Poll: 18 percent of U.S. voters undecided

I DONT BUY OBAMA"S LIES EITHER

I agree that things aren't good - I am just getting tired of both sides continually in a mutual blaming contest over this problem - especially when the election isn't even over yet and I have already started to hear posturing for the 2012 election. I just wonder how much of the problems are created by both political machines to try and panic the voters to get their candidate elected. I guess that it is too much to ask to forget the politics and just get the problem fixed - oh yea I forgot that might not get the right candidate elected. What happened to government for the people and by the people and not government for and by the political party with the most b.s. to spread around.

John McBush is George Bush only much older. The policy still remains the same, feed the rich and starve the middle class.

The administration had to know what was going on, if not they deserve to be booted from office. There should be no rewards for failure to do ones job and no bailout funded by whats left of the taxpayers.

A vote for McCBush is a vote that says great job..Georgie'

The FBI will also be investigating members of Congress and that would include Dodd, Levin, Clinton, Biden, McCain and Obama. Besides the Presidential cyborg supporters, can anyone still say with a straight face that Washington can fix this? It is now known that All but around 50 out of 500 and some received donations and gifts from these financial geniuses. The only fix is revolution and not putting up with this corruption anymore. If anyone thinks this won't happen again with the Democrats and Republicans in Congress or with either candidate winning is smoking something that should be illegal. They all belong in Prison and not the country club type but hard time. BTW- Obama has received almost 3 times the amount of money as McCain. Neither are the candidate for change just power hungry hack politicians

Revolution is coming as America is angry and doesn't believe a word that these politicians are saying. Whether the revolution is violent or no depends on the American standing up with a unified voice and the actions of the government but it is coming and this time let's get it right.

Of course no list would be complete without adding Pelosi to it.

Finally, if the Russian people early on can show the courage to stand up to the corrupt communist regime than, if we don't, what does that say about the American people. If we don't then we are as guilty as these financial geniuses and the politicians that lined their pockets with their money.
If done with ethical standards, we will see 2 presidential candidates and a VP candidate under criminal investigation but then Corruption in both parties is too engrained to let this happen. Also, any investigation must involve Buffett and he happens to be one of Obama's chief advisors. Ah...The smell of corruption is everywhere and, in the end nothing will be done unless the American people act.

HOW can obama vote against a war,when he wasn't a senator,2 yrs in the senate,and a war that started in 2003 doesn't add up,---------like he doesn't add up,funny no one caught that lie,not even the media

That is so funny I thought that the war on regulation was started by Ron Reagan.

not smoking a thing,that guy couldn't have voted against the war,please explain to me how he did,when he wasn't a senator in 2003,your thought would be appreciated

I find this truly unbelievable. Obama better prepared to handle this crisis? Please look at his initial reaction. He said that he supported the Bush's administration proposal. Obviously. since he knows nothing about the economy, he just gave a non belligerents response til someone told him what to say. This is not the kind of president I want.

he did obama said over and over he voted against the war in IRAQI,HE MAY HAVE SPOKE AGAINST THE WAR,BUT HE SURE AS HELL DIDN'T VOTE AGAINST IT LIKE HE CLAIMS HE DID,THE MEDIA DIDN'T CALL HIM ON IT

We know who can not fix this mess, and that is the guy who helped create this mess. Senator Phil Gramm pocketed a fortune in deregulating the finance industry. John McCain was a key supporter of this deregulation.

Remember Keating 5. John McCain can not fix this meltdown, because he is part of it.

Wow! 18% I would be surprised if 18% of our citizens know who is running!

Wow! 18% I would be surprised if 18% of US voters know who is running!

This election is about accountability, for the past eight years the GOP has pillage our economy for their own greed! Now here we are at a very important crossroads, we either continue on the same course or we vote to change the current course.

I am not better off than I was 8 years ago

The following quote from the story:

"McCain's campaign manager Rick Davis drew unwelcome attention in news reports Tuesday that one of two housing giants rescued by the government this month had been paying $15,000 a month to Davis' lobbying firm until shortly before the takeover."

demonstrates again how much the AP (and the NY Times and many more) are in the tank for Obama. Rick Davis left the firm in 2005, but irrespective of that, inserting this issue into an objective story about the high level of undecided voters makes sense only if the story points out Obama's association with Johnson and Raines, each of whom earned 10's of millions of dollars from one of those housing giants. Of course the Times is not objective and so they focus on McCain and leave Obama alone.

The good news is the high level of undecided voters. Let the debates begin.

Oh and I will also say this...again. Larry K is absolutely correct, as I also wrote last evening. Start with the Community Reinvestment Act of 1977 and then move forward through the additional legislation and Presidential position papers since that time. The genesis of this crisis is the fault of the federal government. This is a prime example, in fact it is likely to go down in history as THE prime example of why the government has no business in the social engineering business. What occurred (any person with a breath left in their body could buy a home) is EXACTLY the policy that every administration since 1977 advocated for and promulgated. Lenders and investors rose to the occasion and took them up on their offer. To blame Bush specifically or Wall Street specifically ignores the facts.

