Polls have already opened here in Georgia, although in limited quantities, usually one per county.    They have now been open for 2 weeks.
I am planning on going out to vote on Friday as I am off of work that day.

I wanted to open a diary to see who else is going out to vote early?  

I think that this is going to help us out a lot because it cuts down on lines at the polls and also give people more time to resolve problems, especially now that Georgia requires photo ID to vote.

We should not send Bob Sununu back to Washington. Schaffer has blindly supported the failed Bush economic doctrine of tax breaks for Wall Street, and reckless deregulation that has gotten us into our current mess.

Bob has done a "heckuva" job at taking care of Wall Street, while neglecting Main Street. He's also voted with Bush 90% of the time. How many times has he voted with the citizens of New Hampshire?

New Hampshire's main streets need a friend in Washington, but it's not Bob Sununu.

Before anyone gets alarmed relax, there is no racism in this title and it is an appropriate use of an old term.

It truly distresses me to see what is going on in today's election process. For students of history it should be seen as down right alarming. For the rest of us, it should make us all take a trip to the mirror and take a good look at the person staring back at us. What is more alarming probably to many throughout the world, which does not allow themselves to look in such a narcissistic manner at  lives, is the turn this country seems to be blindly steering itself towards down a road of self destruction. All of this recklessness is condoned by us in the United States because it is done in "the name of winning". What is worst though, remains an aftermath of what we will have made of ourselves. No longer will America been seen as a beacon of liberty, democracy, decency and freedom. But instead it will transform into a state of intolerance, religous zeal  and fascism. Follow along and see what has already arrived.

Hotline has the national race suddenly narrowing to two points with the following analysis.

-- The race has tightened in the last day. After trailing by 5-7 pts. for the last 10 days, McCain is now just 2 pts. behind Obama.

--One potential reason: Obama's one-time lead on the question of who'd best handle the economy has evaporated. Today, Obama and McCain are tied at 42%. Independent voters favor McCain on the economy by an 8 pt. margin (42-34%).

We should not send Bob Schaffer back to Washington. Schaffer has blindly supported the failed Bush economic doctrine of tax breaks for Big Oil and companies that ship U.S. jobs overseas.

Bob has done a "heckuva" job at taking care of Wall Street, while neglecting Main Street. In fact, he loves Wall Street so much that he supports CEO's keeping millions of dollars in bonuses they have earned even if they have falsified financial statements - deceiving share holders and the public in general.

Colorado's main streets need a friend in Washington, but it's not Bob Schaffer.

Who knew that when you go around accusing Obama of being a foreigner, outsider, unpatriotic and basically a terrorist sympathizer Manchurian candidate it would unleash the frothing hatred that Republicans have been whipping up in the "base" all these years?

Just a few recent examples of hate-mongering run rampant:

Yesterday, John McCain delivered an unhinged anti-Obama diatribe in New Mexico, and when he posed a rhetorical question -- "Who is the real Barack Obama?" -- someone shouted, "A terrorist!" McCain paused momentarily, but did not comment on the remark.

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Also yesterday, Sarah Palin repeated one of her unusually stupid attacks, rehashing the nonsense that Obama "pals around" with terrorists. One man in the audience, responding to Palin's smear, shouted, "Kill him!" Palin also did not comment on the remark.

At the same Florida event, Republicans shouted abuse at journalists, hurling obscenities. The Washington Post reported, "One Palin supporter shouted a racial epithet at an African American sound man for a network and told him, 'Sit down, boy.'"

And just to top things off, last night, the Republican Party of Pennsylvania announced its belief that Obama is "a terrorist's best friend."

I expected Republicans to fight hard to win this year. I also expected them to ignore traditional norms, throw caution to the wind, and dispense with honesty and decency. But I didn't expect a wholesale descent into madness. These folks have just lost their collective minds.

Are McCain and Palin responsible for lunatics who shout insane comments at their rallies? Of course not. That said, when the Republican campaign, mired in desperation, deliberately stokes the fires of hate and fear, using disgusting lies to argue that Obama is literally dangerous, no one should be surprised when the far-right Republican base becomes frenzied.

MCCAIN-OBAMA DEBATE

I wouldn't bet on slime-free debate tonight. McCain has a nasty streak that may lead him to repeat the recent sleazy attacks by his campaign. Meanwhile, surrogates, Fox news, and Palin broadcast  the lies and innuendos.

Portraying Obama as a man of mystery is beyond belief. The man has written two forthright books about his life and his beliefs and political philosophy, attended two U.S. universities, served as President of the Harvard Law Review, has been in politics for over 10 years. and survived grueling primaries.

I hope that the American people will not fall for these unwarranted and unsubstantiated attacks.

homer   www.altara.blogspot.com

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