Zogby has Obama behind in the poll with his base slowly leaving. Here is the site:

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All right, now, here he's brought it home. He had trashed his country in Germany, he has seen the result of that in his plummeting poll numbers, and now he does it again in Elkhart, Indiana, a seven-year-old little girl. You're running for president, Senator Obama. A little girl asks you a question, "Why did you start running for president?" It's a seven-year-old, Senator. You tell her because you love the country. You tell her because this is the greatest place on earth, that we've got challenges, but you want to help the country through it. You don't tell a seven-year-old that her country isn't what it once was. You do not lie to seven-year-olds and tell them that your country sucks. You just don't do it, Senator. America is no longer what it could be, what it once was? How the hell would you know, sir? Your experience has only been in one part of America, elite, leftist academia.

“America is …, uh, is no longer, uh … what it could be, what it once was. And I say to myself, I don’t want that future for my children.”

The National Debt has continued to increase an average of $1.80 billion per day since September 28, 2007

http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/

As of April 2008, the total U.S. federal debt was approximately $9.5 trillion, about $31,600 per capita (that is, per U.S. resident). Of this amount, debt held by the public was roughly $5.3 trillion.If, in addition, unfunded Medicaid, Social Security, Medicare, etc. promises are added, this figure rises to a total of $59.1 trillion. In 2007, the public debt was 36.9 percent of GDP , with a total debt of 65.5 percent of GDP.[6] The CIA ranked the total percentage as 26th in the world.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_public_debt

Only Those at the Top Enjoy Significant Income Gains
April 3rd, 2007 by Dr. Amy K. Glasmeier

Recently released data from the Internal Revenue Service on income for 2005 show a significant rise at the upper end of the income distribution. In 2005 there was a very large increase in income concentration: the top 1% gained 14% in real terms from 2004 while the bottom 99% gained less than 1% (when including capital gains). Of particular interest, other than the top 1%, the rate of change for the rest of the nation’s income earners stagnated. It appears only the super rich continued to experience a growth in income between 2004 and 2005.

http://www.povertyinamerica.psu.edu/2007/04/03/
only-those-at-the-top-enjoy-significant-income-gains/

One of the most significant labor market developments in the last decade
and a half has been the sharp rise in wage inequality in the United States, the
Untied Kingdom, and many other countries. For example, Karoly (1988) estimated
the variance in the logarithm of annual earnings for white males working at least
35 hours a week and 50 weeks a year at 0.282 in 1969, 0.264 in 1979, and 0.376
in 1987. The 42 percent increase from 1979 to 1987 brought that measure of wage
inequality to levels unseen in the United States since the 1930s (Goldin and Margo
1992).

http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:dXlH7IFH2BUJ
:www.upjohninst.org/publications/ch1/
hyclak.pdf+wage+inequality&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=21&gl=ca

Currency units per U.S. dollar, averaged over the year.

1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007
Euro 0.9387 1.0832 1.1171 1.0578 0.8833 0.8040 0.8033 0.7960 0.7293
CND $1.4858 1.4855 1.5487 1.5704 1.4008 1.3017 1.2115 1.1340 1.0734

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_dollar

The official poverty threshold is adjusted for inflation using the consumer price index. Poverty in the United States is cyclical in nature with roughly 12% to 16% living below the federal poverty line at any given point in time, and roughly 40% falling below the poverty line at some time within a 10 year time span.[2] Most, 58.5%, of all Americans will spend at least one year beneath the poverty line at some point between ages 25 and 75. While there remains some controversy of whether or not the official poverty over or understates poverty, the United States has some of the highest absolute and relative pre and post-transfer, poverty rates in the developed world.Overall, the U.S. ranks 12th on the Human Poverty Index.

Those under the age of 18 were the most likely to be impoverished. In 2006 the poverty rate for minors in the United States was the highest in the industrialized world, with 21.9% of all minors and 30% of African American minors living below the poverty threshold.] Moreover, the standard of living for those in the bottom 10% was lower in the U.S. than in any other developed nation except the United Kingdom, which had the lowest standard of living for impoverished children.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_in_the_United_States

Published: Friday, August 01, 2008

WASHINGTON - The U.S. unemployment rate hit its highest level in four years during July as employers cut non-farm jobs for a seventh straight month, though less severely than predicted, a Labor Department report Friday showed.

The jobless rate climbed to 5.7 per cent from 5.5 per cent in June as 51,000 jobs were eliminated in July, bringing losses for the year to 463,000. Analysts polled by Reuters had expected 75,000 jobs would be cut last month but had forecast the unemployment rate would rise only to 5.6 per cent.

http://www.canada.com/topics/news/story.html?id
=d0cb063b-b896-4d61-b3aa-7328040c7d2d

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Recession and historic asset price deflation will prevent the Federal Reserve from raising U.S. interest rates, the manager of the world's biggest bond fund said on Tuesday.

"These concerns (among analysts) about the Fed raising interest rates are almost comical," said Bill Gross, chief investment officer of Pimco or Pacific Investment Management Co, speaking on CNBC television. Gross manages the $130 billion Pimco Total Return Fund.

He was speaking after the Federal Open Market Committee announced its decision to hold its key short-term lending rate, the federal funds target rate, unchanged at 2 percent.

"We're in a recession and when has the Fed ever raised interest rates during a recession," Gross said.

http://www.reuters.com/article/companyNewsAndPR/idUSNYG00120520080805

More than 80 percent of Americans believe the country is headed in the wrong direction, the highest such number since the early 1990s, according to a new survey.

The CBS News-New York Times poll released Thursday showed 81 percent of respondents said they believed “things have pretty seriously gotten off on the wrong track.” That was up from 69 percent a year ago, and 35 percent in early 2002.

The survey comes as housing turmoil has rocked Wall Street amid an economic downturn. The economy has surpassed the war in Iraq as the dominating issue of the U.S. presidential race, and there is now nearly a national consensus that the United States faces significant problems, the poll found.

A majority of Democrats and Republicans, men and women, residents of cities and rural areas, college graduates and those who finished only high school say the United States is headed in the wrong direction, according to the survey, which was published on The New York Times’ Web site.

Seventy-eight percent of respondents said the country was worse off than five years ago; just 4 percent said it was doing better.

The newspaper said Americans are more dissatisfied with the country’s direction than at any time since the poll’s inception in the early 1990s. Only 21 percent of respondents said the overall economy was in good condition, the lowest such number since late 1992. Two in three people said they believed the economy was already in recession.