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Obama: beware of overconfidence
 
Frank Cotolo
16 Oct 2008
 
Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama told his supporters to beware of overconfidence after the third and last debate. It appears Obama said that because underdog Republican rival John McCain could still do well enough to win on Election Day.
 
"If McCain wins, he will be President," said an Obama spokesperson, "not Obama. That makes us weep here at Obama headquarters, so we don't want to feel like we got this thing in the bag."
 
The two candidates went back on the campaign trail after their third and last presidential debate.
 
"We won it," said the Obama camp.
 
That statement was echoed by the McCain camp about McCain's performance. "We won it," said a leading, top, important member of the McCain camp who wished to remain anonymous because his auto-inspection tag ran out two days ago. "Americans are looking twice at our candidate now. Before this last debate they only looked once."
 
"That is a great sign with only a few weeks left before we win."
 
Political predictions, however, are overwhelmingly calling for an Obama victory. They say he now has a better than 80 percent chance of winning, even if he is not going to become overconfident now.
 
Regardless of Obama's warning, supporters have already begun celebrations around the country. "The prospect of his victory is being used as an excuse to party," said psychologist Rip Woven, whose new book, Any Excuse to Get Drunk, Have Sex and Take Ecstasy, comes out next week. "People do want change but they also want to bring change into their lives doing the same stupid things they always do, like getting drunk, having sex and taking Ecstasy. My new book that comes out next week discusses all of this, though it doesn't mention Obama."
 
One college student who will be voting for the first time come this November, said, "We are going to drink until our stomachs are numb in celebration of Obama becoming the President and we intend to start this weekend. Me and a hundred other students from ten other colleges are chipping in for the booze and drugs."
 
A national survey after the last debate indicated that Obama was 5 points ahead of McCain. But a straw poll which used other materials and not straw, showed that 99 percent of the people asked who would be their next President answered with the name Ohama.
 
One percent of the people in that poll answered with the name Sting.
   
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