Thursday, October 2, 2008

The McCain Campaign Explains It All

The McCain campaign is trying to put the best spin they can on their Michigan shut down, but this defense to Jonathan Martin is laughably ridiculous:

We'll do a conf call at 5:45pm ET on the state of the race, but it's really sort of laughable. We played in MI to spread the field on Obama. As you know, Obama has already abandoned a number of states from his 50 state strategy. If we win FL, MO, NC, VA, IN and OH — all states Republicans have won for decades — that puts us at 260 electoral votes. We need to find 10 electoral votes from CO, NV, NM, NH, MN, WI, and PA. Frankly, we have an easier map than Obama. He’s on the defense.

Obama is leading in five of the six states the McCain campaign is saying they "expect to win". He's leading in all of the remaining states they list, but they only need one of those. So basically McCain has to win 7 out of 13 states, and in only one of them does McCain have a lead. I can see why Obama would be on defense right now.

And the rest of us think we've had pointless, dead-end jobs.

1 comment:

rhonanon said...

No problem. McCain's team is probably hanging up the "mission accomplished" banner as we speak.