Zogby’s latest poll numbers put Obama over McCain 49.1-44.1 over the last three days, but that includes a Friday that saw McCain outpoll Obama 48-47.  McCain’s surge comes despite Obama’s Wednesday night informercial and expanded operations across the nation.  Whether McCain can continue this upswing (or if it’ll be reflected in other polls) or if it’s too little, too late we’ll have to see.

11/2 UPDATE: Zogby’s Sunday morning numbers has Obama leading 49.5-43.8 with a special note from John Zogby himself:

“Remember, as I said yesterday, one day does not make a trend. This is a three-day rolling average and no changes have been tectonic. A special note to blogger friends: calm it down. Lay off the cable television noise and look at your baseball cards in your spare time. It is better for your (and everyone else’s) health.”

Just how low can they go?

The Obama campaign first said that the middle class would be defined as anyone making $250,000 and under.

Then, that figure was revised to $200,000.

But that was still too high.

Biden just recently said that the middle class was $150,000 and lower.

But chief surrogate, Gov. Bill Richardson, thought he could do better, and said middle class was really $120,000.

I wonder why the number keeps going down? Why can’t the chief spokesmen agree on the definition?

Could it be because the candidate feels that the true definition of middle class is even lower?

Yep.

In 2003, Obama said that middle class was between $50-70K.

It’s pretty obvious to see where this train is leading.

For the next few days, we’ll have open threads where you can make your case for who should represent us.

In this thread, who do you think should be our next president?

Important note: please build an argument as to WHY you feel the way you do.

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For the next few days, we’ll have open threads where you can make your case for who should represent us.

In this thread, who do you think should be serving in the U.S. House of Representatives?

Important note: please build an argument as to WHY you feel the way you do.

For the next few days, we’ll have open threads where you can make your case for who should represent us.

In this thread, who do you think should be serving in the U.S. Senate?

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As an example, here is why Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling is voting for Jim Gilmore:

GOP endorsements for the Obama-Biden ticket keep coming in, and I expect will continue to do so down to the wire. Earlier this week we had former Senator Larry Pressler (R-SD) who was “the first Vietnam veteran to serve in the United States Senate”. The next day, former Senator Charles “Mac” Mathias, Jr. (R-MD) added his voice to the chorus. And then yesterday, the story broke that Ken Duberstein, who served multiple positions in Reagan’s administration including White House Chief of Staff in 88-89, taped an interview with Fareed Zakaria (set to air tomorrow) in which he announced his intention to vote for Barack Obama.

Note to other closet Obamicans: You’re running out of time. If you don’t come out of the closet soon, people may be left with the mistaken impression that you actually supported McCain-Palin. And you wouldn’t want that, would you?

From the National Review’s Mark Steyn:

This is an amazing race. The incumbent president has approval ratings somewhere between Robert Mugabe and the ebola virus. The economy is supposedly on the brink of global Armageddon. McCain has only $80 million to spend, while Obama’s burning through $600 mil as fast as he can, and he doesn’t really need to spend a dime given the wall-to-wall media adoration. And tonight Chris Matthews’ doctors announced that his leg tingle has metastasized leaving his entire body like a vibrating cellphone whose ringtone is locked on “I’m In Love, I’m In Love, I’m In Love, I’m In Love, I’m In Love With A Wonderful Guy.”

And yet an old cranky broke loser is within two or three points of the King of the World. Strange.

Indeed.

Today’s column by David Warren in the Ottawa Citizen takes on the question of “experience”:

There are “credentials,” and then there is “cred.” It is sometimes necessary to shorten or otherwise alter a word, to recover its original meaning. Here we are discussing not a job resumé, but what can be seen through it.

Of the four candidates on the two U.S. presidential tickets, it strikes me that both John McCain and Sarah Palin have some credible personal background to equip them in dealing with the interface between politics and life. By comparison, neither Barack Obama nor Joe Biden has ever done anything much, except master party political machinery.

