"The race for Florida’s Electoral College votes is closer now than it was just a few days ago. Consistent with a pattern found in national polls and in several other state polls, John McCain has lost ground in the Sunshine State, but support for Barack Obama hasn’t increased. The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey finds McCain on top 48% to 47%. The previous poll, conducted Sunday night, showed McCain on top 51% to 46%." This dip may be explained by two things: the candidate's despicable performances this week, or Sarah Silverman
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Sarah's awesome. Now if we could only get her to make up a whitty ditty to go with the "Vote for Obama go see Granmama" slogan, this election would be a lock!
I want to see the polls that come out after McCain's pathetic attempt at a White House photo-op this week.
The GOP is in shambles and fighting with each other like wild dogs.
We are witnessing the end of an era and the neocon co-opted GOP is going down in flames. Let's hope that they don't take the rest of us any further with them.
John McCain is Popeye the Sailor Man. He "Yams what he yams." Nyuk, nyuk!
"His brisket is beyond…. It's beyond."
Love her!
The real issue is not how well Obama or McCain might do state-by-state, but that we shouldn't have battleground states and spectator states in the first place. Every vote in every state should be politically relevant in a presidential election. And, every vote should be equal. We should have a national popular vote for President in which the White House goes to the candidate who gets the most popular votes in all 50 states.
The National Popular Vote bill would guarantee the Presidency to the candidate who receives the most popular votes in all 50 states (and DC). The bill would take effect only when enacted, in identical form, by states possessing a majority of the electoral vote — that is, enough electoral votes to elect a President (270 of 538). When the bill comes into effect, all the electoral votes from those states would be awarded to the presidential candidate who receives the most popular votes in all 50 states (and DC).
Because of state-by-state enacted rules for winner-take-all awarding of their electoral votes, recent candidates with limited funds have concentrated their attention on a handful of closely divided "battleground" states. In 2004 two-thirds of the visits and money were focused in just six states; 88% on 9 states, and 99% of the money went to just 16 states. Two-thirds of the states and people have been merely spectators to the presidential election.
Another shortcoming of the current system is that a candidate can win the Presidency without winning the most popular votes nationwide.
The National Popular Vote bill has passed 21 state legislative chambers, including one house in Arkansas, Colorado, Maine, North Carolina, and Washington, and both houses in California, Hawaii, Illinois, New Jersey, Maryland, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Vermont. The bill has been enacted by Hawaii, Illinois, New Jersey, and Maryland. These four states possess 50 electoral votes– 19% of the 270 necessary to bring the law into effect.
See http://www.NationalPopularVote.com