Okay, this is sheer speculation, thinking out loud kind of stuff. <\/p>\n
What if Barack Obama turns out to be sort of a Red State surfer. <\/p>\n
By that I mean he pushes the Democratic Party’s numbers and gets CLOSE in a bunch of traditionally Republican states.<\/p>\n
Call it the “Georgia” affect. <\/p>\n
We could see him come within a few thousand votes of beating John McCain in states such as Colorado, Georgia, Montana, North Carolina, and Virginia — while falling short in all or most of them.<\/p>\n
It would be a case of moving the needles dramatically — just not enough to matter.<\/p>\n
If it happened, Obama would draw a lot of fire for pushing for a mandate, a big win, rather than focusing his campaign’s efforts on one or two easier pick-ups.<\/p>\n
Frankly, this is a long, long shot. The polls suggest that John McCain needs a major surge to turn this hypothetical into a reality. <\/p>\n
He’s down 11% in Iowa and 7% in Colorado and Virginia. <\/p>\n
But the Republican still has four days to convince red-state voters that they should give the race one more look.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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