To me it seems pretty silly that Obama thinks he can ACTUALLY get North Carolina

[Stranger in a strange land]

I guess I don't think like that. I think they were perfectly reasonable predictions for May of this past year. Remember, this election was a referendum on what happened September 15th. Before then this race was lean McCain.

that's taking it a bit far, IMO, but if there's one state Obama won purely because of the economic crisis, it was North Carolina.

[Stranger in a strange land]

I see that the myth that McCain would've won if not for the financial crisis is starting to take hold[snip a bunch of other drivel]

Myth? LoL. I think not.

Look at the polling data over time, the race was never any better than 50/50 for McCain.

for McCain to win, a lot of things had to go right, and ultimately none of them did. The economy was already teetering on the edge, it just fell off on when Fannie and Freddie filed for bankruptcy.