Posted on 06/16/2008 11:25:53 AM PDT by Bill Dupray
So much for the 50 State Strategy, announced just last week. The Obama campaign admits neither FL and OH "was hospitable to Obama this year." Even three states Kerry won (PA, MI, NH) "look competitive" for McCain. Obama will try to pick off VA, NM, and others to make up the difference. Is Obama the underdog in this Year of the Democrat?
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I have a whole menagerie of Dem kook friends who are mesmerized by B. Hussein and they have contemplated not voting for him if Hillary is the VP. So take it FWIW.
Yep, how does Obama win the election without Ohio, Penn, Florida, and Michigan? He’s got to win at least 2 of those to win the election, based on how other states are lining up.
The map could change if he really can pick up Virginia and Colorado, or any others.
Some of the key swing states look to be Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Florida, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada, and New Hampshire.
Hillary probably will be the VP candidate.
“But losing to another Democrat is different from losing to a Republican.”
Yeah - but he is running against McCain. I think a lot of gun-toting Bible-reading Union democrats will have no problem voting for McCain rather than a commie like Obama.
Who is looking to challenge Warner in the Senatorial campaign? Is George Allen going to challenge him? If not him, I don’t see any Republican beating him.
BTW: Love Ralph Stanley, love My Ole’ clinch mountain home by the Carter family... : )
So far McCain seems to be cool with the idea that Hussein will get some southern states.If he picks Bloomberg then he probably prefers to not get southern states.
We were told that our efforts in making Pennsylvania competitive tied down RAT resources that otherwise would have been deployed to Ohio, where the margin for Bush ended up being about the same as our margin for Kerry.
Fauxbama has ZERO chance in PA... he can’t win OH or FLA... he is the completely unelectable canidate. The dems have put forth someone who cannot win a general popular election or the electoral college.
Just wait until he has to actually perform in front of live camera’s with no teleprompter and get forced to think on his feet.
This guy will be LUCKY if he gets 40% of the popular vote.
Fauxbama cannot win PA, pure and simple.
This stuffed shirt will lose many states that no Dem can afford to lose... he’s unelectable.
I think that he thinks that Georgia is in play.He’s dreaming.
Gilmore is challenging him. Gilmore is not popular at all. It’s an easy win for Warner, but a lot of his votes won’t carry over to Obama.
It’s not just the post-JFK Democrats who had to win Southern states to win the White House. No Democrat has ever won without taking at least four southern states.
He thinks Georgia is in play.I cannot imagine it.
Please, PLEASE, do not overestimate John McCain’s intelligence in regard to choosing his running mate. I KNOW there is a lot riding on that choice, but when a bad choice COULD be made, you could almost depend on John to be at least reaching out for it.
Choosing a running mate is on the order of cutting diamonds, trying to achieve the one cut that reveals the most favorable facets, while trying to avoid the flaw that would reduce a gem to abrasive dust.
If McCain were to pick Lieberman then he would definitely lose my vote too.
I can’t see Obama picking Bloomberg or Hagel. This would not gain him much. Plus Dems would be screaming that the slot should go to a real Democrat.
Maybe Gilmore should opt out of the Senate race, in which he has no chance, and make himself available to be McCain’s running mate instead! He would make a good balance and it would probably keep VA in GOP hands.
Did Gilmore leave office unpopular? I thought it was a disaster when in the aftermath of 9/11/01 that VA would elect a Demo governor to succeed Gilmore. But I thought he had been a pretty solid conservative.
I agree. I live in California. I seriously doubt that McCain can win California, but I and many of my friends will be working very hard between now and November to make it not be a landslide, thus keeping the Dems from taking resources out of California to help in closer states. We did that in 2004, and I firmly believe it helped alot in the grand scheme of things.
I'm seeing a lot of Obama stickers though...of course, that is because Obama supporters tend to be loud mouths.
My dinner at a restaurant in Alexandria was ruined last night by one such loud mouth who felt it her duty to explain to her table (and the entire restaurant) why she was voting for Obama. In a nutshell...the government is one big, bad conspiracy...so she's voting for Obama so the gov't can control more.
Quite the intellectual.
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