[Clemenza]

McCain officially jumped the shark when he tried to cancel the first debate to attend to the bailout, without actually coming up with a plan of his own to justify his theatrics. Once that happened, I knew that it was basically over.

Please, let me eat my words. Please let McCain win this thing by a Flutiesque hail Mary!

[LS]

Clem, I'm looking at the polls and I don't see how Obama wins this.

Get inside the internals: Obama's trailing Kerry by 15% among Jews; trailing Kerry among Catholics; only getting about 83% of the Dem vote (McCain getting 90% of the GOP vote); he's trailing Kerry in suburban voters; in a key county like Montgomery in OH, he's running 2% behind where Kerry was; he's behind in white males, barely up in females, even in independents, and shocker of all, Obama has yet to MATCH Kerry in blacks!

That does not equal victory, especially when you factor in the electoral college. I give Obama almost no shot here in OH due to southeastern OH. As of two weeks ago, the Dem operatives there said they still couldn't convince people he wasn't a Muslim!