More…

Barack Obama is against requiring any photo ID to avoid fraud when voting, but attend the Messiah’s $2 million crowning bash?

Did you know there is now a huge reward for a videotape of Obama? From The Hill,

A hedge fund manager is offering a reward of $150,000 in exchange for a tape that shows Barack Obama at a 2003 dinner for a Palestinian scholar.

Aston Grimaldi II said he would pay out the money to whomever can provide a tape of the 2003 event for Rashid Khalidi, which the Los Angeles Times has written about but has refused to release. Grimaldi’s offer letter is available at Dirty Harry’s Place, a conservative blog.

That’s right, the L.A. Times is sitting on a video of Obama. Talk about the media being biased… if it were a correpondingly bad video of McCain there would be a new cable channel devoted to nothing but that video, being played over and over…

Now consider this: the NAACP is suing because presumably Virginia registrars don’t know how to do their jobs:

The NAACP and others filed a complaint Monday in U.S. District Court in Richmond, arguing that “the allocation of polling-place resources” by the state and its jurisdictions “is plainly irrational, nonuniform, and likely discriminatory.” A court date has not been set for the suit.

So let’s review. We have a press that is actively censoring NEWS that is unflattering to their favored candidate. We have groups doing their darndest to cast doubt on the mechanics of the voting itself… does anyone else feel like these are twin axes chopping near the roots of the tree of liberty? Seriously, where are you if there are too many of these kinds of doubts about an honest press and an honest election?

To clarify, I still think enough Americans have the common sense to be aware of these things going on. But these are still bad trends.

So, Obama is buying a 30 minute infomercial. McCain/ Palin are touring the country. The media are highlighting their favorite issues (Palin wardrobe; Obama’s race).

Don’t you wish you could just cut through the spin and get a good idea of what the candidates have said & done on the issues?

Now you can (for just 29.95 - I’m kidding; lighten up, already).

Grassfire.org has a very well done side by side comparison of the candidate’s “Quotes & Votes” on the issues.

Check it out!

Time Magazine had an interesting article this week about why Virginia is a battleground state this November.  The article focuses primarily on the shifting demographics of suburban DC counties like Prince William that are experiencing dramatic increases in economic and ethnic diversity. However, it may not be these new residents that are putting this region in play as much as it is the longer tenured folks they have replaced at the bottom of the economic ladder.

Consider this article in light of Michael Barone’s recent observations about Pennsylvania.  Barone’s hypothesis about the collapse in housing prices hurting McCain in the Philly suburbs could well be applied to the swath of “McMansions” mentioned in Time’s article about Virginia. As folks at the lower end of the economic spectrum caught the wave of economic growth and became upwardly mobile, they were replaced in their old homes by the new demographics.  As Barone points out, those older, smaller homes had less value to begin with and thus were less affected by the mortgage and real estate collapse.

Thus, if Barack Obama has success in PWC and Virginia at large, it may be due more to economic factors than ethnic ones. Just something to think about as you watch the returns come in on Tuesday night.

LA Times is refusing to release the video tape of Barack Obama attending a function honoring University of Chicago professor Rashid Khalidi.  Sarah Palin is going after the connection hard.  But I wanted to know more about this Prof. Khalidi.

So I checked out his profile on RateMyProfessor.com:

The downward spiral of Obama’s wealth redistribution continued yesterday as Joe Biden raised Barack Obama’s tax increase by 25% If that’s what they’ll say before Election Day, imagine where they’ll be by January 20th!

“What we’re saying,” he told a Pennsylvania TV interviewer, “is that [our] tax break doesn’t need to go to people making . . . $1.4 million. It should go to [people] making under $150,000 a year.”

Oops. That’s a 25 percent downward redefinition of “middle class.” (NYP)

Remember Bill Clinton’s scam of a middle class tax cut that never happened? Remember Mark Warner vowing to never raise taxes? Remember Obama cutting taxes for everyone except the “super rich?”

Why do we fall for it every time?