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...like McCain. McCain is Bush, and we've already had this one, you know what I mean?" In the end, says Riehle, Obama retains a big advantage with true-blue Democrats over McCain, who is seen as anti-union, pro-free trade and supportive of Bush's fiscal policies...
...addition, political analysts say Obama needs to focus more on expanding his political map and luring fiscal-conservative voters away from McCain - voters like Hecimovich. McCain's "base are independent-leaning voters concerned by overspending in Washington," Riehle says. "Obama can battle McCain in appealing to those kind of voters very well." But so far Obama has seemed unwilling to do what both Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton did against their respective rivals: paint his opponent as, having spent the past 30 years in Washington, being out of touch with ordinary voters...
...people lucky enough to hold stock, consumer confidence is indeed a state of mind. But for people with fixed incomes and the working poor who could barely pay their bills before, the current fiscal situation is a very real crisis. Try raising a 6-month-old baby when your water has been cut off. Try coming back from your chemo appointment to find that your electricity isn't working. Try deciding whether to pay your rent this month to forestall eviction or fill your tank with gas so you don't get fired from your job. How dare we think...
...America, and I will make it easier for them to grow.' Obama sees a more active role for government in job creation. In the short term, he supports a second stimulus package in addition to the $168 billion one already passed. McCain portrays himself as a traditional fiscal conservative, emphasizing tax cuts and a balanced budget. He has not weighed in on a second stimulus plan. TAXES The 2001 and 2003 Bush tax cuts are set to expire in 2010. What are the candidates' new tax proposals? He would end Bush's tax cuts for families making more than...
...seem all that much after an Administration that spent $10 billion per month in Iraq. "You can argue that there's a need for short-term deficit spending," says one of Obama's economic advisers, "but in the end, he's going to have to get back to fiscal responsibility." Ultimately, the public's decision on Barack Obama won't rest so much on his race or exotic-sounding name as on the willingness to take a chance on a candidate who is promising a real break from the recent past - a government that is part of the solution...