THIS TIME IS DIFFERENT.THE VIRGINIANS KNOW IT IS ABOUT ISSUES.IT IS ABOUT THE MEN AND WOMEN IN IRAQ,IT IS ABOUT ECONOMY,HEALTH CARE,EDUCATION AND SO ON.THERE IS NO TIME TO GAMBLE OR VOTE CARELESSLY BASED ON RACE OR SYMPATHY OR SENSELESS SUBSTANCES.THEY KNOW IT WILL BE UNWISE NOT TO GIVE OBAMA AND THE DEMOCRATS THE FOUR YEARS NEEDED TO SAVE THE SITUATION AFFECTING THEIR OWN LIVES THAN TO RISK WORSEN THEIR FUTURE IN THE HANDS OF AGING AND CONFUSED McCAIN WHO DOESN´T GET IT ONE BIT!HE WANTS TO BE EDUCATED ON ECONOMY AT THE TIME WE NEED SOMEONE TO FIX IT???TODAY HIS PHIL GRAMM ACCUSED AMERICANS OF WHYNNING AND COMPLAINING!RECENTLY McCAIN SAID AMERICANS ARE BETTER OF ECONOMUCALLY.HE DOESN´T SEEM TO KNOW THAT IF HE AND HIS WIFE OWN MILLIONS,A LOT OF AMERICANS AREN´T.AND THAT ENERGY POLICY, GAS-PRICES AND TRILLIONS OF SPENDING IN IRAQ ARE ALL DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY PROPORTIONAL TO THE ECONOMY!THIS TIME WE SHALL ALL HAVE TO MAKE THE RIGHT HISTORIC DECITION BY GIVING THE DEMOCRATS AND OBAMA A 4 YEAR
CHANCE!
4 YEARS CHANCE
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Virginia, of course, won't fall into Obama's lap. Of all this year's GOP candidates, McCain is by far the best match for the former Confederate capital; his moderate brand will keep him competitive in northern Virginia, while his military background gives him an added boost with the commonwealth's 800,000 veterans. Moreover, much of the state geography overlaps with Appalachia, where white, working-class voters resisted Obama's charms in the primaries. To signal that he's not ceding their votes, Obama picked Bristol—the sole media market in the vast southwest part of the state—for the first stop of his general-election campaign, and brought Warner, who connects with the NASCAR crowd, along for the ride. The message was received. But it's unclear whether Obama, who's more liberal than Kaine, Warner and Webb, can gain enough ground here to put himself over the top.
According to Obama's aides, expanding the map is a way of forcing his (relatively underfunded) GOP foe to compete in places once considered safely red. "I think that we are going to have a larger battlefield in 2008," chief strategist David Axelrod told the Huffington Post. "We are going to stretch the Republicans. I don't think they can take for granted nearly as many states as they have in the past." But considering Obama's difficulties in Florida and Ohio (Appalachia again) it may also be a matter of necessity. If the Illinois senator can retain each of Kerry's 252 electoral votes, then pick off Iowa (where's he's built a big organization) and New Mexico (where he's the early favorite), Virginia's 13 electors would give him a winning majority—with or without the two most traditional swing states of all.
Gentlemen, start your engines.
Romano is NEWSWEEK.com’s political blogger. For more analysis, check out blog.newsweek.com/blogs/stumper.
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