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Has anyone been paying attention to the bogus polls that are intentionally adding in blacks to the tally of surveved voters to apparently increase Obama's percentage in said polls? 1.) Here's one such poll: From The ABC News/Washington Post poll: "This ABC News/Washington Post poll was conducted by telephone Sept. 27-29, 2008, among a randon sample of 1,271 adults, including an oversample of African Americans weighted to their correct share of the national population, for a total of 165 black respondents." There is no need to increase the number of blacks into this poll or any poll, because over time...

CBS Poll: Presidential Race Tightens Democrat Barack Obama Retaining Small Lead Over McCain More Than Half Of Americans Polled Disapprove Of Bailout NEW YORK (CBS) ― In a sign that the race for president has returned to about where it was before the first presidential debate, the Obama-Biden ticket leads the McCain-Palin ticket 47 percent to 43 percent among registered voters in a new CBS News poll. The Obama-Biden ticket led by a wider margin, nine percentage points, in a CBS News poll released last Wednesday, before Joe Biden and Sarah Palin faced off in the vice presidential debate. Obama-Biden...

DENVER -- And you thought we were popular before. A new Denver Post poll shows a dead heat in the race for the White House with 44 percent of Colorado voters going both for Sen. John McCain and Sen. Barak Obama. Obama fell one percentage point from an August poll while McCain jumped two percent. But perhaps the biggest number in the Sept. 29-Oct. 1 survey of 625 registered voters is that 8 percent remain uncommitted. "It's great to be wanted, " said Lisa Acree, one of the desired undecideds. "Well, I'm really hoping I know something in a couple...

Fox News/Rasmussen Reports polling this week shows that Barack Obama has made significant gains in Colorado, Missouri and Florida. In Ohio and Virginia, there was little change from the week before. All five of these states were won by George W. Bush and the Republicans four years ago. Obama now holds at least a modest edge in four of the five states and is essentially even in Ohio.

A new poll by Suffolk University shows Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) with a double-digit lead over GOP nominee John McCain in Virginia. Obama draws 51 percent to McCain's 39 percent, although the poll's sample skews heavily toward the Democrats, which may be inflating Obama's margin. "Barack Obama has built a coalition of suburban DC area progressives from the north, African-American voters from the south, and young voters statewide," said David Paleologos, director of the Political Research Center at Suffolk University in Boston. "That broad-based support suggests a 44-year Republican run in the Old Dominion State, dating back to Lyndon Johnson's...

A lot has happened today in the world of the Charlotte Observer, first you have the paper endorsing Republican Pat McCrory for North Carolina Governor and now Hugh McColl, the former CEO of Bank of America has a letter in today’s paper chanting his “respect” for John McCain but Barack Obama is “whom we need now.” Hugh McColl starts his letter to the Charlotte Observer this way: In 49 years of living in Charlotte, I’ve seldom offered my opinion in writing and never submitted a piece such as this. The condition of our country compels me. He goes on to...

Likely voters nationwide: Obama: 53 percent McCain: 45 percent A new national poll suggests Barack Obama is widening his edge over John McCain in the race for the White House. The CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll out Monday afternoon suggests that the country's financial crisis, record low approval ratings for President Bush, and a drop in the public's perception of Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin all appear to be contributing factors in Obama’s gains among voters....

FEC Queries McCain Campaign on 'Excessive Contributions' By Matthew Mosk While the Republican Party is pushing the Federal Election Commission to investigate the possibility that Democrat Barack Obama collected excessive contributions, its own candidate is facing scrutiny on the same subject.

In Slate Magazine, William Saletan says the polls are so stacked against John McCain, there’s no possibility he can win. The race is over. Oh, wait. That was eight years ago, and he was talking about George W. Bush. Since Labor Day, the media have released about 20 polls on the presidential race. Three show a dead heat, one shows George W. Bush leading by a single percentage point, and the rest show Al Gore leading by one to 10 points. In the latest polls, Gore leads by an average of five points. It's fashionable at this stage to caution...

At a press conference held Monday at the Oakland County Courthouse, questions were posed to local Republicans on whether or not Republican presidential candidate John McCain and his vice presidential running mate Sarah Palin would be back in Michigan. WWJ Newsradio 950's Mike Campbell reports any Oakland County Republican that was asked replied with "yes," but pressed for any specifics, including plans or dates for a visit -- they didn't have much to say. Many local Republicans are saying they will not concede from Michigan - just because McCain pulled out of the state. Oakland County Executive L. Books Patterson...

