Can McCain defeat Obama?

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"More of the same", and "4 more years of Bush"  will be the theme this year.  McCain has no chance of winning against Obama.  Clinton maybe, but not Obama.

Most people don't understand politics to any great depth, but they do know that Obama is a breath of fresh air.

Reagan won by talking about a "new morning in America".  Obama is generating a feeling in people that they can once again be proud of America.  Something that has slipped away under republican/Bush rule.  John McCain will be paired with Bush until we will think that he IS Bush.   He won't lose in a landslide, but he will be a victim of a craving for change - simple as that.

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In the end, I doubt that much will matter because McCain has nothing to run on other than more of the same.  Obama is running on a campaign of hope.  How do you run against hope?  However, the right wing blogs and talk shows will be spreading plenty of talk about how he isn't patriotic and that he is too liberal (as if that's a bad thing) to make McCain very competitive.  However, I believe that it will be turnout that will end McCains bid once everything is over, and the more the right smears Obama the more votes he will get. 

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"It is better to remain silent and thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt"  or so said Lincoln.  Being vague on Obama's part may be genious.  As long as he rallys the voters and says very little, McCain will have little to use to go after him.  In other words, why give your opponent material to hold against you. 

As of right now, Obama is not giving anybody anything to sink their teeth into.  How do you attack someone who doesn't lay out any positions.  Genious, absolute genious.

It's hard to swiftboat a man who provides his opponent with no swiftboat.

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Actually, lets face it, McCain could win.  Why?  Because the righties are good at campaigning on simple issues.  It won't be long before dumb white guys across America will be sitting around in circles in resturants talking about how they won't vote for Obama because he won't wear his flag lapel pin.  There will also be minimum wage workers who will be afraid that the Democrats will raise their taxes even though they make too little money to pay any taxes.  They will also be convinced by November that if we pull out of Iraq that their civil war will follow us back home and pick up steam somewhere in say, Kentucky?? Face it, the electorate is fickle, and the righties know how to play it. 

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Hmmmmmmm, our phones are tappped, you are told you you can't end your life when you want, you can't deal with a pregnancy without guidlines, you get your every crack searched at the airport, cameras probably coming soon to your local restroom, your're going to Hell if you are not a Christian, you need to pray in school, you can't get so much as partnership benefits if you are gay, the government uses your tax dollars to pay private companies to fight wars, and to pay massive profts to drug companies who wrote Medicare D to their benefit.

Those crazy liberals and their big government ideals.  Oh, wait a minute, everything I just mentioned is the backbone of today's republican party and conservative activist judgements. 

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Actually, you are right, and I like that aspect of McCain.  The problem is that he caves in to the far fight (to get votes of course).  What I fear is not McCain, but the odd characters he will put in his administration.