McCain writes off Colorado, but he sends palin there to campaign.
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I notice that Missouri has moved from tossup to leans Obama over night. McCain's path to victory is exceedingly small and relies heavily on voter suppression and Democratic overconfidence. Get yourself, your friends and your family to the polls. No excuses.

So my guess is that Obama and McCain are playing chicken?

Who's going to blink first and go back to defend a state they absolutely need? Obama barnstorming Florida and McCain barnstorming Penn.

Notice that they send Palin only to states they CAN'T lose or to states that are so far gone that they can't win.

McCain is losing because of the press -- at least according to a McCain top adviser Mark Salter:

"I think the media is driven by a need to see this history happen. And I think they've rationalized it, they think they're on the level with McCain, that he's not the old McCain. But he is the old McCain. He just doesn't know what happened to the old press corps. They rationalize a reason to go get him. Every Obama attack they carry. Every McCain criticism of Obama they rush to blunt even before Obama does."

Lie and Cry - that's all they've got! Against the dead weight of Palin and mcShame recklessness.

Question for those who know more about campaign finance than I do-

First an observation - if I had a TV station I would make the McCain campaign pay cash up front. They seem like the kind that would walk away with unpaid bills. What would happen with any unpaid bills since he used public financing?

Sort of the opposite track - what can Obama do if he has cash left over? Can he save it for 2012? Start up a PAC to help other Dems?

For the last couple of days McScum appeared on TV and defended the robocalls as "absolutely true and legitimate." How does the MSM respond to that so far? Are they just giving him airtime to vomit that crap, or are they actually calling him out? Can anyone please tell me?

Obama had $133MM on hand as of October 1 compared to $47MM for McCain.

"McCain Banking On Pennsylvania"

Talk about a banking crisis.

I think McCain is working hard in Pennsylvania in spite being so far behind because the GOP expects it to be easier to cheat via machines, caging, or something...

We should be very suspicious of him spending so much time and money in Pennsylvania when he hs limited funds....

Charlie,Charlie, Charlie (Gibson)....
When the call says Obama worked "Closely" with this terrorist, and McCain says that it's "absolutely true" you might point out that the syntax implies that Obama worked closely on a terrorist agenda with a known terrorist and that Obama has already said repeatedly that they were only aquaintences. Sen. McCain should certainly understand that his robo calls are meant to sling terrorist paint on Obama. If he doesn't understand that that's the intent of his own advertising he's certainly not qualified to be president. When he says you shouldn't listen to what his own campaign officials are saying because he's the candidate, the implication is that he doesn't control his own organization. If he can't do that how can he be expected to run the government of the United States of Americal

The Pennsylvania Strategy makes sense for McCain. If there is a last-gasp racist vote, manifested itself, allowing him to carry Ohio, Florida, Missouri, North Carolina and Virginia it would STILL leave him short -- and there is no sign of any racist backlash here out west. That's one reason to give up on Colorado. That makes Pennsylvania -- where there is much working-class hate to mine -- not only the last gasp but maybe the ONLY one. Talk about a great white hope!

For the record, I think Obama will win big, but would it be ironic if McCain took Pennsylvania and still lost because Obama won in North Carolina and/or Virginia? Now THAT would be a new map.

A friend saw a sign in someone's yard near Virginia City, Nevada several days ago, which said "A maverick is a lost cow".

It's obvious that McCain is planning a race-based attack as his final salvo. He's given up Colorado and New Mexico because such attack wouldn't play well there - but figures Rev. Wright will play well in Florida, NC, Missou, N.Carolina, Pennsylvania and Ohio.

McCain's Camp is already trying to give him "reason" to play Wright, using Rep. Lewis' remarks of a couple weeks ago - that's why McCain keeps bringing them up. He brought it up at the final debate, and again this past Sunday in a Fox interview. Rep. Lewis' remarks were barely a blip on the MSM coverage radar - so if McCain is using that as an impetus to play the Wright it will be rather obvious what he is doing.

