McCain vs. Obama; a harsh measure up

The difference between age, experience and youthfulness can be linked to the current political tussle between Senator Barack Obama the Democratic nominee and John McCain, the Republican Nominee for the presidential candidates. The contrasts can not be more bleak, because the former is old enough to be the father of the latter, one the latter with no military experience which is not a criteria of being elected in the office of the president, while the former has a long navy career punctuated by a harrowing period of captivity in a Hanoi prison Camp during the Vietnam war. One with a rhetorical skill and style that can light and steer up a sport arena, the other more comfortable in the back-and-forth banter of a town-hall-meeting.
strategy differences between the two presumptive major-party nominees for president John McCain is one of the Senate’s most outspoken supporters of the Iraq war, while Barack Obama has opposed it from the beginning that Senator McCain wants a big tax cuts and less government spending; Senator Obama wants tax breaks targeted at the middle class and greater government involvement in job creation. On the issue of healthcare, McCain emphasizes consumer choice and market forces, while Obama favors government action that puts the nation on track toward universal coverage. During the 2008 general election campaign kick off, one point is already certain: the outcome will be historic, when the United States of America elects either its first Black President or its oldest first-term president.
But based on the surprising difference is a key similarity, neither of both candidates is the first choice of their party establishment for the nomination, but both of them have promised “different kind of politics” from the highly partisan, divisive wrangling that has come to mark Washington for the past 20 years.
Both men hold appeal among independent voters-which is a third of the electorate- and whoever wins a majority of them wins in November. While both candidates must hold onto the bulk of their party regulars, they will also play to the non ideological centre in a way that the nominees didn’t do in the last two presidential races.
Analyzing 2008 race, you will start with the already-well-described Democratic advantage this time around, beginning with unhappiness about the Iraq war and the declining economy.
Generic polls reveal that American preferred a democratic President with no name attached to a Republican by a double-digit margin.
So even if bush endorses Senator John McCain, History will still point towards a Democrat in 2008.
One of the surprising issues about the campaign is the race factor, with no historical precedents for a non white nominee, and its very difficult to predict, how or where Obama’s race for the white House is gonna affect his chances.
While Obama has a task to unify his party after a divisive primary season, in order to support the working class, older, and Hispanic voters that flocked Hillary Rodham Clinton. McCain is also faced with some grumbling among key GOP constituencies when he sealed up the party nomination, particularly among the movement conservatives and evangelical voters.
Party strategist warns against making too much of the intraparty squabbling of which both candidates might get 80 percent of their party’s voters at the end of the day.
But McCain is big fan Bush’s foreign policies on Iraq and the Middle East, but after been accused of been a Bush’s third term candidate, then he began to distance himself from Mr. Bush in the public Scene. But Mr. McCain is been caught unaware anytime the issue of war is been used against him.
Going forward, the hymn that Obama introduced first-Change-is now the theme of both campaigns. From the McCain camp, the question is and will always be whose change voters want. The change that a “maverick,” experienced leader can bring, or the change that a young man who just four years ago was a state senator in Illinois can bring.
Obama is continual faced with the judgment over his years of Washington Experience.
During the primaries, Senator Clinton failed to gain serious traction over her highly debated advertisement asking voters whom they would want answers on the phone at 3.am.but analyst say that it may have served to point to McCain as the most experienced candidate on national-security matters. But recent polls revealed that Americans are more concerned about the economy than about Iraq or Terrorism, McCain starts his general election run with a big anchor around his legs.