It's the middle of October folks, this is the stretch run to the 2008 presidential election and things are looking really good for Barack Obama, poised to become one of the youngest, and blackest, US presidents of all time.
The economy is first and foremost in people's minds and Obama has an advantage there. McCain has also been all over the place, briefly canceling his campaign and having his surrogates launch some nasty attacks on Obama, Palin included.
However, the scary thing for Obama is something called The Bradley Effect where a black candidate who is polling high tanks on election day because voters get racial jitters about voting for him. I don't personally think this will happen, but some who are in the know fear that it might. That would be crazy.
Right now McCain has to win pretty much all the states Bush won in 2004 against Kerry, save maybe one or two. Obama is looking good in Iowa especially and also Colorado and New Mexico (where I'm headed to seal things up alongside Sam Johnson for Barack in a little over a week!) He's close in Missouri, Ohio and Florida and maybe even in Virginia and North Carolina which haven't been Democratic since pork was kosher.
Speaking of Kosher, the Great Schlep is underway to turn Florida for Obama and if you haven't seen the Sarah Silverman video, it's fuckin' hilarious.
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