Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY) says that the more the American people see Barack Obama, the more they like him.

DNC Chair Howard Dean says that Senator McCain’s biggest problem is Senator McCain. Further, he says that the American people want to hear about the economy, not personal attacks.

McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds says that Obama is eloquent, but he doesn’t know how to cut taxes, control spending, or work in a bipartisan fashion.

“Squirrels” appear at the Hofstra presidential debate to highlight Senator Obama’s association with ACORN

New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson says that his state is in good shape, but he will be announcing some belt tightening measures.

“It’s probably going to be the election of a lifetime for me,” said Don Rehill, Deputy Director of election tabulations at the Associated Press, at a panelist discussion, hosted by the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC) focusing on the key issues to examine the upcoming election on November 4th when it comes to reporting results, especially in competitive states. Rehill highlights the difficulties with lack of voting equipment being one of many problems encountered throughout past elections.
Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner, highlighted previous elections dilemmas with lost voting machines in floods and failing memory cards. “There’ll probably be at least one lawsuit to try to keep the polls open past 7:30 and we’ll have to deal with that,” Brunner said. According to Brunner, in Ohio they have given out a quick reference guide for the co-workers across the state to help conduct the correct voting procedures.

“The reality is not that Barack Obama has a tax-cut, or even a plan to make jobs. The reality is that he has a plan that is riddled with bad incentives, full of targeted handouts, and fundamentally based on redistribution of wealth, and stands in sharp contrast to John McCain’s approach.” This was stated by Doug Holtz-Eakin, Senior Policy Adviser for the McCain-Palin campaign, in response to Senator Barack Obama’s (D-IIll.) tax reform plan. Nancy Pfotenhauer, Senior Policy Adviser for the McCain-Palin campaign, said Obama’s tax plan “punishes achievement”.
The campaign advisers claim Obama’s tax reforms amount to “sending checks to individuals, many of whom may not be working, and who certainly do not have a tax liability”. They added that Obama’s tax cuts for job creation in American businesses are “too little too late”, and too small to offset the supposed damages his own policies would do. Pfotenhauer said, “if this is his prescription for our economy, at a time when we’re already ailing, I cannot think of any kind of medicine that could be worse”.
“Barack Obama’s overall economic policy can be characterized as the Europeanization of the american economy, because it is effectively a high tax, high spending protectionist approach,” Pfotenhauer said, “and it doesn’t work. All you need to do is look at the economies in say Germany or France, where you have, even in our tough economic time, unemployment rates that are significantly higher, growth rates that are significantly lower, and a quality of life or living that is about a third lower than in the United States.” Holtz-Eakin and Pfotenhauer were participating in a conference call on Obama’s tax plan, which according to the McCain advisers, includes approximately a trillion dollars of new spending and increased tax credits for Americans that do not pay income taxes.

Doug Holtz-Eakin, Senior Policy Advise for the McCain-Palin campaign, says Obama contradicts himself with tax cuts that amount to sending checks to individuals who may not be working or have tax liability. (0:55)

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Nancy Pfotenhauer, Senior Policy Adviser for the McCain-Palin campaign, believes Senator Barack Obama’s (D-Ill.) tax plan is a ‘europeanization’ of the American economy, and will not work. (0:43)

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Doug Holtz-Eakin, Senior Policy Adviser for the McCain-Palin campaign, explains the differences between McCain and Obama’s health care tax credits. (0:44)

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