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	McCain's Pitiful Election Strategy

conches

9-28-2008 12:07 PM

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conches says:

According to this article, all the data shows that McCain is going to lose. His only hope is to provide a "shock" that is perfectly timed to election day.

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 	         	                <H3 class="entry-header">Why McCain needs to keep pulling out rabbits</H3></DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://timesonline.typepad.com/comment/2008/09/take-a-look-at.html"><P>From this a number of points are clear. First, this election is not the nail biting close contest that is being portrayed. Generally, Obama is ahead. It may be fairly narow but his lead is clear and pretty consistent.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://timesonline.typepad.com/comment/2008/09/take-a-look-at.html"><P>He is just about capable of turning the race for brief periods. His one chance of winning is that one of his small short-lived spikes coincides with election day.</p> <P>His strategy therefore will not be the long grind of building a message and winning trust. It will be to pull rabbits out of hats. He has to keep turning the race to keep himself in it. </p> <P>And then hope he has kept one bit of reckless surprise back big enough to win, to be timed right for the end of the race.</p> <P>His actions yesterday fit entirely with that.</p> <P>I have to say, though, that looking at the long term polling trend, you have to conclude that McCain is a long shot. </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/F32D469F-E5F5-4E46-94E7-1F763A694CE8/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.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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