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Don't forget that you can advance vote now at the Douglas County Courthouse (if you live in the county!).

Here a snippet from a KC Star article on why Colin Powell is endorsing Obama.

.... Powell replied that he was, then reminded viewers that he had known McCain for 25 years and had gotten to know Obama “quite well” over the last two years. “Either one of them, I think, would be a good president,” he said.

But Powell then added that he had begun to have doubts about McCain in the past two months. He said he found McCain’s response to the economic crisis “unsure.”

“Almost every day there was a different approach to the problem” from McCain, Powell said, “and that concerned me, sensing that he didn’t have a complete grasp of the economic problems that we had.”

McCain’s selection of Sarah Palin as his running mate was also disconcerting, Powell said, “and raised some question in my mind as to the judgment that Senator McCain made.”

“I don’t believe she’s ready to be president of the United States, which is the job of the vice president,” Powell said.

“It isn’t easy for me to disappoint Senator McCain in the way that I have this morning, and I regret that,” Powell said. “But I strongly believe that at this point in America’s history, we need a president that will not just continue — even with a new face and with some changes and with some maverick aspects — will not just continue basically the policies that we have been following in recent years.

“I think we need a transformational figure, I think that we need a president who is a generational change, and that’s why I’m supporting Barack Obama.”