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There is also no way on God's green Earth that McCain/Palin are down by ten points in PA.

Address it all you want - Here is some reality first - PA has not gone GOP in over 20 years at POTUS. Its most recent state-wide elections it went DEM both, at Senate and Gov levels...

Polls are polls - With that said, the lastest SV (Republican polling firm) has Obama up 14pts + - That was a LV poll with a large sample of 1200 - This same SV that showed McCain up 5pts in PA back in March of this year -

The last 5 polls out of PA have Obama up 10pts plus - All of them - That doesn't mean Obama will win by 10pts come election day.......but it means the State is becoming fastly out of reach. Obama leads in the last 20 polls taken out of PA.

This isn't being negative - This is facing reality - Reality is McCain needs to hold VA, OH and CO (we will win FL). If he holds those 3 States we win. Being off in IA, where Iowians already don't like him (over his ethanol positions) is foolishness this late......

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From Sept. 30 to Oct. 6, Obama spent more than $20 million on television ads in 17 states including more than $3 million in Pennsylvania and more than $2 million each in Florida, Michigan and Ohio. McCain in that same time frame spent just $7.2 million in 15 states. Even when the Republican National Committee's independent expenditure spending in Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Wisconsin is factored in (a total of $5.3 million), Obama still outspent the combined GOP forces by roughly $8 million in the last week alone.

So let's look. Supposedly the Obamessiah leads in every corner of the nation by gobs of points. It's over! So why is he advertising in PA and Michigan?!? Didn't McCain abandon MI? Oops, lookee here. The RNC is still advertising in MI. As are some right-leaning 527s (which you claim aren't doing anything).

So you can keep playing defense only. That's a strategy for losers in my book, especially when facing an opponent with so much money. Meanwhile the GOP is making plays at blue states PA, MI and WI (very, very close here the past two elections), plus the purplish IA (red last election, blue the one before).

You can think whatever you like. This is not a campaign trailing by ten points in PA, nor is it a campaign trailing badly nationwide. It's a campaign playing chess against an extremely well-financed Marxist with an adoring media.

Hi, troll.

Read the internals of the polls; talk to the GOP workers *on the ground*; look at the size of the McCain-Palin rallies (campaigns losing by > 10% do not draw orgiastic crowds of that size); look at the anti-Acorn investigations; talk to the PUMAs; remember the Dem primaries in Pennsylvania.

Nice try, though.

Cheers!

McCain has to run the table with CO, VA, OH, and FL. We can't win without those. The others (PA, WI, MN) will probably be heartbreakers in the end (close, but no cigar). The financial crises has hit McCain hard. I don't know if there is time for him to recover, even if it settles down in the next couple of weeks (which is probably unlikely).