In this week's issue of Time magazine, the article "Why Arizona is Not a Lock for McCain," discusses how Obama is only down by 3.5 points in McCain's home state. It discusses how if the Republican nominee was not from Arizona, then the state would have already followed in the footsteps of its neighbors and be supporting the Democrats.
The Obama campaign is going to buy advertising in the state of Arizona for the last day before the election in hopes of getting their vote. The Democratic Party has organized a movement with phone calls and direct mail to get more support for Obama.
Republicans think that it is crazy to think that Arizona will not vote McCain. They say that Obama will be wasting his money running ads there.
The article also points our McCain's weakness with the Hispanic voters. In fact, the Republican Party has not run any advertising in the state of Arizona at all because it has been putting all of its efforts into the battleground states. There are a lot of circumstances that play into who Arizona's electoral votes will go to. The Republicans have thought and are now really hoping that they go to McCain.
It does not look good for McCain when his own home state is not voting for him. On almost all of the electoral college maps that I have seen, Arizona is labeled as a toss up state. With McCain's own home state not supporting him makes things look pretty good for Obama. It will be very very interesting to see the results tomorrow. I cannot wait.