fivethirtyeight.com - 11/3/2008
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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. Problem for McCain: this becomes a losing map if he ...
tnr.com - 11/2/2008
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tnr.com —
One day in early March 1986, John McCain,
an Arizona congressman, sat down to write a letter....
McCain had heard that a long-time friend and donor, Charles Keating, was upset for being listed as a member of McCain's campaign finance committee when a ...
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McCain First, Second, And Always
jedreport.com - 11/3/2008
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jedreport.com —
Siren Update (12:28AM, Nov. 3): On Sunday, John
McCain launched the final attack of his campaign, a...
fraudulent assault on Barack Obama that serves as a fitting reminder of the fundamental dishonesty not only of his own campaign, but also of the ...
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Ohio's GOP Senator: McCain "Will Put Coal Out Of ...
frum.nationalreview.com - 11/2/2008
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frum.nationalreview.com —
10) No elected official in American life has
contributed more to the security of the nation than...
John McCain. Latterly, McCain was the most senior and... . . .
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For John McCain
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What to Look for on Tuesday
Discourse.net —
... FiveThirtyEight.com: Electoral Projections Done Right:, What A McCain Win Looks Like… ...
Damn you John McCain...
Newshoggers.com —
... At this point, the race is down to Pennsylvania, and even that it is not that far 'down.' I think Obama wins Pennsylvania by 6 to 7 points, and the national popular vote by 7 or 8 points as third party votes collapse, GOTV takes effect and the organizational edge grinds out the win. I think that Congressman Murtha barely survives (less than a 5% win) but Kanjorski in PA-11 loses. That will be one third of the House Congressional losses for Democrats. I think Democrats pick up a net of 28 to 32 seats for the House, and 'only' 8 in the Senate. I ...
Computing the Odds
Opinionator —
What would John McCain’s victory map look like? Nate Silver, the electoral math wizard at FiveThirtyEight.com, used his computer to simulate the presidential election 10,000 times on Sunday. McCain won 624 times. In the most common result (occurring 169 times), “Obama wins everything that either Al Gore or John Kerry won,” Silver writes. “McCain wins everything else.” In the rest of McCain’s potential maps to victory, some patterns emerged. Silver writes : In each and every one of the 624 victory scenarios that the simulation found for him this afternoon, McCain won Florida, ...
What A McCain Win Looks Like
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
Nate Silver maps the mostly likely McCain victory scenarios.
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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 ...
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althouse.blogspot.com 11/9/2008 — As promised , I'm mining my archive -- beginning in late August -- to try to understand how I turned against John McCain. August 25: "Nicely done. I'm glad to see the return of the light touch," I say about an Obama ad that uses the song "What a ...
McCain and Obama hit key states in final 48 hours —
Reuters: Politics 11/3/2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain raced through the battleground states of Ohio and Pennsylvania on Sunday, with McCain struggling to overtake Obama's lead in the final 48 hours of a grueling White House campaign. ...
A Positively Negative Home Stretch —
Wash Post Obama Administration 11/3/2008
The waning hours of the longest presidential campaign in history elicited a fresh round of stinging attacks from Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain and their supporters on Sunday, a departure from the positive messages that candidates normally revert ...
A Positively Negative Home Stretch —
Wash Post Elections 11/3/2008
The waning hours of the longest presidential campaign in history elicited a fresh round of stinging attacks from Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain and their supporters on Sunday, a departure from the positive messages that candidates normally revert ...
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