Here are the results of the latest poll:

• Obama, 53%.
• McCain, 42%.

Now these results are from a Gallup poll and this was part of an article on USA Today’s website.  I forgot one thing: this poll consisted of a whopping 2,472 people!  With that many people participating in the poll Obama has it in the bag.

Of course, that was some of my sarcasm.

This election has allegedly caused several people to vote for the first time or exercise their right to vote after failing to do so previously.  That is understandable when we look at all the dynamics involved – we are hurting financially, a woman is on the ticket for vice-president and a (half) black man is running for president.

It seems like nobody really knows how many people have voted up to this point – via early voting and absentee ballots – or who will go and vote tomorrow.  That being the case, can someone tell me how Gallup, or anyone else for that matter, can accurately conduct a poll?  Of course they can’t since they had less than 3,000 participants!

I’m kind of surprised USA Today would even put something like this on their site since the number of participants is so small.  ESPN holds polls with a better sampling and those polls ask important questions like who will win the NBA championship, who should start for the Dallas Cowboys at quarterback, etc.  Shouldn’t a reputable news outlet keep their mouths shut when they only have such a small percentage of voters to go by?

Sometimes I think polls are just put out their to be smoke screens or cause some people to relax.  If the wrong people read those polls, don’t you think they would figure they shouldn’t waste their time and would just stay at home instead of voting?  This way of thinking does happen and it could hurt either candidate.  Uh, the possibility of 2008′s version of hanging chads doesn’t give voters confidence either, but that is another story altogether.  

One of the most positive things to come out of this election is the serious push for people to get out their to register and vote.  It seems like some polls do nothing to help, but could ultimately have a negative impact on the number of people who actually vote.

How about one more day with no more polls?

Hasn’t this been the longest, most drawn out, downright negative presidential campaign ever?  If not, it sure feels that way.  Anyhoo, as I wait patiently (wink) for this election to come to pass, I start to think about what each candidate has said about each other.  For example, McCain’s camp has accused Obama of associating with terrorists just because he knows William Ayers.  On the other hand, Obama says that McCain supports cutting Social Security in half, which basically twisted McCain’s words about deregulating the health insurance market.  I bet you’re wondering where I’m going with this.  Well, in looking at the antics of both candidates during this campaign, my question to you is:

Just because something is factual, does it make it completely truthful?

Before answering, think about it first.  When McCain says Obama is palling around with terrorists who target their own country, he is referring to William Ayers, a Chicago professor of education, who, in the 1960s, was part of a radical antiwar group that set off pipe bombs in bathrooms in the U.S. Capitol and the Pentagon.  Keep in mind that when all of this was occurring, Obama was only a little boy!  While it is true that Obama knows Ayers, he and Ayers haven’t had an ongoing relationship in over three years – way before Obama’s run for presidency.

Of course this question can be applied to other situations -not just the current presidential campaign. So, without further ado, I turn the mike over to you as I would love you hear your thoughts on this topic.

At the debate, John McCain promised that, if elected, he would direct the government to buy up bad home mortgages, allowing strapped people to keep their property.  He called this plan the American Homeownership Resurgence Plan.  McCain said his plan would allow homeowners to basically refinance their home at the current value, with the financial institutions eating the loss.   Well, on Wednesday, he published documentation on how his plan would work and guess what?  McCain’s plan would actually be more generous to financial institutions and more costly for taxpayer!  When confronted with this obvious lie, McCain’s camp said that making financial institutions accept refinances at a loss was not “the intentions of the initiative.”  The way I see it, his camp is really telling Americans that they are really stupid if they honestly believe McCain would help them save their home!  According to McCain’s camp, it was just a simple mistake on McCain’s part to say this.

This from CNN:

“A national poll of people who watched the vice presidential debate Thursday night suggests that Democratic Sen. Joe Biden won, but also says Republican Gov. Sarah Palin exceeded expectations.

The CNN/Opinion Research Corp. said 51 percent of those polled thought Biden did the best job, while 36 percent thought Palin did the best job.

But respondents said the folksy Palin was more likable, scoring 54 percent to Biden’s 36 percent. Seventy percent said Biden was more of a typical politician.

Both candidates exceeded expectations — 84 percent of the people polled said Palin did a better job than they expected, while 64 percent said Biden also exceeded expectations.

How Palin would perform had been a major issue for the Alaska governor, who had some well-publicized fumbles during interviews with CBS’ Katie Couric leading up to the debate.”

I don’t think those results would shock anyone; those results were pretty evident after watching 10 minutes of the debate.  I must tell the truth, I only watched about 10 minutes because it was kind of boring to me.  I think it was mainly boring because we didn’t get what many people expected: Palin didn’t self-destruct before our eyes.

The McCain camp was trying to get two victories, knowing one out of two wouldn’t be half bad.  The first victory was to keep Palin from embarrassing herself and the Republican party.  It wasn’t a slam-dunk, but mission accomplished.  The second victory at stake, of course, was the debate itself.  She may not have won it, but she wasn’t blown out and that is good enough.  The baton has been passed back to McCain and he will take it from here.

Let your imagination run wild or look at the obvious issues surrounding both presidential hopefuls and you should be able to see that the vice-presidential candidates are more important that ever before.  Ask yourself, who do you honestly think is more prepared to run the country if something were to happen to the president.

Is is Palin or is it Biden?

This article was on Digg, but I wanted to share it with our readers here on 7DayBuzz as I feel it is extremely important that we stay in the know.  Please read as the content reveals what could possibly happen with this history-making election that is coming up in November.

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