What is it about the Democrats that they don't learn from their history, and so, in 2008, appear doomed to repeat it?
According to Real Clear Politics and Politico, the electoral map has made what is potentially a seismic shift... to the right:
Let's assume for a second that they're wrong to give the exact-tie vote in Nevada to McCain and give it to Obama: that means the race is a mere 5-electoral votes apart, with McCain in the lead. Going into the Vice Presidential rundown and the conventions over the next two weeks, this is very bad news for Obama. He would need to have such a huge and, seeing that it's so late in the season, impossible bounce from his football-stadium acceptance speech to offset the following week's acceptance speech and post-convention bounce for McCain.
Or he could stop acting like John Kerry and Al Gore and go on the attack. He's started to, calling Bush "McCain's President" in a couple of recent speeches-- but that's old news to voters. If he went on the air and said, over and over, "McCain is unfit to lead-- he doesn't know the difference between Sunni and Shiite, he isn't sure what he wants to do about illegal immigration, etc. etc." and just pound McCain on the same things (experience and so forth) that McCain is hitting him on, Obama might just squeak by.
Otherwise... see above chart.
Via Politico.
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