McCain goes for broke in deep-blue state

Seattle Post Intelligencer, New York Times by Elisabeth Bumiller, Jeff Zeleny | Oct. 22, 2008 (News Report)
'We need to win Pennsylvania on November 4th'

Sen. Barack Obama has a double-digit lead in recent Pennsylvania polls. Sen. John Kerry beat President Bush here in 2004. The previous three Democratic presidential candidates won, too. And this year there are 1.2 million more registered Democrats than Republicans in the state.

But in these frantic last weeks of the 2008 campaign, McCain has lavished time and money on this now deep-blue state -- he made three stops here on Tuesday -- as if his ... Full Story »

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Subjects: U.S., Politics
Topics: Presidential Election 2008, John McCain, Pennsylvania
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 by Dwight Rousu - Oct. 22, 2008

The story provides a lot of the relevant questions and quotes some of the campaign responses. There seems to be a lack of investigative digging to look into the polls or potential other reasons for the McCain focus.

My concern is that Pennsylvania vote counting will be corrupted similar to Ohio in 2004, and McCain is campaigning there to provide a plausible excuse for the count to differ from the polling leading up to the election. The coverage should add information on whether the secretary of state and election officials are Republican, whether Premier/Diebold machines with secret code are counting the ballots, how the balloting machines and counting machines and code have been validated, how ... More »

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