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It is now less then two months away. The election for the 44th President of the United States. Last night Senator John McCain delivered his acceptance speech to a packed hall in Minnesota. The speech which lasted for close to an hour was full of some specifics but lacked the fire and exuberance of Barack Obama’s speech. This was to be expected. John McCain is not a motivating speaker, he has lived a motivating life, but he is not going to get you fired up listening to him speak about energy policy or foreign relations. There is no doubt that he has far more experience and background to be President. He has been groomed for this position and is definitely ready for the job, the real question is whether he will be able to motivate voters to show up and support him. Barack Obama can do this; he can lead a crowd and stir them into a frenzy that will follow him anywhere. The question Barack needs to answer is whether he has a plan and can back up his enthusiastic statements with substance.
It seems that both candidates are trying to hit home the change theme. Barack wants a change in leadership away from the 8 years of George Bush. McCain wants a change in direction and the abuse of Washington power.



Barack will claim that McCain has supported Bush over 90% of the time during the past 8 years and does not demonstrate a change from the Bush years. McCain will attack Obama for wanting change but having no idea what the change will look like or how he will achieve change, or what the impact of the change will be. The determining factor will be which candidate can most energize their supporters to show up on election day and which candidate did the best job of convincing the American public that they will change Washington and not just be a part of the problem.
Can John McCain stir his party into a frenzy to show up in large numbers on election day, probably not. But does he really need to, when Barack Obama is doing it for him. Every time Barack Obama speaks and whips his crowd into a cheering mass, McCain supporters become that much more motivated to work hard and get out to vote.