Robert Novak: Yes, McCain can still win

The Lima News ^ | October 9, 2008 | Robert Novak

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[ari-freedom]

“He cannot win, Bill. He cannot win.” Hillary Clinton talking to Bill Richardson, referring to Obama

[sushiman]

Reagan would have made mincemeat of Obomba .

[MARTIAL MONK]

What we have here is a failure to communicate.

[AmericanInTokyo]

Of course he would have, because Obamba would have only been 18 years old.

[johnthebaptistmoore]

All of us e-mailing the McCain/Palin ticket about what they seriously need to do in order to successfully win on November 4 doesn’t hurt. I also consider it good therapy, while also witnessing the entire U.S., as a country, still moving towards long-term socialism. The majority of conservatives really still don’t like John McCain that much for a highly finite number of legitimate reasons.

[A message]

and McCain's choice of Sarah Palin may have energized the Republican base, but it has appalled and frightened many outside that base.

The only people"appalled" and "frightened" by Governor Palin are the usual hate American leftists and their allies in the media.

As others have posted, the polls in '04 gave a considerable edge to Kerry and we know how that turned out.

Right now my greatest worry is the voter fraud. In a fraud free election McCain wins.

[valkyry1]

Does not sound to good for us at all does it?

[Cringing Negativism Network]

Time for the “Hail Mary”:

Put Palin on the TOP of the ticket.

Country first...

[lentulusgracchus]

Right now my greatest worry is the voter fraud. In a fraud free election McCain wins.

Yeah, remember what happened to Bob Dornan out in Orange County, California -- done out of his seat by a ballot-stuffing Chicana, Loretta Sanchez. Now both Sanchez and her sister sit in the House, communing with Borg Queen Nancy Pelosi and the Hive Mind.

[A message]

Those ACORN radicals and their allies including one Barack Hussein 0bama are a menace to our Republic.

[According2RecentPollsAirIsGood]

I think more than anything, what people don't like about McCain is his utter wussiness in attacking the other side, which manifests itself as limp-wristed defenses of illegitimate criticisms of himself, "bipartisanship," and trying to make people like him by serving them an additional helping of socialism. We used to hear about McCain's infamous temper; oh, how scary it would be to have someone so unstable and angry in the White House! I'd seriously bet quite a bit of money that if McCain snapped, went off on a angry rant about how much he can't stand these unpatriotic, socialist Democrats and the radicals that own them, how he's disgusted by the libel and slander they hurl at Sarah and him everyday, and how Obama will decimate the country if elected...if he'd do that (the angrier, the better), he'd win by a landslide.

As Morton Blackwell of the Leadership Institute says in his Laws of the Public Policy Process (a list I have framed on my wall),

"Moral outrage is the most powerful motivating force in politics."

[ChiMark]

Is this a rope-a-dope to pronounce McCain as the far shot?
McCain is now hitting hard. Obama peaked. He’s in pass prevent mode in the last quarter.But this often is a losing strategy especially for the inexperienced.

I reject the notion that Obama is winning. The McCain/Palin
appearances drw big enthusiastic crowds, overflowing crowds.
The MSM is desperately trying to diffuse the McCain-Palin
surge.

[roamer_1]

Time for the “Hail Mary”: Put Palin on the TOP of the ticket. Country first...

If McCain is OFF the ticket the base would EXPLODE. 10 point lead overnight. Put a good Conservative on the ticket, a Hunter or a Pence, and you'd see the landslide the RINOs want...

[Irene Adler]

"What we have here is a failure to communicate."

Brilliant application of that quotation!

[rvoitier]

"The Supreme Court issue can be extremely powerful for McCain: Obama is basically for using the court for social engineering. This is key for Reagan Democrats in key swings state. Catholics respond very well to the Supreme Court issue. McCain and Palin have got to get on that."

SCJs sounds like one of two issues to push. Appoint judges to stop social engineering and get back to what the Constitution actually says. I mean, doesn't a wide majority of Americans dislike activist judges? Also appoint judges to ACLU, which nearly everyone despises, and that point should be highlighted.

The other tact is draw out of Obama what he would do about Chavez's build-up of Russian military hardware. That's an issue The One is terrible with and sure to produce many, ums and uhs.

[Irene Adler]

"As others have posted, the polls in '04 gave a considerable edge to Kerry and we know how that turned out."

I don't believe this is correct.

[sushiman]

” Of course he would have, because Obamba would have only been 18 years old.”

Hehe...you know what I meant ! ; )

[Reaganez]

many papers have said many pollsters gave a private presentation to the network news divisions the night before the election in 04. They all predicted a significant Kerry win.

PM Blair got a briefing from his intelligence services and Tony went to bed considering how his relationship with a Kerry Administration would work.

The exit polls said the same thing.

Bob Shrum asked Kerry if he could be the first person to call him Mr. President around noon eastern time the day of the election.

Those stories are in more than one paper.

[Darkwolf377]

I don't believe this is correct.

You're right. I checked a bunch of polls the other night, and Bush lead all of those I checked in the final month of the 2004 election.