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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!

The organization where Sen. Barack Obama worked as a community organizer and lawyer, the ‘Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now’ better known as ‘Acorn’, is now under investigation in several States for suspected voter registration fraud.

And this latest wave of ACORN inquiries is providing Republicans a new line of attack to use against the Democratic presidential nominee and particularly because he represented ACORN in a lawsuit in the 1990s.

A member of Sen. John McCain’s campaign wrote in a memo on Friday, “Given ACORN’s recent efforts to engage in voter fraud and to disrupt our political system, Obama’s affiliation with this group raises serious questions about his judgment and ability to lead this nation”.

Nevada is the latest in a string of States to take action against Acorn and investigators raided the group’s state headquarters on Tuesday. The Nevada branch submitted voter registration forms carrying the names of celebrities such as Tony Romo and Terrell Owens, who are both members of the Dallas Cowboys and many members of the general public announced that they had been asked by ACORN employees to submit multiple registration forms.
Obama’s campaign has so far paid ‘Citizens Services Inc.’ which is an ACORN subsidiary about $800,000 for services rendered and ACORN endorsed Obama during the Democratic primaries.

Missouri Gov. Matt Blunt said on a McCain campaign conference call on Friday, “Sen. Obama’s ties with ACORN go back a long way. Before he launched his political career in the home of Bill Ayers, he was fighting alongside ACORN. He acted as their lawyer. He has taught classes to ACORN liberal community organizers”.

Republicans are also attempting to link Acorn to the current financial crisis and a McCain campaign employee posted a video on the Internet on Friday that accuses ACORN of “bullying banks and forcing them to issue risky home loans. The same types of loans that caused the financial crisis we’re in today”

The House Minority Whip Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), whose home state has also discovered irregular ACORN registration forms, said on Thursday, “I believe we are witnessing a national trend that must be fully investigated to protect the sanctity of our elections”.

Obama campaign officials have rejected the McCain camp’s charges and labeled them as an attempt to “turn the page from the issues that matter to American families”.

Obama spokesman Tommy Vietor said in a statement, “Barack Obama strongly condemns voter registration fraud or any other breach of election law by any party or group. The McCain campaign’s allegations about Sen. Obama are completely transparent and false”.