The big question is whether or not the increased support from Obama will translate at the polls. No doubt Obama has rallied a lot of younger people in support who are coming out in masses. Will they actually make it out to the polls though? History says they don’t.

Meanwhile, McCain’s base supporters have proven to be experts at making it out to the polls. We’ll see.

15 people. I seriously think I could have attracted 15 people if I were running for President and stopped in COMO.

Those numbers, without the background, seem very telling on who the state is supporting. But then if you give the rest of the information, it puts it more in perspective. Obama had public rally’s, McCain had invitation only events. As for what happened in Columbia, he only announced he was stopping in Columbia on Monday morning, just a few short hours before he landed.

And therein lies my problem with the media coverage of this entire race. I am an undecided who wants actual facts, not skewed facts towards one candidate or another, yet I’ve not found one news source giving that kind of unbiased information.

Big public rally’s make sense, to a point. But how many people do you know that were there that 1. Couldn’t see him and 2. Couldn’t even hear him. Ask the folks that went to hear John McCain speak and I bet they tell you they really felt a connection with him because it was much more intimate. It’s hard to connect with someone on a personal level when you are speaking to the masses.

I don’t understand how anyone can look to the media for information in making a voting decision. Even the debates don’t give you much info. However, both the candidates websites clearly lay out their platforms, ideolgy, and what they plan to do once in office. I know they can always switch it up once in office, but media coverage really hasn’t broken it down beyond the level of conservative vs liberal.

Many seem to act like this above others is the election of a lifetime. I would laugh but whats been at stake and Americans relutance to react on anything but emotion takes the humor out of it. I now hear people say they want candidates to identify the issues as they see them, what they want to do to solve those problems, and most importantly what has really been lacking is how they intend to bring about those changes. I know the extremly gullible will say thats been done, but I say those who really want to be informed would also want to hear specifics as to how the candidate would finance these programs and how it may effect other programs currently in effect. I have to wonder how many of these informed people who want this also watched Ross Perots infamercial when he ran. The only candidate that .did a thorough job of just that so voters could see not just a clear veiw of the issues but an approach to change that made sense and seemed “do-able”. If the missinformed masses do swarm the polls in favor of Obama and he just pulls out of Iraq. He will see that the soldiers who answered their countrys call on 9/11 and gave their lives to that call gave all for nothing to an their ungratefull homeland. Weather or not you agree to our going to Iraq to begin with (and I wonder how you felt about it 3 weeks after 9/11) our integrity, having any much needed influence in the middle east, as well as our future standing in the world community mandates that our commitments be honored.I do however realize that such concepts are foriegn to many voters today I only hope that we dont fall to far before people wake up and realize that change comes from having every choice availble (a third party) and looking honestly at what those choices will mean. God bless America cause we are determined to destroy, in our pompous “American” way a country that used to have shades of greatness, that used to have many more reasons to profess ourselves to be a “Free” nation.