Obama leads McCain by 11, 53% to 42%, among likely voters. One of the key results that jumped out at me had to do with taxes: 48% of voters believe Obama will raise their taxes, but 50% believe McCain will do the same. Susan Page, USA Today's Washington bureau chief, added, "One more historic tidbit from the survey: Obama's favorable rating is 62% -- the highest that any presidential candidate has registered in Gallup's final pre-election polls going back to 1992." Pew Research Center: The final Pew poll gives Obama a seven-point lead, 49% to 42%, but then goes a step further and extrapolates from the remaining undecideds to arrive at a prediction: 52% to 46%. (Eric Kleefeld notes that this methodology got the result just right four years ago.) CBS News: Obama leads McCain by 13, 54% to 41%. The report added, "More than nine in 10 of each candidate's voters now say they have made up their minds about who to vote for and are not likely to change. Just seven percent of Obama voters and 8 percent of McCain voters say they still might change their minds." NBC News/Wall Street Journal: Obama leads McCain by eight, 51% to 43%. This tidbit struck me as interesting: "Voters are just as likely to identify with Sen. Obama's background and values as they are with Sen. McCain's, with the Democrat having made up substantial ground in this regard."