If Muhhamad ali appeared at one of his rallies, Obama would win hands down , no questions.

As a man endorsing himself, he could have no finer attribute than sealing an impaasioned patriotic speech than having a tear rolling down his cheek.

when you consider that has never been done and you collate that with a grateful black man acknowledging his huge white support, the door to the Oval office will magically open for the first black president in US history.

OprahObamamania will get him to November. She’s never been caught out in a lie or scandal in all her years in television.

if it was possible, I would hold my breath till November.

After that, win or not, he will have changed the whole of race perceptions in this nation.

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/foreign/tobyharnden/

Points above taken re: republicians – they’re hopeless on some levels.

All the worse considering the top 3 candidates on the other side have an average of one senate term each – Edwards has one, Obama has yet to complete one and I think Hillary is starting her second?

Note that 40% of the new jobs since 2001 in the US were building industry related.

Note the sub prime crisis has not yet begun to fight…. the PPT is throwing some hundreds of billions of liquidity at it….. wait until the other foot drops.

Good news is oil is due a big correction….the demand/supply is much the same as $80/b, that means lots of spec activity. Bad news is the market has factored the Fed always lowering interest rates at the first sign of trouble

Prediction, by Oct the US election will be being fought on the economy…period.

The Repubs may as well fold their tents and concede the political battle to the Democrats.

This is what comes of a party not standing for anything, or rather, from incrementally straying too far politically from their ideological base. Compromising, appeasing, and cowering, when they should have been confronting, clearly articulating their arguments and fighting for what they stand for.

Once a party has given up so much ground, the task of winning it back becomes so much harder.

The Republicans are lost. All the current primary candidates, if they win the presidency, will only bring further big spending big government Bush style disappointment

The only reason we have such poor government and such poor candidates is that people inexplicably keep voting for the same old same old- empty promises, political double speak, and PC propaganda.

Relief from the politically stifling fad of totalitarian socialism will only come through candidates like Ron Paul or Duncan Hunter, but not until there is some kind of cataclysmic political event that shocks the populace enough to make them awaken to the fact that they are in fact victims of their own gold brick buying apathy and inaction.

Obama 35
Clinton 27
Edwards 23

The final results:

Obama 38
Edwards 30
Clinton 29

As you can see Edwards gained to most from the others who didnt make the 15% cut