Obama has lead in Minnesota and 3 other swing states

Another series of Quinnipiac Polls were released today, showing Democratic Sen. Barack Obama with leads in four battleground states over Republican Sen. John McCain. The polls were conducted in partnership with the Wall Street Journal and WashingtonPost.com. Here's how four current swing states look today:

COLORADO: Obama 49 percent - McCain 44 percent
MICHIGAN: Obama 48 percent - McCain 42 percent
MINNESOTA: Obama 54 percent - McCain 37 percent
WISCONSIN: Obama 52 percent - McCain 39 percent

The press release described the results this way:

"An emerging Democratic coalition of women, minorities, and younger voters is propelling Illinois Sen. Barack Obama to leads of five to 17 percentage points over Arizona Sen. John McCain among likely voters in battleground states of Colorado, Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin, according to four simultaneous Quinnipiac University Polls.
"Sen. McCain's lead among white voters in Colorado and Michigan cuts the gap to single digits, but doesn't offset Sen. Obama's strength among other groups. The Democrat also leads by eight to 21 percentage points among independent voters in each state.
Democrats would like Obama to pick Sen. Hillary Clinton as his running mate, but voters overall reject the idea. Independent voters oppose Sen. Clinton by 16 to 29 percentage points."
Says Peter A. Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute: "November can't get here soon enough for Sen. Barack Obama. He has a lead everywhere, and if nothing changes between now and November he will make history."

Comments

[TeagleT]

Copied off the net: This will open our eyes!!!!!!! Think before pulling that lever:
In just one year. Remember the election in 2006?
Thought you might like to read the following:
A little over one year ago:

1) Consumer confidence stood at a 2 1/2 year high;
2) Regular gasoline sold for $2.19 a gallon;
3) The unemployment rate was 4.5%.

Since voting in a Democratic Congress in 2006 we have seen:

1) Consumer confidence plummet;
2) The cost of regular gasoline soar to over $3.50 a gallon;
3) Unemployment is up to 5% (a 10% increase);
4) American households have seen $2.3 trillion in equity value evaporate (stock and mutual fund losses);
5) Americans have seen their home equity drop by $1.2 trillion dollars; 6) 1% of American homes are in foreclosure.

America voted for change in 2006, and we got it!

Remember it's Congress that makes law not the President.
He has to work with what's handed to him.

Part 2:

Taxes...Whether Democrat or a Republican you will find these statistics enlightening and amazing.
www.taxfoundation.org/publications/show/151.html
Taxes under Clinton 1999 Taxes under Bush 2008
Single making 30K - tax $8,400 Single making g 30K - tax $4,500
Single making 50K - tax $14,000 Single making 50K - tax $12,500&nbs p;
Single making 75K - tax $23,250 Single making 75K - tax $18,750
Married making 60K - tax $16,800 Married making 60K- tax $9,000
Married making 75K - tax $21,000 Married making 75K - tax $18,750
Married making 125K - tax $38,750 Married making 125K - tax $31,250
Both democratic candidates will return to the higher tax rates
It is amazing how many people that fall into the categories above think Bush is screwing them and Bill Clinton was the greatest President ever. If Obama or Hillary are elected, they both say they will repeal the Bush tax cuts and a good portion of the people that fall into the categories above can't wait for it to happen. This is like the movie The Sting with Paul Newman; you scam somebody out of some money and they don't even know what happened.

PART 3:
You think the war in Iraq is costing us too much?

Read this:
Boy am I confused. I have been hammered with the propaganda that it
is the Iraq war and the war on terror that is bankrupting us.
I now find that to be RIDICULOUS.

I hope the following 14 reasons are forwarded over and over again
until they are read so many times that the reader gets sick of reading them. I
have included the URL's for verification of all the following facts.
1. $11 Billion to $22 billion is spent on welfare to illegal aliens
each year by state governments.
Verify at:http://tinyurl.com/zob77

2. $2.2 Billion dollars a year is spent on food assistance programs
such as food stamps, WIC, and free school lunches for illegal aliens.
Verify at:http://www.cis..org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html

3. $2.5 Billion dollars a year is spent on Medicaid for illegal aliens.
Verify at:http://www.cis..org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html

4. $12 Billion dollars a year is spent on primary and secondary school
education for children here illegally and they cannot speak a word of English!
Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.0.html

