We are down to the proverbial lick log and headed into the homestretch in the 2008 Presidential contest. The protracted race, which began in earnest in the snows of Iowa and New Hampshire two years ago, has four weeks left to go.
Unemployment is moving up nationally. Sky high gas prices are squeezing family budgets. Economic activity is certainly slowing, and most economists believe that we are in a recession. And a rising tide of bank failures has most of us jumpy.
