Six Weeks

Well, OK, seven.

Seven weeks till we learn, hopefully, who our next president is.

So far, as the weeks wind down it’s trending more and more toward McCain. The question is, will that continue? McCain’s dipping a little at the moment and the race has been very close for the last few weeks.

Obama now has the disadvantage on the electoral college. He’s either tied or within the margin of error in traditionally blue states like New Jersey and Pennsylvania. That’s not good for him.

And there is always that unknown factor called the Bradley effect, where black candidates poll higher than they get real votes. I think Obama has shown in places like Iowa that is not an issue. But in places like Michigan or Eastern seaboard states, that may prove to be a major issue.

The media is trying to bring down Palin, but she’s not the one running for president and Obama seems to finally get it. He’s started attacking McCain, blaming him for the latest Wall Street problems. Of course, neither McCain or Bush is responsible for the failings of companies which should have known better. The problem with our so called Capitalist society is it will almost always bail out big companies that fail if they think the economy will be effected too much. So what you have is a kind of corporate safety net that ordinary people rarely get themselves.

This is where I think regulations are not always a bad thing. Sometimes you need them to prevent companies from being this reckless. On the other hand, when politicians set the rules, it often results in things like Sarbanes/Oxley which seriously impact companies and makes it a lot harder for small companies to be profitable because of the insane amount of paperwork and auditing it requires. Regulations like that are something Democrats favor, though McCain is also talking new regulations and investigations. Once again, politicians are like cops. They react to problems after the fact. They may take a stab at prevention, but most of their time is dealing with cleanup.

I don’t see a lot or helpful answers coming from either side on the Wall Street problems, but McCain offers tax relief to corporations which will in turn help them keep people employed and possibly hire more. Obama wants to punitively tax and regulate them, which will have the opposite effect.

The problems of today will be inherited by whoever wins. Let’s hope it’s the best man for the job.

Wat off topic. Did you see this?
Weird celestial object stumps scientists
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2008/09/weird_celestial_object_stumps.html

Posted by  on  09/16  at  05:47 PM

Wow, that’s pretty strange. But I suspect the universe is full of weird stuff we have yet to discover. Because we have only just begun to see deep into the cosmos.

Posted by  on  09/16  at  09:43 PM
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