Ithink that may have made it alot closer than it was. Quite frankly i have to somewhat disagree with the well written post above.A person making 30K a year 10 years ago was doing ok for themselves. The cost of living was significantly less than it is now. Gas alone was a 1/3rd of the price and so was electric, heat, water, sewage, ect...You even got interest on your money, and the stock market was thriving. This was under Clinton and a Republican congress. Today everything is so inflated in price due to the rise in production costs and fuelin the country that it is hard to really look back a few years and see how everything has changed in such a short amount of time. I think it is pretty easy to let your home foreclose and get behind on payments, if you have a job shipped overseas or subcontracted out for a cheaper wage...Not to mention the rising cost of living surrounding you as a homeowner....

While i do feel that both McCain and Obama both would have differed from the Bush administration andstarted us back into the better days of this country.I dont think a younger canidate with the same campaign strategy as McCain could have pulled it off. Obama was able to capitalize on McCain's inability to distance him from the Bush administration's economic policy when the economy really hit the toilet in September and the bail out was proposed. That was where Obama secured the win. The country already has a sour taste in its mouth for the war, which was a big topic of discussion with the 2 canidates...Palin had been saying McCain was alotmore conservative than he really was which was hurting him as well. The fear tactics of propaganda the McCain camp was releasing against Obama were not setting well with the American voters either.

Obama already has done one very important thing for this country alreadyregaurdless of who you voted for. He created a huge turnout for this election. He made people both republican and democrat feel that their vote mattered and made a difference.

I do believe this man is a good person and I believe John McCain is a true American and loves his country as well.Obama has made it clear he wants to surround himself with the best possible cast of both democrats and republicans. I wouldnt be very suprised if McCain is considered on his cab. As a registered independantI have a huge amount of respect for both of these men. Lets just hope Obama will work with McCain as well as make the proper decisions to use money wisely for the good of this country asa whole....I for one am pretty sick of throwing money away in the Middle East. Lets get that job done over there, bring our boys home safe, and start spending all our hard earned tax money in our own country and on our own people...