The World Would Like to See Obama as President

So using McCain's logic, we must be suspicious of Obama because the world is a bad bad place. Weblo.com has the ongoing results.

From the Pen of: Tom Toles

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From the Pen of: Steve Benson

Obama's GOTV Drive Starts Today

Let Hillary yell at the cloud. The Obama campaign is launching its November campaign today: Vote for Change.

Marc Ambinder of the Atlantic says hang on to your hats - this is going to be intense.

The Vote For Change program will lay the foundation for Obama's general election get-out-the-vote efforts. Obama aides won't say much more, but I gather that the campaign is constructing an incredibly elaborate online interface to allow its more than a million donors and volunteers to directly persuade their neighbors through a variety of media. Names gathered from the voter registration effort will be merged with names gathered through Obama's primary efforts and the names off of the Democratic Party's integrated voter file as well as lists purchased from outside vendors.

On election day, Obama might have more than a million individuals volunteering on his behalf. That should scare the beejeesus out of the McCain campaign and the RNC.

We're fascinated by this info:

Vote for Change National Co-Chairs

U.S. Representative John Barrow, 12th District, Georgia
U.S. Representative Melissa Bean, 8th District, Illinois
Anna Burger, Chair, Change to Win
Maria Elena Durazo, Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO
Melissa Etheridge, Musician
Billy Frank Jr., Chairman, Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission
Reverend Joseph Lowery, Chairman, Black Leadership Forum
Dave Matthews, Musician
U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill, Missouri
Secretary Norman Mineta, Former Secretary of Transportation
Governor Deval Patrick, Massachusetts
Usher Raymond IV, Musician
U.S. Representative Linda Sanchez, 39th District, California
Kerry Washington, Actress

It's one thing for people to endorse a candidate. It's something entirely different to be actively participating. Good team Obama has there.

So...All They Have to Do Is Endorse?

McCain is giving militants and terr'ists way too much credit. According to him, all they have to do is endorse a candidate, and that candidate is sympathetic to them.

I think McCain's handing that much power to them is very irresponsible.

The LA Times Poll: McCain Loses

We cite this poll because unlike the other ten zillion polls out there, this one actually sampled more than 2,000 people which makes the margin of error +/-3. With that in mind, America wants the Democrat, not the Republican. Oh, and hey, folks - they're BOTH electable.

In a hypothetical matchup, the poll gave Illinois Sen. Obama 46% to McCain's 40%, with 9% undecided.

Clinton led McCain 47% to 38%, with 11% undecided.

The results represent a shift from a Times/Bloomberg poll in February, when McCain led Clinton by 6 percentage points and Obama by 2, within the poll's margin of error.

"Although there is such infighting now between the two Democratic candidates, we are finding that both Democrats are beating McCain, and this could be attributed to the weakening of the economy," said Times Polling Director Susan Pinkus, who supervised the survey.