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November 2, 2008 12:57 PM

McCain: "We're Going To Win Pennsylvania"

By
John Bentley
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John McCain
(CBS)
From CBS News' John Bentley:

(WALLINGFORD, PA.) - At the kickoff event for his two-day whirlwind tour before Election Day, John McCain expressed confidence in winning Pennsylvania.

"I've been in a lot of campaigns. I know when the momentum is there. This enthusiasm, this kind of welcome, we're going to win Pennsylvania, we're going to win this election," McCain said at a rally here. "I sense it and I feel it and I know it."

While the crowd of around 2,000 here was certainly enthusiastic – McCain had to pause several times for spontaneous shouting from the audience – most of the polling in Pennsylvania still shows Barack Obama with a comfortable, but not airtight, lead. The most recent statewide polls show an uptick for McCain while Obama has held steady, putting the spread at about seven points.

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by monkeykingre November 3, 2008 2:07 AM EST
And what if misha128 said was not switched around. There is not what if in life. There is only what are in life.
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by matericia November 2, 2008 8:56 PM EST
He''s not going to win PA!
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by mideastern November 2, 2008 6:08 PM EST
oh and yeah ... i dont like the man... cant stand him if i was to be honest...
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by mideastern November 2, 2008 6:07 PM EST
excuse the run on sentences
i wanted to make sure i got all of what i had to say and not have to break it up into two.. comments...
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by mideastern November 2, 2008 6:05 PM EST
you people talkin about obama shutting down jobs where have you people been jobs are being cut everyday at a crazy rate i guess thats his fault to at least obama and biden can relate to the everyday american mccain doesnt no what it means to struggle tryin to hold on to your job when co are closing up shop and or taking jobs out of the country being not dem or rep i didnt like any of the people that were tryin to get the nom on the rep. side i have to admit though that i would have voted rep if the mayor of new york was running (Bloomberg) i would have voted for him if he would have ran but i will be voting dem this time mccain only wants to win anyway he can he didnt even check palin out before he picked her thats no kind of judgement hes yelling country first if you really get down to it none of them really mean it if they did we wouldnt be in this mess we are in but with all the in fighting and across the lines fighting well they know nothing of country first but people will see and what they want to see not facing the truth at all about any of them really palin is the last person i would want to be pres shes as dumb as they come and the things she says its like she couldnt think before opening her mouth obama friends with terror people i guess the fact that mccain is openly friends with G. Gordon Liddy a domestic terrorist that actually went to jail mccain is has said that he is proud to be his friend give me a break
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by misha128-2009 November 2, 2008 4:41 PM EST
The McCain camp has found another way to shoot itself in the foot. Governor Palin is now informing Republican voters they are to vote on Nov 5th.

For all you Democrats and Independents -- despite the governor''s misinformation -- Democrats and Independents will still be voting on Nov 4th.
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by tawpdawg111 November 2, 2008 4:24 PM EST
What if things were switched around? Think about it.
What if the Obama''s had paraded five children across the stage, including a three-month-old infant and an unwed, pregnant teenage daughter?
What if John McCain was a former president of the Harvard Law Review?
What if Barack Obama finished fifth from the bottom of his graduating class?
What if McCain had only married once, and Obama was a divorcee?
What if Obama was the candidate who left his first wife after a severe disfiguring car accident, when she no longer measured up to his standards?
What if Obama had met his second wife in a bar and had a long affair while he was still married?
What if Michelle Obama was the wife who not only became addicted to painkillers but also acquired them illegally through her charitable organization?
What if Cindy McCain graduated from Harvard?
What if Obama had been a member of the Keating Five?
What if McCain was a charismatic, eloquent speaker?
What if Obama couldn''t read from a teleprompter?
What if Obama was the one who had military experience that included discipline problems and a record of crashing seven planes?
What if Obama was the one who was known to display publicly, on many occasions, a serious anger management problem?
What if Michelle Obama''s family had made their money from beer distribution?
What if the Obama''s had adopted a white child?
Why is this election not a landslide?
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