“But would Obama be in this position now without the media?”
No, of course not. If the American people really knew Obama they’d run screaming in the other direction. But they don’t know Obama and odds are they won’t. It’s up to the McCain campaign to tell voters who Obama is, and they haven’t done a very good job. Independent voters don’t listen to Rush and Hannity, nor do they spend time in the conservative blogosphere. They read USA Today and watch Katie and Letterman and The View. And that, in a nutshell, is why Obama could win this.
Yes, I could not agree more.
The whole election comes down to this. McCain and Palin need to spend the next 5 weeks on the stump nailing Obama on issues that appeal to Red States.
The one advantage McCain has is that he needs to only hold on to Bush States, and a firefight of Higher Taxes and Reverend Wright will do that.