Colin Powell To Endorse After Tonight?
By Justin Gardner | Related entries in 2008 Election, Barack, McCain
My guess is he’ll go with Obama, but you never can tell…
When Colin Powell turns off his TV after the final presidential debate, he will have learned everything he is going to learn about the candidates vying to succeed his former boss, George W. Bush. Powell has made it clear that he has been thinking about an endorsement for a long time but wanted to hear more from the candidates before making his choice. It now seems beyond doubt that Colin Powell will endorse Barack Obama and thereby hammer the final nail in the coffin of the Republican campaign to hold onto the White House.The recent ugliness of the McCain-Palin rally audiences cannot be lost on Colin Powell. And Powell is not one to ignore a 14 point lead in a New York Times poll. But most important for Powell and the press will be his explicit rejection of the Bush-McCain approach to Iraq, Iran and the rest of the world.
We shall see…
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October 15th, 2008 at 8:43 pm
Gotta love that pic.
October 15th, 2008 at 8:44 pm
on msnbc it looked like more ppl were swayed towards mccain.
uh oh
October 15th, 2008 at 8:53 pm
Not on their website.
It’ll be closer than the last debate…
But my guess is the snap polls will still be Obama.
October 15th, 2008 at 8:57 pm
I think the reaction of most people will be: “There was a debate?”
Seriously. The baseball was new and different.
October 15th, 2008 at 9:12 pm
I noticed during the debate that McCain called Biden’s support of splitting Iraq into 3 separate countries “cockamamie.” If I remember correctly, that was proposal Colin Powell was supporting.
October 15th, 2008 at 9:15 pm
*the proposal (typing am hard for my caveman hands)
Also, CBS’s poll of undecided voters has Obama winning by a big margin:
http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2008/10/15/politics/horserace/entry4525171.shtml
55 to 22 percent… I thought Obama won too, but even I’m a bit surprised by those numbers. I’d like to see some other polls.
October 15th, 2008 at 10:17 pm
if powell does endorse, i predict we will see obama win with more than 370 ev, landslide.
October 15th, 2008 at 10:22 pm
A knock out by obama.With no jobs. people know now the government needs to step in to it . And use our Power to help us with heath care and to stop shipping our jobs overseas or destroying our tax base with loopholes that encourage off shore companies. we need to keep jobs in the us. I think tariffs are the answer. And what is collected should go to the national debt. Japan, china, Korea ,Canada .etc won’t import more than that export. Now the freightliner trucks that we use to defend our nation will be made in Mexico 900 jobs lost in Portland Oregon . that scares me. You can’t sell our jobs and kill our tax base and expect the us to survive We need help !!