It’s sad to read the distress of American journalists, like Dave Lindorff, when they re-explain to their readers why McCain/Palin might win and then we hear Palin reveal that she doesn’t know what the Bush Doctrine is, that she wants to attack Russia and is sending her son to Iraq to fight the enemies who carried out “9/11”. The reality of America is pretty depressing.
But we all need a little hope in our lives especially when thinking about American politics so I thought I’d report that 9th of September CNN polls in the key “toss-up” states Ohio, Michigan and New Hampshire have all had 2% swings towards Obama/Biden, moving from a 2% gap to a 4+5% gap in Obama’s favour. This is despite the first Palin-era poll in Virginia going towards McCain. These 3 positive states are enough, with those states already solidly Democrat, to give the election to Obama, as long as the Supreme Court doesn’t intervene and stop the election again. Although Pennsylvania is narrowing Joe Biden comes from the next door state which should help. So there is some hope.
I’m not trying to say Obama will solve America’s problems and that this will solve the world’s problems – America is not the hope of the world it’s just that, if it keeps going the way it’s been going, it’ll go down and take the whole world down with it. Dave is right to lessen expectations. It will take many years just to avoid disaster. We only hope America can save itself.