Chuck Todd: McCain's Got No Ground Game (VIDEO)

Chuck Todd had nothing but bad news for John McCain on "Morning Joe" today. "Lets get realistic," he said, before adding Colorado, Virginia, and Florida to Barack Obama's column. Other battleground states Todd rated as "pure tossups," but then he added, "So what? If Obama is up in these three, and you're hearing very negative comments come out of the McCain campaign about Colorado, Virginia ... and then there's Florida, which has really slipped away from McCain."

"There is no ground game," Joe Scarborough responded. Todd agreed, adding that Democrats were already doing better in early voting, based on ballot requests. "The ground game, it is just absent from the McCain campaign ... At this point, the only state that I feel good about for McCain is Ohio." He posited that McCain could win that state but lose the election, which would be "very frustrating to Republicans."

Read more about McCain's failures in Florida here, and about the campaign's pessimistic outlook on Colorado here.

Comments

[Sisto]

The toughest Campaign Obama had to go up against was Hillary Clinton's Campaign. She ran a very tough race! McCain on the other hand is the worst campaign ever waged in a Presidential Election, ever! McCain should have fired Schmidt and Davies along time ago. They have became a liability in their decission making, for example the choice of Palin as VP. The negative attacks against Obama really put McCain in a nose dive at the polls. This is not taking any thing away from Obama's excellent Campaign which in contrast has revolutionized American politics for generations to come and may change the face of future elections. The lesson is that negative campaigns does not work and will be gone for good unless you want to lose! Can one imagine how a McCain White House based on his Campaign would be a three ring circus! Thank goodness Americans have good logic and will vote Obama as our next President!

[ThePeacemakers]

McCain/Palin ground game is in the conservative right churches, not on the street.

[TheNoBullExpress]

yep, twice a week !

[forthepeople1]

Georgia is a state that is BUBBA, and GOOBER. It would take a miracle to win Georgia. Ohio may be stuck on stupid as well, still stuck on Obama's race rather than evaluation on his reason to be elected. The Gov of Georgia is a true Good Ol'e Boy. But I think Obama has all the other states, and the electoral count is the only count that matters in the final results. But when these guys realize that GREEN is the Color the only Color of this race, there may be a new term that happens, the "OBAMA EFFECT" they may talk McCain, say McCain, but when they vote they may be forced to push the right button for Obama. All it would take is one thought: Can I vote for McCain/ and More BUSHONOMICS, MORE WAR IN IRAQ, and his AGE, can I see and accept SARAH PALIN as PRESIDENT . The answer: HELL NO!! LOLOL!

[kellygrrrl]

Chuckie Todd tells like it is.

[DangitRuss]

But McCain will still win "Real America". Those of us in Fake America will be thrilled.

[sfmama]

What would be the capital of fake America?

[jinjinpinti]

Wasilla, Alaska.

[ebanks84]

EVERYBODY MUST READ THIS LETTER, PLEASE:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/21/nyt-mag-lifts-curtain-on_n_136632.html

This is the REAL MCCAIN talking. See him for who he truly is!

[ebanks84]

WRONG LINK ABOVE, SORRY!

EVERYBODY MUST SEE THIS LINK: I GAVE YOU THE WRONG ONE BEFORE. THIS IS THE RIGHT ONE.

http://letters.salon.com/news/feature/2008/10/06/florida/view/?show=all

THIS IS THE REAL MCCAIN. THIS IS WHO YOU WILL VOTE INTO OFFICE. SEE HIM AND HEAR HIM OUT OF HIS OWN MOUTH!

[yhgtup]

Don't believe the hype, folks!! This race is far from over. We KNOW Rethugs are already working on STEALING this election from Barack. (re: ACORN) They stole the presidency from a white man --- can't imagine what lengths they'll go to to steal it from Barack. They're reving-up their base to straight-up "CLOWN" if Barack wins. All this hate & fear they're sprewing. It's going to get U-G-L-Y!! Rethugs are up conniveing & plotting when Dems are fast asleep at night. I passed out fliers about early voting & free transportation for voters this morning at our local bus terminal where voters catch & transfer buses. Many of them were not even aware of early voting, & this is FL! DON'T GET COMPLACID, FOLKS!!! CONTINUE TO DO YOUR PART!! THIS SHIGGITY IS SERIOUS!!!

