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McCain Blows Chance in Wisconsin

By TChris

Wisconsin has ten electoral votes. John McCain has little chance of winning them, but he sealed that fate today. During an interview with a local television station in Pittsburgh:

McCain told a rather moving story about his time as a P.O.W. "When I was first interrogated and really had to give some information because of the pressures, physical pressures on me, I named the starting lineup, defensive line of the Pittsburgh Steelers as my squadron mates." ...

[T]he Steelers aren't the team whose defensive line McCain named for his Vietnamese tormentors. The Green Bay Packers are. At least according to every previous time McCain has told this story.

In Wisconsin, the only thing more important than God, country, and the right to hunt deer is Packers football. (Speaking of, Favre wants to come back and the Packers don't want him? Say it ain't so!) Whether McCain was honestly mistaken in this version of an oft-told story, whether he was pandering to Steelers fans, or whether the story has always been a fiction (a possibility that would never be considered had McCain not changed a key fact), he has messed with the Packers. In Wisconsin, that's unforgivable. Tally ten EV's for Obama.

Full post as published by TalkLeft on July 11, 2008 (boomark / email).