Why Is McCain Spending So Much Time in Pennsylvania?

Because Obama is going to take Colorado, Nevada, Iowa, New Mexico, Virginia, and Missouri which were all Bush states in 2004. They are trying to take the only blue state that they possibly have a chance.

Rick Davis believes in magic.

Obama might have had a big crowd the night before, but no one really expected him to carry the state in the primaries. The RCP average of polls at the time of that vote showed Obama trailing by 6 points. He ended up losing by 9… right now, the RCP average has Obama at +11… so yeah, its not really like the primaries at all.

My guess would be that McCain doesn’t know w hy he is in PA.
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Poor Grampa still doesn’t get it.
But then, Grampa thinks that the only patriotic Americans come from Pennsylvania.

With the Democratic Murtha out there calling western Pennsylvania voters every name in the book, I’d probably be campaigning there too.
Maybe these folks would like a little “change” as well.

McCain camp lies; Dog bites man; Sun rises in East; Earth remains round(ish. Really more like a squat pear).

Why is Obama supposedly going to Hawaii?
Birth records problem????? Martin

Jack Murtha has all but invited the Republicans to come in and win the state.

I guess Jack Murtha wasn’t the correct answer as it was removed immediately. Hmmm…

Jake too busy digging up dirt on Joe the plumber. I thought he was a journalist. He can’t figure it out for himself?

Ater Jack Murthas Comments I wonder how the Southern, Midwestern and Eastern States really feel as rural voters make up a majority of the vote. I personally find it appalling that if you vote against Obama you are a racist or redneck. What a joke. It is obivious that the black vote will go for Obama ( a form of racism) and some whites will vote for McCain on race so that excuse should be a dead heat. But there are a majority of Americans that will vote based on their feelings about what the two parties represent. And beleive me they are opposite. My fear is do we really want Democrats running this country. I keep looking and asking what have they done since being in control of the congress the last two years and I find not much. So how are they going to help us. On the other hand I ask on the Repbulican side why they are so against helping the middle class and so hung up on help for the people that need it most. It is a catch twenty two. Honestly, I am a independent and scared to death to vote either way. But will have to make a choice November 3. I think the press has been so biased it isn’t funny and we all have our agenda but this election on national security and the economy is very very important so I hope everyone decides what is best for their families longterm. All I hear right now are sweet promises and no action except to bailout wall street and both parties did that.

The McCain campaign has no illusions about winning Pennsylvania. But having conceded Iowa, New Mexico and Colorado, they are forced to pretend that they have a chance to win PA, in order to headfake the media and Republican voters into thinking that the race is still competitive. Otherwise, there could be a disastrous effect on down ballot GOP races if it appeared that McCain had conceded the Presidential race. But make no mistake about it, a Republican presidential candidate who is 2% ahead in the latest poll in Georgia has absolutely no chance of winning.

Wow! The thugocracy of suppressing information has begun.
I notice that several posts have been deleted, or edited. Nice!
Welcome to Obamerica. Insults on McCain are fine, but valid reports, that come from outside the msm’s, are deleted.
Good job! You’ve just proven to many of us what life will be like under the Obama regime.

Well Obuma can send in his clown!!
I think the most ‘telling ‘ (foreshadowing ) statement Biden made was , “And he’s gonna need help. And the kind of help he’s gonna need is, he’s gonna need you – not financially to help him – we’re gonna need you to use your influence, your influence within the community, to stand with him. Because it’s not gonna be apparent initially, it’s not gonna be apparent that we’re right.”
This can be summed up to simply state “get ready , America ’cause you’re not going to like what we are getting ready to do to you !”
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We need McCain as president…Obuma and JOE are total time bombs!

Well Obuma can send in his clown!!
I think the most ‘telling ‘ (foreshadowing ) statement Biden made was , “And he’s gonna need help. And the kind of help he’s gonna need is, he’s gonna need you – not financially to help him – we’re gonna need you to use your influence, your influence within the community, to stand with him. Because it’s not gonna be apparent initially, it’s not gonna be apparent that we’re right.”
This can be summed up to simply state “get ready , America ’cause you’re not going to like what we are getting ready to do to you !”

Posted by: geevill
Why is Obama supposedly going to Hawaii?
Birth records problem????? Martin
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Since this has been proven the he is a citizen, by the US GOV.
WHAT THE H..L ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? Don’t Hate the Player, Hate the Game!

