Well, I do think that Obama is going to win, but I also wouldn't be entirely shocked if McCain proved victorious. (I am a raging democrat and Obama supporter by the way.)

Below is a list of 8 reasons Barack just might lose. From a democratic point of view. I believe each reason is valid. Keep in mind this is coming from the author of,

8 reasons why Obama will run for president in 2008.

8 reasons why Barack Obama will win the Democratic nomination.

1."Bittergate."

Obama has been remarkably disciplined in his campaign, but his one "oh, no, he didn't!?" moment was a doozy -- his unscripted comment in April that "it's not surprising [that residents of small-town America] get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy toward people who aren't like them."

2.He's played too much defense.

Though Obama's campaign has run bazillions of ads criticizing McCain, they've stayed away from trying to raise questions about McCain's character and his judgment—questions the McCain campaign has been raising relentlessly about Obama and that Obama has had to answer.

It's absurd, for instance, that more ink has been spilled about the judgment Obama showed in the 1990s when working on education reform with former Vietnam-era radical Bill Ayers than about McCain's judgment in 2002 and 2003 to cheerlead for the invasion of Iraq.

3.He was more dismissive than responsive to festering issues.

When questions came up about Obama's real estate dealings with crooked fundraiser Tony Rezko, he tried to brush them off with curt denials rather than bury them with documents and comprehensive answers.

Ditto his lackluster and in places inaccurate responses to concerns about his votes on "born-alive infant" legislation when he was in the Illinois Senate and demands that he give a full accounting of his personal and professional interactions with Ayers.

4.He left points on the table.

Most of you know about Obama's sleazy associate Tony Rezko. But how many of you know about McCain's sleazy associate Rick Renzi?

McCain named Renzi, a retiring Republican congressman, a co-chair of his Arizona campaign in January, even though the Wall Street Journal and other publications had reported he was the subject of a federal corruption probe.

Renzi was indicted in February and is facing trial. Yet the Obama campaign, apparently content to try to sit on this lead, hasn't made an issue of him or of McCain's friendship with convicted Watergate burglar G. Gordon Liddy, who once urged his radio listeners to "go for a head shot" if federal agents came to take their guns away.

5.Biden's blunder.

Yes, foreign evildoers tend to test new presidents. But when Obama's veepmate, Sen. Joe Biden, blathered on recently about an inevitable crisis in the first months of an Obama administration, it gave McCain a fat opening to highlight security concerns, one of his few winning issues, and play the fear card.

6.The economy now looks more like a chronic woe than an urgent crisis.

This has allowed McCain to settle into an anti-tax, anti-spend, anti-liberal campaign groove that often works for Republicans.

7. Smoke.

I've never seen a candidate subject to as many nutty rumors and guilt-by-association smears as those about Obama that land in my in-box every day. If enough voters decide in the end that there must be fire somewhere in all that noxious smoke, Obama's apparent lead will vanish.

8. He's African-American.

Let's be honest. In this rotten year for the Republican brand, if a white Democrat were sitting in the polls where Obama now sits, this "how he might lose" talk would be absurd.

well, the Neo Nazis and KKK never vote for a major party, but they may realize that if they don't vote McCain, they'll have a black (well, half black) in the white house. and since they are retarded, they probably think he's muslim too. they don't see the white protestant in Barack, just the Black Muslim.

LOL, the only time where the Republicans may be okay with a white supremacist vote... they may even have to place trolls to point out the fact that Obama is a half black (possibly muslim) person who will become their president if they don't vote Republican.

w/e, as long as McCain wins, i'm down.

McCain still has a chance at winning. Like I've stated in past arguments polls cannot give a sure win. You never know what could happen in the next 48 hours and McCain is probably closer in the polls than many predict. This election may also be another "Bradly", because you never know what people are going to do in the privacy of the voting booth. Barack Obama does not have a definite win until every vote has been counted after November 4, 2008 and he hits that magical 270.

There will be tons of disenfranchised voters this time around, especially in key states. More than in 2004 and 2000 when Bush also lost but still won. Hopefully by the sheer massive numbers of people coming out for Obama, the scandelous tactics being used to keep dems away from the polls will not matter. I'm not counting any eggs yet though.

Either way you never REALLY know. I don't know if i had to guess i would say an obama victory(unfortunately). Its one thing to say obama will probably win but of course McCain has a chance.

It is entirely feasible that McCain will win this election. The polls are too close and they have been wrong before. The deciding factors in presidential debates have never been the popular opinion anyway.