PoliCHARTZ - Thread of U.S. Politics & the Presidential Election

[steven787]

halogamer1989 said:

steven787 said:

He's like a rock. I changed my mind. I said, "elections aren't won, they're lost."

I was wrong.

“We will all need to sacrifice, and we will all need to pull our weight because now more than ever, we are all in this together.  What this crisis has taught us is that at the end of the day, there is no real separation between Main Street and Wall Street. There is only the road we’re traveling on as Americans, and we will rise or fall on that journey as one nation, as one people.”

Lenin said the same thing, Steve.  Also, look for sampling bias in MSM polling.

 

Of the two candidates, McCain is the populist repeating "Wall Street Greed".  His mistake is that most of us have money invested in Wall Street through our 401k or pentions.  We are also smart enough to know that it was banks, borrowers, and the government that got us into this mess. 

The Democrats, some Republicans AND George W. Bush in 2003 by loosening lending standards to unhealthy levels from the already low levels put in by Clinton and the 90's Republicans are one part.  McCain's previous calls for deregulation to the flip flopping, hasty, not too well thought out call for re-regulation and financial gimmicks that sound good to someone as out of touch and ignorant of economics as he is are another part.  Mostly, it is a normal fincial/economic cycle exacerbated by bad policy from many different places.

McCarthyism or Terrorism fear-monging isn't going to work on of the people who haven't decided who to vote for, it has and will continue to back fire.