Barack Obama cannot lose. Living in New York, watching cable news and obsessively checking poll results has convinced me of this. Predicting a landslide from diverse, middle-class Brooklyn has been shown to be foolish. I took a road trip across states that matter.
In Saint Paul, men wore Ronald Reagan t-shirts declaring “my heroes have always been cowboys.” The image of a young John McCain standing in front of his jet fighter was a distilled manifesto.