McCain’s challenge in a nutshell
by Brian Mann on October 21st, 2008
With two weeks to go, John McCain has to accomplish two enormous tasks:
1. Hold all the half-dozen GOP battleground states (including Florida and Ohio) that are now basically Obama-McCain toss-ups.
2. Flip BOTH Colorado and Virginia from the Obama column back to the McCain column. One isn’t enough. To win, McCain needs both. That means closing a 5-8% gap in two states.
Which means that McCain can’t simply slog it out in the trenches. Ethical or no, robo-calls aren’t going to cut it.
He needs a big national game-changer, something that pulls down Obama’s numbers significantly across the board.
Is there an October surprise still lurking out there? If so, it’s time for the GOP to pull the trigger.
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