Post #8

This week I decided to read another political article from the New York Times, titled In Bush Stronghold, Obama pulls even with McCain by Catherine Seelye. This article discusses how Obama is beginning to force John McCain to defend states that he should be automatically winning, based on the numbers from the last election. This prevents him from being able to campaign in battleground swing states that he needs to win to win the election. The author of this article believes that the cause of this extreme change in heart comes from the concern with the current economic condition, which leads many people to support Barack Obama. Other factors are McCain's negative campaign, and Obama's massive amounts of money and television ads. An example of this is the thirty minute block of time that Obama bought during prime time a week before the election will take place, and no one knows what he's going to do with it.