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Robert Schlesinger

Is John McCain Counting on the Bradley Effect in Pennsylvania?

October 27, 2008 02:49 PM ET | Robert Schlesinger | Permanent Link | Print

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COMMON SENSE

MCCAIN WILL WIN BECAUSE PEOPLE HAVE COMMON SENSE.

PEOPLE WORK HARD FOR THEIR MONEY AND OBAMA WILL JUST GIVE IT TO THOSE WHO DONT WORK. THERE ARE ENOUGH GOVT PROGRAMS ALREADY WITHOUT TAKING MORE OF THE WORKING CLASS PEOPLE'S MONEY.

VOTE MCCAIN

I am in L.A. and we are voting McCain, We have friends in PA and they are voting McCain. I also have friends in Fl that are voting McCain. I only know 1 person who is voting for Obama. No one I know likes Obama.

Review this link

http://www.pennypresslv.com/Obama%27s_Use_of_Hidden_Hypnosis_techniques_in_His_Speeches.pdf

Is this why no one has challenged Mr. Obama

We have seen this type of event happen throughout history there is no real reason to vote for Mr. Obama. Most people do not have a sufficient answer of why they believe in him this is disturbing.

http://www.pennypresslv.com/Obama%27s_Use_of_Hidden_Hypnosis_techniques_in_His_Speeches.pdf

No chance for Obama

McCain will win Ohio and Pensylvania due to several factors:

1) Obama Socialistic Agenda

2) Obama's association with radicals and domestic terrorists

3) Race issues

4) Obama tax increase policies and expansion of government spending

5) Many Pennsylvania don't trust in him. He is a flip flop

6) Obama lacks of experiences in national and international issues

7) Obama's runmate (The idiot of Biden)

8) Obama association to Pelosi and Frank. These two laters were responsible of no passing regulations for Fannie and Fredie Housing institutions

9) Obama sponsoring of Acon trying to steal the elections.

Obama Will Win PA

Don't know about you but I am tired of polls.

I guess there are lot of statiticians that need work these days.

Obama will win because the majority of urban PA knows that McCain, despite all of his talk, is Bush III. His clear and deliberate cozyness with the far-right--icluding his selectionn of Palin--is sure to have turned off any independent, "conservative Dem" or wavering Hillary-ite that would've considered him. I think most people made up their minds a long time ago. The rest has been an exercise in wooing the few.

That being said, I bet it'll be a close one!

The Polls are DeadWrong!!!

I'm a die-hard Obama supporter and i DO NOT believe he has a double digit national poll lead, neither does he lead in Ohio, Florida, Pennsylvania and Missouri.

I think some people are being DISHONEST to the pollsters and i also believe all the undecided voters are closet McCain supporters who hate the status quo but can't overcome their personal prejudices well enough to support a black candidate.

So, I'm going to vote early and carpool some friends to the polls. It's all in God's hands now. May his Will be Done.

I think Barack Obama is a breath of fresh air to our great country and the world.

He opposed the war in Iraq...he was right.

He said we needed a political solution between the Iraqi tribes...he was right(Bush is doing it now)

He said the US should foster talks with Iran and North Korea...he was right.(Bush is doing it now)

He said the bailout package must include a guaranteed return on the taxpayer money.....he was right(Bush is doing it now)

I could go on and on about his judgement....but time and time again, he has rose to the occasion with depth and confidence.

When you go to vote on November 4th, if John McCain becomes president right after George W. Bush, what's going to change???

'He Just Happens to be Republican and he's White"???

People actually rationalize prejudice in succinct sentences. Wow, i'm sure if we put up ten more black candidates over the next forty years, you'll just coincidentally be voting for the white guy because 'he happens to be white'.

I'm gonna stay up on Nov. 4th to have my faith in America restored or vanquished.

McCain Will Win PA

I've lived in western PA all my life, and the residents here are good, honest, hard-working people. Just because they do not want to vote for someone who believes in taking money from one group of people and giving it to another group, some of whom do not even pay income taxes, does not mean they are racist. We know so little about Obama; he's untried and untested. McCain has been through the ringer; we have seen his "mettle" and know that he will not be tested by some foreign power as Biden said Obama would. I hope the people of PA, particularly western PA, do not allow the liberal media to intimidate them into voting for man BECAUSE he is black. It's time to vote for the best person for America, and this time, it just so happens he is a Republican and he's white.

One More Hail Mary

Senator McCain is contesting PA because it is one of the states in Obama's column with enough electoral college votes to make up for all the red states lost by the GOP since 2004. The McCain campaign is not crazy. Pennsylvania is the closest state in the polls with the requisite number of electoral votes to create a path to victory. What other choice do they have? Should they try to turn it around in New York or California instead? Even if they were to shock the world and take Pennsylvania, they can still lose by failing to take Virginia and Colorado or North Carolina or Florida or Ohio. If Obama wins any one of the following: Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Missouri, or Indiana, say good night to the McCain campaign. On the other hand, McCain has to win them all to just have a chance. Simple math people.

Bradley Affect

Of course McCain is counting on it. That and anything else that could sway a voter. He has had nothing original his whole campaign. Everything he feeds off of and spews is negativity and whatever Obama says. Regarding a previous entry, why shouldn't 95% of black americans vote for him? They voted 100% for whites in all previous elections. Ignorance reigns...

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Robert Schlesinger is a deputy editor at U.S. News and World Report and oversees all opinion editorial content. He is the author of White House Ghosts: Presidents and Their Speechwriters.

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