I didn’t agree with McCain’s decision to suspend his campaign and throw himself in the middle of the DC bailout debate, because he never clearly stated he was against it, and wanted to work on a more conservative solution. If you’re going to do something like that, don’t come out with a statement like, “working for a bipartisan solution”, crap. Come out AGAINST it plain and clearly to the American people.
I even had to ask people here what McCain’s stance was on this issue, because he wasn’t making it obvious at first.
It really looked like he ran back to DC just to vote on something people HATE! And President Bush was on TV Wednesday night trying to sell this bailout to the people and he failed to do it... and BINGO... Thursday night was a big night for Obama in the polls.
Well, if McCain is seen as blocking the Paulson bailout, and no alternative bailout passes, the market will go in meltdown mode and McCain will be blamed. That wouldn’t be good.
Following up on #33 - McCain’s numbers also took a hit after he was blamed for blocking the bailout.
The issue is confusing because polls are all over the place. The results change on how you word it. Ask “Do you favor a bailout for Wall Street fat cats?” and get one result. As “Do you favor a financial recovery assistance plan to prevent another Great Depression”, and you get another result. This is how people play games with polls - the wording of questions. Notice that the media rarely reports the wording of the actual poll question.