If you do no toss up states on RCP & had the election as is, Obama would win 273-265

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls … in/?map=10

Awesome game, bad loss for the Birds. Two big heavyweights though. Ashame they let up 41 points, McNabb kinda floudered on the last drive or two. I thought he had alot of chances to scramble in the second half that he passed up. He looked great in the first half though. I'll tell you what, hate to say it but Marion Barber looks like one tough RB.

1-1 not bad, I think they have a tough game against Pitt this week, I'll have to check.

Horrible mistake by DeSean Jackson, the wierd thing about it was earlier in the game I was thinking about the Leon Lett Super Bowl blunder.

Honestly though I think alot of these financial companies have only themselves to blame. IMHO the dot com bust hurt the economy in the US around 99-00. Then 9/11 rejuvinated fears of a market crash. That is about when the fed lowered interest rates to near record lows, in an effort to keep the economy afloat, basically doing them a favor. That is when these financial and mortgage companies started whoring our loans, giving crazy bassackwards loans to people they knew wouldn't afford it 3-5 years later, and no one had the forsight to stop it. Mostly because everyone else was doing it. If Prudential was pulling in record $$ per quarter giving out these crazy loans, Countrywide would look foolish if they said no. So they all jumped in, got their quick buck & "Hooray!!" and now bailed out. The thing is, the people who run alot of these companies don't care about the long term. Getting $20 billion a year, they can be CEO for 3 years, the company can go under, and they're set for life plus their next 5 generations. I'm sure there's people in middle & lower management who knew, but CEO's & Boardroom execs don't care about what those people have to say. It's just regular office politics & horseshit.

It'll go down, just hopefully not a complete "Black Monday" or anything. The Dow Jones is usually a good indicator or the avg of all stocks. Anymore a 200-300 loss can occur. If by Friday if it's gone down 1,000 from last week it's been a really bad week. if by 2,000 it will be a near crisis IMHO. Merrill Lynch's stock really tumbled in the last 2 years. It's something like 30% of what it was 1 1/2 years ago. Imagine having $3 Million & being ready to retire, and now having a million. Not enough to retire at 55 or 60 really, and live nicely at least. Granted I don't have that money but for people who had it it's a huge unexpected change in lifestyle.

Sometimes I'm not sure how much anyone can actually "control" economics as much as they just happen and are cycles. Alan Greenspan was thought to be a great thinker (was around sincce the 80's I think) & he started the whole low interest mess.

I don't think it will be a horrible day or week for the market, but I do think there will be alot of takeovers & bailouts in the next year or so. I really  think in 20 years this country will only have 8 conglomorate corporations & banks.