Can someone please explain to me why American voters are stupid? When you have a sitting president with an approval rating of 33 percent, when you have a Republican Presidential candidate that no one wanted (he was written off two months into the primary season), a tanking economy, a war no one wants, and increasing world tensions, with a very strong Democratic candidate that should be running away with the election but isn't. Why? Are voters that stupid? Have voters been whipped into submission by a lack-luster media? I am terrified that Republicans are going to run away with this election thus dooming us to more failure, more wars, and an extreme hostile court system for decades to come.
Someone please tell me this is all my imagination and guarantee that Obama will be sitting in the White House come January as President...
grandma
· 1 year ago
I don't believe GW Bush was actually 'elected' in 2004.(considering what happened in Ohio)...we know he wasn't in 2000.
So maybe the people aren't that stupid....just that the GOP is corrupt and will steal and lie their way and the media enables them.
ClintonHater
· 1 year ago
Anyway you look at it he got the majority of the votes in '04. After 4 years of mismanagement he still go reelected. That means most of this country is retarded. Stop blaming the media, stop blaming the Dems, and even stop blaming the GOP. Blame the people. That's where the fault lies. Blame the people for being nit wits.
grandma
· 1 year ago
Maybe you're right...I'm just so angry right now I can't think straight..
Rove should be in prison and he's probably the one who may have picked our VP.
Obama just HAS to win
Stevious
· 1 year ago
I can't even begin to imagine the disaster if Obama doesn't win, but I'm seriously worried.
lucky hussein
· 1 year ago
just my opinion, but most people don't even vote. those that do, I think approx 30% don't care about anything you mentioned or just won't believe it from anyone who isn't 'one of them'. they only care about gay marriage, abortion, prayer in schools, etc. they want to become a theocracy. combine that with another 15% that would be very happy in a plutocracy. obama is not a guarantee imo, but still good odds:
8862 i wish i could guarantee you that. but it appears that Our Great Nation views its Presidential elections like it does Star Search. it appears that issues and policies are tedious. that our (the Democratic candidates) message is too time consuming. we have not learned to distill. truncate. to understand that low info. voters don't want to know. they want it made simple. "so and so will raise your taxes. i think you should keep your money." we try and explain, in detail the fine points in how we'd govern. they nominate "a bit bull with lipstick." we detail how mccain is reckless and how similar he is to bush and they say "elitist" and "celebrity." the unaffiliated voter aka the "independent" voter is that because s/he can not even reach a determination on their core principles. they vote for what they "like."
Rab
· 1 year ago
I have great faith in this election. Obama will win in a landslide, if not, kiss the country goodbye for good because another bush term will finish it off. Obama may not be able to pull us out even if he wins. Its our last best chance.
Voters being purged in wholesale fashion in seven states, so far. Please make no mistake about this. Its real and it's happening now.
canuck55
· 1 year ago
It is frustrating, what passes for reporting on television news these days. They are as much stenographers as reporters - merely parroting spin from one side or the other, without any apparent effort to ferret out the truth. This, of course, aids those who would lie (i.e. the Republicans). Sometimes there aren't two sides to a story, just the truth. Walter Cronkite must shake his head when he sees this stuff.
dad
· 1 year ago
McCain Clearly Gets an Election Bounce. You Mean Half of Americans Would Vote for a Guy Who Said He Doesn't Know Much About the Economy and So He Would Rely on Phil Gramm and Pick a VP with Economic Experience? So He Picks a VP With No Economic Experience and Phil Gramm Accuses the Majority of Struggling Americans of Whining About Their Poor Economic Situation. And Until the Convention, McCain Was Saying that the Fundamentals of the Economy are Just Fine and Dandy. This is Really Sick and Sad!
We’ve had Sarah Palin at the Republican National Convention setting a new low for foreign policy with her attempt to mock Barack Obama’s approach to international terrorists: “He’s worried that someone won’t read them their rights.”
I’m sorry, Ms. Palin, but out there in Alaska, between moose shoots, did you hear about Bagram, Abu Ghraib, renditions, waterboarding, Guantánamo and the rest?
John McCain knows what happens when those rights disappear. He described his Vietnamese nightmare the next night: “They worked me over harder than they ever had before. For a long time. And they broke me.”
A man remembers getting broken: that’s why McCain fought the use of torture by the Bush administration. His condoning of those words from his vice-presidential candidate is appalling.
grandma
· 1 year ago
Just caught a part of something on c-span book tv about Democrats always 're-acting' to the Right.
Given their record the last 8 yrs....they should be 're-acting' to the Dems...not vice versa.
BorninUSA
· 1 year ago
As I see it, Obama and Biden have all but given up. They are trying to play nice and that just DOES NOT WORK! I get really tired of Biden saying McCain is a very good friend of his and then we hear McCain and Palin saying all kind of terrible lies about Obama and Biden. That is not my definition of a good friend.
We only have a very short time left and Obama and Biden need to get serious or it is over. Can't they see that? They won't say anything about Palin no matter how she plays the msm and everyone else. If they want to say hands off Palin then go after McCain. Oh, I forgot, he is Biden's very best friend.
