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...this effort. McCain's strategy in these final eight days of the campaign hinges on winning a slew of red states in which Obama currently holds leads of varying sizes in the polls - Florida, North Carolina, Ohio, Missouri, Virginia, Colorado, Nevada - and then somehow producing an upset in Pennsylvania, a Blue state that went for Gore in 2000 and Kerry in 2004 and where Obama currently boasts a lead in the low double digits...
...Both McCain and Palin have been spending much of the past couple of weeks in the Keystone State, hoping that Obama's support in western Pennsylvania, where Hillary Clinton far outdid the Illinois Senator in the primary, is soft and that McCain's efforts to distance himself from the current Republican President are convincing. (In that regard, he did himself no favors over the weekend, admitting that he and Bush share a "common philosophy," which Obama quickly seized upon.) Heeding calls from the likes of Pennsylvania governor Ed Rendell not to take the state for granted, Obama is returning...
...Star Game. A few days later another Toronto player caught it, and the clubhouse was disinfected. NBA players Paul Pierce, Grant Hill and Drew Gooden have had it. Staph killed a high school wrestler in California this summer, and last spring 15 students at a Pennsylvania high school were either treated for staph or symptoms caused by the virus...
...every moment of every day talking about the economy. No more talking about William Ayers, no more talking about al-Qaeda, no more talking about the "tests" that the next President will face. All economy, all the time. And if he talks about it while standing on the Ohio-Pennsylvania border, so much the better...
...terms of things that John McCain could do to get elected President: One is fire Palin. Two would be to do much as he's doing: concentrate on one state, like Pennsylvania, and try to pull it out of the Democratic column, although I think that's very hard to do. Three would be to lay out an economic plan that sounded like a Democratic economic plan instead of a Republican economic plan, that ran to the left of Obama on economics...