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.
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!
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.
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.
McCain is too interested in spreading the blame to Wall Street than actually pinning it on the ring leaders in congress.
A lot of voters hate smugness.
They’ll vote against a person just to show that the voter is still in charge.
Nobama has peaked to early, and his premature coronation will bite him badly.