<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/4accf47d-4ab9-4f44-a4f6-078ffaf6d7e7/331AA303-3E0A-4306-B972-9E01CB4C8FE9/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2008/10/mccains-10-day-plan.html" href="http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2008/10/mccains-10-day-plan.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.fivethirtyeight.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2008/10/mccains-10-day-plan.html"><P><DIV>In an article for the <A href="http://www.nypost.com/seven/10252008/postopinion/opedcolumnists/mccains__long__road_to_electoral_win_135233.htm" linkindex="513" set="yes">New York Post</A>, I give it the old college try and lay out an electoral strategy for John McCain to maximize his (slim) chances of winning.</DIV><BR />No razzle-dazzle here: McCain simply has to pick which states he and Sarah Palin can do the most good in, and hope for the best.<SPAN id="fullpost"><BR /><BR /><DIV>I group the states into four categories. The first two categories concern blue states won by John Kerry and/or Al Gore. The latter two concern red states.</DIV><BR /><DIV>1. <SPAN></SPAN><SPAN>Give-Ups</SPAN>. McCain should concede Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Minnesota and Iowa.</DIV><BR /><DIV>2. <SPAN>Offensive Targets</SPAN>. McCain should remain engaged in New Hampshire and New Mexico.</DIV><BR /><DIV>3. <SPAN>Defensive Targets</SPAN>. Some reasonably vigorous defense is required in Viginia, Colorado, Nevada, Ohio and North Carolina.</DIV><BR /><DIV>4. <SPAN>Gambles.</SPAN> McCain should limit his activity in Florida, Missouri and Indiana, and hope a national surge of some kind brings those states back into his column.</DIV><BR />For the rationale behind these groupings, please see the <A href="http://www.nypost.com/seven/10252008/postopinion/opedcolumnists/mccains__long__road_to_electoral_win_135233.htm" linkindex="514">full text</A> of the article.<BR /></SPAN></P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/331AA303-3E0A-4306-B972-9E01CB4C8FE9/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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