I am in shock. If this is true, then Obama should get his ass down to Arizona pronto and capitalize on it.
Well, the preliminary word is in from Dr. Merrill. Hold onto your hats folks, we got us a neck and neck horserace!
Merrill’s brand new poll, taken from sampling over the weekend and Monday, in it’s entirety, is to be released tonight at 7:00 pm local Arizona time and has McCain up by two little itty bitty points: McCain 46% Obama 44% and Obama still seen as closing with a full week left and undecideds still expected to break significantly Obama!!!!!
Bruce Merrill is a native Arizonan, has been teaching at Arizona State since 1971, and has been doing the absolute finest and most accurate polling of Arizona races for many decades. He really is the gold standard here.
Two points.
Two… points… in Arizona.
This is one of those moments that just about forces Obama’s hand. If he has even a fighting chance in Arizona, he needs to get there pronto. It’s true that AZ’s ten electoral votes aren’t going to break the election in either way, and maybe Obama has less of a chance than it seems, but if we’re talking about playing the political game, there is simply no better way to smash what’s left of McCain’s morale than to force him to fight for his home state.
On the left we’ve gotten into this General Patton mindset that says we don’t just want to win, we want it to be a landslide, a crushing victory, we want to humiliate McCain. I want John McCain to look back on this and see a big blue stamp over his home turf. I want him to look back on 2008, knowing he sold his soul to the devil to win, and that it ruined him.
Eh. The only reason Johnny went there anyway was because his Prescription Princess lives there. Arizona is as alien to him as the rest of the real world.