You already have Republicans talking heads playing race up as an issue in the Powell endorsement - it's the only hope they have left. That there is enough closet racists in the key states to deliver McCain a win.

Dems controlling Congress and White House is a check and balance over the repugnant Bush, McCain and republican policies that have destroyed our country over the last 8 years. It’s a change election and McCain still doesn't realize it.

Statistically speaking the Philadelphia area will give Obama a plus of close to 550,000 votes, thats net.

It doesn't matter how nasty McCain gets the numbers are never going to add up in PA.

The voters in the northeast are pissed off at all things republican...see Rick Santorum, and Lynn Swann. This is not a region that wants to get screwed again by a Bush in mavericks clothing.

The "Divided Government" ploy is something I was wondering about a couple months ago and whether they would make that a pillar of their campaign.

I can see how that ties in with "do you want Democrats to run roughshod over the government?" meme but I don't know how successful arguing for deadlock is when folks *want shit done*...

I'm curious what the campaign tone will be for McCain while Obama is away visiting his grandmother. I find it hard to believe (though I wouldn't be totally surprised if it happened) that the McCain campaign will be as negative towards Obama's character while he's visiting his grandmothers bedside. That said, a more positive tone from McCain could actually help him with some middle of the road people who are tired of all the attacks to fire up the base. We'll see...

Dems controlling Congress and White House is a check and balance over the repugnant Bush, McCain and republican policies that have destroyed our country over the last 8 years. It’s a change election and McCain still doesn't realize it.

John McCain insists his robocalls are accurate. Those calls say that Obama has not revealed the full extent of his association with Bill Ayers. The implication is that McCain has evidence that Obama has lied. Has any journalists -- anybody at all -- asked McCain to provide the evidence to support that implication?

Personally, I'm sure McCain has no foundation for his charges. Once he is forced to admit that, to say publicly he has no basis for insinuating that Obama's connection to Ayers is anything more than Obama has already revealed it to be, McCain will be exposed as a liar. All it will take is one journalist with the guts to ask the right question.

John McCain insists his robocalls are accurate. Those calls say that Obama has not revealed the full extent of his association with Bill Ayers. The implication is that McCain has evidence that Obama has lied. Has any journalists -- anybody at all -- asked McCain to provide the evidence to support that implication?

Personally, I'm sure McCain has no foundation for his charges. Once he is forced to admit that, to say publicly he has no basis for insinuating that Obama's connection to Ayers is anything more than Obama has already revealed it to be, McCain will be exposed as a liar. All it will take is one journalist with the guts to ask the right question.

Oh, this poor, confused old man.

I can't stand to even look at McCain anymore he's proven to be so dishonorable and divisive. Palin is so ignorant she couldn't even answer a third grader's question on what the VP does. She claims the VP "is in charge of the senate and can get in there and get the senators to change policy..." Is there a teacher in the house to correct her for the third grader or is it just too embarrasssing.

Here Biden talks about Obama being "tested" by an international crisis which McCain is spinning out of reality...but I thank God it won't be someone like Sarah Palin having to deal with something like a Cuban missile crisis....and McCain needs to remember "we are (not) all Georgians now" led by paid lobbyists trying to get their money's worth from every lobbyists "pet senator on a leash". Thank God we will have someone as deliberative, calm, strong and cautious as Obama to deal with any international crisis that might arise. Obama has demonstrated his judgment can be trusted and can stand up to anybody.

I fear the antics of the McCain/Palin campaign has opened the door to violent "brownshirt" activities in the future where they believe they are being "American" by attacking the opposition or anyone who disagrees with them. His supporters openly talk violence and are hostile, as if that has been approved by the M/P campaign, to Obama supporters. What they have set up is some future thug who goes even further and calls for action from these "brownshirts" while denying he "tells" them to act violently while at the same time supporting their motivations as being "real Americans". Thankfully they are still a minority and many rational republicans are turning away from this authoritarian controlling base viewing them as a collective pre-nazi mentality. We must stop them now voting them out of every level of our community and our government. They are the end result of the neocon consciousness. They've done enough damage to our democracy. This election says ENOUGH.