McCain's at an Albequerque event happening as I type; his prepared remarks have him taking his most direct jabs at Obama yet: This is the agenda I have set before my fellow citizens. And the same standards of clarity and candor must now be applied to my opponent. Even at this late hour in the campaign, there are essential things we don't know about Senator Obama or the record that he brings to this campaign. We have all heard what he has said, but it is less clear what he has done or what he will do. What Senator Obama...

The centerpiece of Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama’s health care platform is the creation of a national health plan and a new agency to help individuals purchase private health plans. “We now face an opportunity – and an obligation – to turn the page on the failed politics of yesterday’s health care debates,” Obama said in a speech posted on his Web site. “My plan begins by covering every American.” Obama’s health care platform also includes keen oversight of the health insurance industry, prescription drug reforms, cost-saving strategies, increased medical research and disease prevention. Thomas Gustafson, PhD, senior policy...

Talk about a smoking gun ... As a presidential candidate, Barack Obama must demonstrate executive experience, but he remains strangely silent about his eight years (1994-2002) as a director of the Joyce Foundation, a billion dollar tax-exempt organization. He has one obvious reason: during his time as director, Joyce Foundation spent millions creating and supporting anti-gun organizations. There is another, less known, reason. During Obama’s tenure, the Joyce Foundation board planned and implemented a program targeting the Supreme Court. The work began five years into Obama’s directorship, when the Foundation had experience in turning its millions into anti-gun “grassroots” organizations,...

It's official. Rasmussen is snorting heroine. Raised his weighting +.3 Dem, -.3 Rep yesterday. Why?

Barack Obama & Raila Odinga You Tube Video THIS VIDEO IS DEVASTATING AND COULD CAUSE OBAMA TO LOSE THE ELECTION. PLEASE FORWARD http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=S8QcpdUtxNQ&feature=related Shows Obama & Odinga together in Kenya

Mark Joe Farah of formerly reliable WorldNetDaily.Com as an Obama supporter. His new book None of the Above: Why 2008 is the year to cast the ultimate protest vote" is not just same-old, it will be damaging to whatever conservatism that could be retained in the Presidency, Supreme Court, and Congress after January 2009. Pelosi and Obama and future Supreme Court appointee Hillary should be very thankful to the bipolar Farah. I was very disappointed to see Joe Farah on C-Span discussing his book with long time hero Gordon Liddy. His totally anti-intellectual, unreasonable position of disuading people from voting...

More than 100 former American ambassadors are endorsing John McCain and Sarah Palin for president and vice president. To be announced by the McCain campaign later this week, the endorsements counter Barack Obama’s claims that McCain is inflexible when it comes to diplomacy and negotiations with other countries, Newsmax has learned. Obama has specifically said that in contrast to McCain, he would sit down with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and other world dictators to negotiate, without preconditions. “Senator Obama does not have sufficient leadership experience, nor has he been tested in difficult times,” said Mark W. Erwin, a Democrat and...

In Wisconsin's blue-collar Paper Valley, the Democrats are banking on an outpouring of volunteers while the Republicans are left with fear itself. GREEN BAY, Wis. -- Mid-morning Saturday, the Republican headquarters here in the fiercely contested northeast corner of Wisconsin reflected the somnolent air of the half-empty indoor mall in which it was located. A few Republican stalwarts wandered by to pick up McCain-Palin lawn signs and other GOP campaign paraphernalia. A signboard on the wall announced the target of "878 Doors" on which to knock, but it was evident that most of the canvassing -- the lifeblood of grass-roots...

The Republican national committee (RNC) said Mr Obama had accepted contributions from foreigners and taken more than the $2,300 maximum from donors who give in small amounts. RNC officials want the Federal Election Commission to examine Mr Obama's records in detail to determine the extent of the problem. An Obama campaign spokesman denied the charges. Bill Burton said: "Our campaign has shattered fund-raising records with donations from more than 2.5 million Americans. We have gone above and beyond the transparency requirement." Democrats are viewing the Republican claim as the latest example of a smear campaign against Mr Obama. On Saturday,...

