- September 6, 2008 -

This week I watched most of the Republican convention- I found pretty much all the speakers to be either delusional or just downright ignorant, with the exception of McCain; Hearing his story caused me to respect what he has done for this country even more; his selection of Sarah Palin however completely negates any respect I have for him. Palin is a tremendously charismatic public speaker, but she uses it to bash and tear down the Democrats unfairly, she only gives half the truth on her economic record, and for those conservative issues that she feels strongly about like making all abortions illegal even in the case of rape- those things she knows the people of this country will not accept, she does not speak about that. I can't wait for the debates when they are all forced to talk about the issues.

Obama is fairing well in the polls, nationally he's ahead by 2% after the Republican convention- when it's broken down by state though, 13 are solidly for and 5 strongly lean toward Obama; 238 electoral votes he can almost certainly count on, he only needs 32 more to win the presidency.