IT’S GOING TO BE CLOSE: The election is going to be closer than most people think. I say this because I believe almost all the undecideds are going to go for McCain and there are more of them this election.
Few if any of the undecideds are Black. The polls show that they already know who they are voting for. Also, Whites for Obama are proud to proclaim their lack of bias. I believe that a large percentage of those who say they are undecided really just don’t want to admit they are not voting for Obama for fear of being thought a racist.
This is not to say that all or even most of them are motivated by race, the so-called Bradley Effect, named for the former Black candidate for the California governorship who lost even though the polls showed him easily winning. After all, there are plenty of good reasons not to vote for Obama. But, they still don’t want pollsters to think that race is the reason.
THE “CHANGE” WE’LL GET: For some clear incite to what an Obama presidency will mean, see Dan Henninger’s column in today’s WSJ. “The real ‘change’” we’re voting on, he says, “is not simply a break from the economic policies ‘of the past eight years,’ but with American economic philosophy of the past 200 years.”
What the Democrats want to do is move us in the direction of Western Europe. This ties in with my blog of Oct. 21, “Freedom & Equality.” The European model heavily favors equality over freedom. This means high taxation, massive redistribution of income, cradle to grave welfarism and a high level of government meddling in the economy to achieve social objectives.
It all adds up to chronic, high unemployment and low productivity rates, resulting in an average European standard of living 30% below the US. If Obama is elected, together with a liberal Democrat Congress, that’s where we are headed.
THE GOVERNMENT WE DESERVE: Tocqueville said, “In a democracy the people get the government they deserve.” What kind of government do people deserve who vote for someone because he promises to give them money confiscated from others through the use the government’s police power?
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I agree that the election will be much closer than people expect.
Remember 2+ weeks ago when the mainstreamers were basically saying it was all buittoned-down for Obama? I think that may have been their undoing.
The remaining tiny portion of the viewing public they had vanished. Finally those folks realized, without a doubt that the media was not "reporting," but rather "fixing."
I recall in the 200 election that 2 days prior to the actual election day all of the talking heads were proclaiming that while Bush would have a slight edge in actual votes, Gore had the electoral college wrapped up. The cry from the left was "tough luck! Get over it. It's the stystem we have and it's the system you have to master to win."
two days later Gore had the edge of actual votes and Bush won the college.
The whining from the left was incredible. The same people gloating two days prior over their "winning" field goal with only seconds on the clock didn't count on the other team running it back for a touchdown.
Suddenly "the system" was fauulty, needed to be changed and was rigged.
Ever since it has been a vendetta on the part of the extreme left to do whatever they have to to win. Even to the point of ignoring every red herring around one candidate's neck, while pointing out the slightest blemish of the other.
I hate to see how Barry reacts when he is no longer the darling of the media.
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