WE go into the debates tonight, with new numbers for electoral votes: Obama has gained 14 electoral estimates, since yesterday, and McCain has lost 10, since yesterday….according to CNN’s map….BO only needs 6 more and he has got it in the bag! http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/calculator/

This just seems like a really good place for this…Move over Palin Here is Winking Betty Boop…Enjoy..http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFPVCfQ7uxM Betty Boop- Betty for President-1932 I knew I had seen those winks before!!!

WSJ/NBC Poll: Independent Voters Move Toward Obama OCTOBER 7, 2008Independent Voters Move Toward Obama New Poll Indicates That Democrat Ticket Is Benefiting From Financial CrisisBy LAURA MECKLER Independent voters are starting to swing behind Barack Obama and Joe Biden, who continue to benefit from economic turmoil and the public response to their debate performances, according to a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll. The survey, conducted over the weekend, was full of good news for the Democratic presidential ticket. Sen. Obama increased his advantage over Republican rival John McCain when voters were asked which candidate they prefer to handle economic issues. At the same time, a growing percentage of voters said the economy is their top concern heading into the election. New Poll: Data Drilldown Review the demographic breakdown of voters backing each candidate. View Interactive Full Poll Results | Poll Archive Real Time Econ: Dour Voters Blame Everyone Wash Wire: Democrats Win Debates Voters were much more likely to say they felt good about Sen. Obama’s handling of the current economic crisis than they were to say the same of Sen. McCain. About one in three voters said they were “more reassured” by Sen. Obama versus just 25% who said that about Sen. McCain. Even worse, 38% of poll participants reported being “less reassured” by Sen. McCain’s approach. Sens. Obama and Biden have a six-point lead, with 49% of registered voters saying they would vote for them, compared with 43% for Sen. McCain and Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. That is up from a two-point advantage in the previous Journal poll, two weeks ago, and parallels other recent national polls. The survey has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.8 percentage points. “McCain has absorbed a very tough one-two punch — the financial crisis, then the debates,” said Neil Newhouse, a Republican pollster who conducts the survey with Democratic pollster Peter D. Hart. “These two things have clearly led to a momentum shift in this campaign where Obama has started to slowly stretch his lead.” Independent voters are among the most important voting blocs because many of them would consider voting for either candidate. In the Journal/NBC poll two weeks ago, independents favored Sen. McCain by 13 points. The new survey finds Sen. Obama leading by four points. Obama Widens Lead in Latest Poll 2:01 WSJ deputy Washington bureau chief Jacob Schlesinger talks about the latest WSJ/NBC poll which shows an Obama-Biden ticket leading McCain-Palin by a six point margin, 49% to 43%. (Oct. 6) Still, with a month to go, the topsy-turvy presidential campaign could shift again. While voters said by a 50%-to-29% margin that they thought Sens. Obama and Biden did “a better job in the debates,” two presidential debates remain. Starting with the town-hall session Tuesday evening in Nashville, Tenn., Sen. McCain has new opportunities to make a stronger impression — and Sen. Obama has a fresh chance to make a mistake. Cautionary notes remain for Sen. Obama. The poll suggests that the first African-American to win a major-party nomination could be vulnerable to race-based attacks tying him to unpopular black figures such as the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, his former pastor, and Al Sharpton, an outspoken and controversial figure. Thirty-five percent of all voters — and 40% of white voters — said those connections bother them. This is absent any candidate or party pressing hard on those themes, which Republicans have hinted they may start to raise more aggressively in the campaign’s closing days. Reuters U.S. Democratic presidential nominee Senator Barack Obama speaks to the press about the state of the economy in Asheville, North Carolina. A focus group conducted last week in St. Louis by Mr. Hart and sponsored by the Annenberg Public Policy Center underscored the point. Several participants said they knew people who wouldn’t support Sen. Obama because he is black. “There’s a whole lot more racism than we know, but they just keep quiet,” said Bridget Cromer, 56 years old, a Democrat from Chesterfield, Mo. That sentiment was shared by nine of 12 voters on the panel. The poll, taken just after Congress passed the financial rescue package Friday, showed that voters were divided about the bailout. While grass-roots anger helped lead to the bill’s defeat in the House earlier in the week, the survey, taken after a week of slumping financial markets, showed that voters narrowly supported the package: 40% said they approved; 38% disapproved. A separate question showed more acceptance of the deal: 54% said that while the bill “was not the best approach,” it was “necessary.” Eleven percent said the bill was “the right approach” outright, and 29% said the “problem should have been left to the private sector.” Congress’s handling of the package seems to have damaged its already tarnished standing. Voters registered record-low approval numbers for Congress and showed vast disapproval for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.). The biggest political loser from the crisis may be Sen. McCain. Voters who said it personally affected them favored Sen. Obama by 15 percentage points. Sen. Obama improved his standing with voters across the board. Men, for instance, typically favor Republicans, and sided with President George W. Bush by 11 percentage points in 2004. In the Journal poll two weeks ago, Sen. McCain led among male voters by five points. In this poll, the two candidates were tied among men.

