Answer: Not by himself - he is going to need a lot of help. World events, ALL republicans, some dismayed Hillary supporters, independents, and a lot of coaching on how to give a speech.

Yeppers, I do, lol. In no meaningful order:

1. A lot of those who clain they will vote for him, particularly in polls, will not do so when in the privacy of the ballot box. Susan Estrich, with whom I seldom agree, had an excellent analysis of this phenomenon a few weeks ago. Bottom line? It's easier and safer to be a sexist than a racist in saying for whom you will vote to a pollster when you're a democrat. (If you are a Republican, you're an '-ist' anyway, so what you say doesn't matter.)

2. Contrary to what a lot of people here, and elsewhere, feel, there will be some amount of feminazi backlash against Obama for displacing the annointed one, and in today's photo-finish elections, that may be all/just what it takes to throw him into the toilet bowl of history.

3. While everyone wants to complain about McCain, and how he has abandoned the conservatives, the fact is there are not sufficient number of conservatives to elect a president. Only 39% of the electorate is conservative, and so moderates must be brought into the fold. All other things being equal, this cannot be done by someone on the right edge of conservative, and the trick for a Republican candidate is to present himself as, or actually be, sufficiently towards the center that he picks up as many of the right sympathizing moderates as he can, without losing any on the right fringe. Though you would not know it from what you see here, McCain is actually close to the moderate edge of conservatives (life-tme) or near the right edge of moderates (2006/2007). If it weren't for the short-sighted, very vocal, my way or the highway conservative pundits, that might be better known. What must be remembered about the pundits, is they have a desire and duty, actually, to try to drive the candidate towards the right. The problem is each candidate must be driven differently. Try too hard, and some will push back.

4. Despite the "record numbers" of primary voters, and the "tremendous ground swell of support" on the Democratic side...this is still basically just the base of the party voting. Obama needs, just like McCain, to appeal to moderates to swing the election. In fact, he heeds them more, because there are less liberals than conservatives in the country, whether you go by reality or exit polling. His problem is just the opposite of McCain's however, in that he is slightly right of the center to considerably left of the center of liberal land, so while he has a solid lock on the liberal base, he will lose the right edge of the moderates, without gaining anything in return.

5. His win over Hillary is due in large part to the fact that they are both competing for the same votes, only in this case he has much more appeal to the left edge of the liberal base, than she does, since she sits about three-quarters of the way to the right side of liberal land. Having virtually locked her out of the black vote, she has to try and make it up with the women's vote. This she has been unable to do, because the numbers are again against her.

V/R

Clyde 

"...the aspirants to tyranny are either the...men of the state, who in democracies are demagogues,... or those who hold great offices, and have a long tenure.." - Aristotle, Politics, c350BC

I'm not convinced the American people have the common sense to stop liberals anymore. Look, we've got Pelosi and Reid running Congress, and even among Republicans, half of them are rinos.

All those people screaming and fainting like they just saw the Beatles, and people like Chrissy talking about feeling tingles, I very much doubt they'll change their mind in the future.

cd...

McCain has already done a pretty good job of that...I don't know that it matters to him or the people like Rove/Baker ect. that are behind the scenes elitists running the show...

I saw Rove last night with his little white strategy board making the case for how McCain is going to win...why he doesn't need the conservatives, they figure they have three independents/moderates to one conservative who will vote for McCain....isn't that precious..we matter not, of course that was proven with McCain throwing Cunningham under the bus and the conservatives who agree with his words....

All I can say is good luck McCain and all you smarter than heck know-it-alls....I know quite a few people who have had it with McCain and people like Rove who keep throwing real conservative candidates to the wind...

Not one more dime of our money is going to support any of the RNC...we have had it...no more of sticking a finger in our eyes and telling us to suck it up. 

...and they wonder why not as many people are showing up at the primaries on our side...the fools.

Britcom...

Although I share your passion in your opposition to McCain, I think the issue of him being, or not being a citizen is settled. I would rather see people use policy arguments and his voting record to oppose him.

Sort of related... Ann Coulter wrote her version of a farewell to WFB Jr. yesterday. And in her peice she included the following...

"With liberal Republicans still bothering everyone even after Reagan, Buckley went all out against liberal Republican Sen. Lowell P. Weicker Jr. When Democrat Joe Lieberman challenged Weicker for the Senate in 1988, National Review ran an article subtly titled: "Does Lowell Weicker Make You Sick?"

Buckley started a political action committee to support Lieberman, explaining, "We want to pass the word that it's OK to vote for the other guy or stay at home." The good thing about Lieberman, Buckley said, was that he "doesn't have the tendency of appalling you every time he opens his mouth."

After reading this yesterday I felt vindicated in my decision to use the write-in option for the upcoming elections. So for all of you that think I should vote for McCain because he has an (R) after his name, should think twice about those like myself that are persuing the legal, and ethical option of writing in the person that represents my conservative principles best.

Anotherwords, if it's good enough for William F. Buckley Jr., it's good enough for me!

"Abstain from McCain"

this points out the mistake of going ALL Green for our energy needs. I'm reminded of the dopes who were gonnn be the first to land on the sun - when asked if it would be too hot, they looked like every other extremely smart liberal, smug and obnoxious - We're gonna land at night!

Until we have the resources, across the country, of wind, solar, nuclear, coal and oil/gas, and the envirowacks actually understand what energy means to this country, then . . . always a breeze and always sunshine.

There is no sense in being stupid, if you can't prove it! - my dad V

mb and Jack...

I heard about this too somewhere today...not surprising is it?

I just got here so someone may have already put a link on about this...

Let me know too...

Thanks...

The Prince was.

So basically you agree with me: it's not low wages or bad products, it's their popularity and financial impact.