He used the word Guarantee...
Reported by a Yahoo/Associated Press news story today, John McCain told moderator Tom Brokaw on the TV show Meet The Press “I guarantee you that two weeks from now, you will see this has been a very close race, and I believe that I'm going to win it”
Newslink here: >>McCain guarantees victory<<
Was it just a play on words? It's an election... there are no guarantees.
Taking what he said as two different remarks, it has a different meaning:
"I guarantee you that two weeks from now..."
"...you will see this has been a very close race, and I believe that I'm going to win it”
Right John... you believe you are going to win. However, you cannot guarantee this.
Trailing in the polls, running out of campaign funds, so full of hate Ads that you possibly have lost touch with what your opponent actually said. Your running mate apparently sees fit to rogue campaigning maybe to boost her image for 2012?
Whatever the case... Unless you know a way to tamper with electronic balloting, nearly everyone believes Obama will win this election.
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kywonder
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Oct 26 @ 6:13PM
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Stranger things have happened.
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ragtopcookie
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Oct 26 @ 6:14PM
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Remember bushies second term...how the votes from ohio and fla were not counted......and they are using eletronic voting machines this year,......we may have to storm the white house once this thing is over with......to get the real elected president in office......cookie
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SallyF
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Oct 26 @ 6:47PM
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I watched that interview this morning, and it wasn't his best representation of himself. He tried twice to list the 5 Secretaries of State who support him---which is his pat response to Powell's supporting Obama ---and he couldn't remember their names. The first time, he got four; then 'uh uh'....tried again (using his fingers to count) and got three. I was embarrassed for him.
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kjac
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Oct 26 @ 6:49PM
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Mike Tyson before his bout with Lennox Lewis.
Randy Moss before the Super Bowl.
Just a couple of other guarantees that didn't exactly pan out.
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Born_Free1951
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Oct 26 @ 6:51PM
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I must admit it could be tough winning against all the disney cartoon characters such as Micky Mouse, and Goofy that Obama's ACORN organization is registering to vote for Obama all over the country.
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ttomtarr
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Oct 26 @ 7:10PM
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Hey Chat,
Have you considered those Diebold voting machines, that will register about 15% of the total vote, a well selected 15% at that.
The republicans almost had the Tallahassee election supervisor thrown out of office for proving they were easily fixed, and refusing to use them. In the end they were forced on the citizens, despite the objections of their elected supervisor. The rap sheets for the Diebold company men is right out of Dick Tracy.
I bet I could guarentee a win if I controlled 15% of key votes in key states!
If it happened in Central America, they would call it a Rightist Coup !
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felix74
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Oct 26 @ 7:34PM
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That always makes me wonder. When the news coverage gives a state to a candidate way before all the votes have been counted. Is the Diebold machine thing part of that? Is this whole thing fixed. Cuz it certainly does seem easily fixable. I wonder if we should switch from a private voting booth mentality to a public proclamation. We'd all climb to the highest rooftop and yell our candidate. Whatever.
felix
http://www.1vote.info
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Borty
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Oct 26 @ 7:40PM
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They had four years to get the voting straight and still there are major problems. Makes ya think maybe they have no intention of fixing the problems. What's so difficult about just putting an X down next to a name...not enough pencils? 
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chatillion
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Oct 26 @ 7:42PM
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Born_Free1951 said:
I must admit it could be tough winning against all the disney cartoon characters such as Micky Mouse, and Goofy that Obama's ACORN organization is registering to vote for Obama all over the country.
Born_Free1951, don't feed my readers misleading information.
Obama addressed that issue in the debate. Here's an excerpt:
MCCAIN: Yes, real quick. Mr. Ayers, I don't care about an old washed-up terrorist. But as Senator Clinton said in her debates with you, we need to know the full extent of that relationship.
