Sway, you live in Michigan. Surely you know some people who are pissed off (even bitter) that their jobs were shipped overseas? And dont people you know reach for their religion when times are bad?
And as for elitism, (which some are accusing Obama of) it is hard to swallow when it is coming from people (both Hillary and McCain) who have more than $100 million in the bank. And in Hillary's case, she went to Yale, so it is tough to start making accusations about Harvard.
But bottom
line, are we REALLY going to elect a president based on a single sound bite somebody managed to record? I regard this tendency to make a huge media circus out of one comment to be a real problem in our system (and it happens on both sides). It is way more important what McCain and Obama think we should do in Iraq or what they would do about the economy than some sentence either of them said at some point in the campaign. I will refrain from repeating any of McCain's but he had some good ones and focusing on them is equally stupid.
There ARE some real differences between what the candidates would do about the major issues in front of us. THAT is what we should base our votes on, not the latest media frenzy over some ill advised remark.