Neighborhood team member in the news, McCain reportedly conceding Colorado and the final push

Yesterday I was told that canvass superstar, Jon Wuerth one of TEAM 3 in House District 21 in Colorado Springs was profiled in a Washington Post video report. Jon was once the recipient of a volunteer award to meet with Obama by knocking on over 300 doors in a weekend. I have come to know Jon as a member of our volunteer team and he has been instrumental in moving Colorado Springs towards Obama one knock and one voter registration at a time. When you watch the report notice Jon running from door to door.

Today, on CNN, John King their chief political reporter broke with the news that the McCain campaign is down to its final [fatal] strategy to win the electoral college by conceding Colorado along with New Mexico and Iowa. These are three states that Bush won in 2004 with his narrow re-election win. But conceding Colorado. Ironically this is directly in conflict with Washington Post's Dan Balz's report on Face the Nation Sunday when he stated that the Obama campaign has a multiple 3-2-1 strategy win the Electoral College. What is interesting is that this comes on the heals of McCain has vacating Minnesota, Michigan and Wisconsin both considered battleground states which have fallen recently to the Obama camp. Now McCain is vacating New Mexico, Iowa and COLORADO!

King's report states that McCain's final two weeks will concentrate on the following six states; Florida, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Nevada and Virginia and also foregoing any idea of a popular vote win. (This is a Helm's Deep mentality). Contrast this with the Obama 3-2-1 strategy where they hold the following: (1) Win one-state of either Florida and/or Ohio and they win. (2) Win two states of Virginia and either New Mexico or Iowa and they win. (3) Win three states of New Mexico, Iowa and Colorado and they win.

Here is McCain's head wind to turn this around:

• Ohio---Real Clear Politics composite: Obama up 2.8
• Pennsylvania---Real Clear Politics composite: Obama up 11.0
• Florida----Real Clear Politics composite: Obama up 2.0
• Virginia---Real Clear Politics composite: Obama up 8.0
• North Carolina---Real Clear Politics composite: Obama up 2.3
• Nevada---Real Clear Politics composite: Obama up 4.2
  

Hmmmm....looks like an Inside Straight or a Royal Flush...like in flushing the Republican's down the toilet Tom......

But...but McCain is now conceding the the three states...what is their vision....sweeping the six above that includes Pennsylvania? For this to happen the McCain campaign will have to employ the full measure of the race card and Reverand Wright believing that Ohio, North Carolina, Florida, Virginia, Nevada and Pennsylvania will buy it. The final scorched earth politics is at hand. Be prepared, and it will not work either....

Finally the Colorado Springs ground game. We are now fully focused on GOTV (Get Out To Vote) activities involving direct contact to Mail In Ballot (MIB) voters, assembling Early Vote efforts and finally the the push to get Obama voters to the polls on Election Day. The final weekend we will assemble and deploy literally a couple thousand volunteers into El Paso County knocking on doors and phoning the remaining voters. It will be an experience of a lifetime and may I invite everyone, those who have volunteered alread and those who have not to get involved. Please call the Obama campaign office 719-328-1517 or email me.