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  Memo to Democrats: The general election ain't over just yet
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Last EditedScottĀ³  Mar 03, 2008 07:26am
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MediaNewspaper - New York Daily News
News DateSunday, March 2, 2008 01:00:00 PM UTC0:0
DescriptionNew York Daily News article.

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"This will come as a shock to throngs of delirious Democrats, but the winner of the party's nomination does not automatically become President. There will be - repeat, will be - a general election. And John McCain is already showing he is going to be one tough opponent.

With their party's huge primary turnouts and record-shattering contributions, many Dems act as though the survivor of the showdown between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama wins a cakewalk to the White House. There is talk of a landslide and big gains in Congress.

The prevailing sentiment is not that the GOP is weak. It's that the GOP is dead.

McCain, the aging, craggy-faced warrior, begs to differ. As if to remind swing voters he knows a thing or two about elections, he unleashed a series of hard-hitting attacks on Obama last week. If his punches didn't get Obama's attention, the Dem front-runner is deep in denial.

McCain's broadsides have covered Iraq, taxes and trade, each a key issue to many voters. The attacks had an echo of Clinton's charge Obama is not ready, a fact that may help Clinton stave off elimination in Tuesday's primaries. That, too, would benefit McCain. The longer Obama and Clinton keep fighting each other, the less time the winner will have for McCain.

By then, McCain will have started to define his opponent in the most unflattering terms. And when it comes to Iraq, he will have the help of the facts on the ground.

An illustration of how security concerns and a broad national aversion to defeat could give voters second thoughts about Democrats came from the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, who's likely to be in the job when the next President takes the oath, warned against a rapid withdrawal of American troops. Both Obama and Clinton have promised just that and have mocked McCain for saying he would keep troops there 100 years if necessary."
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