This concerns mainly insulin, an absolute necessity for those of us with diabetes. Lilly one manufacturer had a program for people like me, low income retired on social security, working part time, that allowed me to purchise humalog and insulin N for $3.00 a bottle or $24.00 per month until the day Med D went into effect. They cancelled the program.

People don't understand the present votes from the Ill legislature. However, they do understand what it means to be absent from the Senate. Get out there and start highlighting McCain's terrible attendance record. He didn't vote on FISA, Medicare or the GI Bill. Ted Kennedy has brain cancer and he made it to the Senate to vote!

I'd suggest Obama emulating part of Bill Clinton's bus ride from 1992. He drew in tons of young voters through MTV and being 100% accessible to the hip media. Barrack has to find a way of tapping into non-voters, getting them interested in his campaign, and voting in his support.

One of the policy areas where Obama had problems with some progressives was the perception that his proposed health care plan was not universal and left too many people uninsured. With the near certain Democratic Party majority in Congress after the election, this is the year to go for the brass ring and strengthen his health care policy agenda by endorsing single-payer health care, a.k.a.