October 17, 2008
Posted: October 17th, 2008 07:45 AM ET
From CNN Ticker Producer Alexander Mooney
Sen. John McCain is trailing his Democratic opponent in CNN's latest polls.
(CNN) - Sen. John McCain likes to say he enjoys being the underdog. After all, this is the relentless candidate who somehow managed to capture his party's nomination after the political world left him for dead in the summer of 2007. But even as he spends the campaign homestretch reminding wary Republicans of his miraculous comeback last year, history suggests it may simply be too late. Both publicly and privately of course, neither the candidates nor their aides are ready to say the race is over. On Thursday morning, Sen. Barack Obama warned supporters not to get "cocky," while a few hours later McCain pledged to Pennsylvania voters he would erase Obama's lead by Election Day. On Thursday, CNN's latest poll of polls showed McCain trailing Obama by 8 points nationwide - a mid-October deficit that only one presidential hopeful has overcome to win the White House in the last 50 years. Filed under: Barack Obama John McCain
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