Two points & HOLY SHIT I’m going to the Obama rally.
Once upon a time John McCain was my senator.
I was fresh out of college, living in Scottsdale, Arizona, and was not too concerned that I was in a red state... hell, the famous senator from my state was the "maverick" who pissed off a lot of Republicans.
Ohhhh how things have changed. Not only has McCain's brain flipflopped and morphed into some kind of neo-conservative chewing gum, but he is getting CREAMED by Obama in the latest polls. Sure, we all have heard that... so what's the big deal?
The big deal is that McCain might lose Arizona.
Yeah.
All those stupid fucking maps on CNBC and Fox News penciled the RED into that state since day one... not so fast.
Merrill's brand new poll, taken from sampling over the weekend and Monday, in it's entirety, is to be released tonight at 7:00 pm local Arizona time and has McCain up by two little itty bitty points: McCain 46% Obama 44% and Obama still seen as closing with a full week left and undecideds still expected to break significantly Obama!
Holy shit.
Bruce Merrill is a native Arizonan, has been teaching at Arizona State since 1971, and has been doing the absolute finest and most accurate polling of Arizona races for many decades. He really is the gold standard here.
This is fantastic news! Unless, of course, you are John McCain...
I'm headed to Grant Park downtown Chicago on election night to (hopefully) see one hell of a historic acceptance speech from Barack Obama at his rally. I sure hope I'm home in time to see that big red blob of Arizona turn blue on the tv maps.