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Returns may give early hints
What to watch for election night
Date published: 11/3/2008
BY CHELYEN DAVIS RICHMOND-- So finally, it's almost over. After months of campaigns, television ads, rallies, conventions and endless news stories, the presidential election will--if all goes well--be decided tomorrow night.So what should you, watching returns come in at home or at an election party, be looking for? What states are going to tip this thing one way or the other? Some East Coast states could give early signals, said University of Virginia political analyst Larry Sabato. "If Pennsylvania should fall to [Republican John] McCain, then we're in for a long night," Sabato said. If McCain wins Pennsylvania and its 21 electoral votes, it doesn't mean McCain wins the presidency, Sabato said. But it does mean Democrat Barack Obama will need Nevada, Colorado, New Mexico and Iowa to make up for it, and probably Virginia, to get a few votes ahead. Jerry Kilgore, a state co-chairman for McCain, gives Pennsylvania a little more weight. "If John McCain wins Pennsylvania, the race is over," Kilgore said. "It just can't be caught at that point. I think if Pennsylvania goes for McCain, he wins it." And then there's Florida. "If Florida is moving to Obama, we're all going to go to bed early," Sabato said. "There is no possible way, none, for McCain to win without Florida. There is zero chance of his winning." Florida has 27 electoral votes, which would be hard to make up. Another bellwether? Potentially, Indiana. "If Indiana is real close, it's a strong indication that Obama will win the election," Sabato said. "It's normally a heavy Republican state." Virginia, despite all the in-state excitement about it finally being a presidential toss-up state for the first time in 44 years, is not an absolute make-or-break state like some others. Instead, Sabato said, Virginia is "an indicator. "Virginia is a medium-size state that McCain can ill afford to lose. If he loses them, it suggests that Obama will be the winner. [But] it's not the automatic indicator that Florida is," Sabato said. "If McCain should win Virginia, it's an indication that the electoral college may be much closer than expected. That McCain may be winning in places like North Carolina and Georgia, which has become very close, Indiana."
Date published: 11/3/2008
McSame
(posted by
BLK
, Nov. 3, 2008 11:54 pm)
Does agree with Obama on this subject,so much so that a few days after Obama made that statement about greenhouse emissions.McSame made the Same statement. Word for word.
Obama 2008
that is not what he said
(posted by
grumpy
, Nov. 3, 2008 4:58 pm)
Obama said the cost of greenhouse emissions on a coal plant that did not use clean burning coal technology would pay so much in greenhouse gas taxes that it would go bankrupt. The point was made in the context of using regulation to get US industries to keep pace with new technologies. The only way coal is likely to be feasible is if we embrace those technologies. I cannot help but believe that McCain agrees with this very principle.
Obama's Welfare America
(posted by
KL
, Nov. 3, 2008 3:04 pm)
Obama said on Jan. of 08 in an interview w/ San Francisco Radio that he is basically planning to bankrupt the coal industry. It seems that he talks pretty straight what his plans are in SF. 50% of american energy is generated by coal. Bankrupting coal industry will drive up the energy cost so high that oil crisis this summer seems like nothing. Prez wanna be talking about bankrupting US industry? Liberal media all said they still dont know who Obama is. Is this the CHANGE HE WANT or the CHANGE WE NEED!
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