The Race for Pennsylvania is Wide Open
Unlike what polls conducted by members of the American mainstream media imply, both the Barack Obama and John McCain campaigns believe the race for Pennsylvania to be wide open.
In only five days time, Governor Ed Rendell called on Obama and Hillary Clinton to come back to Pennsylvania because he was getting “nervous.” This while the mainstream polls show Obama up by as much as 10%.
So why are they nervous? Well, because anyone with a bit of knowledge about Pennsylvania knows that Obama will not carry the state by 10%. It is impossible. This means that the polls are wrong, and both candidates will have to act as if the polls show it to be a tight race.
But there is more to it than that: Obama is slipping in mainstream polls in the last few days. Assuming the race to be tighter than the mainstream polls say, this could be disastrous.
And then there is the following: internal polling from the Obama campaign in Pennsylvania has him up by…2%. That is within the margin of error, of course, and makes clear that the race for Pennsylvania is wide open.
On top of that, we’ve got John McCain campaigning in Pennsylvania these days, trying to convince undecided voters and conservative Democrats to support him.
Pennsylvania is an important state for both man: if McCain carries this state, he will suddenly be in a position in which he and his supporters can be hopeful about winning the election as a whole. Especially because he’s doing increasingly better in key battleground states like Florida and Ohio. If he would win Pennsylvania, McCain could afford to lose one of the, say, six key battleground states, and still win the elections.
Having said that, it is all relatively good news for McCain and relatively bad news for Obama; McCain is struggling to keep ‘hope alive,’ Obama is struggling to win the elections before November 4th. That’s the difference.
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MAN ON FIVE, Cook County, Monday — The McCain campaign is looking at an Electoral College strategy heading into the final two weeks that has virtually no room for error.
“Democrat voting fraud is famous since Tammany Hall,” says Republican strategist Karl Rove. “So we’ll win without votes.”
Voting machines have been remotely reset and the counts adjusted. “Diebold have come to the party big time.” Touch screen machines for West Virginia early voting offer voters “McCAIN” or “REPLY HAZY, TRY AGAIN LATER.”
The rolls will be thoroughly checked for voter fraud. “If the typeface or font size is different on their driver’s licence, Social Security or the voter roll, that’s obvious blatant fraud. A typical Liberal knife to the heart of democracy.”
The party will check for dead voters as well. “We’re making the safe assumption that all registered Democrats are dead. If they’re not, we’ll correct that.” Governor Palin has long dealt with Democrat moose in Alaska. “You betcha!”
All residents of properties whose mortgages were underwritten by Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac will be assumed to have voted Republican. “We own the houses, of course we own the votes. It’s nonsense to say otherwise.”
Finally, under USA-PATRIOT, Obama supporters will be deemed associates of associates of terrorists. The offence will carry a penalty of one day’s imprisonment: November 4th.
Mr Rove is confident in the future of our democracy. “One man, one vote. That man being me.”
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