5 $17 Billion dollars a year is spent for education for the
American-born children of illegal aliens, known as anchor babies.
Verify athttp://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html

6. $3 Million Dollars a DAY is spent to incarcerate illegal aliens.
Verify at:http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html

7. 30% percent of all Federal Prison inmates are illegal aliens.
Verify at:http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html

8 $90 Billion Dollars a year is spent on illegal aliens for Welfare &
social services by the American taxpayers.
Verify at: http://premium.cnn.com/TRANSCIPTS/0610/29/ldt.01.html

9. $200 Billion Dollars a year in suppressed American wages are caused
by the illegal aliens.
Verify at:http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html

10. The illegal aliens in the United States have a crime rate
that's two and a half times that of white non-illegal aliens. In particular,
their children, are going to make a huge additional crime problem in the US
Verify at:http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0606/12/ldt.01.html

11. During the year of 2005 there were 4 to 10 MILLION illegal aliens
that crossed our Southern Border also, as many as 19,500 illegal aliens
from Terrorist Countries. Millions of pounds of drugs, cocaine, meth, heroin
and marijuana, crossed into the U. S from the Southern border.
Verify at: Homeland Security Report: http://tinyurl.com/t9sht

12. The National Policy Institute, 'estimated that the total
cost of mass deportation would be between $206 and $230 billion or an average
cost of between $41 and $46 billion annually over a five year period.'
Verify at: http://www.nationalpolicyinstitute.org/pdf/deportation.pdf

13. In 2006 illegal aliens sent home $45 BILLION in remittances
back to their countries of origin.
Verify at:http://www.rense.com/general75/niht.htm

14. 'The Dark Side of Illegal Immigration: Nearly One Million
Sex Crimes Committed by Illegal Immigrants In The United States.'
Verify at:http://www.drdsk.com/articleshtml

The total cost is a whopping $338.3 BILLION DOLLARS A YEAR.

Are we THAT stupid?

If this doesn't bother you then just delete the message. If, on the other
hand, if it does raise the hair on the back of your neck, I hope you
forward it to every legal resident in the country including every representative in
Washington, D.C. - five times a week for as long as it takes to restore
some semblance of intelligence in our policies and enforcement thereof.

Jay W. Murfield

[L D Nelson]

TeagleT - One of the sources you cite, the National Policy Institute, appears to be a White Supremacist organization - not exactly a good source for objective research.

[Ollie Ox]

Teagle--now that your eyes are open, how about learning to evaluate the email urban legends that you paste in here from your inbox?

If you want to believe falsehoods, that's your right, but don't expect others to be as gullible. Readers might ask themselves why they're supposed to accept known false information as fact.

Part 1: "voting for change" is a false urban legend.

Debunked at snopes and factcheck.org (sorry about the {dot} but this post is getting flagged as spam with the hyperlinks intact)

www {dot} snopes {dot}com/politics/business/votedforchange.asp

www {dot} factcheck {dot} org/askfactcheck/did_electing_a_democratic_congress_in_2006.html

part 2:
If anyone here actually bother to follow the link at the Tax Foundation, he or she will find a request to visit yet another page, since the figures in the post TeagleT cites are wildly exaggerated.

Click on
www {dot} taxfoundation {dot} org/publications/show/151.html
and you'll see this message:

U.S. Federal Individual Income Tax Rates History, 1913-2008

Note: If you clicked on this link in response to an e-mail, blog post, or message board comparing income taxes under Presidents Clinton and Bush, please see this page: www {dot} taxfoundation {dot} org/blog/show/22958.html

Which leads to a post correcting the wildly stretched truth in the misinformation TeagleT proudly posted here.

How much stretching? Let's look at the first tax category --and evidently he believes to be true--that a single taxpayer earning under $30,000 paid $8400 under Clinton, but now pays only $4500 under Bush! If true, wow, $3900 difference, right?

Unfortunately, as the Tax Foundation itself says in setting the record straight, that taxpayer actually paid $3,157.50 under Clinton and now pays $2,756.25 under Bush. That's a $401 difference--nearly one-tenth of what TeagleT's source wants you to accept as a fact.

The urban tax legend put succinctly:
taxprof (dot} typepad {dot}com/taxprof_blog/2008/03/another-tax-urb.html

What will you paste in here from your inbox next, TeagleT? Chances at wealth from the Nigerian money offer, the Spanish Prisoner, or Russian/Ukrainian scam?