John McCain Gains Strength in Polls Bill Smith, ARRA Editor: A Zogby poll released today depicts John McCain leading Barack Obama among likely voters by 46 to 41% which removes the prior month's seven-point advantage for Obama. Also, a Los Angeles Times-Bloomberg poll that gave Mr Obama a 12-point lead in June found that the McCain and Obama were statistically tied. RealClearPolitics average of polls has McCain trailing by less than 2% and in today's electoral college match up with no toss-up states has McCain winning the electo.Presidents of the United States of America Concerts Tickets. The Idiocy of Energy Independence by John Stossel It's amazing how ideas with no merit become popular merely because they sound good. Most every politician and pundit.ys ?energy independence? is a great idea. Presidents have promised it for 35 years. Wouldn't it be wonderful if we were self-sufficient, protected from high prices, supply disruptions and political machinations? 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The McCainville Nine-Pointer Presidents of the United States of America, Back in June, I wrote a post, Obama Campaign More or Less Concedes Ohio and Florida to McCain, in which I finished with an obscure reference that I think needs amplification: All in all, I believe McCain has many more paths to victory than does Obama; and I also believe that if John McCain will finally take off the gloves and start fighting Obama in the center, this will not even be a close race: McCain can make an excellent start by aggressively pushing to drill for oil everywhere that. Pat Buchanan on Cold War II Timothy Birdnow Pat Buchanan has gone off his rocker. Once a mighty Cold Warrior, he sounds today like someone writing for The Huffington Post or The Nation. His latest piece of drivel-?Who Started Cold War II?-is a monument to unclear thinking and Bush bashing. Let`s deconstruct this. 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Civil but Defining Discourse Saturday night, after spending some much-needed time in conversation with my wife in the wake of our oldest son leaving for his sophomore year at Purdue, I turned to the Olympics to watch Michael Phelps? swim into the record books. Sunday morning, though, I heard a good bit of buzz in church about another event that occurred on Saturday evening - the Saddleback Civil Forum on the Presidency, where Rick Warren sat down and gave essentially identical interviews to both major Presidential candidat. WI. The Hansen Report: Warren, Obama, and McCain I'm not Rick Warren's biggest fan. Don't get me wrong; I admire his godly character and zeal to claim this world for Christ. But I could live without the hokey acronyms and, especially, his ?felt needs? approach to evangelism. That said, I was impressed with Warren's hosting skills at the Saddleback Civil Forum on Saturday night. Warren is the only.hristian leader in America who could pull off this event. Sen. 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