Obama is a redistribitionist that wants all to flow through a central government, That is the cause of the problem.

No... that is not the problem.

The problem is with run-away deregulation that has turned into complete "un-regulation" across multiple industries. The problem is that government (you know, actual governing?) has been taken so nearly completely out of the picture, that greed and sophomoric decision-making has been allowed to run rampant and unchecked. Very much akin to taking down every speed limit sign and sending all the cops home.

Yes, Barack Obama and the democrats are for some oversight... some prudent regulation... but to run back to the GOP playbook and cry words like "big government" as a response to a practical call for some sensible involvement in an unruly economy run by forces that in some cases "don't know", and in some cases "don't care" what they're doing, is A) Irresponsible, and B) Childish.

You wanna talk about "Big Government"?...
FACT: Under the Bush Administration, Government has never been as "big" as it is now, since the New Deal.

Look... this post, as well as being a response to you Larry, is a response to a story about undecided voters, so hopefully a few of them will be reading this...

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It's my sincere hope, that when making your decision, you'll think hard about which party you trust to make rational decisions and policy on your behalf for the next 4 years. At the RNC, John McCain himself said to his own party, about his own party, that a "me-first", "old-boy" network of Washington insiders had betrayed the trust of the American people, and that he was the right man to go clean his own house...

Hey, I liked him in 2000... but Honestly... during his stunning transformation from "Senator" McCain to "2008 Candidate" McCain, this man has completely 180'd his positions on over 70 major issues from foreign policy to domestic policy to energy to immigration, and the list goes on... all so that he'd finally fall in line with the GOP agenda and the agenda of the 150+ corporate lobbyists running his campaign.

feel free to view the list here: http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/flipflops

... not to mention the fact that he's now for business regulation after being against it for the majority of his 26 years in Washington... or that he wasn't allowed to pick the running mate he wanted.

All this goes to prove a point: John McCain is not Maverick anymore... if anything he's the "Goose"... John McCain is a good soldier... doing exactly what he's told by his soulless, greedy, evil, corporate/GOP puppet-masters without question (anymore)!

If John McCain is to be the true agent of change in Washington, what makes anyone believe that the powers who've been pulling his strings all-along this candidacy, are going to allow him to turn on them once he's in office?

All distractions, lipsticks and pigs aside... Remember this: A vote for John McCain is a vote for 4 more years of the machine behind him that brought you the last 8 years.

As Ken said, he (Obama) never said he "voted" against the war, he said he spoke out against the war because it would distract us from going after the people who attacked us and cost billions of dollars that would be better spent here at home. That's what he said back in 2002 and he was absolutely correct. Please stop hearing what you want to hear and actually LISTEN to what he says, Thank you!!

Can you blame the American people as to being undecided? Both candidates are part of the problem, yet ONE has to be elected! It will be decided on November 4, 2008. Regardless who gets the nomination, neither of these candidates will be able to completely fix the problem. There are too many elements and the judicial system is "just to big" to make decisions on the fly! To many CHIEFS and not enough INDIANS!

HEY! 18%....WAKE UP! This is a NO-BRAINER! the Republicans have gotten us INTO this mess and Democrats need to get us OUT! Republicans have been singing the praises of non-regulation for decades! John McCain was one of the KEATING FIVE! He intimidated Regulators to help his thief of a friend Charles Keating bilk legions of people out of their life savings! Doesn't anyone REMEMEBER this scandal?? Where on earth is your memory, America? McCain is EXACTLY the kind of person who is responsible for this mess. Now he wants to act like he's always been for regulation! America! Where is your mind? I can't believe anyone actually thinks McCain is a viable choice. What is this, the Twilight Zone?

McCain-Palin 08
All the way baby!

i'm with you American believer.

McCain-Palin 08

All the way to NOWHERE! GET A GRIP!

OBAMA-BIDEN 08

GET USED TO IT! IT'S JUST ABOUT A "DONE DEAL".

Maybe if you search this video on youtube it could help you decide.
WAKE UP AMERICA!!! NO John McCAIN NO Sarah PALIN!!

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"I too don't buy in to oabama's lie's as well and to me once a muslim alway's a muslim i don't want a muslim of any kind at the head of this nation "

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These types of statements leave me speechless. I am absolutely dumbfounded by folks who suggest that Senator Obama is a terrorist because they believe he is muslim. Am I to believe that John McCain is a serial killer, a cult leader, or a serial rapist because he is of traditional Christian values? (David Berkowitz 'son of sam', David Koresh 'WACO', Anthony Ireland). That type of thinking is shallow and ridiculous. It concerns me very much that people are basing decisions on traits such as that. Grow up.