The last one is where I am concerned.  Someone making between $102,000 and $250,000 should not have to pay another 6.2% and for Self Employed individuals another 12.4% on their income over $102,000 while Obama says their taxes will be cut or not changed.  That's a big f___g change.  

The only way to fund SS and Medicare is to make it a general obligation of all tax payers, not just those in the middle and upper middle classes whose salaries and self employment income pay for EVERYONE's SS and Medicare.  If the SS Trust Fund just paid those who worked all their lives here then it could be self funded.  However, there is so much SS and Medicare Welfare of those who have put in practically nothing to the fund and still get huge payouts till they die, that these welfare obligations need to belong to everyone, not just workers.  That welfare should be paid just as well by the shareholders of WalMart who hire people for part time work at minimum wage and all they need to qualify is 10 years of work.  I don't want to pay for that, not without everyone else paying, not without the billionaire shareholders of WalMart paying.  The same is true for people who are on the books for $100 a week and get paid another $800 a week in cash.  The middle and upper middle class who has all their wages reported are paying for those people.

Nobody thinks the tax rates needs to be returned to a progressuve structure more than me but someone earning over $102,000 a year is not wealthy today and with all costs going up and assuming a decent standard of living, it is impossible to have extra money in the urban areas of this country on $102,000 for a family of four.  Leaving their taxes alone and taking an additional 6.2% or 12.4% from them on the money after $102,000 is worng.

Faust:
I'm with you.  I hope to see McCain "squashed like a bug".  I believe that we will see this election called early on Tuesday night.  I see Virginia called for Obama very soon after the polls close and this will spell the beginning of the landslide.  Obama will get a huge number of electoral votes and this will spell the end of "conservatism" as we know it.  I am hoping for 60 senate seats and we can send Joe Lieberman to the Republican side of the aisle where he can continue to be Johnnie's f*&* buddy.  

All of the houses discussed in the article that don't split out "already voted" in their results lump early/absentees into the "likely voter" category.  That's reasonable.  I mean, who is more likely to vote than someone who has already voted?

I think Gallup is seeing that the "sporadic" voters are turning up in early voting more than they thought, so they are increasing their weightings of those sporadic voters into their LV models.