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Las Vegas SunBarack Obama: Our choice for PresidentSun, Oct 19, 2008
The closing weeks of the 2008 presidential election are starting to have the feel of the 1980 and 1992 races. One of the threads that links the three presidential elections is the uncertain and troubling times, an anxiety intensified by a wobbly economy, which we certainly are living through today.
Public opinion is gloomy, as reflected in a recent CBS News-New York Times poll in which 89 percent of respondents said the country is on the wrong track and only 7 percent said we are on the right track.
The United States is facing what has been described as the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. A decline in consumer spending, concern over rising unemployment and the precipitous drop in the stock markets, in which so many Americans have their retirements tied up in 401(k) plans, are alarming.
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BREAK FROM THE PAST
John McCain, the Republican presidential nominee, and Barack Obama, the Democratic presidential nominee, each says he will bring genuine change to Washington.
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