America is feeling blue

So somewhere in the time frame of the primaries when the election was basically between McCain, Clinton and Obama I decided to sign up for all three candidate's mailing lists. Now that Clinton is out of the picture my subscription has changed to being registered for HillPac.com. This is fine, as I still find this kind of news interesting. The purpose of this new site is to try to help publicize and fundraise for state elections where Democrats may be taking over Senate seats previously held by Republicans. I thought this was an worth cause for the ex-candidate, and have enjoyed the e-mails. However, as I'm sure others have seen the Democrats are poised to just explode their majority in both the Senate and the House. Some are even saying they may have a 60% majority meaning they can essentially do whatever it is that they want.

Is this a good thing?

I'm a registered Democrat so don't get me wrong, I'm sure I'll agree with the majority of the things they end up doing, but is this a good thing for Democracy? Checks and blanaces are important, but it seems like having that much of a majority and having a Democratic President just tosses some of our checks and balances out the window. I wasn't previously planning on donating any money to any elections, but I'm starting to think I should donate to the GOP. This seemingly inevitable situation is a BAD thing and could possibly tarnish Obama's presidency if they're not careful.

Nothing like a shopping spree to take care of campaign woes

OK so this is probably an odd topic to decide to make a post about seeing as how I have made so few posts lately, but...

The Associated Press has reported that McCain's campaign is spending "$150,000 in clothes, hair styling and accessories."

But that isn't even what pisses me off (although its close)...

McCain also said that Barack Obama's money advantage is probably why one Florida poll shows the Democrat doing well in the state. A Quinnipiac University poll released Thursday showed Obama up 5 percentage points overall in Florida, which went Republican in the last two presidential elections.

Seriously? You're spending six figures on pumps (what ever the hell pumps are) and you're complaining he has more money that you? Nice priorities. I'm sure there are a few financial conservatives out there who just switched their votes on that one.

What if...

So I had a though recently.

We currently stand in the middle of a financial crisis and we have the choice of two presidential candidates who have no significant economic experience. It made me think, what if Romney had been the GOP nominee? In this crumbling economy that will no doubt still be issue one on November 4th, would Obama stood any chance against a man who's entire campaign had been centered around the economy?

Personally, I believe Romney would have been pulling landslide numbers in the polls right now if things had been different during the primaries. This reminds me of a quote from Jon Stewart, and while I can't find the direct quote it went something like this: During the primaries, everyone wanted an everyman to be president someone they could have a beer with, someone on their level. Boy, wouldn't it have been nice to have the smarty pants running for office now?!