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1 comment November 3rd, 2008
The McCain campaign believes it will pull off a stunning upset Tuesday, because polls that show Obama in the lead reflect polling of too many Democrats. Read about it in Politico
The McCain folks say their own polling shows that the race was within the margin of error as long ago as Friday and that the Arizona senator is pulling ahead in key swing states.
1 comment November 3rd, 2008
The irony about the “bankrupt coal industry” charge being made today by Sarah Palin is that the San Francisco Chronicle interview the charge is based on is more than a year old and has been available on its Web site for the whole time. If anyone bothers to listen to it, Obama is talking about how the coal industry will have to be responsibile for cleaning up its emissions, otherwise it will go bankrupt. In context, the interview sounds reasonable, and it reflects the way Obama talks about issues in a wide-ranging, intelligent way. The problem with that, is that isolated sentences and fragments can be easily taken out of context. Saying Obama wants to bankrupt the coal industry in Ohio on the last day of the campaign will be damaging to Obama, and it’s a state he needs to win.
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