Jack Schafer at Slate imagines what it would take to pull out a McCain victory. He offers up a how-to for newspeople looking to explain the seemingly impossible come November 5th. One wants to say "there's no way," but just so that we don't jinx it, let's play along, shall we?
Full story at Slate.com:
An Obama victory will have a million chroniclers, but how can a reporter hedge the conventional wisdom on the long shot that John McCain—the comeback geezer—climbs that ladder with a load of bricks on his back one more time and wins in November?
The Economy Boomerang. The wiggy economy helps explain some of the recent Obama surge. But what if the massive intervention of government into markets this week, which has pushed stock exchanges upward, quiets voters' nerves? McCain just changed his stump speech to accentuate those new positives. Emergency sources to contact: Jim Cramer, Alan Greenspan, James Carville, and David Gergen...
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