Election 2008 Update - Oct. 1

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. 30 – the first polling data available based entirely on interviews following Sen. John McCain and Sen. Barack Obama’s first Presidential Debate – shows Obama getting 51 percent of the vote while McCain garnered 45 percent.

DEMOCRAT
Barack Obama
51%

REPUBLICAN
John McCain
45%

Election notes
• Sen. Joe Biden and Gov. Sarah Palin are set to take the stage Oct. 2 in St. Louis, Mo., in the second of three Presidential debates.

• Sen. John McCain released a statement shortly after the failure of Congress to pass a bailout bill Sept. 29 in response to Hill Democrats’ claim that he is to blame, “Senator Obama and his allies in Congress infused unnecessary partisanship into the process. Now is not the time to fix the blame. It’s time to fix the problem.”

• Libertarian Presidential hopeful, Bob Barr, was the only Presidential candidate to side with the House in rejecting the bailout, warning it would make “Henry Paulson, an economic dictator, empowered to re-engineer the economy as he sees fit.”

• Barack Obama stepped up his advocacy for the Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson’s endangered $700 billion bailout plan by pressuring rank-and-file Democrats in the House to vote for it.

Compiled by James Cannon II.

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