“McCain was never this close”
Well that just is not factual. Many polls had McCain up as high as 9 pts during the Jeremiah Wright controversy which was right before the “financial meltdown”. It changed the dialogue, played on the only strength that Obama was doing well in the polls, the economy. He never looked back. Interestingly, Obama is up nationally by 15 pts on his “foreign policies” which is why I suspect this ME crisis will also play to his strengths in the polls. Do you believe in coincidences?
Well, I was thinking in terms of the post-meltdown/campaign suspension world. You are correct. Palin led after the convention, for a while in fact. Then..the meltdown and after that there was no turning back. That is sort of the time period that I was thinking of.
McPain seemed most unhappy when it looked like he might win! He wanted to be the Willkie-Dewey-Dole sacrificial lamb of 2008.