Although the election of Barack Obama seemed almost inevitable less than two months ago, it seems that John McCain 's candidacy is quietly gaining strength.
Is this a short term blip or are his chances of victory truly increasing? If fundraising totals are anything to gauge a campaign, McCain surely has momentum.
As well, some critical issues are starting to fall McCain's way...
"64% now favor going ahead with off-shore oil drilling as one way to help reduce natural gas and oil prices and 61% want Congress to return to Washington immediately to lift the ban on such drilling."
"Half of voters (51%) believe McCain is the best equipped of the two major presidential candidates to handle a crisis like Russia's ongoing invasion of neighboring Georgia."
"Half of voters still say US is winning the War on Terror."
With energy prices, the War on Terrorism and Russian aggression as some of the top issues in this Presidential election, McCain's positions on the issues seem to be right for the American voting public.
Can this momentum be maintained? And if so, what issues or strategies should McCain be exploring to get into the position to win the White House?
Those of us at UE want to know what you think...
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written by Robert Hornak , August 16, 2008
These issues will continue to be prevalent throughout this election and it will hurt Obama more and more as his inexperience becomes increasingly obvious.
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written by JayneJ , August 17, 2008
Obama's radicalism. He showed his true colors on abortion the other night speaking at a church with McCain. According to Mr. Obama, Jesus would have said, "kill the babies" - how nice!
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written by Raquel Okyay , August 18, 2008
Saturday night's forum was excellent! McCain will certainly get a bump. He was warm, friendly, interesting.
That's what Americans like, not "ah..umm...above my pay salary...errrr...ummm" McCain could not wait to tell the viewers that he would nominate strong conservative judges. As a Christian Conservative I was very pleased.
The last thing he should do at this point is choose a pro-abortion VP.
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written by alice Lemos , August 18, 2008
will pick a pro abortion VP. Obama could not even give an answer to "when does live begin" as a father and human being. He is certainly lacking as a person!
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written by Andrew Roman , August 18, 2008
Saturday night's forum was precisely what was needed in the Presidential campaign season. It served quite successfully as a beacon in a sea of hackneyed soundbites, tired video bites and overwhelming liberal bias.
Senator McCain, for the first time in my eyes, looked thoroughly Presidntial. He was unrehearsed, natural, in command of his answers and completely believable. Without a teleprompter in sight, and without having to speak in endless commas, it was quickly evident to me that this type of forum was made for McCain.
With each tick of the campaign clock, I truly believe that Barrack Obama, when placed in situations that do NOT involve a teleprompter or perfectly queued fainting women, will continue to be exposed for the political empty suit and intellectual light weight he is. Of course, that doesn't mean that he won't get millions and millions of votes.
He will.
But this forum on Saturday - surprisingly NOT getting the coverage from the mainstreams as one might expect (*cough*) - made me think, perhaps for the first time, that Senator McCain REALLY DOES have a chance to win this election.
Of course, I could be wrong. Knowing these things is above my pay grade.
Andy Roman
Brooklyn, NY
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written by Jay Golub , August 19, 2008
McCain looked very good, i agree.
As well, Obama's careful use of words hurt him in this forum. It's more than likely, now that the pander-fest Democratic Primary is over, that the road to the White House will be quite bumpy for Obama.
Throwaway lines can't be used to "correct" some of his earlier positions.
Also, give credit to McCain's staff - arguably for the first time in 2 years - for the ads that have tried to show the American people what a phony Sen. Obama really is and that most of his "support" comes from people who have NO IDEA what he actually stands for...
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written by Jay Golub , August 22, 2008
http://www.nypost.com/seven/08...125559.htm
If Obama doesn't have "getting out of Iraq" to run on, I'd be surprised if he can win the election. This is especially true if there is an agreement in place to have ALL troops out of Iraq by 2011 as the story details...
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written by Jay Golub , August 22, 2008
http://www.politico.com/news/s...12710.html
Politico's wrap-up of the VP talk is interesting.
They say it will be Romney, as I've been predicting for a few weeks now. It makes sense in many, many ways - eventhough i'm personally not a big fan.
On the Democratic side it seems that it's still up in the air.
The part about the Dem's that shocks me is the fact that Biden is even being considered for the post. I think he's a dangerous guy to put on the ticket because he's a loose cannon.
Remember this???...
"I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy," Biden said. "I mean, that's a storybook, man."
Yeah, man...
I mean, are they joking with us by putting his name out there? If he gets selected, then McCain will not only look "younger" with the new combined age of the Democratic ticket, but McCain will be able to run on his record on foreign policy issues going back a few decades - which will look good for McCain.
By having Biden around, all the work and support McCain gave to ending the cold war, the first gulf war, etc...will be back on the table for debate. Obama "wasn't there" then, so it's not an issue now. But if Biden opens his big mouth about Bush II or any of the other lines about Iraq that the Dem's love so much, he'll open up Obama to picking a VP candidate who was WRONG very often in the past - something that McCain can't say with Obama and a newbee VP selection.
Oh the Dem's just can't take the win quietly and go home....LOL
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