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On the day before many Americans will vote, the candidates and their vice presidential nominees are now putting their attention on just a few States and their emphasis is on swaying those who are still undecided and on trying to make sure that those who have supposedly already decided who to vote for, actually go out and do so.

The vice the vice presidential nominees are probably more important this year than at any time in America’s history and although much has been written about the dangers of voting for McCain because of his age, not much has been written about the dangers of voting for Obama because of his color.

I have many black and white friends that have been telling me for months that if Obama wins that his life will be under constant threat because of his color and it is known that he already receives the protection that is given to a President and not a candidate.

So who would the country want to take over the Presidency if something did happen to either McCain or Obama, and I stress that I wouldn’t want anything untoward to happen to either of them.

Sarah Palin is both adored and hated and there is even talk of her running for the Presidency in 2012 but at the present time there are certainly a great many people that wouldn’t want her to take over the Presidency.

Biden unsuccessfully sought the Democratic presidential nomination in 1988 and 2008, both times dropping out early in the process so it doesn’t seem the country would rally around him either.

What were Biden And Palin saying during the final countdown?

Joe Biden was in EVANSVILLE, Ind. and he said that he and Barack Obama would take a bipartisan spirit to the White House in working to revive the nation’s economy and in restoring America’s reputation in the world.

“We have to unite this country”, Biden told about 1,600 people at a downtown rally. “We need to move past the political attacks”.

And in MARIETTA, OH. Sarah Palin unleashed a new attack following the discovery of an audio file of an interview that Barack Obama gave in January 2008.

What does Obama say on the tape?

“So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can; it’s just that it will bankrupt them because they’re going to be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that’s being emitted. That will also generate billions of dollars that we can invest in wind, solar, biodiesel and other alternative energy approaches”.

And last minute news from the Obama campaign is that whilst there is optimism about winning the election there are several factors that still raise cause for concern.

Although Pennsylvania, Ohio and Florida are still in the Obama column they have all been tightening in the final days and Pennsylvania Democratic Governor Ed Rendell said on Friday, “It’s time for a reality check. We’ve got our work cut out for us.”.

Pennsylvania looks solidly behind Obama but the latest NBC/Mason Dixon poll is showing a a lead of only four points which is within the margin of error and RealClearPolitics shows McCain has whittled six points off Obama’s once 14-point lead in Pennsylvania in the last three weeks.

The most accurate poll in 2004, the Investor’s Business Daily poll has consistently put the national race closer than most other polls do and yesterday it had Obama up only 4.5 points nationally and with 8.7 per cent still saying they were unsure  and yesterday’s Hotline Diageo tracking poll put McCain and Obama tied among independent voters when just a week ago Obama led by five points.

Much emphasis has been put on the idea that the youth vote will greatly help Obama, but will the cheering supporters actually vote?

In Florida, where 3.4 million people have already voted, an Orlando Sentinel study found only 15 per cent of them were under age 35.

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There are several things that McCain can still do to try and turn things around.

Some are riskier than others, but all are perhaps worth trying if he foresees a crushing defeat.

He could for example commit to only serving one term, and claim that by so doing that he would be free from much of the political pressure that somebody hoping for a second term would be subject to. He could then truthfully say that this would allow him to make a lot of tough decisions that Obama would be unable to make.

Another ploy would be to stop wasting time and money in Bush States that have now slipped so completely out of his grasp, that there is no real likelihood of his ever winning them now.

Obama is extremely well established in Iowa because he has been organizing there since 2007 and the State helped win him the nomination, but McCain and Palin are still campaigning there.

If I were in his shoes, and I’m glad I’m not, because whoever wins the next election will be in for a horrible drubbing and his life will get more miserable from day one, I’d be concentrating on the battleground States that I’d have a very good chance of still holding onto.

Ohio, Indiana, Missouri, Virginia, North Carolina, Nevada, Colorado and Florida.

On paper he’d been short of enough votes to win but he’d be able to keep his fingers crossed and hope that the polls were more inaccurate than they seemed. Polls have surprised a lot of candidates everywhere, in both a good and bad way.

He might of course, also be able to bring in Pennsylvania from the 2004 Kerry map.

If things really look desperate in the days before the elections he could do something completely unprecedented, he could publicly and without mixing his words, condemn the of the presidency of George W. Bush.

Karl Rove and others such as Steve Schmidt would probably be distraught and be strongly against it but McCain is highly unlikely to ever run for the Presidency again so what would he have to lose.

Making such a maverick move would also show the voters that he really understood why Bush’s ratings are so low and many people might be so admiring of such behavior that they’d change their minds at the last moment.

A great many Republicans that now say that they will vote Democrat might not actually do so.

When they ponder the night before the election or even in the voting booth that to vote for Obama would mean higher taxes; a larger government; more entitlements; more U.N. involvement; less nuclear energy; less coal and a greater dependency or Iran and Venezuela; more left leaning Supreme Court judges; more open borders; more oppression-studies and a helluva lot more reparations that might just think twice!

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