"Perfect storm" could deliver a McCain win

10/30/2008
By Steven Thomma
McClatchy Newspapers

WASHINGTON — John McCain still could win.

It would take what one analyst calls a "perfect storm" of events breaking his way in the presidential campaign's final days, but he could come from behind, overtake Barack Obama and pull off the greatest upset in 60 years.

He'd have to squeeze out more support from independents, score higher with his "Joe the Plumber" warning about Obama's tax and economic policies, and hope that enough undecided voters swing his way to help him sweep almost all the states that now are considered tossups.

Difficult? Yes. Impossible? No.

Though he's trailing, polls show McCain within reach and gaining, even if only slightly, both nationally and in some key battleground states. the rest