There's still 118 days until the election

If you turn on the TV news, pick up a newspaper or click your way to the Internet, you probably think Sen. Barack Obama has already been elected president.

The fix is in among the mainstream media. Obama is their hand-picked candidate for president and nothing is going to stop them from delivering the goods for the Democratic Party. (Hell, they already delivered the Democratic Party nomination to the dreamy Barack Obama over Hillary Clinton.)

The left-leaning media almost delivered the presidency to Al Gore in 2000 and John Kerry in 2004. They learned from their mistakes. The media won't be so subtle in 2008. They're going to shove Barack Obama down our throats until everyone jumps aboard the Obama bandwagon.

There is just one minor detail. Despite the relentless media hype and the anointing of Barack Obama as president, Americans haven't gone to the polls yet. That happens on Nov. 4. There's still 118 days until Election Day.

Some pundits are predicting Obama will win 40 or more states, something we haven't seen since Ronald Reagan's day.

Hank Clarke, who operates the excellent blog The Clarke Report from Schuylkill County, offers a scenario where Obama doesn't win the presidency.

While the pundits say Barack Obama has already won key battleground states such as Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, Missouri, Ohio, Iowa, Colorado, Nevada, and New Mexico, Clarke offers some persuasive arguments against an Obama sweep of those states.

Clarke writes:

Campaigns are unpredictable. Issues change. Candidates make mistakes. Voters change their minds. Don't feed into the garbage that the mainstream media is feeding you. McCain can win the White House. We elect our president. We don't coronate him. Make B. Hussein Obama earn it, don't hand it to him with your apathy.

Read "Don't Buy the Media Hype, McCain Still has a Shot" at The Clarke Report.