McCain Strategizes to Win Election
As election-day approaches and Obama is gaining momentum, the McCain campaign is now looking at what magic tricks it will have to perform to win the presidential election.
If McCain wins all the states that President George W. Bush won four years ago, he'll have the 270-plus electoral votes necessary to take the White House. However, he has also lost at least six states which went red during the 2004 election – Colorado, Ohio, New Mexico, Iowa, Nevada, and Virginia, CBS News reported.
McCain now is gambling on a long-shot strategy based on flipping the blue state Pennsylvania, whose electoral voters could help offset losses in some states that President Bush won four years ago, including Colorado, reported the Arizona Republic.
"If you can't win all the Bush states, you can make up a lot of ground in Pennsylvania," said former Bush strategist and CBS News consultant Dan Bartlett. "Instead of trying to play really close matches in a bunch of states, you play one match in a really big state,� reported CBS news.