I hope you are an adult, though naivite is not becoming in an adult. You have severely under estimated the ability of the Republican party to yank defeat from the jaws of victory. We aren’t called the stupid party for nothing. A significant number of Republican voters are inclined to stay home rtaher than vote for JOhnny the great (in his own mind) or for either of the socialists the DNC/media is pushing. The media have made it plain that they are purely for the democrat party. American voters aren’t mindful of thsier sovereign responsibility to remain free in a Republic ... they vote for people who dole not people who deliberate. The latter part of 2009 or first part of 2010 will the most bloody time in American History as the feckless democrats take complete and final control of America. We The People are about to get what we deserve for our defaulting our sovereignty to politicians (democraps and ‘Repubicans’) doling tax dollars and manipulating the economic engine. The ruling politicians want US to be dependant upon other nations for our energy and our goods. Which of the three candidates will change that direction? None of them!
Some Rep voters will stay home, sure, but they will more then be made up for by the Independents who are strongly for JM and even Democrats who will vote for him in greater numbers then they have ever voted for a Republican.
It is you who fail to grasp the damage the Democrat party has done/is doing itself. You, like many think they can wave a magic wand and make all that has happened in the past year simply go away. You also have the idea, a very human failing, that because YOU feel a certain way certainly most if not all will feel the same way. It's the wrong idea and you will find this out.
In the end I foresee at least half the Republicans who so stridently claim they will stay home rather then vote for McCain will return to the fold when the prospect of uber liberal WH becomes real.