McCain falls in Ohio as economy steals focus

I don't know about anyone else, but it seems to me, that everytime a democrat is president, middle class does better. everytime republican is in office, the rich get richer. we gave the republican president 7 1/2 years already. unfortunately, it's been disappointing. this year, I'm giving democrats a try. if they don't do a better job, I can always switch back. also, I don't believe mccain or palin really care about middle class. they seem more like they just want to be president and vp to add to their resume. they don't seem sincere.

For me it is a simple decision. I want someone smart who can bring people together. Obama was in the top 10% of his class at Harvard and McCain was in the bottom 10% of his class at the Naval Academy. Plus McCain likes to get in peoples faces and swear at them, while Obama keeps his cool and builds teams. McCain also will now do or say most anything to win. I used to like McCain's straight talk, which now seems like a thing of the past, as all he and Palin do are character attacks on Obama because they are out of touch with middle America on the issues.

It is amazing to see that Democrats escape the blame for job losses in states like Ohio and Michigan. Both of these states are headed up by tax and spend Democrat Governors. Ohio has the 7th highest tax rates in the nation and is ranked 46th out of the 50 states for tax burden on businesses and individuals. When you see the taxes go up it isn't really a stretch to see a corresponding decrease in manufacturing jobs.

I love to listen to music and free concerts are great, but I get my political information from credible sources. The Boss knows music, but I am afraid he is out of touch with how the economy works and how Democrats actually stifle economic growth and jobs, Most Dem's point to Clinton's creation of jobs, but I think Newt had more to do with that than Clinton did. Remember Clinton had to go along with welfare reform even though he opposed it at first. In the final analysis it has worked out. Don't go to pop stars and celebs for political advice or else you put your state and country at risk of economic collapse.

You know the Democrats keep screaming that the Repblicans are to blame for the damage to the economy, however, all the facts led straight back to the Democrats. I guess the voting public has really reached the point to where the truth does not matter, but, being a Rock Star does. If the Democrats win this election my economic advisors have informed me to switch to gold rather than stocks and bonds as America will be going into a real deep depression as the Democrats only know how to spend money, not create jobs.

The Democrats aren't blaming Republicans -- the American electorate is. Futures market this morning, plunged Stock markets, dropping Inter-banking lending, frozen Credit lending to businesses, halted Unemployment, rising Bank failures, increasing ....it all happened under a Republican Administration -- worshiping the God of "free markets & profits " while refusing to regulate, oversee, verify and lead.

[.. the worst market conditions in my life time, the economy has never seen this since the 1929 Great Depression ..] Warren Buffet

... it all happened under a Democratic-controlled Senate and House.

Repubs blaming Dems? ...how's that campaign tactic working with the latest polls? trust the American electorate to know the truth - 6 of 8 Bush years was Republican controlled

Engaged a pro-Obama over the weekend. Why you want Obama pres? He will restore economy, he said. How? says I. He will take care of middle class. But, can that be? If the poor and wanting, especially house losers due to mort failures put B.H. in office, he will be beholden to them and middle class will have to continue to pay them off. In short, time after time, my democrat friend could not logically justify any of his assertions for B.H. as president. He consistently fell back on how bad Bush is, but when asked time and again why is Bush bad, he relied on going into the Iraq war. He believes there was no reason to remove Saddam, no terrorists and no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. When I mentioned what about Russian involvement and removal to another country of those weapons, he said he didn't believe there were ever any in Iraq, even gass. In short, it appears to me that he and others blindly "believe" in B.H. and want him as president no matter what. Sounds to me like faith-based voting is going to put B.H. in office and that's going to without a doubt lead our country to confirmed Third World Status. The world will be happy and democrats will be happy. Wealthy democratics will be in charge to continue suppression of the less wealthy. Michael Moore and the likes of him will be our oppressors. The press, like msnbc, will have to heap as much praise on B.H. as the hate they have shown for Bush over the past years in order to give as much of an allusion of B.H.'s success as the have to create the allusion of Bush's failures.

Hopefully we will all be done with the REPUBLICAN NIGHTMARE OF THE LAST 8 YRS!!!

AH Gene, who do you think has been running the country into the ground for their own benefit these last 8 yrs, the cheney bush nightmare. WE WERE ALL DOING WELL UNDER CLINTON....republicans in general have been horrible stewards of the economy, but hey, bush made himself and his friends super rich.

Obama is already trying to criminally prosecute those who speak out against him. Look into his "truth squads." What do you think he will do when he has real power? He want to be another Hugo Chavez. If he wins, we will be flooded with propaganda about our dear leader, and those who don't agree with him will be arrested.

If people are worried about the economy the last person they should want in charge is Barack Obama. The only hope is to repudiate Old-Chicago Style, Insider Washington, Pork-Barrel, Old Hair-Plug Biden-Style politics. That kind of shifting the responsibility onto the taxpayers for our problems is the LAST kind of government we need. Ohio and the rest of the nation needs to turn to a FISCAL HAWK. A reformer who has the kind of guts, and track-record, it takes to confront Washington Politics-As-Usual. Would that be O'Same-a? Of course not. He's Soft. McCain-Palin is our only hope to go to war in Washington against this no-accountability, no oversight, no responsibility kind of governing. O'Same-a will be A DISASTER FOR THIS COUNTRY. MORE TAXES WILL DRIVE US STRAIGHT INTO A DEPRESSION.

It's finally over. There's really only one issue left. Will John McCain accept defeat like a man or squander the small amount of integrity he may have left through lies and smears?