The presidential election is 23 days away and after two presidential debates and a vice presidential debate the Obama/Biden campaign seem to be taking a pretty sizable lead in the polls.
According to Yahoo!'s coverage of the campaign, Obama is projected to take 333 electoral votes compared to McCain's 175. Come election day, the next president will be decided when one of the candidate's wins 270 votes.
In the battleground states of North Carolina, Missouri, Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania, Obama is projected to take home three of the four, excluding Missouri. Aware of these projections, McCain has launched a plan to try and take home Pennsylvania. Even though Pennsylvania hasnt voted for a Republican since 1988, McCain hopes he can reverse the trend.
McCain has poured considerable resources into the state in the week after last month’s GOP convention, he outspent Obama on Pennsylvania television ads $1.6 million to $950,000, and he spent the same amount again in the first week of October.
I was very surprised to see how much of a lead Obama has taken in the polls over the last few weeks. The economic problems and the resulting bailout plan seem to have favored Obama. it will be intriguing over the next week or so to see if McCain can close the %7.3 deficit he currently is facing in the polls...
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That, too, is a bigger lead than I had thought.
What do you think about the amount of money they spend in advertising/campaigning? Kind of crazy that one of those campaigns will be all for nothing...lot of money spent in a hard time. Ya know?
the mccain party addressed that topic during the third debate. he stated that obama has spent more money on advertising during this election season than any other presidential nominee has in the history of our country. that was something that amazed me.
obviously, the time period and amount of money available today is much different from that of 50 or 100 years ago, but it is still an very interesting fact.
the politics realize that they need to get their name and their message (and by message i mean their attack on their opponent) out there. maybe the losing candidate will be able to ask for a refund at the end of the election and put some of that money back into the economy...
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