Red states slip from GOP grip (Newsday)

[struggle4progress]

BY CRAIG GORDON AND TOM BRUNE | [e-mail]; tom.brune
October 19, 2008

... Bill Lacy, a senior adviser in four prior Republican presidential campaigns .... advised McCain to keep pounding home ... that he's not George Bush - but added, "At this point there is not a thing he can do that ... can fundamentally alter the race."

The campaign's closing days will be fought out almost exclusively on Republican turf - the states Bush won in 2004, but where polls show McCain is now trailing or at best tied. Those include Ohio, Florida, Virginia, Colorado, Missouri, North Carolina and Nevada.

To get back into the election, McCain would have to run the table - retake the lead in nearly every Bush state, something political pros say verges on the impossible.

"If the election were tomorrow, I think Barack Obama would probably capture 370 electoral votes or somewhere close to it," said Republican pollster Tony Fabrizio - landslide proportions given that 270 electoral votes wins the White House ...

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/ny-usdeba195890112oct19,0,1854672.story

[aquart]

1. Did it never occur to them that their policies might cause this revulsion?

[struggle4progress]

2. shh!

not so loud
:D

[DavidDvorkin]

3. Why, it's as if they didn't understand the difference between strategies and tactics.