OK folks, it’s now game-time. Come Tuesday, we are two weeks away from election day, and, to be honest, the national polls are tightening. It may or may not be coincidence, but Barack Obama and his campaign have all come out today, publicly and privately, saying they worry about complacency, and foregone conclusions causing many not to care. So, this is a post to get people motivated for the final push: we need it, we need to stay focused, and we need to get people to GET OUT AND VOTE, either now in early voting, or on Tuesday, November 4th. As Barack Obama says, it’s time to start “running scared.”

Fox Rube(n): An idiot who watches Neil Cavuto on Fox News and parrots his talking points in some pseudo-intellectual manner, dropping acronyms and misusing financial terms in an attempt to explain away the financial crisis as some emblematic failure of socialism caused by poor people and Democrats.
Ok, I’ve been hearing the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) [...]

Florida is the crux of this election for me. 25 electoral votes, and without it, the Republicans do not get the White House, period. Obama can win without Florida, but it requires either Ohio, or multiple other states to go his way. With Florida, the rest is just landslide. He wins in Florida.

I’ve been following developments in and around Florida for a while now, and today we have a good picture on where it stands, why it looks like Obama will win it, and McCain’s initial steps to firewall there.

The most striking aspect of it to me is the temporary reduction of Capital Gains Tax. While I’m not sure if this is a reduction on both short and long term cap gains, it doesn’t make any sense to me on how this would stimulate the economy, short or long term.

McCain isn’t just saddled with the failures of the past eight years, he’s saddled with the criminals of the past eight years. He’s campaigning not just for John McCain and Sarah Palin, but for the lives of Dick Cheney, Don Rumsfeld, John Yoo, Karl Rove, Alberto Gonzales, Guantanimo Bay, and one George W. Bush. Gerald Ford once commented “I know I’m going to hell, because I pardoned Richard Nixon.” John McCain has the look of being intent on going to hell for a chance to pardon those listed.

Tonight is debate #2, and the media is dying to make this a “game changer.” There is a real need for the press to be able to turn this into a horse race the rest of the way. The reality, I think, is quite different.

Conventional Wisdom has us thinking Obama went with Keating Five as a reaction to Ayers. Nah. The KeatingEconomics.com site isn’t a reaction. It’s part of a plan. The documentary they’re putting together has been in the works for a while now. What we’re seeing now isn’t the quick reaction to McCain attack ads. It’s the systematic disarming of McCain, and the culmination of the assault on his character, his judgment, and his ability to run this country. My God, it’s beautiful.

Tell me if you thought you’d see something like this from a Democratic candidate four years ago. The talk in the press on Saturday was word from the McCain campaign that they were going to start an exclusively negative campaign on Obama, questioning his associations with Rezko and Ayers. It’s their last shot at getting [...]

We are now a month and a week away from the election, and John McCain has shifted focus once again; this time it’s back to hacking away at Barack Obama. It’s the latest in a long line of tactics by the McCain campaign to somehow confuse the electorate and win an election via Obama losing.

From Jackie Kucinich at The Hill:
The RSC plan, which will be unveiled at noon, calls for a two-year suspension of the capital gains tax.
“By encouraging corporations to sell unwanted assets, this provision would unleash funds and materials with which to create jobs and grow the economy,” an outline of the proposal said. “After the two-year [...]