We need to know the full extent of Senator Obama's relationship with ACORN, who is now on the verge of maybe perpetrating one of the greatest frauds in voter history in this country, maybe destroying the fabric of democracy. The same front outfit organization that your campaign gave $832,000 for "lighting and site selection." So all of these things need to be examined, of course.
SCHIEFFER: All right. I'm going to let you respond and we'll extend this for a moment.
OBAMA: Bob, I think it's going to be important to just -- I'll respond to these two particular allegations that Senator McCain has made and that have gotten a lot of attention.
In fact, Mr. Ayers has become the centerpiece of Senator McCain's campaign over the last two or three weeks. This has been their primary focus. So let's get the record straight. Bill Ayers is a professor of education in Chicago.
Forty years ago, when I was 8 years old, he engaged in despicable acts with a radical domestic group. I have roundly condemned those acts. Ten years ago he served and I served on a school reform board that was funded by one of Ronald Reagan's former ambassadors and close friends, Mr. Annenberg.
Other members on that board were the presidents of the University of Illinois, the president of Northwestern University, who happens to be a Republican, the president of The Chicago Tribune, a Republican- leaning newspaper.
Mr. Ayers is not involved in my campaign. He has never been involved in this campaign. And he will not advise me in the White House. So that's Mr. Ayers.
Now, with respect to ACORN, ACORN is a community organization. Apparently what they've done is they were paying people to go out and register folks, and apparently some of the people who were out there didn't really register people, they just filled out a bunch of names.
It had nothing to do with us. We were not involved. The only involvement I've had with ACORN was I represented them alongside the U.S. Justice Department in making Illinois implement a motor voter law that helped people get registered at DMVs.
Now, the reason I think that it's important to just get these facts out is because the allegation that Senator McCain has continually made is that somehow my associations are troubling.
If you care to read that transcript, the link is >> HERE <<
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observed50
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Oct 26 @ 7:50PM
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Bort> 4 years is a blink of an eye for a state legislature trying to figure out how to count only the right votes. 
The more you read on the voting machine thing, the more you wonder how human beings ever built a bridge, much less got to the moon. And it makes it perfectly clear though why schools suck.
Politics really is a struggle over who controls the surplus - i.e., our taxes. If we aren't vigilant, and we seldom are, it is like people knocking one another over at Christmastime when the stores open their doors to the latest shipment of the Elmo dolls...
The issue really isn't politics. It's about how much we really don't want to be responsible for our lives...we want someone else to. So we elect em, then git mad when they misbehave while we were off partyin, paying little attention to most anything we 'sent them to the Capital to do!'
Like...how many of us, in a room full of money, wouldn't start feeling the pressure to reward our own and pay no attention to people not like us, whatever the dimension of difference might be? All research comes to the same conclusion regarding this....and that is that most of us would do the same dang thing because we're hard wired in some way seemingly, to reward our own.
That's why, we need to be vigilant. Without it, well...look at what happens. 
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chatillion
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Oct 26 @ 7:54PM
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ttomtarr said:
I bet I could guarentee a win if I controlled 15% of key votes in key states!
Agreed... I was just watching CNN NEWS and they reported machines by ES&S could easily be hacked. They did a story on it showing how it takes a few minutes to swap out a chip that changes votes and cannot be detected. Because there isn't any funding to certify or change out any of the machines, the issue has become mute.
The ES&S website link is here: http://www.essvote.com/HTML/home.html
Tell that to McCain and see his response.
"Hey John... what are your thoughts of electronic voting machine fraud swinging votes in your direction?"
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chatillion
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Oct 26 @ 7:58PM
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felix74... who are you?
You make a comment to my blog with a link and immediately close your account.
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zanie
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Oct 26 @ 9:51PM
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democratic fools, there is a reason you carry the sign of a donkey. 
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chatillion
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Oct 26 @ 10:05PM
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zanie said:
democratic fools, there is a reason you carry the sign of a donkey
Wow zanie, thanks for comment #13 
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