CHAPTER ONE: McCain on McCain: FNC 10/19/08

John McCain on John McCain & Barack Obama
"Fox News Sunday" 9:01
Interview

TOPIC: McCain on Polls and Fundraising
TRANSCRIPT: WALLACE: Let's start with where this race stands now, 16 days before the election. According to the latest RealClearPolitics average of national polls, you trail Obama by seven points, 50-43.

And take a look at the latest electoral map from Karl Rove based on public state polls. He has Obama leading in states with 313 electoral votes, 43 more than he needs to win the presidency. You lead in states with 171 electoral votes.

Senator McCain, aren't you in a world of trouble?

MCCAIN: All right, look. First of all, there are polls this morning — reliable — Zogby, Rasmussen, Gallup — all those that show us in the margin of error or somewhat behind. Are we behind? Sure. I'm the underdog.

I've always — I've been the underdog in a number of races, and we're very happy with the way the campaign is going. I'm very happy with the debate — went there the other night.

And look, I've been on enough campaigns, my friend, to sense enthusiasm and momentum, and we've got it, and I — again, I don't have to look at polls, but the polling numbers have closed dramatically in the last few days.

We're going to be in a tight race and we're going to be up late on election night. That's just — I'm confident of that. I've been in too many campaigns, my friend, not to — not to sense that things are headed our way.

It's going to be tough. Sure, it's tough. I mean, Senator Obama raised $150 million in — I understand, during the month of September, completely breaking whatever idea we had after Watergate to keep the costs and spending on campaigns under control — first time, first time since the Watergate scandal.

And I can tell you this, that has unleashed now in presidential campaigns a new flood of spending that will then cause a scandal, and then we will fix it again.

LABEL: JM JM FNC 10-19-08 (LAD#31) ZZ

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• Polls
• Fundraising
• Obama
• McCain
• Fox
• News

[GLAdiaTHus]

these commnts are SO much fun 2 read.

nom nom nom!!!!! hehekekeke I feel like cybring! xc

[zhuqi315]

also about buying the election, notice the money all came from the people. more than 3 million americans donated to the obama campaign. this is not buying the election, this is the grassroots movement because ppl are tired of the republicans taking this country into a disaster

[zhuqi315]

mccain's distorting a lot of the facts. the obama campaign disclosed 95% of the money compared to 88% from the mccain campaign. come on do some research

[PalinTheRetard]

What a miserable, bitter old man. Just because your losing!