Fresh From The Fields

I was driving through the Oregon Heart Land yesterday and I always find it interesting to see all the political signs the farmer host on their land. Usually one can see that most field farmers lean to the right politically, but this year I am noticing a major change. Yes, there are still a lot of signs supporting Smith and Erickson, but in my hundreds of road miles I never saw one sign promoting McCain. I did see a few sheep and dairy farms supporting Obama who have been GOP strong holds in the past.

I know all the conservative pundits are back peddling away from all their anti McCain stances and opinions they were spewing back in June, but somehow it seems agriculture isn’t buying it this year.

Another observation is that Allen Alley is spending way too much money to become the State Treasurer. His sign has a nice look, but damn, what isn’t he telling us with his war chest?

So who do I think will win this year? As always it’s the better looking candidate. Smith and Merkley are a toss-up because Smith’s face is getting really pudgy and his hair line seems to be going down his forehead instead of receding. Merkley has some sort of uni-brow going across his moon face. Both are pretty unattractive these days.

As for the Presidential campaign, other then McCain looking like he's hording nuts in his cheeks; they are both good looking candidates and I can't predict that race either. It strikes me as odd that both candidates are promoting "Change", but if Americans really wanted change this race would be against Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich. Hopefully this will be my final political post for the year.