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Rendell ‘Nervous’ McCain Could Win Pennsylvania

October 22, 2008 9:37 AM

McCain McMentum?

Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell wants Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., back in the Keystone State. He's worried Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., could still pull off a victory there.

"I don’t want to be selfish,” Rendell told CNN. “But I’m still a little nervous, so I have asked Obama to come back. We understand he’s got demands from 20 different states, but we’d like to see him here.”

Rendell sent the leadership of the Obama campaign two e-mails asking them to get Obama to Western Pennsylvania, along with asking for Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., to come back into the state, where she trounced Obama in the primaries, ABC News Political Director David Chalian reports. 

A Democratic source familiar with Rendell's requests to the Obama campaign also tells Chalian that the larger-than-life former mayor of Philadelphia also verbally requested that former president Bill Clinton come visit.

The Keystone State has not gone Republican since 1988, but it's often a close contest; Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., only beat President Bush there by 2.5 percentage points in 2004.

- jpt

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IS AMERICAN CAPITALISM IS ABOUT TO CHANGE?

Don't let politicians, particularly the next President, or Congress, implement legislation that will deconstruct the system at the core of American society.

Posted by: PacificGatePost | Oct 22, 2008 2:24:56 PM

Here is another Democrat from Western PA who is for Mc Cain-Palin! Let them smear us, we will remember in November!

Posted by: Shelley | Oct 22, 2008 2:15:58 PM

I'm voting McCain Palin and so is my husband. We never forgot what that elitist Obama said about us Pennsylvanians back in April!

Posted by: Annette | Oct 22, 2008 2:14:31 PM

you know, I have nothing agaist Nader, he seem like a nice guy who needs to comb his hair once in a while but:

IF HE HADN'T RUN IN 2000 WE WOULDN'T BE IN THIS MESS!

(sorry, had to get that out of my system)

Posted by: seemstome | Oct 22, 2008 12:24:13 PM

THE ONLY THING WE ARE DOING IN THIS ELECTION IS CHOOSING BETWEEN THE LESSER OF TWO EVILS. THERE SHOULD BE AT LEAST A THIRD PARTY REPRESENTATIVE SO VOTERS CAN ACTUALLY CHOOSE SOMEONE WHO CAN REALLY RUN THIS COUNTRY.

WE'VE HAD A THIRD PARTY CANDIDATE BEFORE, IT'S BEEN OVER 100 YEARS BUT IT CAN AND SHOULD HAPPEN! I EXPECT RALPH NADER TO GET MANY MORE VOTES THIS YEAR!!

Posted by: DONT DRINK THE KOOLAID | Oct 22, 2008 1:57:54 PM

Obama is running his campaign, and so far has been successful. I trust he knows what he is doing.
It sure doesn't look as if McCain can pull the rabbit out of the hat at this stage of the race. He might find a couple of scarfs though.

Posted by: Thinking | Oct 22, 2008 9:51:14 AM

*I concur

Posted by: Independent voting Obama | Oct 22, 2008 1:25:15 PM

"I've never known anyone who thought Bobby Kennedy was a "radical.""

Look up J. Edgar Hoover and Lyndon Johnson.

Marilyn Monroe just thought he was the next best thing.

Posted by: len | Oct 22, 2008 12:52:24 PM

As a former PA resident, I feel Obama will carry PA. However, Ed Rendell knows his state well. The Obama campaign should follow his advice. Obama can spare a day there, add more Joe Biden time and visit by the Clintons would give a nice final boost.

Posted by: DMR | Oct 22, 2008 12:45:08 PM

Goodbye all you republican snakes and shape-shifters. Try to improve your lies or at least make them more entertaining.

Posted by: seemstome | Oct 22, 2008 12:41:03 PM

Fallon -

I agree with you that mindlessly responding "racist," genuinely diminishes the seriousness of racism and coarsens discourse.

However, the Saul Alinksy lines you cite as some sort of "proof" of Michelle Obama's "radicalism" were also used by Bobby Kennedy in his 1968 stump speeches. I've never known anyone who thought Bobby Kennedy was a "radical."

