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McCain Aides Search For "Narrow-Victory Scenario"
Confronting an increasingly bleak electoral map, top aides to Senator John McCain said Thursday that they were searching for a "narrow-victory scenario" and would focus in the final weeks on a dwindling number of states, using mailings, telephone calls and television advertisements to try to ...
The McCain Victory Scenario
corner.nationalreview.com — I have no special knowledge of Pennsylvania politics, but it seems very unlikely that McCain can win... there. Maybe internal polls show it differently, but Obama leads by 8-15 points in the latest state polls according to RCP. The more viable scenario ... (more) The McCain Victory Scenario
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They're going to steal it AGAIN
Brilliant at Breakfast — ... What else do you think the "narrow victory scenario" means? It means winning by just a hair, just enough to take the White House, leaving stunned Democrats once again wondering how it all went wrong. ...

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