The media would like people to believe that nearly every young person in America supports Barack Obama.  However, a new ATV/ Zogby poll shows that is not the case, and that McCain’s support among young voters is increasing rapidly.  The poll says that “McCain gained 20% and Obama lost 16% among voters ages 18-29.”  Obama still leads among young voters 49%-38%, but with the way his support has been increasing, we might see McCain becoming very competitive for the youth vote soon.  

This poll just goes to show that you shouldn’t believe all the hype.  Young people all across America are getting excited for John McCain and the GOP, and will turn out in large numbers for our candidates in the fall.

Barack Obama likes to claim that he is the candidate that transcends partisan politics, but a new Rasmussen poll says that 30% of conservative Democrats say they are voting for McCain.

The poll also says that, while there are more Democrats than Republicans who are undecided, a majority of undecided voters are leaning towards McCain.

Once again, Obama claims one thing, while the facts prove the opposite.

The Democrats are trying to put on a good show of party unity after their long and divisive primary, but everything might not be quite as friendly as the Democrats would like us to believe.  There is plenty of tension between the Obama and Hillary camps, and a lot of it revolves around money.  Hillary’s campaign is millions of dollars in debt, and in a show of unity Obama has committed to helping her repay it.  However, the Obama campaign doesn’t seem very enthusiastic about achieving that goal.  The Wall Street Journal reports that: 

At a Midtown Manhattan fundraiser designed to help raise cash for his campaign and help retire debt for his former opponent’s, Barack Obama offered praise of Hillary Clinton. But he temporarily forgot to make his pitch about debt retirement.

“Hold on a second guys, I was getting all carried away,” he said about a minute after he walked off stage to Stevie Wonder’s “Signed, Sealed, Delivered” that typically plays after campaign events. “Senator Clinton still has some debt, and I could have had some debt if I hadn’t won. So I know the drill,” he said, as he instructed donors to use the “debt retirement” envelopes under their seats to mail in a contribution to his one-time rival’s campaign.” 

Meanwhile, many Obama supporters aren’t very excited about repaying debts that Hillary Clinton racked up in the process of attacking their candidate.  Politico writes:

To this end, when Ed Chandler, a Chicago venture capitalist and Obama donor, sent out an e-mail last week promoting an intimate dinner with the nominee for high-dollar donors he made clear to specify where the dollars were going.

“NONE OF THE MONEY RAISED WILL GO TO PAY OFF HILLARY CLINTON’S DEBTS,” Chandler wrote to potential givers in an e-mail obtained by Politico.  ”While you may have heard that Sen. Obama has asked people to make a separate donation to the Clinton campaign for that purpose, neither the law, nor the ethic of this campaign, will allow for any transfer of funds from Obama For America to Clinton.”

Clearly all is not well in the Democratic Party.  Many former Hillary supporters are already backing McCain, and if they believe Obama and his campaign are slighting Senator Clinton, more will surely follow.

This is a fascinating article full of information everyone should know about Senator John McCain.  Despite spending decades in the public eye, it seems that not many people know much about his family life. 

For example, of the seven children Senator McCain has raised, three of them were adopted—two sons from his first marriage, and a Bengali daughter he and Cindy McCain adopted from Mother Theresa’s orphanage.  That daughter, Bridget, had severe health problems as a child, and the McCain’s intervention saved her life. 

The article also discusses the McCain family’s tradition of service to their country, saying:

Anyone can talk about “supporting our troops”; the McCains serve. McCain’s father and grandfather were respected American admirals. Of McCain’s four sons, three have gone the military route. One was a Navy pilot like his father, one enlisted in the Marines at age 17 and recently completed a tour in Iraq, and one is completing his education at the Naval Academy (raising the strong possibility that, for the first time in half a century, the United States will have a president with a son at war).