Bush: America Has No Problems.

[A Black Falcon]

Fittisize, I think he was saying that while Alberta is conservative, the rest of Canada is for the most part pretty liberal. I think that's pretty clearly true, and a Canadian 'conservative' is nothing compared to an American conservative... Canadian conservatives are nowhere near as far right, I'm pretty sure. America is just a more conservative country. It's so bad that even the Democrats are just barely, on only some issues, left of center... the center is the "left" in many people's minds. Actual left-wing views are pretty rare, really... most Democratic politicians are centrists, for instance, while most Republicans are much farther towards the extreme. It does seem that America is edging just slightly left this year, maybe, but as all of the close polls show, even there the right-wingers are able to hang on, despite all logic...

I agree, there's no way for me to explain why McCain is doing so well in the polls despite Bush's appropriately low approval ratings. It really makes no sense... people are just being deluded into thinking that he represents change when compared to Bush, or that he's as moderate as he was in 2000 (he's not even close, he's gone hard right in the past four years), or that

There are some things the Democrats can do to hurt him, though. First, abortion. John McCain has a 100% pro-life (anti-abortion) voting record. Many moderates supporting him do not understand this, or they think that "abortion is safe in America".

Abortion isn't safe. In fact, it's one 80-something year old man away from being made illegal. That is, of course, Justice Stevens on the Supreme Court... four votes on the court already are anti-abortion. John McCain would make that five, and abortion would be gone as a federally mandated right. And then some states would ban it, and women would start dying in those states of illegal abortions.

And that's just one issue... really, above all others, the Democrats MUST win this in order to keep the Supreme Court as just a center-right court (because the four liberals are overall older than the five conservatives), instead of a far right one...

, mostly because he's a "nigger." It was outrageous, the vehemently racist and ignorant sentiments that every single American I encountered harboured. Unbelievable. And all these people were from the very progressive and tolerant state of Mississippi. Am I to assume that all Americans are like the ones I met? Throw in the towel America, because your country is BEAT!

I hope that's meant as a joke, because the South is, of course, the most conservative and anti-black part of the country. Despite black people making up 40% of the population of the state, Obama has virtually no chance of winning it because of how conservative and racist the white population is... it'll be a minor miracle if Obama wins even one Southern state apart from Virginia and maybe Florida.

The liberal parts of the country are the Northeast and Pacific coast; the middle-coast states, Midwest, and Rocky Mountain areas are mixed. And that's why the Democrats' plan for victory this time focuses on winning all the states that voted for Kerry (the Northeast, part of the Midwest, and the Pacific Coast) and adding 9 electoral votes to that.

Colorado has 9 electoral votes. So all that's needed is Kerry + Colorado... and Obama is leading in Iowa and New Mexico too, and could also win Virginia and Ohio. But between Virginia, Ohio, Colorado, and Florida, Obama only needs to win one to win, assuming he can hold the states that voted for Kerry and Gore, which he should be able to do... the election is definitely Obama's to lose.

He could, of course, manage to lose it somehow, but he has the clear advantage.