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    Mdiar1 year, 1 month ago

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    I thought that this was a very good analysis of how McCain could, possibly, come back. Its unlikely, however.

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      Mdiar1 year, 1 month ago

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      Oh, full disclosure. The author of this article is a liberal who supports Sen. Obama.

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        gamahuche1 year, 1 month ago

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        Yes.. The NY Post was always a very right-wing - and sensationalist - tabloid when I lived there.
        I was quite surprised to find this there.
        The summing up seemed about right:
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        "By no means would this strategy make a victory likely for John McCain. He needs to find some way to win several news cycles during the last week of the campaign, and then he needs hope, faith, and a lot of luck. But faced with a dire situation, McCain needs to re-find the focus and discipline that he has been lacking for much of the campaign; this is his best chance to do so."
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        Honestly speaking the odds are very long against McCain - the English bookies are now calling Obama at 1-10 and McC at 11-2 [greedy odds actually!]]
        As for his chances of pulling off a legitimate-vote upset, it seems to me that he completely lost his one great opportunity already when he tried to get involved in solving the economic crisis and wasted his time and energy being seen and not heard..
        A lot to ask of someone to cobble together something coherent and brilliant and effective overnight but he set himself up to do it and flopped totally.
        That other small detail that he also declared a truce in campaigning and then broke it hardly did him any favours either.

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          Mdiar1 year, 1 month ago

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          Here's Nate Silver's site, actually:

          http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/

          He does statistical analysis to determine the odds of the election going one way or the other. Its an extremely useful tool for those watching the election, whether people like his math or not.

          I believe the NY Post is still a rightist paper, I'm not certain though.

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        UnusualSuspect1 year, 1 month ago

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        McCain has to win ALL the remaining "swing" states to win the election...Nevada, Colorado, Missouri, Indiana, Ohio, North Carolina, and Florida.

        He can't win six of them and still win the election...he has to win all seven...

        Similar to my chances of winning the big prize in Lotto...very, very, slim...

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          Will13131 year, 1 month ago

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          Diebold...

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            jaspersneed1 year, 1 month ago

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            Exactly. American Fascism's ace-in-the-hole, and possibly the most overtly evil corporation to ever operate on American soil.

            Speaking of which, anybody keeping track of Karl Rove's whereabouts lately?

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