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angelatc
10-26-2008, 09:09 AM
http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/election2008/electoral-vote-tracker.htm

Warning: may present a brutal dose of reality to those harboring any thought that McCain might actually win.

DXDoug
10-26-2008, 09:21 AM
i like this one better then cnn since it has past 4 election results in each state.Great find!

klamath
10-26-2008, 09:45 AM
http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/election2008/electoral-vote-tracker.htm

Warning: may present a brutal dose of reality to those harboring any thought that McCain might actually win.

It makes you wonder why people are even fighting against McCain anymore. He is history! When I see people posting post after post against mcCain it makes me wonder if their motives aren't really to get Obama a bigger landslide mandate and they don't believe in this movement at all but are using it to farther Obama.

DAFTEK
10-26-2008, 09:46 AM
Nice find Angela ;)

RonPaulFanInGA
10-26-2008, 09:51 AM
It makes you wonder why people are even fighting against McCain anymore. He is history!

Yes it does. All the "McCain is done, Obama is a lock" stuff...well why keep saying it and arguing about the upcoming election? It sounds like those people are trying to convince themselves more than anyone else.

klamath
10-26-2008, 09:55 AM
Yes it does. All the "McCain is done, Obama is a lock" stuff...well why keep saying and arguing about the upcoming election? It sounds like those people are trying to convince themselves more than anyone else.

Can you show me one poll anywhere that shows McCain winning?

RonPaulFanInGA
10-26-2008, 10:20 AM
Can you show me one poll anywhere that shows McCain winning?

There are none. But there are a couple of polls with McCain down 2-4 with over a week to go. Factor in a Bradley effect and....

I'm not saying McCain will win. I think Obama will win. But it is not impossible for McCain to win.

ronpaulfollower999
10-26-2008, 10:33 AM
Latest CNN poll:

Obama 50%
McCain 42%
Undecided 8%

If McCain can somehow get all the undecided voters and a couple Obama supporters, than he would win. Probably a big if.

klamath
10-26-2008, 10:49 AM
There are none. But there are a couple of polls with McCain down 2-4 with over a week to go. Factor in a Bradley effect and....

I'm not saying McCain will win. I think Obama will win. But it is not impossible for McCain to win.

Almost every poll I see shows an increasing lead. I have voted for RP already and have come to the scary conclusion that I want Obama to win in order to build the liberty movement in the Republican party but I do not want a landslide for obama and a huge mandate. Even Reagan didn't have control of both houses of congress when he won his landslide in 1980. Bush had both houses of congress but he won by such a slim margin he had no mandate yet look at the trouble he has caused. Tell me one social program that has ever been removed once enacted?
Ever added percentage is all the more gravy for socialism.

I agree there maybe a Brady effect but the margins are beyond that now. The Bradley effect has also been over attributed to racism. The election that Bradley lost also had proposition 15 on the ballot which was basically outlawing guns in California. This brought out every rural republican voter in far larger numbers than the pollsters had factored into their polling samples.

klamath
10-26-2008, 10:54 AM
Latest CNN poll:

Obama 50%
McCain 42%
Undecided 8%

If McCain can somehow get all the undecided voters and a couple Obama supporters, than he would win. Probably a big if.

All Obama has to do is pick up one undecided vote and he has it won. In reallity look at the electoral college numbers. that is where the real landslide in coming from.

Pepsi
10-26-2008, 11:08 AM
If oil goes down to $50 a barrel, or near it befor the election I won't be shock if McCain wins..

angelatc
10-26-2008, 11:09 AM
I don't want Obama to win. I don't want McCain to win.

I think the best chance we have to advance the revolution involves an Obama victory. Carter brought us Reagan. Obama is farther left than Carter, so hopefully 2012 will swing us farther right than Reagan.

angelatc
10-26-2008, 11:13 AM
Latest CNN poll:

Obama 50%
McCain 42%
Undecided 8%

If McCain can somehow get all the undecided voters and a couple Obama supporters, than he would win. Probably a big if.

I suspect that's the popular vote though. If you look at all the undecided states and their electoral count, you'll see that even if McCain managed to win half of them, it is nowhere enough.

Plus I think that there's a good chance that a red state or two will turn blue. Mississippi has a very high percentage black population. Combined with the underwhelming popularity of Bush, I would not be surprised to see Obama win that state.

Micah Dardar
10-26-2008, 11:30 AM
I can breathe a slight sigh of relief that Obama is nearly a shoe in. If we can't have Ron Paul, I definitely don't want McCain.