McCain may be a bit of an underdog now, but he's hardly a longshot. We haven't seen who he picks for VP, there have been no debates, and a lot can happen between now and election day.
Obama's gonna wipe the floor with him, and in debates he'll make McCain look like and old dead white mummy trying to beat Jedi Shaft. Then again, Lord Palpatine *did* win anyway...but he had help. So who will/could be McCain's Anikin?
It's pretty tough for any of the two major party candidates to ever be considered a "longshot" in the traditional sense of the word.
McCain isn't a longshot, but this election has shockingly little to do with him. If he is the next president, it won' be something he won so much as something that happened to him. There are very few people who are "meh" about Barack Obama. In favorability polls, his "very"s tend to be much stronger than his "somewhat"s, both positive and negative.
When voting Obama, bear in mind you're basically voting for his vice-president, because he won't live long if elected. As for McCain... any conservative idiot who votes for that douchebag deserves their ass-raping reward. Although, McCain might finally drop over in the next four years too. In essence, this may be the most important election for vice-presidential candidates in the past century.
PUMA tells me that 18 million voters are going to write in Hillary Clinton and she's going to win it all.
Except that I maintain this election is a dead ringer for the last season of "The West Wing" -- 70-something Republican senator with a history of pissing off his own party vs. young, inexperienced Democrat who's the first nonwhite major-party nominee and who went through an unusually long, bitter, drawn-out primary process to win the nomination -- so if the pattern holds, it's Obama's running mate who's toast.
I really don't think anyone will do him harm. He gets the same protections every President gets. Besides, the people who hate him most (and sincerely wish him harm) are white trash, PBR drinking, underemployed knuckle-draggers (expect for Jesse "The Castrator" Jackson). This demographic can't tuck in their shirts or hold a decent job, so I don't see them having the intellect or ambition to overcome the logistics involved in a successful coup such as this. You might not like The President, but you have to defeat him "fair and square" IMO.
You are joking right? Obama sounds like a stuttering moron when he has to speak without a prepared speech on a teleprompter. McCain will own his ass in any debate. Obama is the long shot IMO. The more he talks and the more he says the more incompetent and inexperienced he seems. He is so arrogant it is turning people off. He is also irritating the lefties by waffling.
Tell that to Lincoln. Kennedy's assassin wasn't exactly the brightest orb in the heavens either. Don't underestimate the ability of hate. Hate in itself is a powerful, potent motive, perhaps the strongest one.
Are you sure? So far, Obama seems to have a curiously Teflon quality. Even when he slips up, it doesn't stick to him very well.
Are you kidding? The candidates are heavily prepped for these things. Even George Bush who is far worse then either Obama or McCain made it through okay.