"Ba-rack O-ba-ma "Ba-a-rack O-ba-a-ma "Ba-ra-ack Obama-a ... " (Repeat until coronation.) And Laura and I had a good laugh about it, until it occurred to me that, in politics as in pop, the tune is more important than the words. A guy can run for president with all the right lyrics - on the war, the economy, the social issues - but what matters is whether people respond to the underlying music: not what he's saying, but how he's saying it. At the time, I was reflecting on Mitt Romney: The song looked great on paper, but when he stuck...

The Associated Press article on Sarah Palin’s comments about William Ayers is a Category 7 jaw-dropper. Apparently, now even criticizing Obama’s associations with white violent radicals is racist: Analysis: Palin’s words carry racial tinge. This really is the election in which the mainstream media have thrown all their claims to impartiality right into the sewer. It’s sickening to see.

Branding his opponent as "erratic in a crisis," Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., is preempting plans by Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., to portray him as having sinister connections to controversial Chicagoans. Obama officials call it political jujitsu - turning the attacks back on the attacker. McCain officials had said early in the weekend that they plan to begin advertising after Tuesday’s debate that will tie Obama to convicted money launderer Tony Rezko and former Weathermen radical William Ayers. But Obama isn't waiting to respond. His campaign is going up Monday on national cable stations with a scathing ad saying: “Three quarters...

Virginia Republicans are warning that John McCain's prospects for winning a state that has been in the GOP column in every presidential election since 1964 could be in jeopardy. With Barack Obama treating the Old Dominion like a battleground state and reliable polls showing a margin-of-error race there, some are cautioning that McCain is making a critical mistake by allowing the Democratic nominee to outpace him in terms of visits and resources committed.... Together, McCain and his running mate, Sarah Palin, have held just one campaign event in Virginia. And the campaign has taken its ads off the pricey Washington,...

COSTA MESA, Calif. -- Sarah Palin is settling into the role that John McCain's campaign had planned for her all along. Enough with the lipstick. This pit bull wears a pencil skirt and high heels. The Republican vice presidential nominee, recharged after last week's debate, is animating the party's conservative wing with harsh attacks against Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama. She's courting high-dollar donors for campaign cash. And she is looking to wrestle away women and independent voters from the Democrats. "The heels are on, the gloves are off," she declares, a threat delivered with a smile. With that message,...

Face it; if another candidate as inexperienced as Obama suggested that he was considering a run for the U.S. presidency, he would be laughed off the stage. Why is Obama the exception? Why are not Americans rolling in hilarious laughter at his presumption? It is not because he is a Democrat or radical liberal or part of the corrupt Chicago political machine. It is because he is black; however, color (or race or religion) is not a qualification or disqualification for any office. The thought that such an “empty suit” could even become a U.S. Senator is itself appalling and...

In case you haven't noticed, Senator, you are losing the argument to be the next president of the United States. And you are doing it all on your own. Recent trends and polls show that Americans are shedding their discomfort with Barack Obama, and women and independents are breaking in his direction. For your part, you are doing nothing to persuade people to do otherwise. Time to shed the over-handling and carefulness and go at it.

PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) - Due to an overwhelming demand for tickets, a rally scheduled for Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin in Pensacola has been moved. The campaign announced Saturday that the Alaska governor will speak Tuesday at the Pensacola Civic Center, a 10,000 seat arena. The rally had previously been scheduled at the smaller Pensacola Aviation Center. Additional tickets are being printed and will be distributed to area campaign offices. All tickets previously issued will be valid at the new location.

JERUSALEM – Did Sen. Barack Obama misrepresent his relationship with a pro-Palestinian activist and harsh critic of Israel who has been described as a friend of the senator? During a campaign stop yesterday at a Boca Raton, Fla., synagogue, Obama was asked about his association with Columbia University professor Rashid Khalidi, who has made repeated statements supportive of Palestinian terrorism. Obama replied: "You mentioned Rashid Khalidi, who's a professor at Columbia. I do know him, because I taught at the University of Chicago. And he is Palestinian. And I do know him, and I have had conversations. He is not...