God, can ABC fit anymore mcCain bashing into one blog. you guys are pathetic

PA was smart enough not to go for bush/cheney in 2000 and 2004 so I really think that PA is way too smart not to go for mccain/palin in 2008.

geevill
FACT:
JOHN MCCAIN WAS BORN IN PANAMA!
FACT:
JOHN MCCAIN AND HIS CAMPAIGN WONT RELEASE HIS BIRTH CERTIFICATE !
FACT:
JOHN MCCAIN CANT BE PRESIDENT HE IS NOT A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN!

“During the last eight years, the federal budget has grown by 40 percent and the American people have seen how well that kind of change works — yet Barack Obama is simply offering more of the same.” TUCKER BOUNDS/MCCAIN CAMP
UM DOSENT JOHN MCCAIN KNOW THE REPUBLICANS HAVE BEEN IN CHARGE FOR THE LAST EIGHT YEARS ?
HOW DOES ANYONE BELIEVE THEM ?
SO BARACK OBAMA’S TO BLAIME FOR WHAT BUSH AND MCCAIN HAVE DONE TO THIS NATION ?
MCCAIN PALIN ARE NUTS!

Where are the journalists said: God, can ABC fit anymore mcCain bashing into one blog. you guys are pathetic
They’re busy deleting,and editing posts, and making up….errr digging up Anti McCain info.
Well, gotta give them credit for being able to multi task.

MikeNC said: UM DOSENT JOHN MCCAIN KNOW THE REPUBLICANS HAVE BEEN IN CHARGE FOR THE LAST EIGHT YEARS ?
Yes…and for years, Bush went to Congress to get reform on Fannie, and Freddie. The Republicans had the control, but not enough votes to push a bill thru, on reform.
McCain, along with several other Republicans kept pushing…and they did take a vote. All republicans, voted for reform….not one democrat voted for reform on Frannie, or Freddie.
Check the government records. So if you want to blame anyone for the economy, it’s not Bush…and the economy went into a tail spin, thanks to the work of ACORN, Frannie, and Freddie…and all are liberal based entities.

Slam Obama – he went to his grandmothers side and I don’t blame him.
McCain’s in trouble and slam Obama some more. Palin has not been a plus for McCain so we’ll knock Biden. Biden has more knowledge and experience in his little finger than Palin has in her whole head. She should look at her own rrecord before she slams someone else. If her own record clean would be one thing, but it isn’t. Then to top it all off, she goes on SNL and to me made a fool of herself – I guess no different than on the campaign trail.
McCain is so busy running a dirty campaign that he’s not facing any of the issues. What are his plans?????
Obama not a citizen? He was born in Hawaii, isn’t that still a state? Last I heard it was. McCain was born in Panama, why isn’t that being questioned, Panama is not a state. Double standard.
obama wants to be with his grandmother, he’s criticized for that, but if he hadn’t of gone, it would be a federal crime, right.
You criticize Obama with Ayers when he was a radical – he was 8 years old. What about McCain? He was not even divorced when he started dating Cindy, and his wife was disabled. Pretty sad, money talks I guess.
OBAMA IS THE ONE – 2008
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Jeanie
ITS WELL KNOWN BY ANYONE THAT IT WAS THE PRIVATE SECTOR THAT SCREWED UP THE ECONOMY FANNY AND FREDDIE JUST BROUGHT THAT DEBT TO EXTENED THE TIME BEFORE THE COLAPSE!
REPUBLICANS KILLED REGULATIONS AND KILLED THE ECONOMY!

Ryan, please don’t feed the animals. It’s not nice to taunt them.
We all know the next two weeks are just for show. The Pubs are afraid of getting blown out in Congressional battles as well. (FL Pubs quit funding the Presidential race already)
Obvioulsy Pub supporters are not very adept at simple math:
Obama/Biden 286
259 Solid 27 Leaning
McCain/Palin 155
137 Solid 18 Leaning
Toss Up 97
97 Toss Up
McCain has to win EVERY toss up state, plus take 16 votes from the states leaning toward Obama. Being from VA, I can say that’s 13 votes from the “Toss Up” collumn he’s not going to get.
Taking bets on who will be the next President. I’ll take Obama. Who wants McCain?
Anyone? Anyone?Beuhler? Anyone?

I keep seeing people bring up the Berg lawsuit against Obama- J. Berg, the Hillary Clinton supporter and who thinks 911 was committed by Bush.
He filed a lawsuit against Obama, seeking not only his Birth Certificate, but a whole bunch of other things, like his college application, loans etc. It’s a complete joke and the judge is going to throw out this bogus case.

Posted by: geevill
Why is Obama supposedly going to Hawaii?
Birth records problem????? Martin
—————————————-
Since this has been proven the he is a citizen, by the US GOV.
WHAT THE H..L ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? Don’t Hate the Player, Hate the Game!

Why is McCain in PA?
The must be lost. Surely, they know that those cities in PA , Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Allentown, Erie, Reading, Scranton, Bethlehem, Lancaster, Altoona, and Harrisburg are not “Pro-America” by their campaign standards.

Berg doesn’t have a lawsuit against Obama in Hawaii. What’s the matter? Didn’t Obama inform you guys on his smear site. The dude’s name is Martin and he is in Hawaii already.

And he’s gonna need help. And the kind of help he’s gonna need is, he’s gonna need you – not financially to help him – we’re gonna need you to use your influence, your influence within the community, to stand with him. Because it’s not gonna be apparent initially, it’s not gonna be apparent that we’re right”
Biden said that at a fundraiser-like obama and his bitter Americans comment.
This is what Biden really thinks about OObama. An incompetent boob. That’s a storybook, mman.

Yavo Lem
WE ALL KNOW YOUR A REPUBLICAN JUST READ YOUR POSTS DURRING SEPT. ITS FULL OF YOU TALKING ABOUT BEING A REPUBLICAN!

How come I never hear anyone yell “USA” at an Obama rally like they do at all the McCain and Palin rallies? Oh, that’s right….it’s all about him, “the one”. What a load.
Hey Jake, where is the headline Obama endorsed Ayers book? Photo and article stating Michelle organized a panel with both men at the University of Chicago.
Oh, but Obama really doesn’t know Ayers….keep that spin MSM.
WAKE UP PEOPLE – this election has been decided for you by MSM and bought for you too, by the candidate who gave McCain his word he would stick to the same financing dollars… WHAT A LYING SACK.
NEVER OBAMA.

Hopey Uniter, Divider
yELLING usa DOSENT MEAN YOU LOVE YOUR COUNTRY AND TO TELL YOU THE TRUTH WHEN I SEE THAT AT MCCAIN PALIN RALLIES IT LOOKS KINDA DOPEY!

McCain’s pulling back in Iowa, Colorado, New Mexico, New Hampshire and Wisconsin. The only path he has left involves flipping Pennsylvania where Obama is up somewhere between 8-15%, is well financed, and much better organized.

MikeNC…I would question the sites you visit. Google has donated a large amount to Obama’s campaign.
This is from the very liberal msnbc. Sen. McCain is undoubtedly a citizen. He was born on Aug. 29, 1936, in the Panama Canal Zone, and Congress has specifically provided that anyone born there of U.S. parents, as he was, is a citizen. Indeed, the general rule is that anyone born of U.S. parents outside the United States is a citizen.
Now I won’t dispute Obama’s citizenship, I will just lay out some of the questions people have brought up.
On his birthcertificate, the certificate number is blacked out. Why? Some speculate that it is his sisters, and they used it,and covered up that number.
The embossed seal of Hawaii is not on the birth certificate, that Obama’s campaign put on the site.
One other I read was…there is a difference between a birth certificate, and a certification of birth, but I think that’s just semantics.
Lastly, I read…because his mother was 18, and according to the law then, she was to young, if she had Obama outside of the country, for him to be a citizen. A U.S. citizen giving birth outside of the U.S. would have to be 5 years past their 18th birthday for that to be valid. Meaning his mother should have been 21.
Also…when he was adopted, some question , on his return to the U.S. did he reapply for his citizenship? As far as I know, the document was asked for, but never given.
However….I don’t know, nor am I sure I believe any of those questions. Mr. Obama has a passport, and you need valid criteria to attain one. That tells me that yes, without dispute, that he is a U.S. citizen.
If he attained a passport without proper identification, then we have serious problems in this country with attaining passports, and it needs to be looked into.

I want to rectify a previous statement I made. I said 18, and I meant 5 years passed their 16th birthday.
Sorry about that.

FIRST, BIDEN TOLD THE TRUTH ABOUT THE WORSE WORLD CRISIS THAT WILL OCCUR IF OBAMA WIN THE NOVEMBER ELECTION. /BIDEN CHILLING REVELATION ABOUT MESSIANIC OBAMA, ARE WARNING THE AMERICAN VOTERS, THAT NOW ARE VERY CAUTIOUS AND NOT BELIEVING EVERYTHING ON NEWSPAPERS AND TV THAT. ARE AVOIDING TO NOCAUT THAT TICCKET ON TIME./ PLEASE READ BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE WHAT IS WRITTEN ON THE BOOK= DREAMS OF MY FATHER.////////////////////

“Ryan, her father was in the army, and he, his wife, and previous children all lived in Germany during his time there.
Good thing she’s not running for President”
If he was a citizen, she is a citizen.
The whole ineligible to run stuff is loony for both sides.

