Sure, a win is a win, but a blowout is so much more enjoyable in politics. The biggest reason probably has to do with all of those whack-jobs who seem to think that somehow McCain is going to pull off the biggest upset of all time and win this year. It’s sort of a mix between the belief that the Bradley effect will somehow fall into play and the assumption that all of the liberal media is in a conspiracy to overstate Obama’s lead in the polls.
The problem is that the Bradley effect has not been an issue at all during this long and arduous election season; plus the so-called liberal media loves a horse race – a close election – more than anything else. Notice how quickly they latched onto the idea that the race might be tightening to a 5-6% advantage for Obama versus a 7-8% advantage for Obama (based on poll averages). You never heard them touting the HUGE advantage Obama had, or the fact that a path to an Electoral College win has become almost impossible for McCain (cf: polls for Virginia, Colorado, New Mexico). They also chatter incessantly about how McCain is making a big push for Pennsylvania – when EVERY poll shows Obama’s lead in the high single digits or the low double digits. The idea that McCain will win Pennsylvania is ludicrous. I guess they need something to buck up the troops right now, though.
The reality is that Obama will be our next president. We need a blowout for the benefit of those who just can’t believe that America isn’t ready to elect a Black man. We need a blowout for the uberpartisan Republicans who thought they were ushering in a permanent majority for the GOP. We need a blowout for the pundits who insist that this country is center-right politically and that Obama must therefore govern from the center. We need a blowout in order to wallow in a little schadenfreude for a change.
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