This election will be a rehash of 1972. An unpopular Republican wins a landslide over a delusional Marxist.

You’re convinced McCain can’t hold his own in a townhall free-form debate with Obama? McCain has certainly had some flubs and misstatements. However, it seems that whenever Obama speaks extemporaneously he has to deliver a prepared speech the next day to ‘clarify’, back-track, reverse all the non-sense he spewed the day before. The more Obama talks without a teleprompter and about issues of substance the more easily it is to see that he isn’t a great thinker and problem solver and his after the fact clarifications show he is indeed not a messiah come to resurrect our dead political system but just another politician.

I would disagree with you on institutionalized racism regarding Obama. Sure, there might be a few people who will never vote for an African American candidate but the over whelming majority of people who are against him dont like his left-liberalism on economic and foreign policy issues, his demagoguery on the Iraq war, or the fact that his resume is razor thin.His election was kickstarted by winning in one of the whitest states in the Union - no one was talking about racism, back then.

The economy is not in a recession but it is going to be a huge headache for McCain no matter what - hopefully it is not a bigger one when November comes. It is really uphill for McCain now - lets see how he performs. These townhall debates are actually better off for him. His townhall meetings in NH were what propelled him to the GOP nomination.

But this race is for Obama to lose - no doubt about it.

Unfortunately he can neither remember the facts of the case, (troop levels and the difference between Shias and Sunnis)or that camera equipment records what he says which then can be played back again.

Hopefully President Obama will be able to prove to the institutionally racist that they are purely and simply wrong. I grew up in a suburb of Atlanta and although Mayor Maynard Jackson was attacked because he was Black, he turned out to be a great mayor who served many terms and built MARTA and helped win the Olympics and so forth. I saw the resistance when it looked like he would win and I saw them all melt when he was magnanimous and smart.

I think the same scenario wil play out here.

Which eye? Left or right?

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A Rasmussen poll in May of this year showed that a four way race would go as follows: Obama earns 42% of the vote, McCain 38%, Bob Barr 6%, Ralph Nader 4% and 11% were undecided.

They say that generals prepare to fight the last war instead of the war at hand. McCain is an old war horse and he enjoys much of his support from his criticism against Bush’s debacle in Iraq. But, like Bush, he still argues that the war in Iraq was a just war worth the sacrifices of the American people.

Bob Barr has better conservative credentials than McCain and he will act as the spoiler in helping McCain and the GOP take the whipping they deserve.

McCain is a ” Tom Kean” type moderate Repub.New Jerseyans are fed up with Dems. In 2004 Kerry won 1.9 Million to Bush with 1.6 Million. McCain can close this gap