McCain Set to End Campaign as Overwhelming Underdog

[Mark E. Smith]

Source: Bloomberg.com

Oct 31 -- Republican presidential candidate John McCain goes into the campaign's final weekend a bigger underdog than any victorious candidate in a modern election.

With four days until Election Day, national polls show his Democratic rival Barack Obama leading by an average of 6 percentage points, and battleground polls show Obama ahead in more than enough states to win the decisive Electoral College votes.

"There will not be a comeback curmudgeon by the name of John McCain," Kenneth Duberstein, who served as a chief of staff for President Ronald Reagan, said on Bloomberg Television's "Conversations with Judy Woodruff," which will air later today. "I think it is going to be Barack Obama. And I think it is going to be somewhere between 320 and 350 electoral votes.

McCain "is as desperate as a candidate can be," said Stu Rothenberg, editor of the nonpartisan Rothenberg Political Report in Washington. "Less than five days to go and McCain's trailing in half a dozen states of which he can't afford to lose any: Nevada, Florida, Ohio, Colorado, Virginia and North Carolina."

Read more: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601070&sid=aKd...

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