Middle East scholar Daniel Pipes will discuss the close relationship between Barack Obama and Rashid Khalidi - Palestinian supporter and the professor at Columbia University - on a special broadcast of "Hannity's America" which will air tomorrow night at 9:00 PM eastern time. Khalidi is a former professor at the University of Illinois and was a close friend of Barack Obama and his wife Michelle. At a farewell dinner for Khalidi before he took the Columbia job, Obama 's speech was filled with glowing praise for his friend, including references to the many meals they had shared. He thanked Khalidi...

CARSON, Calif. An enthusiastic crowd estimated between 15,000 and 20,000 jammed the Home Depot tennis stadium to rally for Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin in Carson Saturday. Palin praised running mate John McCain and criticized Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama while spelling out the goals of a McCain-Palin administration during her speech before an overflow crowd. Home Depot Center officials estimated as many as 20,000 people, jammed into the 8,000-seat capacity facility and an overflow area, attended the rally. Saturday's event was Palin's first visit to Southern California since McCain named her as his running mate Aug. 29. The...

JERUSALEM – The board of a nonprofit organization on which Sen. Barack Obama served as a paid director alongside a confessed domestic terrorist granted funding to a controversial Arab group that mourns the establishment of Israel as a "catastrophe" and supports intense immigration reform, including providing drivers licenses and education to illegal aliens. The co-founder of the Arab group in question, Columbia University professor Rashid Khalidi, also has held a fundraiser for Obama. Khalidi is a harsh critic of Israel, has made statements supportive of Palestinian terror and reportedly has worked on behalf of the Palestine Liberation Organization while it...

The man suing Sen. Barack Obama and the Democratic National Committee for proof of Obama's American citizenship is outraged that his own party – rather than just providing the birth certificate he seeks – would step in to silence him by filing a motion to dismiss his lawsuit. As WND reported, prominent Pennsylvania Democrat and attorney Philip J. Berg filed suit in U.S. District Court two months ago claiming Obama is not a natural-born U.S. citizen and therefore not eligible to be elected president. Berg has since challenged Obama publicly that if the candidate will simply produce authorized proof of...

In Obama's own words. Watch it before it gets pulled. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLlyjGjeZIY

Does anyone think Governor Sarah Palin is not a force in this year’s presidential race? Here’s something for folks to consider when looking at the political landscape and the polls. The usually ignored VP debate drew a historic audience - jumping into first place for any VP debate and into 2nd place for all Presidential debates: Update: Looking at the per network totals at Drudge I noticed PBS and C-SPAN may not be included in the tally, so this could be the all time record breaker! Updated: PBS ads another 3.5 million viewers, making this debate number one even over...

As Archbishop Naumann and I stressed in our recent Pastoral Letter, “Our Moral Responsibility as Catholic Citizens,” we can never vote for a candidate because of his or permissive stand on abortion. At the same time, if we are inclined to vote for someone despite their pro-abortion stance, it seems we are morally obliged to establish a proportionate reason sufficient to justify the destruction of 45 million human persons through abortion. If we learn that our “candidate of choice” further pledges – through an instrument such as FOCA - to eliminate all existing limitations against abortion, it is that much...

Hannity's America - Sunday at 9 pm ET on Fox. The video at the link is a MUST watch.

Now that Congress has approved the Bush-Paulson financial stabilization plan, Senator John McCain has an opportunity to refocus his Presidential campaign, and get back on the political offensive by pounding Senator Obama on the tax issue. No domestic issue provides a starker contrast between Mr. McCain and Mr. Obama than the issue of taxes. McCain wants to keep taxes low for all taxpayers, and cut them where he can. Mr. Obama wants to redistribute the tax burden by raising tax rates on the economically successful, and providing tax relief to certain middle- and low-income earners. Specifically, Senator McCain wants to...

(GOP vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin smiles at supporters as she steps off the campaign plane in Dalls on Friday - though she says she might've been happier to stump in another 'Big D:' Detroit.) WASHINGTON - Sarah Palin is a little bit annoyed with John McCain, you betcha, and she isn't afraid to say so. What set her off was the campaign's decision Thursday to wave the white flag of surrender in Michigan, and not bother to tell her. Palin said she found out Friday. "I want to get back to Michigan and I want to try," Palin told...

