Election 2008 Update - Sep 24

Each week, the Spinnaker will be keeping you up-to-date on the 2008 presidential election: who’s leading in the latest polls and where they stand on key political issues.

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Sept. 23 again presents a tie between candidates Sen. Barack Obama and Sen. John McCain. Both attract 48 percent of the votes, and both are viewed favorably by 54 percent.

DEMOCRATS
Barack Obama
48%

REPUBLICANS
John McCain
48%

Election notes
• Both Sen. John McCain and Sen. Barack Obama have come out in support of Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson’s proposed $700 billion bailout package to the investment banking institutions and are also calling for strong financial regulation.

• In response to Libertarian Presidential hopeful Bob Barr’s exclusion from the Presidential debates Sept. 26, he and the Reason Foundation have teamed up to broadcast Barr’s response to Obama’s and McCain’s positions in real-time via the Internet.

• McCain, in an Ohio rally Sept. 23, attacked Sen. Joe Biden’s comments on clean energy. He said, “my opponent is against the expansion of nuclear power. His running mate here in Ohio recently said that they weren’t supporting clean coal either. And the fact is that their billions of dollars in higher taxes would kill jobs here in Ohio.”

• Journalists have threatened not to cover Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s events surrounding the United Nations conference unless they are allowed more access.

Presidential Election countdown
41 days until the election Nov. 4.

Compiled by James Cannon II.