Something's really wrong with this.

[darius15]

A Democrat is winning the election?
The Republicans haven't been able to swiftboat our candidate?
Republicans don't want anything to do with their guy?
The media is actually saying our candidate won the debates?
Our black candidate is winning states in the South?
I'm not complaining about how dumb some states are? (wait-yeah I am. Some things never change:P)

I have to admit guys, I was NEVER this pumped up in the 2004 election. I don't recall any single poll that showed Kerry with a lead like this over Chimpy. Nor do I recall Kerry having double digit leads in Pennsylvania, Minnesota, or Wisconsin. No offense to Senator Kerry- he was a great candidate, but Obama is just THAT much better.

[rufus dog]

1. One thing

The media originally tried to pull the same bullshit, it was the instant polling that got them to quickly change their tune. The media is still a very large problem. This time the electorate isn't falling for it and are believing their lying eyes.

[morillon]

3. The instant polling is a HUGE deal this year.

I wish they'd had this before!

[begin_within]

2. And the Republicans are running against themselves.

[CrispyQ]

4. And Jim Cramer says: "Obama is a recession. McCain is a depression."

Many on Wall St. think Obama can deal with the economic crisis better than McCain. What talks louder in America than money?

Wall Street: Fall 2009
by Jim Cramer

http://nymag.com/news/businessfinance/bottomline/51007/

snip...

And while any president will be an improvement over the current one, there is a growing belief on Wall Street that Barack Obama has the capacity to lead us out of this wilderness while John McCain does not. I’ll go a step further: Obama is a recession. McCain is a depression.

Wall Street usually favors Republicans when it comes to managing the economy, but this time around the financial community is skeptical. John McCain has done everything he can to avoid talking about the economy, lest he be tarred with the brush of George Bush’s ineptitude. And when McCain has attempted to step into the fray, he’s been far from reassuring. First, he insisted that the fundamentals of the economy were sound; then he turned around and told us it was the end of the economic world as we know it, and suspended his campaign to scramble back to Washington and save the day on the bailout bill—only to have little visible effect. For all his talk of being a maverick, McCain looks an awful lot like President Bush on the credit crisis: He doesn’t seem to understand Wall Street or Main Street, he is dogmatically anti-regulation, and his economic team is a joke.

[PetrusMonsFormicarum]

5. Don't fergit them internet tube thingies

The internet has been around for a while now, but I think this is the first major election where the net has become a (recognized) significant news source. Additionally, the last eight years' rise of "news sources" like Fox News has undercut the trust in which folks used to hold their chosen media (the collapse of broadcast news outlets into 'news-tainment', or newspapers into pure advertising venues hasn't helped). I can't stomach Fox News, so I don't watch it, but I also take everything else I watch and read with a grain of salt (yep, even sites like Truthout.org, Common Dreams, etc.).

[JSK]

6. Thank Bush

He's a UNITER after all!

:toast: