John McCain's Chances of Victory
The chattering class and the conventional wisdom have it that the presidential race has been over since about two weeks ago and John McCain is toast.
Reading the national poll numbers, and even most maps of the electoral vote, it certainly seems that way. I refuse to prognosticate in even the most obvious of races. And I refuse to do so in this presidential race as I've been wrong at least a half-dozen times since the summer of '07 when the media declared Hillary Clinton the presumptive Democratic nominee.
The New York Times reports Sen. McCain's advisers still maintain there's a path to victory for his campaign, and I guess that's what's keeping them going at this point in time. Check it out:
Mr. McCain's advisers said the key to victory was reeling back those Republican states where Mr. Obama has them on the run: Florida, where Mr. McCain spent Thursday; Indiana; Missouri; North Carolina; Ohio; and Virginia. If he can hang on to all those states as well as others that are reliably red, he would put into his column 260 of the 270 electoral votes necessary to win. Mr. McCain?s advisers said they would look for the additional electoral votes they need either by taking Pennsylvania from the Democrats, or putting together some combination of Colorado, Nevada, New Hampshire and New Mexico.
All I can say is if McCain were to win, we'd all better get used to hearing the phrase, "my friends" as he's annoyingly using it about every third sentence. It has become a linguistic tick of which he just can't seem to wrest himself.
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Boss
Obama is going to win. We, the country, do not need another republican in the office.
(get ya swagger up and ya hater blockers on)
NO OBAMA!!
Well Obviously this person is against McCain...First off...Obama is a good speaker but thats about it...all he says is CHANGE ...I will should you change...How is someone going to show change with no experience....I guess you can have change when you tax everything out of the people...he is all about giving his money to the media and having them show him off...I would rather have someone like McCain who is more down to earth and doesn't use his money to his advantage! the media is against McCain because Obama is throwing money at the media! Just be prepared to be taxed to death...and be put in a further recession!!!!
Sad but True
One other thing...
People are saying that McCain's tax cuts are for the "rich?" This may be true. But think about this... When health insurance goes up, who gets hit in the end? The employee. When antyhing goes up for a corporation (big or small), we, the employee gets hit in the end.
When companies play less in taxes, that means, more jobs and more income to the employee. If you tax a corporation more; that means a smaller bottom line for the corp, and either small benefits or smaller salary for the employee.
In the end, the employee ALWAYS gets effected. It's like anything else.
Look at what happened with oil. Who paid for it in the end? The consumer, in more ways than one.
It will almost ALWAYS trickle down to the consumer/employee. Period.
ONE of the things Obama has stated is that he wants to "...spread the wealth." THAT is socialism/communism/Marxism.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist
Don't be a lamb led to the slaughter.
RESEARCH non-biased material and get the truth!
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