``No one in modern American history has been as far behind in the polls as Senator McCain and won.."

http://www.news.com.au/perthnow/story/0,21598,24551284-948,00.html

A TSUNAMI of momentum has placed Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama on course for a landslide election victory in less than two weeks that would see him smash through the colour barrier to be the first African-American US president.

At this late stage in the race, few believe his Republican opponent, John McCain, can win the November 4 poll by his own efforts.

But Senator Obama could still lose.

A disastrous gaffe that raises doubts about the first-term Illinois senator's experience, or a dramatic international or national security crisis, could hand Senator McCain an opening to claw his way back into the race. If he did, he would post the type of comeback not seen in US presidential politics for six decades.

On every measure -- opinion polls, the turnout of people at rallies, enthusiasm and record campaign cash hauls _ Senator Obama is ahead.

``No one in modern American history has been as far behind in the polls as Senator McCain and won an election,'' Quinnipiac University Polling Institute assistant director Peter Brown said.

Cal Jillson, a professor of political science at the Southern Methodist University in Dallas, said Senator McCain ``probably cannot come back, and he certainly can't do it on his own by simply changing the style of his campaign, the content of his speeches or anything like that''.

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I hate to sound pessimistic, but in no time in history have they had electronic voting machines that can change millions of votes undetected. Let's hope Obama's lead is enough to overcome our corrupt election process.

idiot pundits have continually, without pause, wished for and/or written fantasy expectations of some "major gaffe" or other nonsense that might derail Obama.

It is SICKENING.

Not ONCE has any bloviating talking-head or writer EVER done the same regarding Obama's opponents, whether during the primaries or the general election. They have refused to stop concocting scenarios that would force Obama to lose and his opponent to win.