Do you agree with Pat Buchanan's assertion that this election is Obama's to lose?

Before the Magical Media Tour, I never considered Obama as a serious threat. I still don't, but I think the media could win him this election.

I sometimes get so angry over their love affair with Obama that I want to beat the kids and kick the dog, which of course I can't do because I love my dog. The kids? Oh I love them too of course but they're teenagers now, so there's plenty of reasons to want to beat them. ;)

I didn't see that segment of Hardball, but I get the idea. I don't get why he would think that, considering the polls are so close, even after the Magical Media Tour. Maybe it's this: If you look back at the Democratic Primary, Obama's poll numbers always improved state by state as time passed while Clinton's often stayed the same or dropped. Pat may be using that evidence to extrapolate an outcome in the general election.

But that too can be easily explained by media bias. Hillary was just as bothered by the media chasing after Obama as McCain is.

If by some chance Obama edges out McCain in November, it will be due to:

1. Obama hasn't had to answer a hard question since college finals

2. Laws regarding campaign coverage need to be changed to protect non-liberal, yet viable candidates from being frozen out of the process

3. Obama smartly chickened out of the best idea I've seen in politics my entire life. Traveling around with his opponent and letting average Americans like us ask them both questions without a moderator.

Win or loose, I will never feel like Obama deserves the White House. There has to be a fair contest first...

Buchanan has been saying that for some time and he is pretty much correct. McCain is a known factor. Obama is the focus of the majority of news stories, good or bad. More people are anti-Obama than are pro-McCain. Then Obama has the huge amount of support. this election has been all about Obama since he announce he would run. If he loses it is because he has come across wrong to too many people, not because McCain has some something spectacular.

Yes, and this is not the first time I heard this.

The American people are sick of Bush policies, they do not like the way the country is heading and they want to see somthing done about it. McCain is all but promising 4 more years of the same. Obama is promising change, which is what the people want.

Obama will win unless he beats himself, somthing more from his past comes up and ruins him or he says something to make people think he would the wrong choice. We know what we are getting with McCain, Obama is a bit of an unknown. McCain really cannot say or do anything to be more popular people have made up their mind. But people are still figuring out Obama.

Therefore it really is his election to lose.

If Buchanan can see the writing on the wall, and admit what it is saying, then McCain is really toast.

The main difference between Obama and McCain is that the former is a class act, and the latter is just a tired old man with unworkable ideas. (Balance the budget AND cut taxes?)

And Middle America is starting to realize it.

I agree with the assertion that this election is the Democratic Party's to lose. The table was set for them given Bush's approval rating, the economy, and the war. The fact that the polls are this close is unbelievable. It may have a lot to do with their choices. It shouldn't be an issue (in a perfect world), but they ran a minority and a woman. And even though I disagree with both of their politics, I think the ground they broke is great.

However, if the Dems had nominated a white guy the polls would be 75% for the Democrats. Sad but true.

No. If you have notice Pat Buchanan is bias toward McCain, He's Republican. I don't take much stalk in Buchanan. Even Rupert Murdock, the owner of Fox News, predicts landslide for Obama. ><

I agree, Obama is getting all the media attention, he saying the right things based on the moment........and McCain has no back bone, he's not getting his word out as well as Obama.... hard to do when the media won't give him any air time. It's also hard for him to try and get the conservative base when he acts like a moderate liberal.

I said this very thing in one of my earlier letters.

The race has been Obama's to lose since day one.

His lead continues to shrink. I believe that the deciding votes, or a goodly portion of them, will be in the hands of the independants. Obama's lead has gone in Colorado and a few neighbouring states, largely through the continued stupidity of our current Democrat majority in congress, of whom will not pass an energy bill and allow us to drill for our own oil! Obama is fighting two battle fronts. One is John McCain, and the other is his brain dead Democrat majority in congress, of whom's popularity has now dipped just below 9%!

I don't see the warmongering, fascist Neocons giving up power. I'm guessing McCain will win the election. And if by chance Obama does win, no policies will be changed.

I think it is clear that McCain is the Republican's best and only candidate, but that Obama has so much going against him that it will be difficult if not impossible for him to win.

The wealthy in the US control the news media, which has painted McCain as a happy go lucky Maverick, while they have raised Obama to teat him down, in grand spectacular fashion. their avoidance of the issues makes it impossible for him to say that McCain will continue Bush's policies and thereby ruin the nation more than it already has been. If the Media played it's role of dumb and wimpy standard, they would rise up and laugh and McCain's tax cut plan, for instance. But they don't, the public doesn't know anything about it, and McCain is the happy go lucky Maverick.