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To: tejek who wrote (401001)	7/23/2008 12:41:05 PM
From: michael97123	Respond to of 1577887

mccain needs to retreat to current bush policy which is becoming timetables. McCain seems out there on his own now. Lieberman might even not approve of continued presence when american people, iraqi people and iraqi govt want us out in a reasonable period of time. McCain learned all the wrong lessons from vietnam and its affecting his judgement on iraq which is totally different than vietnam in any case.

To: tejek who wrote (401001)	7/23/2008 1:08:57 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 1577887

"He also has made a quote that may be the defining moment in this campaign when he said: " I think he is expressing his frustrations. i-node et al like to point at the national polls and exclaim how close things are. But, the presidential election is determined by the electoral college. If you look at things state by state, you see a different story. Take Texas, for example. McCain leads by about 5 points. But there are 17% undecided. Unless Bush can turn his approval numbers around or Obama does something transcendentally stupid, the undecideds will likely trend towards Obama and not McCain. So McCain could lose Texas. Given that just about every other larger state seems to be in Obama's camp already, that doesn't leave much for McCain. The only states that seem pretty safe for him at the moment, like Arkansas, don't have all that many electoral votes. As a result, his chances look pretty dim right now.