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The Illusory Effect

The curtains are coming down on this year's presidential election, and so seemingly overdue they are. During a twenty-month-long campaign overkill, the nation has been presented with each candidate's platform, has seen them all avoid confronting any of the real issues, and has witnessed only minor bouts of mudslinging. In retrospect, it has actually turned out to be a fairly clean campaign despite the hollowness of it all; that's something positive to mention from the intrusion.

Economic issues have been the only genuine recipient of attention from the candidates and the media; hard to avoid with so much corporate and banking pressure. Both Obama and McCain see the bailout as the necessary recuperation measure for the banking industry which equates to being willing to use public funds for private matters. Of course, the same ideology is not applicable when it comes to universal health care, education and training, or home foreclosures and the climbing unemployment rate. In short, it is still business as usual, only hyperized.

The central theme beckoning public interest for this election has really come from Senator Obama CHANGE WE NEED! Well, at least that is what the general consensus is adhering to, and with good reason. Eight years of unilateral deception and tactical fabrications by George W. Bush and his administration of cronies is enough to make even the most politically misled and misinformed society begin to seek change. It would seem that the public has reached its threshold for BS, and the constituents will be flocking by the millions to issue their mandate for change by voting Obama this November 4th.

With the polls projecting Obama to be the winner of this election, the nation ought not take for granted the turning contribution that fraud could play. After all, it was only four and eight years ago that rigged elections turned the loser into the winner. With that, if McCain comes out the victor in this election, may complacency be thrown on the glaring coals along with the shackles to be used for binding the criminals.

But even if fraud proves to be an insufficient force to stop Obama's apparent momentum, are his constituents actually so nave as to believe he will overturn the system and eliminate the innate corruption that has brought the nation to its breaking point? Is it possible to have that much faith in the young Senator, or is his support base built partially on the public's loathing of his opponent's similarity to the most

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