When the votes are finally counted, should John McCain win, the Obama campaign will shout election fraud [about which they are well versed]. The basis of their claim will be that the opinion polls showed Obama was ahead. What may be their undoing is that there is a difference between sampling the opinions and preferences of those who will answer questions via telephone... and counting the votes of those who actually show up to vote.
This is a most unusual election and the opinion polls have yet to identify the anti-Obama contingents [not necessarily pro-McCain] who can easily tip the election away from Obama.
- There is a large contingent of Hillary Clinton gender supporters... women... who are still POed about the way their candidate was treated by Obama's campaign... and the press... and not necessarily that enamored with Obama himself.
- There is a large contingent of whites among all economic classes who don't trust Obama and his hatred-spewing black and Muslim supporters.
- There is a large contingent of people across the middle-class spectrum who don't trust a philosophy of government take-overs anymore than they trust Wall Streeters... people who work, pay their bills, and don't see why there should be a free ride for either corporations or the chronic misfits.
The pollsters say it is over; the voters may well say differently. There may be just enough voters who can see the difference between glib and genuine to surprise the pollsters.
This election may be much more about who you are against than who you are for.
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