McCain has no electoral college strategy!

[27inCali]

this is especially clear with him pulling out of Michigan -Pennsylvania is loyal blue, and yes he may be able to hold on in Ohio and Florida, but New Mexico and Iowa are not budging and Virginia is starting to look out of reach for him now.

Ad that he is stuck on defense in Ohio, Florida, North Carolina, Indiana, Nevada and Missouri and that losing ANY of those states is a death blow and you see............

any strategy that involves focusing on a particular state or couple of states just wont work. He needs a big national event that will push the whole country in his direction much like the banking crisis has shifted just about every swing state in Obama's direction.

minus that, he's toast. the only shot he has is for a (R) 527 to do a massive and devastating add campaign on the last weekend before the election. i.e. Wright and Ayers and lots of exaggerations.

you know it's coming. Everyone in the swing states must be prepared regardless of how good it looks going into the last week.

[featherman]

1. He's still going after MN, WI, and NH... as well as PA among the blue states

Fruitlessly IMO.Lately he's been considering going after ME.

He's likely lost IA and NM from the Bush totals already and is , as you say, reduced to playing defense in CO, VA, OH, NC, MO, NV, IN, FL

Anything can happen but I'd much rather be an Obama strategist at this point that a McCain one... as they said about Clinton in the primaries after a certain point - "I see no clear path to victory"

[PerfectSage]

3. The super Delegates will all vote for McCain

[baldguy]

2. McCain needs a huge majority of white blue collar voters.

He won't get it.

[Johonny]

4. your confusing strategy

and tactics...

[baldguy]

6. And Palin confuses tactics

with Tic-Tacs

[gravity]

5. Obama forced him to shift his resources

He has to defend Viginia, North Carolina, Indiana, and Florida which were suppose to be in the bag for McCain.

[Bonn1997]

7. He's behaving like someone who knows the election will be stolen

would behave and would prefer to just spend all day goofing off.

[4lbs]

8. Something tells me that that is exactly what the McCain campaign will try to do as a last resort...

The 3 final days before the election, they'll blanket the swing states with ads all day telling some of the nastiest lies about Obama hoping to "swing" enough to their side to take the state.

[Borgnine]

9. Dean's 50 State Strategy has worked wonders.

It's what we should have been doing for years instead of fighting over the same battleground states again and again.