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The Thing About the Kos Cluckers

Submitted August 20, 2008 - 1:06 pm by Klaus (not verified)

The Chicken Littles over there and elsewhere honestly thought this would be an easy election. They were convinced that it would be a landslide, that the American people had finally got their shit together, and that may have very well been true... if we'd gone up against Mitt Romney.

However, if you look at the Rasmussen match-ups from early 2007, when the environment was a lot more hostile for Republicans than it is now, John McCain still beat Al Gore, Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, and John Kerry. Obama himself only really established a consistent lead after the primaries ended, and even then, it was never really at these double digit margins we saw in the Zogby and Newsweek polls.

This election is going to be terrifying, and in any other year, going up against a war hero media darling like McCain would be an exercise in futility. However, Obama is not only hanging in there, he's leading, if only slightly, and there is still room for him to grow.

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