Word: mccains
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...city Monday night, with an appearance by running mate Joe Biden and several members of the World Champion Philadelphia Phillies baseball team. Significantly, the appearance was in a heavily white, blue collar district in South Philadelphia, where Hillary Clinton won in the primary by a large margin and the McCain campaign hopes to pick up enough conservative, Catholic Democratic voters to help depress Obama's margin of victory in the city...
Although there does seem to have been closure in the polls, McCain's main hope in Pennsylvania appears to be "divine intervention," according to G. Terry Madonna, director of the well-regarded and non-partisan Franklin & Marshall Poll, the latest of which shows Obama up by 12 points among likely voters. John Kerry won the state by 144,000 votes in 2004. Polls show Obama strong in all of the same places Kerry was strong - and he has something like 500,000 newly registered Democrats behind him. Even if only a fraction of those new Democrats turn out on Tuesday...
...pictures of John McCain's final push on the campaign trail...
Public opinion surveys in the last days of the campaign had John McCain dead even with - or slightly ahead of - Democrat Barack Obama. But Obama supporters believe it might not be that close, pointing to an unprecedented number of newly registered voters: some 340,000 this year, 150,000 of them under the age of 24. "The big unknown is the youth vote," says Democrat Chris Kelly of Columbia, a veteran of many campaigns. In his district alone, Kelly said, 3,300 new voters have signed up. "These are cell-phone kids - they don't show up in the polls...
Missouri has gone with the winner in every presidential election but one in over 100 years, and its 11 electoral votes are do-or-die for John McCain. Both sides have lawyers in the state, braced for skirmishes like the one eight years ago, when a federal judge extended voting hours in St. Louis. "Since 2000, election litigation has become as predictable as snow in January," says Thor Hearne, legal counsel to the Missouri GOP and head of President Bush's legal election team in 2004. At least the weather is supposed to be nice - mid-70s and mostly sunny...