Posted on 10/12/2008 6:53:11 AM PDT by DocT111
Here are some of my musings reagarding this election. This morning I'm reading a lot of information about how McCain blew the election.
Did he blow it? I really can't answer that...
I can see why on Friday he distanced himself at the town hall meeting in Lakeville, MN. He didn't want to be branded a racist, which ironically, the dems keep raising the issue, even Obama himself.
The one thing McCain can do between now and election day is come up with a detailed plan on the economy, something Obama has not done. McCain should also distribute the letter he signed with other congressional leaders in 2006 warning of the Fannie/Feddie debacle.
What do you guys think?
The RNC and McCain campaign are still sitting on a lot of money and I suspect quite a few 527s are, too. The only time we should be writing McCain off is if he’s down by 15%-20% the weekend before the election.
Yep. I'm not even convinced turn out is going to be that great.
I don’t believe he has blown it yet. It is disheartening seeing him say Obama is a ‘decent man.’ Folks who are okay with infanticide (not to mention everything else he stands for) are not ‘decent men.’ Still, we are going to have riots either way. If he wins, I expect the baser elements in society to celebrate in a way that makes the win of some football games seem tame. If they lose, those same elements will be out for blood and will likely draw it.
If McCain does not take this shot, then he is crazy. of course, his background on Illegal Aliens isnt spotless, either, and the last I looked, he still has Juan Hernandez on board as an advisor:
McCain has had a hand in writing it. This lackluster campaign by HIM has been the problem. Palin has McCain as high as she can drag him. Hope it can turn around.
You are so right! I actually had to check the date on the NY Post site today. One article was actually written in the past tense: how McCain blew it. It was a little confusing before I was fully caffeined up!
And the Post is supposed to be on our side!
On Fox, it was said he is trying to bring out those undecideds who are kind of leary of McCain, see him as hawk on anything.
Which side do you think that will be good for?
If polls on the evening before the election are the same as they are today (O up by 5-7 points), I predict Obama's margin of victory will only be determined by when McCain concedes.
The media is writing him off, but those of us who believe this election is a referrendum on Obama are not. IGNORE THE POLLS. They are as skewed as the MSM. Let’s put them out of business.
The McCain camp, their spokespeople and the candidates themselves should start discrediting the polls as well, publicly, in rallies and on their media appearances. Let’s put these pollsters out of business. They are a waste of time, do nothing but try to influence voters, and are making tons of money at our expense.
What happened to the day when the talk was about a candidate having a burning fire in their belly? A fire that would propel a candidate to fight for what(ever) it would take to win? Is the Republican candidate displaying any of that old time fire in the belly standard that helped other Republican candidates win the race for the Presidency?
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70 Million a week for 3 weeks, not even close to being over, Obama is going to go through hell for the next 3 weeks.
I daresay the conservative base is as riled up as I’ve seen it since Florida 2000 when conservatives, for the first time in my memory, were demonstrating.
They were also riled up in 1994, when the Congress went GOP and the DBM said the same thing then as they’re saying now - the GOP is throwing a temper tantrum.
Doesn’t matter if people are crazy about you as a candidate or enraged at your opponent. If they pull the lever for you, it counts the same.
I think Schmidt can pull it off. He got arnold reelected in an extremely liberal state.
The trick is message discipline, which they will need to craft soon and drill day by day.
He had a winning message by undermining Obama’s popularity with the vacuousness of Britney Spears and Paris Hilton’s, partially undermined by Palin. Yes, I know we all love her, but her polling numbers are way down and she’s no longer helping boost McCain’s numbers with women even though she energizes the base. It seemed worth it to get the female vote as a trade for undermining that message. Now they have neither the vote or the original message and have to start from square one.
They need to create an economic narrative and stick to it. And Obama has made plenty ... plenty of mistakes.
The main narrative should be Obama’s understanding of the economy is non-existant (heck his poll bounce is due to the generic democratic advantage, not anything he’s proposed or said) and McCain has a plan.
Obama managed 160 million dollars to distribute to Chicago schools (with Ayers). He used it to push a socialist agenda and ended up with no improvement. He stood silent when we could’ve stopped Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and now the taxpayer is footing the bill. He promised to lower taxes when he ran for senate election but instead only voted to raise them.
The list goes on and on.
The trick this time though is that McCain also needs a plan on the economy that will solve this mess and stick to it as well.
So basically, “Obama can’t even handle 160 million dollars, how can he handle a 2 trillion dollar federal budget? Is he ready to lead? No.”
Hammer it in.
Way too soon - these are the same people who leave football games in the third quarter when their team is behind a few scores.
Better that the Dems be overconfident, that leads to complacency.
We go through this every time. Usually the Rat is 10-15 points ahead. A 5 point Obama lead is actually a 5-10 point loss. The doomcryers can all KMA.
Hopefully that will result in a GOP controlled Congress.
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