There's just too much news. (A Pre Veep Debate post)

There's been Too much news to type about lately. The economic bail out bill failed in the US House of Representatives, despite the afternoon long suspension of one of the presidential campaigns. It was then amended and passed in the Senate. Now it goes back to the House. As it does, stocks dropped on awful employment news and the growing credit crisis. There have been a series of bombings in Baghdad. A US General in Afghanistan is practically begging for more troops. And we are a month away from the election of the 44th President of the United States of America.

Tonight, after the republican choice for Vice President gets her cram session on current world events (and Joe Biden's record) and Senator Obama's choice gets his sensitivity training, the Vice presidential debate will take place. The spin has been something to behold. There's palin's skill at giving real good non-answers. How tonight's format could work in her favor. Stories of the moderator favoring Obama (and a future moderator acting as the link between NBC and the mccain camp). How a focus on foreign policy, like say the 2004 vice presidential debate, would be "gotcha" politics. I guess we'll have to see. I'm cautiously optimistic. Biden could come across as a mccain-esque angry old man. And she could come off like the lead character in the movie "Bob Roberts". Either way, I am expecting a bit of a dog fight.

Barack Obama has been moving up steadily in the polls, since about a week after the republican convention. Most polls now find him ahead in the ever important swing states of Ohio and Florida. President Clinton's recent visit may have helped with the latter. He is also leading in Colorado, New Mexico, Iowa, Virginia, Nevada, and North Carolina. The failure-in-chief won all of these states in 2004. Some of these states are Way too Close, but others aren't (Iowa by 9+).

Anything can happen from now until November 4th, including the thinking that Obama is so ahead we can lay back a little. The Obama Campaign certainly doesn't want that. It is bringing the internet and grassroots together. Supporters are becoming volunteers in phone banks and street canvassing in states like Pennsylvania. There are text connections, web services making it easy to find out what you can do to volunteer, to donate, and to find out about events in your area. And now the Obama '08 iPhone application makes any downloader an Obama expert. We've come a long way from the pamphlets of the Revolution. I wonder if mccain understands it all.

Most important right now is that you and everyone you know are registered to vote. Deadlines are coming up. New Jersey's is October 14th. You can check at www.voteforchange.com (an Obama sanctioned site, I'm sure there are others) to make sure you're registered. It's important that the people's voice is heard . Especially at a time when it seems so obvious that the apathy allowing only the voices of Our "leaders" to be heard has failed Us so.