Both McCain and Palin have said and done so many things that we should be attacking them on. But we are such nice people we shy away from dragging them in the muck they seem so fond of dragging us through. The debates will all be one-sided again, just like Saddleback. Obama and Biden will be the laughing stock once again and the republicans will have a hey-day going over everything said. Already Obama agreed to go on O'Reilly and made a fool of; everything he said has been twisted and mis-quoted and used against him. When will he learn you can't play nice with these idiots. Or maybe we are the idiots.
dad
· 1 year ago
they have not given up. please, don't you.
grandma
· 1 year ago
I'm waiting this week...and hoping to hear some strong showing from Obama and Biden camps
I just want someone to stand up and scream BULLSHIT
dad
· 1 year ago
B U L L S H I T !
goodnight grandma. i'm going to bed. i hoped that helped.
grandma
· 1 year ago
LOL...thanks
g'nite
Stevious
· 1 year ago
CNN reporting a new poll showing Obama ahead by one point, 44% to 43% with 13% unsure. WTF?
Joneses
· 1 year ago
Well I'm going on vacation, I'll be back for further discussions.
Gore was ahead in the popular vote and he did win, but you guys know what happened. Again the GOP is pulling the same shit again but this time more so thru the corporate media as well as the newspapers.
The electoral proabably will change too, or not, unless the GOP have a mass way of cheating which I don't put it pass them, but anyways, in the long run, Obama will win. Cheers
unrepentant_expat
· 1 year ago
No, she didn't actually shoot that moose, but she did in fact order its execution by lethal injection in spite of eleventh hour pleas for a stay.
grandma
· 1 year ago
A caller on book tv c-span..saying McCain said he would never exploit his military service and now he is doing exactly that....and her husband is a veteran and that is one thing veterans just do not do.
Joneses
· 1 year ago
Before I go concerning the gallup poll:
They ask - 40% which were repugs 28% dems and rest independents, quite a fair poll you think.
bluevillage
· 1 year ago
Where did you find these figures? Is this the USA/Gallup poll or the Gallup Tracking? I checked both pages but couldn't find anything.
All Comments
Someone please tell me this is all my imagination and guarantee that Obama will be sitting in the White House come January as President...
So maybe the people aren't that stupid....just that the GOP is corrupt and will steal and lie their way and the media enables them.
Rove should be in prison and he's probably the one who may have picked our VP.
Obama just HAS to win
http://www.paddypower.com/bet?action=go_event&c...
i wish i could guarantee you that. but it appears that Our Great Nation views its Presidential elections like it does Star Search. it appears that issues and policies are tedious. that our (the Democratic candidates) message is too time consuming. we have not learned to distill. truncate. to understand that low info. voters don't want to know. they want it made simple. "so and so will raise your taxes. i think you should keep your money." we try and explain, in detail the fine points in how we'd govern. they nominate "a bit bull with lipstick." we detail how mccain is reckless and how similar he is to bush and they say "elitist" and "celebrity." the unaffiliated voter aka the "independent" voter is that because s/he can not even reach a determination on their core principles. they vote for what they "like."
Voters being purged in wholesale fashion in seven states, so far. Please make no mistake about this. Its real and it's happening now.
Sometimes there aren't two sides to a story, just the truth.
Walter Cronkite must shake his head when he sees this stuff.
You Mean Half of Americans Would Vote for a Guy Who Said He Doesn't Know Much About the Economy and So He Would Rely on Phil Gramm and Pick a VP with Economic Experience? So He Picks a VP With No Economic Experience and Phil Gramm Accuses the Majority of Struggling Americans of Whining About Their Poor Economic Situation. And Until the Convention, McCain Was Saying that the Fundamentals of the Economy are Just Fine and Dandy. This is Really Sick and Sad!
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/08/opinion/08coh...
We’ve had Sarah Palin at the Republican National Convention setting a new low for foreign policy with her attempt to mock Barack Obama’s approach to international terrorists: “He’s worried that someone won’t read them their rights.”
I’m sorry, Ms. Palin, but out there in Alaska, between moose shoots, did you hear about Bagram, Abu Ghraib, renditions, waterboarding, Guantánamo and the rest?
John McCain knows what happens when those rights disappear. He described his Vietnamese nightmare the next night: “They worked me over harder than they ever had before. For a long time. And they broke me.”
A man remembers getting broken: that’s why McCain fought the use of torture by the Bush administration. His condoning of those words from his vice-presidential candidate is appalling.
Given their record the last 8 yrs....they should be 're-acting' to the Dems...not vice versa.
We only have a very short time left and Obama and Biden need to get serious or it is over. Can't they see that? They won't say anything about Palin no matter how she plays the msm and everyone else. If they want to say hands off Palin then go after McCain. Oh, I forgot, he is Biden's very best friend.
Both McCain and Palin have said and done so many things that we should be attacking them on. But we are such nice people we shy away from dragging them in the muck they seem so fond of dragging us through. The debates will all be one-sided again, just like Saddleback. Obama and Biden will be the laughing stock once again and the republicans will have a hey-day going over everything said. Already Obama agreed to go on O'Reilly and made a fool of; everything he said has been twisted and mis-quoted and used against him. When will he learn you can't play nice with these idiots. Or maybe we are the idiots.
I just want someone to stand up and scream BULLSHIT
goodnight grandma. i'm going to bed.
i hoped that helped.
g'nite
Gore was ahead in the popular vote and he did win, but you guys know what happened. Again the GOP is pulling the same shit again but this time more so thru the corporate media as well as the newspapers.
The electoral proabably will change too, or not, unless the GOP have a mass way of cheating which I don't put it pass them, but anyways, in the long run, Obama will win. Cheers
They ask - 40% which were repugs
28% dems and rest independents, quite a fair poll you think.