I have long predicted a “big” McCain win here on thread after thread, supported in part by my belief that an amazing number of Dems just cannot bring themselves to pull the lever to vote for Obama.
Dems that will have a race issue(Bradley affect), Dems that just cannot get over that he is an inexperienced rookie, Dems with regional and parochial issues (i.e. coal mining in Appalachia) and Dems who are simply pissed off Hillary supporters. I believe that this combined number could be as much as 1/3 of the 18 million Hillary supporters from the primaries.
With about 6 million crossovers in my view, (I know that this number sounds ambitious, but we should not underestimate the power of the 'scorned') the above author's predictions seem quite plausible.
When the smoke clears, the PUMAs are gong to be found to have a huge bearing on the outcome of this election, and the real depth of these PUMAs is simply not being factored into any of the inaccurate polling that we have been seeing. I stand by my prediction of a MAC win and about 6 million PUMAs will be involved in making it happen, as they should.