Political Perceptions: McCain’s Camp: ‘We Can Still Win This’

With the longest, most expensive campaign in American history down to its final day, Sen. John McCain’s campaign wants you to know this: He can still win this thing. His “high-spirited” campaign manager, Rick Davis , “late Sunday night made perhaps his final case for John McCain, arguing that the unusual number of still-remaining undecided voters could tip the election to the GOP and that whether those holdouts ultimately vote could prove decisive,” Jonathan Martin of Politico writes. “Though public polls show McCain down” to Sen. Barack Obama in the three contested Western states of Colorado, New Mexico and Nevada, “Davis said the states were tilting their way and could make their task easier…. Davis also singled out three other hotly-contested states, where Obama is also leading in public polls, to argue that McCain could win if he reduced the Democrat’s advantage in urban and suburban Democratic strongholds: Florida, Virginia and ... (link)