McCain himself voted for the repeal, which many believe had a direct connection to the inflating credit bubble and the crisis at hand.

Although you can fault the Dems as well since Bill Clinton signed that bill, it would be hard to deny that McCain does stand for an unregulated banking industry.

Good in for his presidential bid.
BAD for what he'll inherit when he gets there.

the dabates are next week. bury him, barack. we need a landslide to shut the paleo-cons the fuck up.

I have to believe that our current frat boy sorority girl criterion for choosing our leader (“I think she seems cool or I’d like to have a beer with him”) is going to seem a bit ridiculous at this point. I mean, people are wondering if they are going to lose their mutual funds, retirement accounts and insurance policies.

I can't believe there are too many people who believe that "the economy is not my strong suit" McCain and "I’m a folksy small town redneck just like you" Palin is going to fly.

This is serious shit and I think enough people realize we actually need someone who is smarter than us to help us figure out how the hell to wrangle this big fucking mess.

Conclusion...Obama will be the next President.

http://www.electoral-vote.com/

Still, this is good news. I suspect it is a combination of McCain's convention bounce fading (a natural trend that happens every election cycle), and the horrendous economic news, which seems to be hurting McCain more then Obama (as it should).

And if this is a trend, it will lead the electoral college polls. This poll is done daily. The electoral college polling is done more randomly, and can be a couple days to a week behind any major news event. You don't see a daily tracking poll in WA, for example; just periodic polls.

The challenge is that Palin has the Stupids all excited again and energized to vote. Voting for someone who cites Visual Confirmation of Another Country as a foreign policy credential? Only a Stupid could love that.

But yes, these poll numbers are good. Now, with so much money at stake for the NeoCons, let's all brace ourselves for whatever Dramatic Distraction/October Surprise the McCainanites will dream up to distract the American Idles from paying attention to the fact that their economy is in the toilet and about to be flushed.

the election might be decided by a few old whiteys on tv who pick whether to give mccain softball questions or not!

More worrisome is Americans' endless narcissism and capacity for self-delusion. They've been eagerly swallowing all the pap that the right has been ejaculating into their mouths for decades now. It's not that they vote against their economic self-interest in matters that help the rich get richer and flatten the middle class -- it's that they all anticipate that they will soon BE among the rich. So they try to live that lifestyle in an anticipatory way, maxing out the credit cards on motor homes, dune runners, wave runners, snowmobiles, 3-ton SUVs, 5000 sq. ft. McMansions, etc., and they vote in ways that might help the bottom line if they were over McCain's $5M-to-be-rich threshhold, but that only hasten their ruin if illness or accident interrupts the cash flow in the here and now.

If the economy gets much worse, I believe it will tip the vote heavily toward McCain-Palin because all these deluded people will become convinced that only they can reduce the tax / regulatory burden on individuals and return the economy to productivity.

Of the top three U.S. senators getting big Fannie and Freddie political bucks (all Democrats) Obama is second, ahead of John Kerry and Chris Dodd, (chairman of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs), even though he has only been in the Senate since 2005 and they have been there for decades…

Jim Johnson, who Obama had asked "to lead the process" of selecting his VP, was chairman and chief executive officer of Fannie Mae. Previously, he was a managing director with Lehman Brothers.

Yeah… Obama’s really going to whip Freddie and Fannie into shape.

As for McCain and Gramm-Leach-Bliley, arguably the piece of legislation that made this whole mess possible, not only is McCain one of only 9 senators that did not vote for it, but Bill Clinton liked it well enough to sign it into law.

And speaking of Chris Dodd’s Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs … Doesn’t it and Barney Frank’s House Committee on Financial Services have some oversight responsibility for this mess?

That is what those committees are for isn’t it?

Just what have the Democrats done with those committees to prevent this since they took them over? (Other than negotiating sweetheart mortgage deals for themselves through Countrywide Financial’s "Friends of Angelo" program?)

Lie down with dogs and get up with fleas…

I blame regulation FD way more for this.

"inferred" = "implied"?