Obama can claim he has more grassroots support than the establishment funding mechanisms of the McCain campaign. Obama also has almost 3x the contributions that McCain has. That’s taking into account the 3rd candidate Clinton’s competition with Obama. Funding is very important. There are a myriad of barriers for McCain other than campaign financing but this is a massive issue because it represents, in economic terms, a campaign’s viability. Therefore, anyone who thinks McCain will win this election: (a)has been impacted by the false consciousness implimented by the media’s need to build tension and deny there will be a slam dunk Democratic victory, (b) believe that racist thinking will be a barrier to Obama’s victory when empirical evidence has shown controvening evidence or evolving opinion on that subject, (c) are hoping for a devasting unrealized event that will cripple the Obama campaign [which is a possibility] or (d) probably wanted Clinton to win the nom. Does it make sense that McCain will win in November even if core members of his own party clearly dislike him, Obamacons are growing in numbers, etc etc?