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Voters and the presidential candidates are focused on the economy. But at least some voters — and campaign contributors — remember the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Axis of Evil and all that. And in the view of some of them, Barack Obama has the edge. He might be more open to negotiating with foreign governments than John McCain, at least as a select group of donors sees it. Donors listing their employer as the U.S. State Department have given $274,595 to Obama since the campaign began, and $58,860 to McCain, a review by Times researcher Maloy Moore shows. As a percentage, however, State Department employees accounted for only slightly more of Obama’s money than McCain’s — about 0.47% of the money Obama raised from donors who listed an employer worked for the State Department, compared with 0.3% for McCain. Obama also has his share of support within the military. Donors listing their employer as the Defense Department or various military branches have given at least $806,558 to the Democratic nominee, compared with $512,926 for Republican McCain. That amounts to roughly 2.5% of the money McCain received from donors who listed an identifiable employer. For Obama, men and women in uniform, plus the Defense Department employees, accounted for 1.4% of his money. –Dan Morain But you need make no donations to know whenever a new Ticket item gets posted. Go here to register for automatic alerts to your cellphone.
One of the problems with the modern Republican Party (the party I belong to) is a stubborn refusal to back gay marriage. The few Republicans that do (Rudy Giuliani) are spoken of as hippy liberals. The Republican Party has framed itself as a party that supports individual decision-making. Well, gay marriage falls under that. The Republican Party frames itself as traditional. Well, it seems like homosexuality has been around forever and has been practiced in every society, so how much more traditional can you get? I know that a lot of people frame this in a religious context. Now, injecting religion into politics is very dicey for me. , there is nothing in the New Testament that bans homosexual relationships. The Libertarian wing of the party supports individual freedoms, but many of these same people feel that gay marriage will damage ‘traditional marriage.’ Divorce rates are over 50%. Can gay folks do worse than straight folks on this? If gay people are able to build stable families with kids and be homeowners, isn’t that good for America? Besides, married people with kids that own houses tend to be overwhelmingly Republican anyway. The Republican Party in the last eight years has stood up for the little guy abroad. Why not do the same at home? Also, if you need to search anything on Google, please use the bar below:
CNN has a very nice Electoral Map calculator that allows you to play political analyst by inputing your predictions on what states would go blue and red. As you tweak the battleground states, you will see how many electoral votes each candidate has. So which States would make history on election night? Here’s how Huffington post sees it:
What does this mean for McCain? He is in bad position, really bad position. McCain’s campaign is seeing the impossible uphill climb they’re facing. In the past few days, we have been seeing finger pointing within the McCain camp, mostly with McCain’s advisors expressing their unhappiness with Sarah Palin going rouge. I honestly do believe that the nation is going to be shocked by the results on November 4th. The republican saw a unexpected defeat when the Democrats took over the majority of the Senate in 2006. Back then, most Americans still had some faith in the Republican President and government. In 2008, we saw one of the biggest financial crisis in decades. Here’s our electoral prediction, Obama wins by 355 to 183. To do that, we are predicting that Obama will take all the battleground states - Indiana, Florida, North Carolina and Virginia. Like we have said previously, we think the election result should be known minutes after 9pm EST as results for eastern part of the country comes out. Being a Hoosier myself, I would personally want to see Indiana go blue this time around and we will soon have the true leadership that the nation needs.
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