Why Barack Hussein Obama will beat John Sidney McCain on Election Day

[zulchzulu]

Of course, this is based on the possibility that Barack Obama is the nominee and that John McCain maintains his pace and becomes the Republican nominee.



Here are the reasons that John Sidney McCain will lose by a lot on Election Day, 2008.

• He will not get the support from the Republican base due to the Christian Right not be able to trust him based him calling them “agents of intolerance” during the 2000 presidential primary. His alignment with Russ Feingold with the campaign financing bill gave the base another reason. Focus on the Family founder James Dobson has stated he will vote for McCain. What is ironic is that John McCain will try in vain to pander to them.
  
• Because he will pander to the Religious Right, McCain will lose the votes of moderate Republicans tired of the theocratic arm of the Republican Party and the Independent voter, who is equally tired of such pandering. The more McCain swings right, the more the moderate and Independent vote goes to Obama.
  
• McCain will at some point have a temper tantrum or a health-related issue that tarnished his campaign. He already looks old on the campaign trail and if he faints in some rally this summer in California, he will look even older.
  
• The Obama campaign will strongly and firmly pin the costly Iraq War with the failing economy and pin McCain with being a careless puppet of the Bush regime. The more Bush shows up on the campaign trail with McCain, the further away his numbers will fall.
  
• Based on how McCain's surrogates have been acting, jingoism will be a major piece in the McCain armory to flail at Obama with. Racism will possibly be thrown in as well the "Manchurian Candidate" meme. By the fall, this will be seen as so negative that many will be turned off by these typical stale Republican tactics.
  
• The overwhelming support from the full spectrum of demographic profiles, including the young vote, will give Obama plenty of voter padding that even the Diebold cheaters won't be able to steal.
  
• Based on a contact I have with someone in the Republican National Committee who attends RNC "bat cave" meetings, the Republicans don't really even want to win in 2008. The economy will be in the skids and the Iraq war can be transferred over to the Democratic administration to be used strategically in 2010 elections. Even RNC "leaders" know that McCain will probably lose by more votes than even Barry Goldwater in 1964.
  
• The South will not deliver McCain the votes that Republicans need to win, in part due to the very high African-American turnout as well as mistrust from the Religious Right voter, who mainly reside in the South. Having called for bringing down the Confederate flag from the South Carolina statehouse in 2000 won't help McCain either.
  
• Obama will not stand down if attacked by McCain. Look for a very mobilized media-saavy force that takes anything McCain throws with an overwhelming return attack.
  
• McCain's stance on immigration reform will turn off many Republicans that don't lean in the Religious Right mentality.
  
• Whether it's true or not, McCain's possible affair with a lobbyist will continue coming up.
  
• McCain's embrace of George Bush's unpopular administration's record and record will firmly anchor him to Bush's sinking legacy.

[Bicoastal]

1. Republicans don't WANT to win in 2008?

You could have fooled me...

[MNDemNY]

2. And I get my f'n head bit off for using "BHO"

[zulchzulu]

4. It's....OK....

I think King Hussein, who was a fantastic leader for peace and well known when Barack Obama was born, as well as the name meaning "handsome", make it PK to use. You just have to use everybody else's middle name as well...

:hi:

[TheCowsCameHome]

3. The right has been served up a steaming platter of leftovers

and they're smarting now that McCain become the apparent nominee.

[scheming daemons]

5. One more: Obama will be able to outspend McCain by at least 4 to 1

...

He'll take a minor hit for foregoing public financing.... but by the fall, that will be a non-story.

[nolabels]

10. If you consider corporations favor republicans by 4 to 1 then...........

even starts to seem like it might be kind of even with all them electronic voting machines and all :shrug:

I was hearing some of that tone today from corporate media. It even sounds like they just kind of just flipped the switch that way in just the last couple of days


(I still think there is going to be some :spank: but will bet in the end it all starts to look kind of strange for how they will stop at nothing to win even when they know they are an ever shrinking minority)

[Asia Expat]

17. A non-story?

That "his word" are just words.

edit: grammar

[babylonsister]

6. Babylon Hussein Sister agrees with you!

:hi: Good post!

[zulchzulu]

7. Ah yes! Zulch Hussein Zulu agrees with you agreeing with...

...you...I mean, me!

I think we all need to say Hussein is our middle name, as Stephanie Miller has invoked today.

:hi:

[babylonsister]

8. I'm going to use it as often as possible!

:evilgrin:

[Voice for Peace]

9. just thinking about being president is giving him a headache

USA Down the Drain With McCain!

[musiclawyer]

11. This is key:

"Obama will not stand down if attacked by McCain. Look for a very mobilized media-saavy force that takes anything McCain throws with an overwhelming return attack."

This is the most important trait BO has, even assuming some of the other assumptions don't pan out.


If people throw grenades at you, people expect you to throw grenades back. If you don't you are perceived as weak.

He has learned from the mistake of others. The end.

[RememberWellstone]

12. Is'nt Sidney

A woman's name??? ROFL!

[Laelth]

13. Obama regularly says "George Bush and John McCain."

He's linking the two together in every speech he gives these days. It's a good strategy.

Obama is a savvy politician.

:dem:

-Laelth

[AZBlue]

14. And don't forget: Mark McKinnon will quite the McCain camp once Obama is official.

That will hurt McCain a lot.

[OneBlueSky]

15. one more time . . . "it's not who votes that counts; it's who counts the votes" . . .

and last time I checked, the Republicans and their corporations are still tabulating the votes . . .

[Eurobabe]

16. Just keep copying that last photo, McBush is a loser!!