"John McCain insisted Sunday that he is making a comeback and will defeat Democrat Barack Obama, discounting the Illinois senator's lead in most national and key state polls.
As McCain fought to hold Republican-leaning states, Obama was focused on what should be his opponent's turf, spending the remaining nine days of the campaign mostly in states that President George W. Bush won four years ago.

Obama concluded a swing through the West with two rallies in Colorado, one of three states in the region _ including Nevada and New Mexico _ that are hotly contested even though McCain should have a natural advantage. He has represented neighboring Arizona in the Senate for nearly a quarter century.

Obama drew a crowd of more than 100,000 in Denver, the Colorado state capital.

"Goodness gracious," Obama said as he took the stage and peered at the human mass in Civic Center Park. People were packed in all the way up the steps of the Capitol, off in the distance.

Obama seized on McCain's statement earlier Sunday that he and Bush _ as fellow Republicans _ shared some aspects of economic philosophy.

"For eight years, we've seen the Bush-McCain philosophy put our country on the wrong track," Obama said, "and we cannot have another four years that look just like the last eight. It's time for change in Washington, and that's why I'm running for President of the United States."

He added, "We know what the Bush-McCain philosophy looks like. It's a philosophy that says we should give more and more to millionaires and billionaires and hope that it trickles down."..." (Taiwan News)

I don't think postulating a comeback is enough to make it happen.


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