Oct. 15 - Really long odds: Those are about the chances that George Mason University Professor Michael McDonald is giving the McCain campaign of winning the election. 'You are more likely to be killed by a meteor dropping on your head than McCain becoming president,' McDonald told the BBC. The polls are daunting. But as the immortal statesman Billy Ocean once said, 'When the going gets tough, the tough get going.'
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