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Utahns giving — to Obama

Besides producing ads that slam each politician, and maybe to pay for travel expenses, what is the point of raising money in a campaign? Or is that where it goes? What if a candidate made an extremely rare move of donating all the money they had raised to some charity or program for youth or something? It's crazy how any candidate promises to help the country and bring change and better the economy, yet when it comes to campaigning, they throw on their expensive designer suit and travel the country in their private jet, while raising hordes of money as if it's a competition or business. Maybe I could try being a candidate for office and raise a lot of money and when I have enough for my life needs, I'd drop out and live happily ever after.

McCain may indeed win Utah "handily," but he will not win it enthusiastically, unless he excites Utahns/Mormons by picking Romney as his Veep. All of the driving I've done over the last several months arounf Utah, Idaho and Colorado pretty much proves that. In that time period I've seen literally hundreds of Obama bumper stickers (not too mention yard signs), while I've noticed only a grand total of 2 McCain stickers (which means that they're out there, but nobody wants them).

The money is needed mainly for media. Since the country is much too large for the candidate or his surrogates to rely on person-to-person contact, candidates must rely on advertising in the media. Television, particularly, can swallow those funds as fast as they can be raised. Other high cost items are polling and travel.

Why don't we ask why a rich man, and old man like McCain wants to be President?
He has more than enough money to retire and live in LUXURY
What a JERK
His wife is probably glad to get him out from under foot all day

The money goes to ensure that the United States doesn't elect an anti-military, pro infanticide, anti-American president who would hasten Armegeddon.

Lumping the name "Abraham Lincoln" in with Reagan and Bush is erroneous. Technically, all belonged to groups calling themselves "The Republican Party", but the Republican Party of Lincoln's era was drastically different than Reagan and Bush's party. Lincoln would likely view today's Republican PArty with profound sadness and embarrasment.

Obama is closer to the conservative Mormon values I grew up with than Washington 'maverick' John McCain. That makes Obama also the more Republican choice as the actual Republican is the greater Liberal this time around. Lastly, I was just plan annoyed with McCain with what he said about Romney during the Primaries and frankly I am not going to forget that. I said then I wouldn't vote for McCain, and nothing less than a VP spot for Romney (or Obama picking Hilary) is going to change my mind.

If you don't know where campaign contributions go, get educated. There is no excuse to be ignorant. Every expenditure is posted on the web -- or better yet head down to campaign headquarters and volunteer for an afternoon. See contributions in action.

Aside from the $$$ question, we're starting to see what many of us strongly suspected would happen as the campaign rolled along to the point where airy generalizations would give way to policy specifics - Obama has plummeted from his charisma-driven lead to a policy-driven 2nd place to McCain's much more solid experience and campaign platform.

As long as the campaign was about fact-free slogans and charisma, Obama was destined to lead McCain. But as more concrete positiions of the candidates on actual policy issues have come to the front, McCain pulls ahead fast, and fairly decisively.

Obama had better come up with better ideas than "inflate your tires to save gas", "plead with Iran to be good at the bargaining table", and "raise taxex for every problem" VERY quickly.

This "new Democrat" is just recycling Old Liberal Ideas that we've seen fail repeatedly for the last forty years.

So Obama leads in Utah, eh? Well, we also should vote for him. Best choice, by far.

Utah Country Mormon Republican please read Obama�s books before you pronounce Mormon Republican values upon him. The reality of who he really is dwarfs any Steven King novel for shear white knuckle terror. Then again maybe the Obama who wrote the books was not the Obama that Obama knew�

You're still the old Karl Rovian, obfuscate the details, pretend someone's "just a celebrity", haters you've always been.

Obama has plenty of policy out there, and talks about it in every speech. But he expects you to pay attention to details and read -- something that Utah R-button pushers aren't used to doing.

Ah, well. Utah really doesn't matter one bit in the larger scope of things.

Utahns are embarrassed that they have to vote for McCain, they don't like to advertise this fact by placing McCain stickers on the backs of their minivans.

Why would anybody vote for Obama and his ilk such as Ayers, White, Jackson, Flygare, Rezko... The list of real 'winners' goes on and on and on.... Talk about a jerk... Obama is nothing more than a lackey for his handlers. He has no clue and no business running for POTUS, plus he can't think (did you watch the latest debate and his getting trounced?)!!!!

Obama might be raising more money, but he has to be spending more money by far. My mom made the mistake of sending some money in to Obama (she's a Democrat - yeah, there are some of those in Utah). Now, she gets 1 or 2 letters each day from Obama, asking for more money. One can only hope they come out ahead in that.

McSame has only raised $595000 ? I heard they had to move that $100000/plate dinner to a smaller location but they could have held it around the smallest table at Dees. Obamas money comes from regular people who care about this country, not wealthy 'donors' who only care about themselves.

A special thanks to 'lack of reason' and michaelh for their re-hash of yesterdays squak-radio shows. If you really would like to know about Obamas plans, go to his website.

Utahns realize that a McCain victory will result in more of their family members stuck in endless wars throughout the middle east and elsewhere. They also realize that we do need a drastic change in how we deal with the rest of the world and going to war everytime someone disagrees with the US is not the answer. It's time to seek alternative solutions to issues that affect the future of this country. Obama is the future, McCain is the past.

So far, only two accurate posts on this article. Voice of Reason points to McCain's 5 point lead that was just announced this morning. Last election cycle, Kerry had a 7 point lead at this time, then lost it as issues finally came into the spotlight. This time, Obama has already lost his 7 point lead, and quickly turned it into a 5 point deficit. He is proving to be very naive on issues, and his party isn't helping him any in Congress.

And Anonymous has the second accurate post. Utahns are embarrassed that they have to vote for McCain (as are Republicans all over the country).

Doesn't matter, I'm still voting for Bob Barr. I'm one of those Republicans that Anonymous talks about who dislikes McCain. I won't vote for the guy.

(McCain leads Obama among likely U.S. voters by 46 percent to 41 percent, wiping out Obama's solid 7-point advantage in July and taking his first lead in the monthly Reuters/Zogby poll.)

Obama needs to give all that money and VP to Hillary,
she could have done a better job with it.

If this keeps up, it will be the worst democrat loss since they voted for Old Jef Davis- 1860.

He lost the civil war and a country.

I am not voting for McCain. I am voting against Obamanation.