GA: Financial crisis big factor for local voters

[babylonsister]

http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/news/story/446096.html

Financial crisis big factor for local voters
BY LARRY GIERER - [email protected] --


It seems as if Barack Obama and John McCain can bank on one thing in this year's election and that is that voters will take stock in what they say about solving the country's financial crisis.

It could be the deciding factor.

Dorothy Wilborn of Columbus is proud to say she is a Democrat. At a time, she was a supporter of President Bush .

"I just couldn't see Al Gore as president," she says, smiling.

Wilborn, however, says she is returning home this presidential election. She's with Obama all the way.

"It's not a Democrat or Republican thing. It's not a black-white thing," says the 50-year-old medical records clerk. "I vote for the person I think is best ready to lead. I just think it's time for a big change in Washington. Some of the things I've heard McCain say, I think he might be a little removed from reality."

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Columbus nurse Kathy Lawson, 59, isn't in love with government or politicians.

"I wish more citizens would just stand up and say what they feel about what's going on in Washington," she said. "We're the ones being hurt."

She thinks the latest economic problems are likely to determine which candidate, not only for president, but also for other political offices, wins.

As for president, she says she's likely to go with Obama.

"McCain is just too much like Bush," she says. "I'm sick of that."

[progressivebydesign]

1. ironic that people of both parties are freaking about this bailout..

BUT.. more than half of Americans had no problem with spending a TRILLION dollars in Iraq. Seriously... I guess if Bush had said we're going into Iraq and it'll cost one TRillion dollars, then people would have been pissed off. But because it was a billion a month, it didn't freak them out.

I guess I'd rather see that money go to shore up our economy, than for the death and destruction we've been making payments on in Iraq.

[babylonsister]

2. Heard a comparison about this bailout this a.m. The bailout =

2x as much money as we've spent in Iraq, so far. :( Kind of put it in perspective for me.

[abumbyanyothername]

3. $10 billion a month. Isn't it? nt.

[Jackpine Radical]

4. It's not going to shore up the economy.

It's going to reimburse the decadent rich for what they lost by taking risks. Any benefits to anyone not on Wall Street will be few and short-lived.

Just remember what Andrew Mellon said, circa 1930: "Depressions are those times when wealth flows back to its natural owners."

[babylonsister]

5. I think the fact that people are paying attention, even if because of

fear, is a good thing. If this is going on in GA, it could be going on in every state.

[Jackpine Radical]

6. Yes, people are very aware.

The Republican line I keep hearing is that "all politicians are the same." I first get them to agree that deregulation that began in the Clinton years was the start of the problem. They readily agree, so I go on to point out that the votes to deregulate followed strict party lines (one Dem voting with the Republicans), and that the whole problem arose in the aftermath of Newt's Republican Revolution, mostly guided by Phil Gramm--who, I go on to mention, continues to advise McKeating.

[bigdarryl]

7. I can't tell by looking at the latest polling out there