By all rights, given his assocaitions and positions, he should.
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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He has no shot in Va. Too much military and too many defense contractors. McCain even has higher support in Northern Va than most Republicans. If Obama spends time any money there it’s all for naught, which is fine by me.
Some will riot IMO if Obama wins or loses.
By all rights, given his assocaitions and positions, he should.
I think there are at least twenty states that Obama can write off today...and by August...another eight. Michigan should have been pro-Obama....but they can’t even win that state now. If McCain picks Bloomberg as VP...then Obama can count out NY automatically.
If Obama has already written off OH and FL...then this election isn’t going to be the Obama landslide the MSM thinks it will.
In fact, I predict the opposite. Obama’s going to spend a lot of money defending MI, PA, and WI and probably won’t win those either.
My mother-in-law seems to think McCain has a reasonable shot of winning Massachusetts as well.
Bloomberg might cost the McCainiac the south IMO.
Obama will be writing off Michigan and PA before it’s all said and done...
Michelle is again embarrassed at Americans.
I’m not entirely sure I buy B. Hussein simply “writing off” FL and OH. Hell, the way things are shaping up, he’ll NEED both of them to win it.
He will, however, have to pick off a few states in the South the way every other post-JFK Dim that has won the Presidency in order to have a shot.
Bloomberg is a non starter.
Which are you? Are you going to riot if he loses? Or if he wins?
Read the article and he’s saying Ohio wasn’t hospitable to Obama because Clinton took it. But losing to another Democrat is different from losing to a Republican. Long and short of it is that Obama can’t afford to write off Ohio. He may be able to cobble a win without the state but it will be a whole lot easier with Ohio than without it. I think he’ll fight hard for it.
When hubby loses,we’ll be accused of being racists.Tough!
If Obama is writing off key swing states, then the Dem convention may not be a coronation.
Monkeywrench time: Hillary is the VP! What shall happen then?
Take a look at the southern states in the post-JFK era that were won by Dim candidates that were part of their EC total:
1996—X42/Algore
Arkansas
Louisiana
Florida
Tennessee
Kentucky
(You could also throw in West Virginia if you felt inclined to do so, since they also won in that state)
1992—X42/Algore
Arkansas
Louisiana
Georgia
Tennessee
Kentucky
(also W. Virginia)
1976—Jimmuh/Mondale
Texas
Louisiana
Arkansas
Alabama
Mississippi
Georgia
Florida
Tennessee
North Carolina
South Carolina
(also West Virginia)
1964-LBJ
Somehow this quasi-Texan took 44 states, but Goldwater, aside from winning Arizona won Mississippi, Louisiana, Georgia, Alabama, and South Carolina. So if you’re from these states and you voted for Goldwater, give yourself a pat on the back.
Anyway, my question is: Can B. Hussein the Messiah pick off any of these states that previous Dims that have won the Presidency have? He may have to in order to win...
Dream on. MCcain is not that dumb to pick Boooooberg.
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.
Change that to "The MSM wants it to be"
Trust me, Philly fraud will not carry the state for Fauxbama.
He will lose PA, mark my words.
Let's get real people, this is delusional thinking. Obama will win MA in a landslide because he has the one and only qualification it takes to win here : a D after your name. No matter what Obama does or what comes out about him, he will win 60% of the vote here. MA is not even in play. NH maybe but this is Kennedy land folks.
I think Obama will lose nationwide in a land slide but nit in MA. If you don't live here like I do you have no idea how hideously liberal this place is.
My MIL LIVES in Mass. My wife used to.
Others are also not convinced that MA will be the walk for Obama that you and many others (understandably, don’t get me wrong) think it will be.
Mass. voters lean liberal, but for the most part (outside Boston and Cambridge) they are still patriots. Kerry and Gore were able to present themselves as patriots, but Obama cannot.
Also - there are more Independent voters in Massachusetts than Democrats IIRC - McCain simply appeals more to them.
There is no way he isn't going to be nominated. And I think it's too early to be writing off Ohio. Wishful thinking on the author's part.
I think you're right. But how many? That's the question. And I think it's too early to be answering it. The picture should look a lot clearer come late September and October.
A smell a Torricelli coming our way!
Yep. They riot when their favorite team loses a basketball/football/baseball game too.
Gilmore is a sacrificial lamb. He was never that popular, way less popular than Allen.
I think Obama is even going to have to fight to win NJ.
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