Virginia: New “Swing State”
An article in today’s Washington Post says that the Commonwealth of Virginia, traditionally a bastion of conservatism, has become a “swing state.”
Virginia hasn’t voted for a Democratic presidential candidate since 1964, and President Bush carried the state twice, by nine and eight points. But the campaigns of Obama and his Republican opponent, Sen. John McCain, agree that it has become one of the nation’s new swing states, joining the likes of Ohio, Florida and other battlegrounds in determining who will win the White House. The result in the Old Dominion has been a burst of political activity unlike any in modern times.
This is very good news, readers, but I’m still not very confident. McCain still has a very good chance of becoming our next president. Every presidential election since Campaign 2000 has been a referendum on “character issues,” and the Dems get their clocks cleaned every time. They simply don’t know how to fight back.
The GOP has nothing at all to offer this year. McCain is promising nothing but four (or even, God help us, eight) more years of the same bumbling, tone-deaf ineptitude and swaggering international truculence that have been the hallmarks of the Bush administration. Their only hope is to keep trying to smear Barack Obama personally, and that’s all you’ll hear out of them.
Already, that’s all you hear on wingnut AM radio, and it’s all you read on wingnut blogs: scary stories about Scary Obama Hussein X, the Corrupt Black Muslim African Terrorist-Lover who Hates America and wants to Destroy Our Great Nation From Within. That’s all they’ve got, readers.
The scary part is that I think it might work…
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August 6th, 2008 @ 11:16
McCain will win this election.
August 6th, 2008 @ 17:45
I will be shocked if Hanque isn’t correct.
You only have to look to 2004 to realize this country has a vast majority of idiots who through fear and ignorance vote against themselves.
August 6th, 2008 @ 22:48
If I had to bet money on the 2008 presidential election, my money would go on John Sidney McCain III. I think the Dems are going to blow it. Again.
August 6th, 2008 @ 23:27
Not a lot of confidence over here.
Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran
August 6th, 2008 @ 23:44
I’m kind of a pessimist by nature, but I just have a bad gut feeling about Campaign 2008.
I fear Barack Obama may have made the classic political mistake of “peaking” too early. I fear his candidacy will ultimately be hamstrung by the constant “character issues” attacks.
Until libs, Dems, and progressives get together and figure out how to fight back, we’re just going to keep on losing, and the Know-Nothing wing of the GOP is going to keep eating our lunch (or “drinking our milkshake,” as the current parlance would have it).
August 8th, 2008 @ 23:58
Paul Krugman gets it: see today’s column “Know-Nothing Politics.”
August 9th, 2008 @ 07:36
Wow! Krugman reads Dum Pendebat Filius!