And The Hits Just Keep On Coming...
John McCain needs Pennsylvania. He's lucky that there's no early voting there, which may explain why he's putting so many eggs in that basket:
So he's banking on alot of factor's here: Clinton-backlash, latent racism, the early voting thing and that Obama would somehow ignore the state because John Kerry won it in 2004.
Meanwhile, in McCain's own back yard...
Even if McCain can hold Obama off in Florida and North Carolina, two 2004 red states where polls suggest a tight race, the likelihood of losses in other 2004 red states has forced the McCain campaign to look to states that went blue four years ago.
They don't have many options. There are, polls suggest, only two states where a shift from blue to red seems within the realm of possibility. One is New Hampshire, where McCain is well liked and where some polls this month have shown the race in the single digits. (Others have shown a wide Obama advantage.) Even if McCain takes the state, however, he'll secure just four electoral votes - hardly enough to offset substantial gains by Obama in red states.
The other blue state where McCain may have a chance is Pennsylvania, and that is where the McCain camp appears to have placed its bets. The Keystone State offers 21 electoral votes - enough to make up for losses in, for example, Virginia and Colorado - and it almost went red in 2004, with Democrat John Kerry taking the state by just 2.5 percentage points.
In addition, Obama did not fare well in Pennsylvania during the primaries. The Illinois senator lost to Hillary Clinton by 10 percentage points, in part because the state's working-class white voters did not warm to him.
So he's banking on alot of factor's here: Clinton-backlash, latent racism, the early voting thing and that Obama would somehow ignore the state because John Kerry won it in 2004.
Meanwhile, in McCain's own back yard...
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