The italicized information that I included in my post, Bucco, was copied and pasted from authoritative sources. If it sounded like it was pro-Obama, it may have been because it's been Senator McCain that's been alleging the dire results from an Obama presidency. To my knowledge, there have been few if any similar accusations by Obama against McCain. So when non-partisan analysts confirm Obama's claims and de-bunk those made by McCain, it may be because the claims and ads of one candidate are less truthful than those put forth by the other.

As far as me not considering the "many promises being made that will cost oodles of money"--the results of the analyses I presented were not mine, as I said. The analyses included all the plans in both candidate's campaign platforms. So I think the conclusions do reflect as complete a result as is possible given the information provided by the candidates.

I'm not going to deny that I will likely vote for Barack Obama. But I have said on numerous occasions here that I would not be terribly unhappy regardless of who is elected. To be honest, I posted this information because I was so surprised by the findings. They are not consistent with what I might have expected. And I thought that might be true for the rest of the readers of this forum, as well.