The Democrat’s support jumped to 50 percent or above in Ohio, Florida and Pennsylvania in Quinnipiac University surveys taken during the weekend – after the opening presidential debate and during Monday’s dramatic stock market plunge as the House rejected a $700 billion financial bailout plan…
The new surveys show Obama leading McCain in Florida 51 percent to 43 percent, in Ohio 50 percent to 42 percent and in Pennsylvania 54 percent to 39 percent.
Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Florida were the states Obama was supposed to lose in the ‘new map’ scenario, to be made up somewhat by winning smaller states that turn blue like Colorado and Iowa. Obama is now more than competitive in NC and VA as well.
Nate Silver now has the projected electoral vote count (the real metric) at 330 to 207. That, my friends, is a landslide. Especially by recent standards. A blowout.
A REAL Mandate.
Not a 2004 style Bush mandate.
All McCain has left now is stunts and attacks, neither of which have worked for him so far. (heh, plus he is about to reap the whirlwind for the Palin stunt, Go Biden!) If his attacks and stunts backfire as bad his latest bailout bullshit, Katie bar the door!
Yesterday kos also showed how close we are to the magical 60 Senator cloture line. The House is locked up and the only question is how much of a majority Dems will have….and if enough new members will lean Progressive or join the cursed Blue Dogs.
Yeah, there is a lot of other stuff going on, and this is by no means locked in of course, but close your eyes for a moment and picture it. An overwhelming House majority, with the Blue Dogs power diminished, 60 votes in the Senate preventing the now routine (R) filibuster, and Obama in the WH with an unmistakable mandate from the Gen Pop for real, meaningful change.
Only one question would remain, what will be the Democrats excuse for not enacting Progressive principles then?
How can we ‘help’ them to realize that they are living in a new reality, and keep them from acting like whipped dogs?
Time to start discussing how the Blogosphere can effectively lobby the new Democratic Supermajority and get them to shake off the yoke of their fear of Republicans, their fear of the media….their fear of real change.
Of course there is still time left, and McCain will use that time to go HARD negative on Obama, he has nothing to lose now. The October Surprise has yet to be swung and Johnny McCrazy has the Bush Boys swinging for him, and we all know what nice honest guys they are! What will they blow up this time? Will it work? Hold on to your hats, here comes the home stretch!
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i’m waaaaaay too
stupsuperstitious to have this convo with you right now.….i’ll be over here calmly wringing my hands…
Hark, the paper shredders beginning!
…the entire premise of them is flawed. Are voters who reject the war in Iraq giving a “mandate” to a whole host of progressive positions? Are the voters who are alienated by Sarah Palin, or who are seeking better economic leadership in troubling times? 99% of voters couldn’t name 1/20th of the Democratic Party platform; are they endorsing it because they vote in a popularity contest?
For that matter:
One good excuse would be that Barack Obama has never campaigned as a Progressive. Not once. He is a centrist, with center-libertarian economics advisers. The excuse to not enact Progressive principles then will be that he isn’t a Progressive, and that he didn’t lie to the American people to get elected.