[stringer]

Don't be fooled by this Battleground has it within 1. Get movtivated! Get out there and vote! Talk to your neighbors, talk to your friends, talk to young people, talk to ANYONE you know about how important it is we not repeat what's happened in this country over the past 8 years, that we not allow people to fall for the same tricks they did in 2004 and that we (God forbid) not allow the Rethuglican Party to win yet ANOTHER presidential election.

14 days to go! Run them like they're the last days of your life. Volunteer. If you haven't been to an Obama campaign headquarter yet, GO NOW! Now is the time that matters.

Let's push this through the finish line. It's closer than it looks. Don't allow the Republicans to steal ANOTHER election. Let's go! Obama/Biden 08!

[forthepeople1]

There are NO RED STATES AND THERE ARE NO BLUE STATES and that Includes ALASKA and Sarah Palin's--- Alaska Independence Party that no body is investigating. Ohio should get it together, and stop the HATE and see that GREEN BACKS, money, is the running force of this economy. And McBUSH is the same, the same as Cheney, and the BUSH Administration and McCain, in HIS OWN WORDS stated that he voted 90% of the time more than most with George W BUSH. The result, has been disaster. Even McCain's choice of running mate, has been a total disaster. We are WE THE PEOPLE.. The UNITED STATES, and none of this red state/bluestate Division started until George W pushed his way into the white house. ENOUGH! ENOUGH, we are facing a financial Armageddon, we can not AFFORD to make another DUMB DUBUA mistake. Forget the race, Remember the man, the Right Man on Nov 4TH and that man is OBAMA!

[mimigrammy]

If McCain can't organize and run a successful campaign, why should we trust him to run our country?

[ENOS]

HERE HERE!!!

[thepoliticalcat]

I dreamed I was visiting my family and my mother and siblings were all pro-Obama but my dad was pro-McCain. We came back from a busy day of shopping to find Dad looking miserable. We asked why, and he said that McCain had conceded victory to Obama. Over the radio. Before the election!!

[forthepeople1]

That is a wonderful dream that will be reality-- No more Iraq, No more Bush, No more Bushonomics, No more Red States versus Blue States. Healing and United States, not Divided States, he will be the glue the economy needs.

[forthepeople1]

That is a wonderful dream that will be reality-- No more Iraq, No more Bush, No more Bushonomics, No more Red States versus Blue States. Healing and United States, not Divided States, No more losses of 401K retirement plans, Insured Health Care, and Influx of Technology and JOBS--he will be the glue the economy needs.

[bikerdude]

McCain is not fit to be president. The republican record over the last 8 years is so disgusting that they will lose the other races as well. If you lie to us, folks, we won't vote for you....Get it?

[frappe]

Does anything surprise us about Sarah Palin any more? She actually thought that because the VP is conferred the title of "President of the Senate" that she would be in charge of that august body. Doesn't this woman have a clue about the "separation of powers" and "checks and balances"? She appears to be totally clueless on even the most basic, fundamental issues of Constitutional powers and governance. What astounds me is that the clowns within the Republican party running McCain's campaign actually thought that she could pass the muster as a serious VP candidate. If these are the same jokers that worked for Bush/Cheney, no wonder the country is in such dire straits.

[bikerdude]

Besides that her hero. Shotgun, says he isn't attached to either the exec or the legislative branches..­.Kinda a floating republican bully...do­es what he wants to whom he wants.

[emily00011]

She wants to run the whole show.

[ResearchGuy]

It seems clear beyond a reasonable doubt that she is utterly ignorant of how the federal government works, the fundamentals of the Constitution, the role of the Vice President, or anything else expected for the job she is seeking. Of all the people McC could have picked, he picked the least prepared. Astonishing, a measure of the man's complete self-absorption. And yet, to my chagrin, I actually know people who intend to vote for that pair.

[billbb]

No one has quite figured out what John McCain has been doing. He was in Iowa a week or so ago, when that state has gone solid blue. It was - pretty much - a complete waste of time and money. Not only useless, but counterproductive. With Palin's increasingly ugly, racist spewing, the Republican offensive has worked.. It has managed to offend nearly every think human left in the country. At best, these moves have flop sweat all them, and make the McCain camp look like they are cirling the wagons for the last shootout.

That's probably exactly the way they view it.

[lejman]

will the vision of a blue california, new mexico, colorado, and nevada circling the home state of arizona give some impetus to mccain's constituents to pull a gore/tennessee and join the mutiny?
ol' capn queeg mcsame can thank the mormons that his state won't be totally surrounded by blue.