Just a thought on Sarah Palin's mentioning of the "redistribution of wealth in this country." You know a lot of wealth was redistributed to the wealthy in this country by the stagnation/freezing of worker's wages. This was accomplished, in a way, by deliberately keeping the minimum wage low. A lot of employers use the minimum wage to base their workers salaries. If it is kept low, so are everyone's wages, especially in health care and manufacturing. So in my opinion a lot of workers were "cheated" out of their share of the good economic times. They have not benefitted from their actual labor, without which, that wealth could not have been generated in the first place.

I am a geriatric social worker and part of my job is to ensure that seniors in long term care are properly registered to vote in my long term care facility. This election has generated a lot of interest, and people who havn't cared to vote in years are signing up. In talking with them I have sensed a high level of anxiety about the state of out country. This economic crisis has brought forth many painful memories from the Depression. Here is what kind of surprised me. They are 99.9% going to vote for Obama.  They voice a large amount of trust in him. I was surprised because there is still a large amount of racial prejudice in many of our seniors. They really dislike John McCain, and see him as mean and arrogant. They think he is too old, and it is time for the next generation to step in.  They are appalled at his aggressive,warmongering stances. They have grand, and great-grand children who they feel are at risk. One lady told me she was surprised that Obama, "a black man" was running for president, and then went on to say that "when you look at him you can tell he is a kind person" who "cares about people". She will cast her first vote, in a long time, for Obama. I don't know if this small sampling means anything at all, but come November, there may be quite a few assumptions about politics and race proven wrong.