You left out the medical profession and those involved in the insurance business.....Not to mention the vets and the families and friends of those currently serving in the military. Don't forget Zell's angels...who are sick of what their party has become ....and then there are the small business owners, the police and firefighters, the..........well you get the idea!......So why are the polls so close?
I personally don'tthink they are mama. What you see with the widening poll numbers is pollsters trying to cover their arses so that when this turns out to be a 10-20% margin in the President's favor they have an easier time explaining it to the public.
Don't forget "gay marriage" either mama. Even though nobody's talking about it, this is one of the white elephant issues that's sitting at every dinner table in the country. Nobody's talking about it but everybody's thinking about it. Old people understand social security instinctively. Workers understand tax cuts instinctively.
Who cares about who ELSE is getting an abortion. Who understands deficits and how they affect things. That's a far away washington problem.
But people DO understand gay marriage instinctively and they don't like it.
Security is another issue people understand instinctively. A good economy means squat without security. Abortion means squat without security. Health care means squat without security. Security trumps ALL! Security, security and nothing BUT security is the watchword for this election.
Bush by 10-20 sez I :)
Godspeed and God Bless America!