commentarymagazine.com - 10/31/2008
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This is why it might happen. Not saying it will.
1) One poll has undecided voters at 14 percent on the last weekend, which means most of them probably really aren’t undecided, that they are either going to stay home or vote preponderantly for McCain and pull McCain across the finish ...
fivethirtyeight.com - 10/31/2008
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fivethirtyeight.com —
As the only reporter during this election who
has actually visited upwards of 50 of John McCain's...
field offices around the country (13 battleground states and counting), this piece by Matthew Mosk at the Washington Post comes as no surprise: The ...
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The Big Empty
marcambinder.theatlantic.com - 11/1/2008
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marcambinder.theatlantic.com —
The last thing the McCain campaign needs on
election day is demoralized Republicans. Hence this memo, which...
recapitulates what Davis and co. said on a conference call with reporters this morning. From: Rick Davis, McCain-Palin Campaign ...
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A McCain Campaign Memo
washingtonmonthly.com - 10/31/2008
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washingtonmonthly.com —
MAKING THE CASE.... Lawrence Eagleburger, deputy secretary of
State under Bush I, has been a McCain campaign...
advisor and occasional surrogate for nearly a year. As it happens, once in a while, Eagleburger strays from the script -- and that's...
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Making the case
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Election 2008: Signed, Sealed & Almost Delivered
The Moderate Voice —
... evidence of that. But most are reflective of a news media that wants to hedge it’s bets.
Then there are pundits like Bush lap dog John Podhoretz, who acts like he’s smoking funny cigarettes in listing 10 reasons why McCain could pull it out.
I would rate nine as drop dead hilarious (like Obama finally being outted as being a liberal and one as possible (there is a hitherto unnoticed block of Hispanics who really think McCain is their tamale.)
More here.
Reasons for Hope
Weekly Standard Blog —
John Podhoretz gives 10 reasons why McCain might win.
10 Reasons McCain Might Win
Pat Dollard | Young Americans —
Personally, I am optimistic about Tuesday, I have a feeling that McCain just might pull this thing out. I have my own reasons other than those below, one of them being The Bradley Effect.
John Podhoretz has an initeresting article over at Commentary Magazine today:
This is why it might happen. Not saying it will.
1) One poll has undecided voters at 14 percent on the last weekend, which means most of them probably really aren’t undecided, that they are either going to stay home or vote preponderantly for McCain and ...
Bill Dyer: Top One Reason Why McCain Might Win
Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog —
... ) J-Pod has 10 Reasons Why McCain Might Win , and it's a nice list, worth a glance at least. With due respect to him, however, I'll have a better list. It has precisely one item on it: We haven't had the election yet. So anyone who tells you â based on public opinion polls or science or guesswork or magic or anything else â that he or she knows what the outcome is going to be is lying to you. Throughout this weekend and all day on Monday, there will be zillions of words communicated â spoken, read, printed, downloaded, whatever â about the result of the upcoming ...
Your Abbreviated Pundit Round-up
Daily Kos —
... The race issue has hurt many black candidates. But there is very little evidence to support the existence of a Bradley effect, named for Tom Bradley, a black mayor of Los Angeles who, in 1982, lost an election for governor of California that he had been expected to win. Howard Fineman: So here is where we are: McCain is hoping to make it a close race. Obama is hoping to make it a blowout. John Podhoretz: 10 Reasons Why McCain Might Win A flying saucer can land on earth and ...
Liberal? Conservative?
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
JPod gives ten reasons why McCain might win. Here's number eight: What happened with the Joe the Plumber story is that Obama has now been effectively outed as a liberal, not a moderate; and because liberalism is still less popular than conservatism, that’s not the best place for Obama to be. I agree with JPod that the McCain campaign has finally managed to haul out the one theme they should have emphasized from the start, and it has helped with some independents. On tax, Obama is more liberal than McCain. But on debt, McCain is more ...
10 Reasons Why McCain Might Win
The New Editor —
John Podhoretz lists 'em.
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tag:www.huffingtonpost.com,2008: 10/26/2008 — Republican John McCain on Sunday dismissed the sour poll numbers that show him trailing in his White House race against Democrat Barack Obama and said his campaign is "doing fine."
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outsidethebeltway.com 11/3/2008 — Minnesotan Ed Morrisey got an email from Team McCain informing him that the state is “a dead heat” based on a Survey USA poll. Ed then cites some research that Obama is actually dragging Al Franken’s numbers down in the state and ...
Video: Palin on three reasons why McCain lost
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More Good News
balloon-juice.com 10/21/2008 — For John McCain :
As voters have gotten to know Senator Barack Obama, they have warmed up to him, with more than half, 53 percent, now saying they have a favorable impression of him and 33 percent saying they have an unfavorable view. But as ...
08 reasons Barack Obama will win next Tuesday | Change of Subject
blogs.chicagotribune.com 10/31/2008 — Obama draws enormous crowds wherever he goes and has energized young and first-time voters in a way that will surprise pollsters relying on traditional turn-out models. A recent USA Today/Gallup poll found 74 percent of Obama voters saying they are ...
What A McCain Win Looks Like...
fivethirtyeight.com 11/3/2008 — This was by far the most common McCain victory scenario, occurring 169 times out of 10,000 simulations this afternoon: ...this would be a boring ol' map. Obama wins everything that either Al Gore or John Kerry won. McCain wins everything else. ...
Poll: 7 in 10 Americans Say Obama Will Win
gallup.com 10/28/2008 — PRINCETON, NJ -- By a 71% to 23% margin, Americans expect that Barack Obama will be elected president in next Tuesday's election, including a 49% to 46% ratio of John McCain's own supporters who say Obama, rather than their own candidate, will win. ...
Who Do You Believe?
talkingpointsmemo.com 10/25/2008 — The McCain camp is denying that it was a campaign spokesperson who told local TV reporters in Pittsburgh that the "B" supposedly scrawled on the face of a young McCain campaign worker was a reference to "Barack" Obama, angrily carved into her face ...
Does an 'October surprise' still linger? —
CNN.com - Politics 10/31/2008
It's Halloween on Friday, but campaign aides to Barack Obama and John McCain may be spooked for another reason: Events that dominated the news right before the previous two presidential elections may have been game-changers.
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