This morning I woke up with an interview with Jan van Lohuizen. I didn't know the guy, but it seems he is 'best known as Bush's personal pollster'. It was told that he rarely gives interviews, but he made an exception for the Dutch 'Radio 1 journaal'. So far I only found a quote from Lohuizen saying that "The crisis has affected the entire ticket". I think the things he said this morning are worth mentioning, so I translated them from dutch. The original interview (in dutch) can be found over here.
(Introduction: what will be the most likely scenario?)
JvL: The Democrats will win. The chances of McCain are minimal. The last 2 weeks - since the debates - he lost about 5 points. He now has difficulties to win states that normally vote Republican
Radio1: If we take a look at McCain's strategy. He is focussing on Pennsylvania as a 'make or break' state. What are his chances there?
JvL: He's behind. He's never been tied or leading there. To make a strategy out of this seems difficult to me. In America we say: 'he's throwing a Hail Mary pass' (...) and I don't think it will work.
But what can he do? If you are almost sure you are going to lose, then you act exactly as he is doing. Trying to change the game, to make a head fake.
Radio1: So in your view as a pollster, McCain is fighting a lost battle?
JvL: There are only 12 days left, so to hope for a Deus Ex Machina doesn't seem as a sound strategy to me.
Radio1: Is that what McCain is doing, just waiting for a miracle to happen?
JvL: It is the only chance he got.
Update - sort of: over here you can see the American ambassador to the Netherlands (James Culbertson) saying (at 1:40) that he is probably going to 'cry a lot' at election night. In a newspaperarticle today (not online) he was quoted saying that he wouldn't bet his money on a McCain victory.