The gender gap in Pew’s poll is huge — 17 points among women in Obama’s favor, and only four points among men in McCain’s. And Obama has a double-digit lead in the swing states.

Quinnipiac’s latest set of swing states polls finds Palin with a net negative impression in several states, including Florida, where she’s spent quite a bit of campaign time. The numbers in Florida are stunning, in a sense; there’s been a net swing of 13 points in Obama’s favor during the past two weeks. He’s even competitive among white voters, with McCain besting him by only five points.

I have always felt that while the democrats, if give free regein, would try to tax me and our economy to death, I’m a clever enough guy that I could earn my way out of whatever nonsense they tried to pull.

Also, it’s really really hard to kill an economy. For example, dd you know that even as Allied forces were crossing the Rhine, Germany was still making soda pop? I can’t fathom that; a nation engaged in a struggle to the death is still able to make soda pop! Ordinary germans still had electricity and hot and cold running water when the Allied tanks rolled in. It’s really really hard to kill a modern economy. Since I don’t think the democrats are going to engage in a massive military offensive against the US of A, I don’t worry too much about my standard of living. As long as I’ve got electrity and hot and cold running water, I’ll be okay

Conversely, I have always figured that the GOP, if give free reign would thrash the constitution and take away my liberty. And hey! Guess what? That’s exactly what they did, or at least tried to do in the wake of 9/11. God bless ‘em, they tried to do exactly what they had been promising to do for my entire adult life. (Take a moment to think where this country might have gone if the officer corp hadn’t revolted on the torture question.)

After HRC disqualfied herself with the Annie Oakley nonsense and the “hard working white Americans” I was ready to vote for BHO with something resembling enthusiasm. Mostly it looked to be (yet another) vote against the GOP, but at least this time I was voting against torture, suspension of habius corpus, unitary executive power; you know the BIG issues that go to the core of what it means to be free. (Before that I just voted against them because the GOP just wanted to put me in jail, take away my house and property, and leave my wife and children destitute.)

So there I am, all ready to vote for BHO, and what do he say? “Windfall profit tax!” Mutherfuck! Windfall mutherfucking profit tax? Hey zoos criso, and fuck me bllind. What the fuck is a “windfall profit tax?”

If I buy Qualcom at $5 and it goes to $100, is that a WINDFALL PROFIT? If my wife buys Apple at $12 and it goes to $240, is that a muther fucking windfall profit. You gonna lay some extra juicy tax on my ass cause I bought something when it was cheap and now it’s expensive?

See, what you got me started on?

Anyway, that just a small example. A windfall profit tax on oil co profits is a terrible stupid idea for a about a million reasons, and that was only compounded by the idea of giving the proceeds of that tax BACK to the people who bought the overpriced oil in th first place. I can’t think of a better way to encourage over consumption that by stripping the oil companies of the lawful profits and giving those monies back to the asshole idiots who are driviing around solo in vehicles that get 20mpg.

Anyway, that’s the highly caffinated, slightly agitated version. I’ve worked for myself my whole life, and every other time the democrats pop off on money, I have to ask myself, “Have any of these assholes ever once, in their entire life, had to make payroll?” I don’t think so.

Of course that’s a pretty fucking good reason to vote against McCain. Mutherufcker’s been on the government tit since he was wet behind the ears.