Current Event Blog Week 4

The article I read this week was the one from Monday October 13^th, in the Washington Post called “Obama Up by 10 Points as McCain Favorability Ratings Fall”. This article talks about Obama’s sudden increase in his votes by 10% of all likely voters from recent events. McCain is slipping behind in his votes and now his campaign strategy has changed because of him falling behind.

The recently overall average poll now places Obama at 53% to 43% over McCain from all likely voters for this election. McCain so far now as shown a bit of change in his campaign strategy. McCain now begins to attack Obama rather then expressing his own political views to the public now and using references such as Obama is too “Liberal” or “Risky”. As the article says most republican supporters now feel less supportive or enthusiastic about McCain’s new tactics which has not been shown since before the GOP Convention. With the election in about three weeks, we can’t help to think if this trend that leans to favor Obama will continue or will it balance out again. Also what may be a strong influence in this change of voters is the economic crisis. As a poll came from after the 2^nd presidential debate, 53% voters believe the economy is the most important issue and that Obama wins in that issue by 62% to 33%. McCain however still wins on the polls on Foreign Policy. McCain as well did not really gain much influence with describing Obama as a “Risky” candidate, voters say that 55% say Obama is a very safe candidate choice and 45% say he is not. After the 2^nd presidential debate voters, by contrast of a poll taken after the 2^nd debate, by a quarter many think worse of McCain as a result of debates.

As an Obama supporter, I'm happy to hear this and that it surprises me a lot that it's changed from such a close race to a 10% difference in polls now. I do agree with the rest of these voters on economics is the most important thing right now, and I believe Obama will do a better job with it, I mean if we got a bad economy how can we even answer all the other issues we have! Although I'm happy to see that he is ahead now in the polls, I don't think Obama supporters should rely on a safe win though, 3 weeks is a long time before the actual election day and a lot can change between now and then!