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Even though Barack Obama is leading in several states that have been resolutely Red, such as Virginia and North Carolina, some states will probably never go his way. Take Utah, for example. My favorite polling and projection site, 538, gives John McCain a 100% chance of winning that state. Pat Bagley of the Salt Lake Tribune would agree.
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Hello Ella, I’m more interested than you might suppose in the coming election [not long to go now] I am at a lost to understand how McCain gets to be the best candidate the Reps can produce. Wishing you a good week ahead.
Hi, Gentledove. I’m still thinking about that amazing poem of yours. It touched me right down to my bones.
I’m glad to know you’re interested; your country is our closest and best ally and we never forget that. The papers on your side of the pond have been following everything so closely. The Guardian gets it right more than the others, in my opinion, and I even have their US politics feed in a sidebar widget on my Obama blog.
But..McCain. Well, he ran in 2000 and was a much different person then. Bush knocked him out in the primaries by using some of the same divisive smear tactics McCain is using now against Obama. He’s probably not the best they can produce, but with the extreme religious right holding that party hostage, he was deemed by his party’s voters to be the most electable. One who ran against him in the primaries is Mormon — great for Utah, btw, but most Republicans won’t vote for one — and is also pro-choice, The religious right won’t tolerate that.
That’s why McCain picked Caribou Barbie (aka: Bible Spice) for his running mate. His first choice is said to have been Joe Lieberman, a senator who is a Democrat in name only, but he’s not only pro-choice, he’s Jewish. Oy! The fundamentalists would never sit still for that!
Cross your fingers for an Obama landslide November 4.