Comments on: Rounding out the ticket http://burrowowl.net/wordpress/200805/rounding_out_the_ticket/ Thu, 09 Sep 2010 16:10:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Burrowowl http://burrowowl.net/wordpress/200805/rounding_out_the_ticket/comment-page-1/#comment-76767 Burrowowl Sat, 24 May 2008 20:40:17 +0000 http://burrowowl.net/wordpress/?p=1104#comment-76767 I may have overstated that a bit. Barack Obama isn't a sure thing, but the odds are stacked against the Republicans this year. Most of the major issues facing them are largely perceived as baggage from 12 years of Republican rule in the legislature and eight years of Republican mismanagement of the executive branch. If McCain were to strongly differentiate himself from the current administration, he'd level the playing field a lot, but since he locked up the nomination he just hasn't. Obama can lose it, and Democrats are expert at seizing defeat from the jaws of victory, but it's his race to lose. He may not pick up Missouri, but McCain is going to have to spend a lot more time, effort, and money to talk you folks into voting for him than we'd normally expect. I may have overstated that a bit. Barack Obama isn’t a sure thing, but the odds are stacked against the Republicans this year. Most of the major issues facing them are largely perceived as baggage from 12 years of Republican rule in the legislature and eight years of Republican mismanagement of the executive branch. If McCain were to strongly differentiate himself from the current administration, he’d level the playing field a lot, but since he locked up the nomination he just hasn’t.

Obama can lose it, and Democrats are expert at seizing defeat from the jaws of victory, but it’s his race to lose. He may not pick up Missouri, but McCain is going to have to spend a lot more time, effort, and money to talk you folks into voting for him than we’d normally expect.

]]> By: meesha.v http://burrowowl.net/wordpress/200805/rounding_out_the_ticket/comment-page-1/#comment-76747 meesha.v Sat, 24 May 2008 10:33:14 +0000 http://burrowowl.net/wordpress/?p=1104#comment-76747 McCain is lame but I am not so sure Obama is guaranteed a win. Winning democratic primaries doesn't translate into the presidency. I don't expect Obama to win. McCain is lame but I am not so sure Obama is guaranteed a win. Winning democratic primaries doesn’t translate into the presidency. I don’t expect Obama to win.

]]> By: Burrowowl http://burrowowl.net/wordpress/200805/rounding_out_the_ticket/comment-page-1/#comment-76739 Burrowowl Sat, 24 May 2008 03:58:06 +0000 http://burrowowl.net/wordpress/?p=1104#comment-76739 Why would Huckabee want to be on the losing ticket? Unless Obama does something phenomenally stupid, he's quite likely to get somewhere in the neighborhood of 300 electoral votes come November and McCain will go down as a collateral damage victim of the wildly-unpopular Bush presidency. Why would Huckabee want to be on the losing ticket? Unless Obama does something phenomenally stupid, he’s quite likely to get somewhere in the neighborhood of 300 electoral votes come November and McCain will go down as a collateral damage victim of the wildly-unpopular Bush presidency.

]]> By: meesha.v http://burrowowl.net/wordpress/200805/rounding_out_the_ticket/comment-page-1/#comment-76738 meesha.v Sat, 24 May 2008 03:46:07 +0000 http://burrowowl.net/wordpress/?p=1104#comment-76738 In McCain's case vice-presidential choice is just as important as a vote for the president- McCain has a pretty good chance to croak/become senile during his presidency. In McCain’s case vice-presidential choice is just as important as a vote for the president- McCain has a pretty good chance to croak/become senile during his presidency.

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