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These facts -- past as prologue and the radical leftist agenda of Obama -- are compounded by the inconvenient fact of alternative media voices today. McGovern was aided and abetted by a monolithic press. Obama doesn't have that, to put it mildly. I think people are falling into the trap of believing that those who make the most noise have the greatest heft. This is almost always false, and it is certainly false in this case.

So here's a prediction for you that will be totally forgotten as soon as you read it, but here goes anyway.

Obama will carry DC and Hawaii (arguably the two areas least associated with the United States.)

He will likely carry Minnesota, Maryland and perhaps Vermont, although even these are not certain (remember Mondale.) He will lose every other state, including Florida, New York and California, and his home state of Illinois, where he has been defeated once (for the House) and where his election to the senate was a fluke, enabled by a candidate withdrawal.

p>Remember where you heard it first. Or not. But please, let's not get overwhelmed by the noisy bleating going on around us. People understand. They just keep it to themselves. br> -- Stacey James Lippman br> West Palm Beach /p>

I think BHO knows that unless McCain can come up with a campaign of some sort (can anyone repeat McCain's theme? We all know BHO's), BHO will be President Obama. An Independent friend of mine asked me if McCain had dropped out of the race. He said that it appeared as though BHO was running unopposed. I answered by saying that my friend had it half right: McCain was still the Republican Candidate but that BHO was running unopposed.

p>The only difference between McCain and his predecessor Bob Dole is that McCain will probably be the spokesman for Depends rather than Viagra after he has lost the election. br> -- Paul Melody /p> p> I was somewhat disconcerted to see Mr. Tabin describe Alan Keyes as "buffoonish." I would expect something of that nature from Keith Olbermann, perhaps; not an

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