We need a full court press… rather McCain needs one and to hit him hard on every front of his socialist agenda. From guns, to Israel, our national defense, our nuclear deterrent, social programs, domestic policy, he does nothing but repeat tired old socialist lines wrapped in that tasty pig in a blanket known as “change”.

The polls are trending toward McCain and that’s a good thing but the RNC and McCain needs a little kick in the ass to light a fire under the spending wing of this party. We can viral video all day long but it won’t matter to the dolts who can’t find useful stuff on YouTube… and we need those dolts. As Glenn Becks says, this is the election of the idiots…

will probably undo all the gains of the past week.

Between the infomercial sob stories, Charlie Gibson AND Brian Williams giving him softball interviews today and Bubba on stage with im tonight, I think McCain’s fate will be sealed. Barring some David vs Goliath type happening, Obama is going to run out the clock and then when the schtick hits the van after the election, we’ll just be stuck.

I’m trying to be hopeful, but I see NO flickers of light.

In the meantime, I just keep praying, and praying, and praying some more. I don’t know what else to do from over here.

I agree with this trending. Why do you think the One and the Two are encouraging folks to vote early (and often, as my husband likes to add)? So they can get these votes in before the sh*t hits the fan; why else? I hope this tape gets out tonight or tomorrow.

Remember that grand columned acceptance speech? The hightlight of the convention; remember how it was totally overshadowed by the Palin announcement the next day.

I feel the same thing is going to happen now.

Gird your loins!

you keep on praying and let us over here do the heavy lifting for once.

You’re right; Obama is on TV all day, but the fact that he has to do a 30min infomerical tonight is not a good sign for him.

Who will watch: the Obama faithful; I’m not so sure many others will.

Keep the faith, keep praying, and for the rest of us: all of the above and Turn out, Turn out, Turn out the vote!

Then you know it’s BAD for Obama.

I managed to catch a couple minutes of Larry King last night and ended up staying the whole show. The ENTIRE show was about how Obama is a socialist.
Larry King didn’t personally make the accusation, but he had no guests who even tried to refute it. And several who did say it.

as much as I’d like to, I cannot agree with you. Why would the MSM start to vet him now, when they have studiously avoided doing so for the past 18-months? The fact that 1-or-2 stories are beginning to turn up at this time, says nothing about the 100s that are still out there. You also cannot ignore the positive spin the MSM continues to spew, even if they DO report on some of these so-called “new” stories about “that one”. They certainly don’t want to tarnish their nominee for 2012 if this one doesn’t go the way they want.

I think McCain got sucked out with the “tide” during the Market Meltdown last month. However, the tide is starting to come back in, as evidenced by the narrowing polls. The only question is whether the wave will hit shore by next Tuesday.

Let us pray.

The trend is there and the polling seems skewed (so maybe Obama +3 is really a tie), but will we get there or will we mark this election down like 1976 where we say that if only we’d had one more week, we could have won it.

C17wife … I too am in prayer. It’s a two parter …. one asking God to remember certain things in Scripture and the ills of our country and a second part letting Him know that I will accept His will and pray for whoever becomes our next President.

While I am hoping for the best I respectfully disagree with the premise of the OP. The LSM is hardly vetting BHO at this point. Where is the drumbeat besides FNC for the release of the LA Times video? Where are the satellite trucks outside Ayers house? Where are the microphones being shoved in BHO’s face asking whether he really does believe the Constitution is flawed? We all know the answers. And if he is able to run out the clock, none of the issues raised will ever see the light of day. The LSM will focus on just how wonderful it is to have a black president, etc. etc. They will focus on the destruction of the Republican party etc etc. Within 6 months the “Fairness Doctrine” will be imposed, ending right wing talk radio. More than likely, Rep. Markee will introduce a bill to regulate(tax) internet content. This will be the beginning of the end. Gosh, I hope I am wrong.

The media, liberal as they may be, always try to save face, and a few vetting stories coming out this week will allow them to say when the sh*t hits the fan that it was not their fault. If the one wins, he will have a list of who’s been naughty and nice, and we need to buck up and fight for Fox News and our talk radio brethren!

down to +3 today. A week ago, he had Obama by +8. Margin of error is +/-2 points. Wonder if he’s still working with that inflated 40-33 Dem-Rep turnout model.

The media love to give state by state polls showing Obama wih huge leads, especially in Ohio and Florida. Remember that state polls lag nationwide polls by several days. The state polls haven’t yet had time to catch up with the narrowing nationwide polls.

Obama’s faithful base will certainly tune it to watch his TV speech tonight. But to truly guage the efficacy of his speech, listen to see if the networks give his Nielsen ratings. Expect at least moderate ratings, but if you hear little or nothing about the ratings, that probably means he’s toast. Personally, after the Rays-Phils game is over, I’m going to watch reruns of The Simpsons.

It’s important to keep this stuff in perspective. The polling has been flat for a week.

McCain seems to be tightening up in a couple national polls today, a la Rasmussen. Though today he’s down in Florida, Ohio, and Pennsylvania.

I don’t discount the fact that McCain could be closing in with the polls. There are plenty of Undecideds out there and they could all swing for McCain and hand him the presidency. That’s a fact.

But overall the polls have been flat for a week. Some crazy highs for Obama, some crazy close polls, too. But it’s all overall averaging at between 5 and 7 points in favor of Obama. McCain will need to improve his standing in VA, OH, FL AND nab PA in the next 6 days. Can he do it? Yeah! Is he moving the needle? Maybe. Has Obama been consistently capable of crushing McCain’s assaults for the past few months? You betcha.

MSM is finally getting off their arses to get on record with some of Obama’s arrogance. CNN is talking about a broken promise for funding his campaign publicly, and WaPo is talking about the plethora of illegitimate campaign donations. Why in the #3!! aren’t McCain/Palin connecting the dots today, and telling audiences that Obama doesn’t care where he gets the money to fund his agenda, so obviously he doesn’t care how much he’ll take from you and me.

The trends are not an accident, nor are the last minute disclosures of Obama problems. All of the things the McCain camp has under their belt on Obama will come out now. During the last week of the election is when people pay attentions to things. Anything out before now would be forgotten or marginalized by now. Disclosure now will make it fresh in the minds of people when they vote.