Daring to utter the ‘L’ word: Obama on track to a landslide
By Steven Thomma | McClatchy Newspapers
WASHINGTON — Barring a dramatic change in the political landscape over the next three weeks, Democrats appear headed toward a decisive victory on Election Day that would give them broad power over the federal government.
The victory would send Barack Obama to the White House and give him larger Democratic majorities in both the House of Representatives and the Senate — and perhaps a filibuster-proof margin there.
That could mark a historic realignment of the country’s politics on a scale with 1932 or 1980, when the out party was given power it held for a generation, and used it to transform government’s role in American society.
Obama, a 47-year-old first-term senator from Illinois, is now well positioned to win the Electoral College. He’s comfortably holding most of the “blue” states that went for Democrats Al Gore and John Kerry in past elections, polls show, and he’s gaining momentum to take away several “red” states that have voted Republican in recent elections, including Florida, Ohio, Colorado and Virginia.
The Democrats are also widely expected to take big gains in House and Senate races. Like Obama, they’re reaching deep into once solid Republican territory. Even such stalwarts as North Carolina Sen. Elizabeth Dole and Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell, the Senate Republican leader, could be in jeopardy.
Building on the Democrats’ sweeping wins two years ago when they seized control of both chambers of Congress, big gains this year would be reminiscent of the Republican gains in 1978 and 1980 that delivered “the Reagan Revolution.”
Go, Barack! Go!
It’s going to happen. It WILL be a landslide.
Election night, McCain will concede early on.
Predicting a landslide usually means there won’t be one because over-confidence keeps voters at home thinking they don’t need to vote as “he’ll win by a landslide anyway, they don’t need my single vote…it won’t make any difference anyway, and it’s raining/cold/windy outside”
Fifthdecade:
Oh, I think we will see record number voters out this year!
But, thanks for your comments.