Be sure to watch the 1-hour EXPOSE on all of Barack Obama's radical connections and associations hosted by Sean Hannity on his new show, "Hannity's America". The special will air this Sunday, Oct. 5th, at 9:00 p.m. EST on the FOXNews channel. To quote Sean Hannity, "No one else in the television news media is going to cover this information".

Barack Obama's life has been one dedicated in service to the needs of others. We are all called to build a culture of life - but there's more to it than just hoping that the next Supreme Court justice somehow deals with Roe v. Wade. A bad economy is threatening to human life. Women facing the moral tragedy of abortion - are facing it, now, today - and they need a supportive community and tangible help, not condemnation. As Ronald Reagan's legal counsel and as a dean and professor at Catholic University and Notre Dame, I have worked to put...

The Mexican superstar of Latin America, Eduardo Verastegui, and several of his friends joined the 40 Days for Life prayer campaign outside Family Planning Associates, an abortion business at 601 S. Westmoreland Avenue. He went there for two reasons: to help mothers and their unborn children, and warn people about the number-one abortion celebrity, Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL). Verastegui is cofounder of L.A.-based Metanoia Films and lead actor in the company’s first feature film Bella, which premiered in American movie theaters last October. Until November 2, citizens of 179 cities in 47 of the United States and the District...

In October 1939, a month after Great Britain declared war on Germany in that unpleasantry a few of us history buffs remember as “World War II,” Winston Churchill said of communist Russia: “It is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma...” In true Churchill form, he added wryly, “But perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest.” In other words, if you want to decode “a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma,” just consider the underlying “interest.” A year ago, Barack Hussein Obama was something of an enigma, but his interests are now...

... calling for "grassroots effort" to help boost campaign. The names of four former top leaders of the Weathermen terrorist organization are listed as signatories on an online petition calling for an "independent grassroots effort" to help strengthen Obama's campaign. The petition was initiated by Progressives for Obama, an independent organization acting to ensure the Illinois senator's election. Among the names signed onto the petition are former Weathermen leaders Howard Machtinger, Jeff Jones, Steve Tappis and Mark Rudd. Machtinger was a Weathermen founder and was co-author of the terror group's original mission statement, which called for "revolutionaries within the United...

When Barack Obama was seeking to get into Harvard Law School (he entered in the fall of 1988) he had the assistance of Khalid Al-Mansour, a Black Muslim and Black Nationalist who was a “mentor” to the founders of the Black Panther party at the time the party was founded in the early 1960s. There is some suggestion that Mansour had provided financial assistance to Obama for Harvard Law School, though the Obama campaign denies this. Obama has refused all requests that Harvard and Columbia open up his records for examination, as he has refused requests to have the official...

Branding his opponent as “erratic in a crisis,” Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) is preempting plans by Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) to portray him as having sinister connections to controversial Chicagoans. Obama officials call it political jujitsu – turning the attacks back on the attacker. McCain officials had said early in the weekend that they plan to begin advertising after Tuesday’s debate that will tie Obama to convicted money launderer Tony Rezko and former Weathermen radical William Ayers. But Obama isn’t waiting to respond. His campaign is going up Monday on national cable stations with a scathing ad saying: “Three quarters...

A Humble Plea

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Legal Newsline)-The Alaska Supreme Court has decided to hear an appeal that would block the release of findings of an abuse of power investigation that could prove damaging to Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. The state high court will review a decision by Anchorage Superior Judge Peter Michalski, who Thursday dismissed a request by a group of Republican legislators to block the investigation.

Republican presidential candidates John McCain and his running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, will hold a large rally Wednesday afternoon in the Cleveland area. The location has not been set. Expect McCain and Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama to be slugging it out in campaign visits in Ohio during the last three and half weeks before the Nov. 4 election.

In the past four decades, one of the most important political narratives has pitted conservative populism against, for lack of a better term, "limousine liberalism." Conservatives have done a brilliant job of overturning the New Deal coalition by portraying themselves as identifying with and fighting on the side of the "regular guy." Racist Alabama Gov. George Wallace in 1964 evoked "a left-wing monster" that "has invaded the government . . . the news media" and an "arrogant, contemptuous, high-handed" judiciary. The message: you, ordinary Americans, are seeing your country hijacked by out-of-the-mainstream opinion-makers and unelected judges. Sound familiar? President Richard...