The election SHOULD be about Obama. ONLY about obama.
McCain might be smart to adopt a strategy of acknowledging that Obama is the clear frontrunner and essentially the incumbent in this race. And then treat him like an incumbent. Challenge him on everything and make the election a YES or NO vote on Obama himself. Make voters choose whether they are willing to risk it on a 46 yr old rookie just because he is black.
If you make Obama the sole reason for the election, then Bush is no longer the referendum item. McCain cannot win a referendum on Bush (Jesus himself couldn’t). McCain can just make the point that the media has already chosen their winner and is just counting the days until they elect him again in the general election in Nov. And by doing that, McCain can put all the scrutiny on Obama and take it off of him (where he can’t get about 85% with the GOP which is 10% below life support levels).
If Obama is ‘the future’, then we should make it a clear choice fo whether voters are going to buy that future or not. And once that starts to sink in, McCain will only need to establish that he is a safe alternative who is non-threatening and an improvement over the Bush years.
Neither candidate is going to ‘fix’ the economy, oil prices or housing since they are both economic juveniles at best. So we might as well put the burden on Obama since he is the golden child.
“Say NO to BO 08”