Posted by: Brooklyn Democrat | Oct 22, 2008 12:40:11 PM

Grissom, post the address.....

Posted by: showme | Oct 22, 2008 12:37:31 PM

Republicans have been liberal for years.

They have been liberal in their evisceration of the bill of rights.

They have been liberal in using tax money to fight a useless Iraq war.

They have been liberal in their use of deregulation to collapse and bankrupt the financial structure of America.

They have been liberal with middle class tax money to bail out their banker friends.

They have been very liberal with words like patriotism to cover their actions.

Obama seems conservative by comparison.


Posted by: seemstome | Oct 22, 2008 12:36:31 PM

Obama just gave a press conference about national security and LIED about what Biden said the other day.

Now we see what we have to look forward to if this idiot is elected.

Posted by: SandyB | Oct 22, 2008 12:35:51 PM

"When did the old hippie, radical, leftists take over the Democratic Party from the working class Jane's and Joe's?"

When Howard Dean ran. He, Pelosi, Daschle and Frank have done the heavy lifting with Ted Kennedy as the figurehead. The arrival of operatives such as Donna Brazille signaled the boots on the ground. A lot of former Clinton staffers joined the Obama campaign to get even with the Republicans and to get back into power.

Obama was groomed for this run. Otherwise, it is impossible for a candidate with so little experience to vault to the top of a ticket.

What made it work was the sudden rise of the Silicon Valley young wealth who are good entrepreneurs but painfully naive about politics. Feeding the millenial's almost pathological jealousy of the baby boomer's cultural successes was all they needed.

Get used to the thought that the Democrats have left the middle class and the poor behind. We have to hope the Republicans have seen the error of their ways and can otherwise be reformed back to the party they were prior to Richard Nixon when it was they who championed social justice and equality.

Posted by: len | Oct 22, 2008 12:35:02 PM

For those of you one brain cell McCain supporters out there screaming for Obama's birth certificate...it's online at the state dept. in Hawaii and has been for months....unless you want to spin it that Hawaii is lying for Obama too now? LOL Of COURSE you do! Thats the game you play! there is not an answer to your question is there? Try growing another brain cell....the one you have is getting lonely.

Posted by: Grissom | Oct 22, 2008 12:30:51 PM

another snake twists on a hot stove

Posted by: seemstome | Oct 22, 2008 12:30:49 PM

"My GOD! A BLACK MAN IS IN THE WHITE HOUSE! (I can hardly wait)"

I think for the leftist Democrats, as long as it isn't a woman, any choice is fine. They only want to get even with Bush and ensure it isn't Hillary Clinton.

The left overplayed the race card in this election virtually guaranteeing resurgent racism where it is still a problem. That will be their cross to bear for the next four years. Where I live, the size of the so-called minority populations is so large, most of us are quite comfortable with a minority in the White House. I don't know about New Hampshire demographics.

We didn't want leftist thugs. We had eight years of right wing thugs already. Spy vs Spy.

Posted by: len | Oct 22, 2008 12:26:02 PM

you know, I have nothing agaist Nader, he seem like a nice guy who needs to comb his hair once in a while but:

IF HE HADN'T RUN IN 2000 WE WOULDN'T BE IN THIS FRIGGIN' MESS!

(sorry, had to get that out of my system)

Posted by: seemstome | Oct 22, 2008 12:24:13 PM

BO has nothing to do with ACORN...Are you serious? He has everything to do with ACORN, AND, FANNIE AND FREDDIE. His fingerprints are all over the fraud in these organizations. It's all about the vote man. Pander $$$ Pander $$$ = votes!

Posted by: Sterling Dobine | Oct 22, 2008 12:22:26 PM

Helen, then why will Oblama not just show his true birth certificate?

Posted by: lkbpg | Oct 22, 2008 12:20:22 PM

I smell a snake twisting on a hot stove.

Posted by: seemstome | Oct 22, 2008 12:19:10 PM

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