You have all put out good points. But the fact is that people want change. While Obama is not the pick of the litter he was the first to speak of change. McCain tried the experience ticket, and changed to change when he saw experience was not working. Then he names a political new comer who has NO inner Beltline connections to be his VP and she is going rouge. Obama has run a good campaign and shown that he is someone who listens to people and his camapaign techniqe has imporved dramatically. ( see Wolf Blitzers interview) while McCain keeps spitting out the same old Negative Campaign slogans ect. I agree with MKEMSE, there is going to be a Massive Sunami in the House, Senate and in big business that hopefully will put this country back on track that Bush de-railed us off of.