The race is so close because Obama has turned away from the common folk who funded him in first place.

He now gets his money from Rich Corporates, while forgetting that the common folks' $10 and $20 donations are what made him today.

Secondly, he has clearly shown he is a charlatan in the cowardly way he caved in for FISA, refused to impeach an unpopular president, refused to pull out troops from Iraq if elected.

He has the shown his true colors a bit early: which is good for voters who have decided he is a greater evil than McCain.

McCain on the other hand has proved to be popular because he has steadfastly remained on the same path.

This is an election that the Democratic Party is trying hard to lose: and they are succeeding.

Starting with Nancy-no-impeach-Pelosi to Hillary's unfortunate cave-in, to Obama's betrayal, the Democratic party have shown the US that when it comes to governing, the Republicans are the best.

I dearly, dearly hope the Democratic party continues with its suicide course and hence loses so heavily in November that the Republican party has a 2/3 majority in both houses.

Oh and, McCain trounces Obama so much that Obama leaves US altogether.

To reply to @conspiracychic, that is exactly why men prefer marriage: Monogamy for the wife-:) Polygamy for the man.

Nothing terrifies an 'average-looking' man more than an attractive, beautiful GF reusing to live in "holy" matrimony.

Its like refusing to commit to a 2-year cellphone contract. Cellphone companies bind you to a contract, because they fear you will leave them otherwise easily.

Average-looking men with Hot GF prefer marriage for the same reason.

Its amazing how a conflict to "free" people from oppression has been turned on its head.

Its like portraying the Allies who invaded Normandy as "oppressors" and the Wehrmacht as Defenders of the French!

South Ossetia clearly was a Russian Protectorate. Georgia knew it, Russia knew and whole world knew it.

What Georgia did was to invade S.Ossetia and try to merge it.

What Russia did was to throw out Georgia from its protectorate and also make sure Georgia doesn't enter Russian territory once again by "walling" it off by additional territory and calling for Georgia's idiot-president's head.

Same like US did in Iraq post-1991. The no-fly zone was a wall-off and punished Iraq while protectng Kuwait from future Iraqi incursions.

When US does it, its hailed as a freedom beacon.

When Russia does it, its hailed as a oppressor?

WoW! I never knew Western Press was so full of hypocrisy.

The US and the NATO very well now know to keep their hands-off from former Soviet allies.

I salute Putin and Russia for standing up for their rights and refuse to be encircled by west.

The same thing happened in 1941 and Russia ended up almost losing the war with Hitler.

Kudos Russia for taking action proactively!

To understand why Russia behaved like it did, it requires some traveling back in time to 1930s and 1940s.

Russia started building its buffer-zone primarily to dissuade any "western" attacks in future after Hitler's near murder of the Soviet Union. Even today, Russians firmly believe the West is hell bent on destroying Russian ethnicity and culture. Partly it may be true because the west never assisted USSR against Hitler when staling was baying for a second front to relieve pressure on his collapsing forces (the fact his forces failed was due to his purges is another story).

That near-death experience has taught Russia never to trust West on anything and to protect its territory fiercely like a Puma protecting its cub.

The buffer zones are inviolate for Russia. Inviolate in that they can NEVER be NATO members or hob-nob with West. They can elect presidents, parliments, etc., but Militarily they can never, ever ally with West.

Russia let Poland escape from its Dragnet, but will not do so again.

Bush pushed the Russian Bear to its cave in the hope the Bear will howl but will be too weak to attack.

What they didn't know was that the Bear not only was much stronger ($400 billion defense spending helps), but was also angry at being cornered especially when the opponent having the Whip (Bush) was hobbling on one foot (the other was in iraq).

The bear saw how weak the infiltrator was, knew it was twice as strong in its own cave, and so logically pounced on the infiltrator and mauled it.

It is Georgia's extremely good fortune that they did not end up being absorbed by Russia.

The West and NATO can do nothing about it even if they were except for imposing sanctions on Russia: Fair luck attempting to overthrow the Veto.

The Russian Bear was defending its lair from the mad and trigger-happy stupid cowboys that represent Bush & Cheney.

I have always wondered where Bush gets his 29% support from. Now i know its illiterate, dumb, rednecks like you who form his 29% support base.

And with people like you, America doesn't need any external enemies!

You guys are perfectly capable of electing another Bush, send your army careening off to Iran, watch FOX show a few nukes exploding, all the while guffawing at the screen while you and your mates eat buffalo wings from a KFC bucket with beer dripping from the sides of your mouth as your collective asses spew enough gases to speed up global warming.

Is that you Mr.Rove?

There is a congressional subpoena waiting for you at your doorstep. Now if you will just exit the Fox News building and come out of the door to your left, we can "escort" you to the House.