McCain Lead in the Polls?

Most people believe that the 2008 presidential election was never a close race once the Democratic nomination fight was over. However, the McCain/Palin ticket actually was leading the Obama/Biden ticket from September 7-16. Obama’s polling numbers spiked on September 4, but then began to drop whenever McCain announced Palin as his running mate. There was so much excitement around a woman Vice Presidential nominee, that many people changed their minds about who they were voting for.

I am sure you are all wondering why I bring this up since we all know how that election turned out. It shows the importance of getting a Vice Presidential nominee who can create a lot of excitement, but can keep that excitement going until November. Many names have been thrown around the past few days, but the names that seem like the best choice have said that they are not really interested. This is a huge blow to the Republican party if they cannot convince someone like Rubio or Daniels to join the ticket. Allen West, on the other hand, says that he would accept the offer to become the VP nominee; however, some people believe that he would make a horrible candidate to try and appeal to moderates and women. Many people keep throwing around Rob Portman and Bob McDonnell have also been thrown around, but they both seem like too much of what we already think about a stereotypical GOP. Two other names that seem like they have only been thrown around out of desperation of minority voters are Susanna Martinez and Bobby Jindal. This being said, every Republican’s name has been mention; I’ve even heard Bob Corker of Tennessee be mentioned, and that for sure won’t happen.

This race is wide open, and could possibly depend on the VP nominee.

Like usual, my main sources are listed below:

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2008/president/us/general_election_mccain_vs_obama-225.html

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/post/allen-west-for-vice-president-why-its-not-happening/2012/04/10/gIQApwmL8S_blog.html

Obama Aiming for Jimmy Carter’s Goal?

A recent segment of Hannity showed that Obama is getting dangerously close to surpassing Jimmy Carter’s gas price percentage. Currently, the average gas price is near $4, which is up 90.2% (and according to US News up even more than that) from January 2009, when he was sworn into office. During the Carter administration, gas prices rose 103.77%. Is this what we want in a President that campaigned on a Hope and Change agenda. I personally don’t see a lot of hope in this. I guess things did change, but I can honestly say that they did not change for the better.

If Obama really wanted to help lower gas prices, he would have a different Energy Secretary. Steven Chu said, “Somehow, we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe.” Personally, I know that I do not want to pay nearly $7 or more for gas! This is not appropriate to do when there are numerous amount of people who cannot find jobs. Approving the Keystone pipeline would have been the ideal solution to both of these problems by allowing for more jobs to be created and more gas to easily shipped into this country.

If you don’t believe some of the facts, some of my sources are listed below:

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0312/73891_Page2.html#ixzz1rgxDnzgB

http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/washington-whispers/2012/04/09/gas-prices-grow-more-under-obama-than-carter