Tuesday, November 04, 2008

North Carolina will go for McCain

This is not the first time I've predicted Sen. John McCain will carry North Carolina.

Right after the Republican convention, I said McCaim would carry the state by at least 10%.

That's not likely now.

NC is a "battleground state;" and with voting about to end in a few hours, some polling organizations are calling the state for McCain while some are calling it for Sen. Obama .

But all are calling it close.

McCain failed to do in NC two things that would have given him this state handily: 1) call out Obama for his almost 20 year close relationship with the racist, anti-American Jeremiah Wright; and 2) make sure everyone here knew Obama was a liberal and what that meant.

Look tomorrow for a major post on those two matters.

Now my final call: McCain will carry the state by at least 4%.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

History may come to note today as the day America lost the cold war
-- let us all hope this is not what the future holds.

Anonymous said...

Well, John, we were both way off in our forecasts. Come January 20, we will have a new president and a much more Democrat (I can't describe them as democratic)congress. It remains to be seen if the new president is up to the job.
I suppose it's unrealistic to hope this will stop the whining about how Blacks don't have a chance in this racist country. We'll keep seeing set-asides and race-based special treatment for minorities despite very clear evidence that whatever racism there is in our country, it doesn't stop a mixed White-Black- Arab from winning the highest office in the land. Ho hum.
Tarheel Hawkeye

Anonymous said...

Don't let it bother you too much that you were wrong again. I think you may have just misjudged how much the people of NC really care about Ayers, Wright, and ACORN. It seems that the McCain campaign made a similar mistake, and not just in NC. Silly little things like the economy and the War in Iraq were more important to voters this time around.

Of course, I am certain it was a media consortium of conspirators that tried their best to steer people away from the really important issues that you have focused so many of your posts on. Oh well.

JWM said...

Anon @ 10:39,

I join you in hoping you're wrong and thank you for your comment.

To TH,

I do hope Obama's victory stops at least some of the whining, but I doubt it will.

One reason: The whining to too important to the maintainance of some of the special advantages blacks have because of their race.

Example: preference in college admissions.

To Anon @ 8;45,

Can we agree what you say is revealing of the kind of person you are?

I plan to use part or, perhaps, all of your comment in the next day or so on the main page.

John

John