A Fox News religion contributor by the name of Father Jonathan Morris wrote a piece yesterday entitled, “Why This Election Will Be Close: Hushed Confessions”.

In essence he says that he has “spent a good amount of time crisscrossing the country and that something very unusual is taking place”. “From Seattle to San Diego, from Burlington, Vermont to New York City, from New Orleans to Texas and Midwest towns like Cleveland, I am hearing hushed admissions of a terrible sin: ‘Father, I’m not going to vote for Obama’” and he wonders why what he hears is not being reflected in the polls.

He believes that there are many “people who don’t want their neighbors or pollsters to know they aren’t voting for Obama” and he’s not talking about the Bradley effect which will of course matter in this election if only by a percentage point or two.

So why wouldn’t they want their neighbors and pollsters to know who they really intend to vote for?

He believes that the answer might be as simple as the fact that they are misleading their neighbors and pollsters purely because of what Obama stands for.

“How would you like to get up in front of a crowded theater in a mixed neighborhood and say you are going to vote for McCain? What respectable person wants to risk being considered a racist or a war monger or a fan of President Bush or an enemy of change? Many good people would like to see a black man as our president, or even a Democrat to be our president, but don’t want Barack Obama”.

He said that when he asked local McCain workers in ‘Summit County’ the reason why so few people have McCain posters in their windows or signs in their yards they answered quickly, ‘we go to the doors, people wink at us in approval, and then refuse to allow us to place a sign in their yard. A significant number of voters may prefer McCain, but don’t want to show their disapproval of Obama”.

People seem to either love or hate Palin and the ones that call her stupid and much worse do so because they have allowed their logic to be overcome by their emotions. Is she stupid? Of course not. Every governor in the US would like the support that she has in Alaska and she didn’t get that support because she’s stupid. They can’t stand her because she’s religious, anti-abortionist or real or whatever and as for the feminists that are really in a tizzy over her it’s because she’s a highly successful working mother.

Anyone that questions her speech making abilities should visit one of her rallies and they’d be amazed at how the crowds adore her and if you can’t or don’t want to do so then read the article on this site entitled “Sara Palin – The Best Orator Of The Four”.

Less than 24 hours after the final debate, close to 100% of the polls show McCain closing the gap with only one showing no change and I woke up thinking about some of the articles by supposed pundits and some of the blogs which astounded me yesterday.

A so called journalist wrote in a NYT editorial that Obama had clearly won the debate but added that although he’d watched all of the debate he’d not heard much of it because the sound was turned off most of the time because he was on a deadline. And if that’s not an amazing admission then I don’t know what is but he must be glad in retrospect that his name doesn’t appear on the article.

And a talk-backer who said that he got drunk watching the debate because McCain looked and sounded so stupid and added that he was happy that Obama had easily won.

Others critiqued McCain’s anger but to my mind and to that of many others he never got angry. He was assertive or even aggressive if you prefer that word but that is not something that turns American voters off. In fact many are turned off by Obama’s aloofness and ‘cool’ and many people find his Hollywood smile to be smug and condescending and wonder if he’s selling snake-oil.

If the present contest is now perceived by the voters as a contest between a wealth re-distributor and a wealth creator then McCain now has a very good chance of winning the election because America is still a center-right country!

When given a choice about how government should address the numerous economic difficulties facing today’s consumer, Americans by 84% to 13% prefer that the government focus on improving overall economic conditions and the jobs situation in the United States as opposed to taking steps to redistribute wealth more evenly throughout the population.

Add to all this, the growing publicity that shows Obama far more entangled in Acorn than he’s so far admitted to, court cases about voter fraud, a higher awareness of his close associations with Ayers and Wright etc. and McCain may be justified in saying that he is happy to be exactly where he is in the race right now.

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