Just one question. McCain has been in the Senate for 25 years. What has he done in that time? What are his accomplishments? Apart from a bit of years-old campaign finance reform that no-one cares about and most people who do care about don't like.
There's one candidate here who should really fear an examining of his record.
I'm not even talking about accomplishments because we've had that battle here before (though if you really wish to go into it, fire away). I'm talking about the record in general. Obama is far too liberal. Right now all people know is HOPE anc CHANGE. That only works for so long.
Um... I think that McCain winning Connecticut or Pennsylvania or Wisconsin is more "insane" than winning the west or Virginia.
LOL I never said he'd win CT and considering WI and PA are states that are true swing states and even show McCain leading, your comparison is even more of a joke.
I think most people would agree that a candidate of the incumbent party winning during a recession, an unpopular war, and the term of a 28% approval-rating President is "insane."
Ok, sure.
P.S. - Karl Rove won in 2000, 2002 and 2004 > losing in 2006.
I think the fact that Obama, a progressive liberal, is polling better than John McCain, a "maverick" center-right conservative says a lot about how election 2008 is in no way comparable to any election of the past few decades.
Furthermore, the fact that none of the people posting in this thread, myself included, were alive the last time we had an election anything like 2008 just shows that we maybe don't have the expertise or the experience to really know what the hell is going to happen in November.
All I see from you, Phil, and Naso, is a bunch of maps where you switch a few states around and call as close to 50/50 as you can with your candidate still managing to take the win.
That is a great sign of hackishness right there: You can't admit that just maybe your candidate could lose.
Hell, Obama could fall on his face and lose in a landslide. My map showing an Obama landslide was not a map of "OMG OBAMAS GONNA RULE THE QWORLD LOLZ@!!!", but instead, that for the first time ina long time, we could see states flipping or a full out electoral landslide in one direction or the other.
All that comes from you guys is "Okay... let's just extrapolate 2004 a smidge, flip Colorado and Wisconsin, maybe give 'em Iowa, and then berate everybody else because they're actually excited about the political process and have a candidate who is young, charismatic, and new."
The people that post maps that show Obama winning Kansas and Montana might be people that don't have a lot of experience with electoral politics, but all that you've shown us is someone who has thought about it a whole lot and still managed to come up with nothing new.
