John McCain, Here's How You Can Still Win This Election

John McCain, the polls aren’t looking good and your running mate is being accused of going “rogue,” but Nate Silver has some advice on how you can still eke out a victory. “No razzle-dazzle here,” Silver writes for FiveThirtyEight, “McCain simply has to pick which states he and Sarah Palin can do the most good in.” To wit:

• It’s time to throw in the towel in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Iowa.
• In New Hampshire and New Mexico, stay on the offense.
• But mount “a reasonably vigorous” defensive strategy in Virginia, Colorado, Nevada, Ohio, and North Carolina.
• Roll the dice in Florida, Missouri, and Indiana and “hope a national surge of some kind” makes those states red again.

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