This means McCain has to thread the needle Bush did in 2000.
He must hold VA, FL and CO, which puts the whole election, again on OH.
I guess at this point it might be just as well to dump ALL money into OH (and get some lawyers there now to sue the hell out of SecofState etc), FL, VA and CO. The problem, IMO, is that it also means McCain has to pull out a win in New Hampshire or somehow win NM. But on the other hand, if McCain does generate some momentum, there will be a bit of a carry over back into MI, PA, Wisc and maybe a MN, and you can hit hard the last 2 weeks and dump a truckload of Rev Wright, Saul Alinsky, Ayers, Rezko and Foreign Money ads to maybe get people to think twice on Election Day.
I still think if McCain can get it back to near “even”, he can dump the mother of all Ad Buys (along with the RNC/527 type groups) on all the Obama negatives.
If FannieFreddy gate was the Dems Oct surprise maybe...just maybe we can pray the GOP has one left for mid Oct. I have my doubts. This is starting to be reminiscent of Bush v Clinton in 1992...you kept waiting for the Clinton mirage to fall apart but it never did. The only saving grace is there is no Perot, and Palin is still a bigger potential difference maker than Quayle.
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we need to hold the Bush states....
thats' it...
okay...we can lose the good farm country of Iowa because their big farm bribes are more important than the country....and we can lose New Mexico where the SOS has printed 1,000,000 extra ballots just to be "safe".....MAC AND SARAH STILL WIN!