Okay, since everyone I love seems overly worried about McCain stealing the election. (Which is odd, he hasn't figured out how to run a campaign, you think he could organize an election heist?? You give Grandpa to much credit IMO)
But as an article I read said... would McCain WANT to be President??
Read the whole thing before you call me a troll.
Let's assume a nightmare happens first, McCain takes EVERY state still listed as swing by MSNBC + Pennsylvania:
Likely Obama: CA, CT, DE, DC, HI, IL, ME, MD, MA, MI, MN, NJ, NY, OR, RI, VT, WA, WI (227 electoral votes)
Lean Obama: CO, IA, NH, NM, PA, VA (59 votes)
Toss-up: FL, IN, MO, MT, NV, NC, ND, OH (95 votes)
Lean McCain: AZ, GA, NE 02, SD, WV (34 votes)
Likely McCain: AL, AK, AR, ID, KS, KY, LA, MS, NE (the rest of the state), OK, SC, TN, TX, UT, WY (123 votes)
K... then lets give it a McCain luck in those states cause they are so contested, and he brings Liddy Dole with him (which shudders me all by itself)
Forget the house races, look at the senate races.
Democrats will have gained in Virginia, New Mexico, Colorado, Oregon and Alaska, as just about. Figure Lieberman is a McCain hack, and the Dems have 55 seats.
Let's be Funny and say McCain's appearance on SNL swinged it, and Franken as an SNL alum gets the nod thanks to the indy canidate in Minnesota... Dems at 56 seats.
NOW!!! WAIT!!!! McCain is a Senator from Arizona, so he would have to resign, which means his replacement is appointed by the Dem Govoner of Arizona... 57 Seats.
Now, will he try and bring some Democratic senators from states with republican govoners?? (START WITH LIEBERMAN!!!!) yeah, name of the game.
Who is McCain going to appoint to the bench or cabinet that a few senators aren't going to want to truly chew on? Look at the house? Is McCain going to be close? He'd be Bush 2.1 and the patch isn't working. Figure Worst case scenerio is a 56 seat Senate (I suck at house projections)... and we get to play again in 2010 as the "opposition" righting the ship.
BEST CASE SCENARIO
Obama is in like flynn, Takes ALL the swing states (go with MSNBC again for this map) and kicksthe R's in the teeth and takes 381 EV's. That's the best he can get most people truly believe (go with the pollster numbers and say Georgia rulls to, we hit 396).
Now, lets go truly mad and use pollster's map.. (which, considering we are in 2008, mad works) and his coattails are long.
McConnell and Chambliss go down, and Franken picks up the indy's vote to win there.
So 49, + Sanders is 50, add Warner, Shehann, Hagan, Merkel, Begish, Udall(C), Udall (NM), Franken, Martin and Lunsford.... That's 60, not counting the indy from Conneiticut. At this point, Obama and Biden must resign thier seats, both govoners of those states are dem's so it's a wash.
So Make your predictions