"Economic turmoil toughened the task; Campaign says financial crisis changed game" by Sasha Issenberg, Globe Staff | November 5, 2008
PHOENIX - The bailout vote may have presented McCain's last opportunity to separate himself from his party's political fortunes and to take an assertive stand against the "special interests" he attacked regularly in speeches, some advisers concluded. Yet McCain, a strong believer in the credibility of American institutions, was unwilling to stand in the way of a bailout he thought was necessary to avoid even greater economic troubles.
You know, if he HAD come out against it (an impossibility; otherwise, his money masters wouldn't have placed him there), I WOULD HAVE VOTED FOR HIM!
But he never changed the dynamic over economic issues. Exit polls reported that 60 percent of voters said yesterday that the state of the economy was their greatest concern. Of them, 60 percent preferred Obama. --more--"
"Obama focused intently, spent heavily to woo Fla." by Lisa Wangsness, Globe Staff | November 5, 2008
TAMPA - McCain, from the start, had fewer possibilities. Saddled with an enormously unpopular Republican incumbent, a sour economy and an electorate deeply worried about the country's place in the world, his best option in the last months of the race appeared to be to win states such as New Hampshire, where he emerged victorious as the underdog candidate in two successive Republican primaries, or Pennsylvania, where working-class whites had overwhelmingly backed Hillary Clinton's presidency in the primary election.
McCain had built a core of supporters in Florida, but as election day neared, economic troubles made many voters wary of McCain. Julie Smith, disabled from a car accident eight years ago, said she once voted Republican, but yesterday cast her ballot for Obama. She worried McCain would continue the policies of the Bush administration, which she said had cut off her Medicaid.
They got war looters to feed, damn ya!
"Other people have it worse, they've lost their homes," she said, dissolving into tears in the parking lot of the south Tampa church where she cast her vote just before the polls closed last night. "This country is sick. It needs somebody like Obama. I think he really cares."
We shall see. If he defies his money masters, then he does.
Matt Rodriguez, 22, a customer service representative for Publix supermarket in Tampa, didn't bother voting in 2004, but this year, he made sure to get to the polls and to cast a vote for Obama. "I've got a lot of friends in the military over there [in Iraq] who want to come back home," he said. --more--"
EXCUSE ME? Even though the "surge"worked, blah, blah, blah, blah?
How come the war-promoting MSM doesn't have articles about those troops?
