Comments on: Electoral Map Becoming Impossible For McCain

By: Alan Stewart Carl

Alan Stewart Carl — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 13:02:53 +0000

While I’m not at all surprised that you guys are voting, I hope you’re right about the others in your demo. I remember in 1992 there was supposed to be a huge youth turnout for Clinton. I voted, of course, but the overall percentage of youth voters was not much different than in the previous election. Then again, us Gen Xers have always been an apathetic lot.

By: CaptainUltimate

CaptainUltimate — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 12:23:50 +0000

Alan, as a youth voter I can say that before Bush, you’d be right. But after two foreign wars, an economic meltdown that may make getting any kind of credit for college impossible, and a ceaseless re-fighting of Vietnam every quadrennially- well, a lot of people my age are realizing we can’t fool around anymore.

By: Avinash_Tyagi

Avinash_Tyagi — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 05:39:00 +0000

Youth voter here, i’ve already cast my ballot in Ohio

By: mdgeorge

mdgeorge — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 03:36:46 +0000

As part of the youth portion of Obama’s base, I think you couldn’t be wronger.

By: Alan Stewart Carl

Alan Stewart Carl — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 01:19:27 +0000

Erik — yeah, that’s probably true. I’m just guessing that the Republican base is more reliable than the youth portion of Obama’s base.

By: Erik Sickinger

Erik Sickinger — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 00:21:39 +0000

Alan:
Won’t it also slow down turnout for the GOP voters as well?
When considering the media’s desire to keep this a horserace + Obama’s simply amazing GOTV effort I don’t see a low turnout happening.

By: Alan Stewart Carl

Alan Stewart Carl — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 21:46:54 +0000

I wonder if this will be a short election night. By 9 ET we may be left just discussing close senate races. But polls are just polls. Nothing counts until the votes are cast. It’s possible that this “Obama is a shoo-in” talk will slow down turnout, especially among younger voters who tend to be the most apathetic group. Still, I’m not putting any money on McCain.

By: Rob

Rob — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 18:30:27 +0000

you show Obama with 286, then say

so McCain has to try and somehow swing Colorado or Virginia back to his column.

CO: 9 Virginia: 13; Doesn’t he need to swing BOTH?

By: bubbles

bubbles — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 17:41:58 +0000

If McCain wants any chance of winning, he needs to be campaigning in North Carolina, Virginia and Florida almost exclusively, and run heavy ads out west in New Mexico, Nevada and Colorado.

But he’s spending more time this week in Pennsylvania and New Hampshire than any of those states. Good luck with that, John.