Today Republican powerhouse Colin Powell announced his support for Obama, while Obama released his finance records, showing he raised a whopping 150 million last month. The NY Times article from today-Sunday- reveals Powell's thoughts on the election. "Mr. Powell said he was dismayed by the tenor of the campaign, declared that Mr. McCain’s running mate, Gov. Sarah Palin, was not fit to be vice president, expressed displeasure with the direction of the Republican Party and called Mr. McCain scattered on his approach to the economy. “Every day there was a different approach,” he said.
“As gifted as he is,” Mr. Powell said of Mr. McCain, a friend for 25 years, “he is essentially going to execute the Republican agenda, the orthodoxy of the Republican agenda, with a new face and a maverick approach to it, and he’d be quite good at it. But I think we need a generational change.” This endorsement is huge for Obama.