Jake, so the guy tells a big whopper or two on his conference calls, what do you expect from a lobbyist?
Oh, excuse me “former lobbyist”. And I take it as an article of faith that he will stay a former lobbyist because the way that Rick Davis has ‘managed’ this campaign and destroyed the McCain brand, people would have to be crazy to hire him as a lobbyist.
I sure hope the McCain camp pays him well though, because now that he’s not getting any more walking around money from Freddie Mac he’ll have to live on unemployment insurance for a few months before he can pick up a new job in this Republican economy.
I sure wish everyone had wisened up sooner. Who knows what would have happened if we hadn’t spent 12 of the last 14 years under a Republican Congress and the last 8 years with a Republican president (who McCain is all lips and teeth with on monetary and tax policy).
I’m guessing we wouldn’t have $10 trillion in national debt;
AND gotten stuck in two quagmires that have gone on longer than WWII;
AND, as the conservative Mayor of London observed – destroyed the value of our global brand image for democracy and capitalism.
Thank you GOP. Heckuva job!
Oh, what was it George Bush said?
Fool me once, shame on you…
Fool me twice, uh….
Fool me three times?

You may all want to listen to the news just a tad better. Obama’s campaign mistakenly released their internal poll numbers for PA which showed a two point spread between the two.
Perhaps thats WHY McCain is there, hmmmm Jake?
You might also want to remember Jake, YES, when Hillary’s poll numbers were up, she usually won, but when Obama’s were up…who won????? Hillary. Need I say South Dakota? New Hampshire?
Obama is only where he is due to caucus states. His famous machine pulled out the votes by any tactic necessary. When it was up to the STATES per primary voting to choose, they chose Hillary.
Obama over polls as well.
You may all want to remember that.
Now, perhaps someone will have a DECENT debate instead of acting like children and threatening people with death?
What flavor is the koolaid today?

“McCain in 2006 co-wrote a bill for reform,”
McCain cowrote nothing. He cosponsored a bill (that was intro’d in Jan 2005) in May of 2006.
The lesson as always? Right wingers lie.

Obama’s own internal poll which was leaked only shows him up 2.

I work for a regulatory agency and saw it first hand. It’s true that the Bush administration has stood for light regulation of capital markets. But it did not invent this approach. By the middle of the last decade, experts across the spectrum believed that U.S. financial institutions faced outmoded restraints on their ability to innovate. Thus, the Clinton administration, supported by then-Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, refused to tighten regulations on financial derivatives, memorably dubbed “financial weapons of mass destruction” by Warren Buffett. The 1999 repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act, a Depression-era law separating commercial banking and investment banking, passed with overwhelming bipartisan support in Congress and was signed into law by President Bill Clinton. Barney Frank and Frankin Raines were the primary blame. FNma policies coerced banks into making subprime loans or prime loans would not be guarantee. They wanted to increase home ownership regardless if someone could afford it. They packaged the loans as securities and sold them on Wall Street. The pools got too saturated with bad loans. Obama as an attorney for Acorn punished banks with lawsuits houlding up branch applications unless they located in downtrodded neighborhoods.

I like the stubborn state of denial from the Mccain campaign. If they care, they should stay in PA but this race is far out of their rich. So sad this is coming from one of Mccain’s “old boys network”……………….this is my best punch line from Obama…..the old boys network? in the Mccain campaign, thats called a staff meeting…..

Exactly when was it proven Obama is a citizen of the U.S.? Last I heard, he was to provide the ORIGINAL LONG FORM of his cert, because the one he gave did not have a seal on it and it appeared to have been altered by Photoshop.
Also, you Obamanuts may like to know, that even on election day, Bush was behind 6 POINTS! Guess who won! I don’t presume to know who will win. But, I do know that from many polls in the past, they are just not very reliable. It could still go either way. Some people have reported their cars being vandalized because of their McCain/Palin sign. Some pizza parlor is offering free pizzas if you bring them any McCain/Palin sign (so they can dispose of it of course). It shouldn’t be this way, but many people do not talk about voting for McCain because of this.
Whatever happened to free speech? Is it only good for liberals?
I also agree about Grandma……if she is in such bad shape, why wait two days?????? Sympathy votes? WHy not, they are already trying to buy the election.
Does anyone else notice how poor Biden’s grammar is? I mean anyone can make a mistake, but “shoulda, coulda, gonna.” Gee whiz!

Call me paranoid, but I think this effort is just cover for Pennsylvania to be the new Ohio. Republican supporter made electronic voting machines will supply a victory that will not make any sense given the pre-election and exit polls.