I can see you’re definitely an UNTRAINED skeptic. You’re version of skepticism is to jump headfirst to your desired conclusion, and use (LOL) polls to support you. My approach is to google the author, check out his recent work, and draw a reasoned conclusion based on facts.
The fact is that Fred is still second in the polls. The author talks about Fred not seeming prepared and being muddled and indecisive about his answers on things such as abortion. However, Freds answers aren't muddled. They are consistent with small federal government, states rights beliefs.
Instead of addressing Freds stance on those issues and the reasoning behind that stance, the author just casts vague dispersions on Fred. The author doesn't really address his stance on the issues at all. It is a fluff opinion piece with no meat. That makes it a bit difficult to really counter because there is really nothing to the article to counter, except the fact that he is asserting that Fred doesn't have a chance and isn't getting support, which is in direct conflict with the poll results.
My approach is to google the author, check out his recent work, and draw a reasoned conclusion based on facts.
Well, that tells me he was a former political speech writer and a little bit more about his opinions. However that doesn't really have much to do with the credibility of this particular article, because this article isn't about the author, it is about Fred and McCain. Which is an interesting pair to lump together, especially with the comment of too little too late since McCain has been in the race since well before there was a race and got most of his early high poll scores from name recognition.
Reading about the author also shows me that he knows the issues that he is glossing over in this article. He's not choosing to write a fluff piece because he's uninformed.
He's either glossing over the issues because he doesn't think it is important to inform readers while persuading them, or because he feels informing them is counterproductive to persuading them the way he wants. Since he's a former political speech writer, I'm guessing the latter.