It’s most unfortunate that Tom Brokaw will be the moderator at tonight’s debate. Other than that, I look forward to it.

Wow, I just watched a few minutes of The View this morning (I have been boycotting it). Now I know why Elizabeth H. is peeved. She never gets to finish a single sentence or thought. Barbara Walters talked over her, Whoopi Goldberg shouted her down and Sherri went ballistic on her. Joy interrupted her to drop in a fairly lame prepared zinger. That show is so skewed pro-Obama that it has to be suffering in the ratings.

I discovered this post on a stock message board..and wanted to share this with you all. I have no clue what the original source is, but felt the opinions being expressed, by those who apparently attended a Palin rally, should be shared. Here goes: Responses to Vice-Fuhrer Candidate Palin’s Rally Remarks. Way to go Sarah… “I feel almost sorry for the decent Republicans out there who want what is best for America, but this woman is single-handedly making a mockery of every Republican, and well, all of America.” “In the latest instance of inflammatory outbursts at McCain-Palin rallies, a crowd member screamed “treason!” during an event on Tuesday after Sarah Palin accused Barack Obama of criticizing U.S. troop. Again…Palin said nothing …this was caught on video….” ” i am a middle aged, white, independent, christian voter - and palin’s hate-filled speech in florida not only fills me with sadness - it makes me scared for our country. and again - i don’t think you have to be christian to be right or good or anything else. but if you claim to be christian - it’s simple. you try to follow the teachings of christ. allowing someone to call for murder, when you are in charge of a rally - and then going on to encourage more hatred just isn’t doing that. ” “The candidate is trying to create the most hatred, the most divisiveness, and the illusion that we are all different. SHe calls herself a CHristian but she allows this hatred - and even tries to rile it up. I was raised by real Christians - I don’t think anybody has to be CHristian, or Jewish, or anything else. But this woman is not Christian and doesn’t have any right to call herself one. Mike Huckabee ran his campaign with honor and integrity - and if he attacked, he did it with honesty and humor. He is a real Christian - this woman is an “End-of-Days extremist” who doesn’t even have the compassion to call down someone who supports her - who is calling for assasination and murder.” “I am a black man, who has voted Republican in the last two Presidential elections and I’m watching the way the GOP bas is turning. This isn’t the ideals that most of the GOP have stood for. These aren’t the ideals people like JC Watts represented Oklahoma to defend. This junta of far right, over conservative loudmouths don’t represent me or my family. And these Palin rallies aren’t America first as much as collections of very scared racists. There is NO WAY I will vote with these people. Putting racists in power is like asking for a return of Jim Crow and frankly I see no purpose in sticking my own neck in the noose.”

Hey, the time-stamp issue’s been resolved…the site now has Michigan in the Eastern time zone.