Zogby: It’s McCain!
OK, that’s not exactly what Zogby said. Poll gives McCain “small post-convention edge.” Adds “but the race is tight, as both campaigns consolidate.” I dunno. McCain-Palin leads Obama-Biden by four points, McCain tops the Messiah by three. When you consider the prevarication factor … moderate Dems who aren’t ready to admit to themselves or others they aren’t voting for Hairplugs-Charm … the Dems need at least a 10-point margin to feel smug.
It’s not just the closet racists, which undoubtedly exist in Dem ranks, though reporting on that phenomenon has been distorted. The bigger factor is going to be the closet non-racists … Dems who may not be willing to say it publicly, but are uneasy about voting for an ill-prepared candidate with bad ideas to endanger the security and welfare of the United States just because he is a charismatic bi-racial Democrat. They’re the moderates who don’t agree with every plank in the Dem platform, have often crossed the aisle, and ultimately will be more comfortable with the longstanding bi-partisanship and principled stands of McCain and the strength and character of Palin.
Re that “both campaigns consolidate” part, I’d suggest the evidence is that one of them is flailing desperately, enlisting the spurned former competition to do its women’s work.
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 10:37 am on Sunday, September 7, 2008
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September 7th, 2008 at 3:44 pm
Obama apparently was caught as much by surprise as the rest of us. He never saw Palin coming down the track. What can he do now? Will “Joltin’” Joe Biden suddenly have a medical problem that will oh so regrettably force him to withdraw from the campaign? I think not because bring Hillary in at this point in the campaign will look like exactly the reaction to Palin that is. I think that weakens Obama even more than sticking with the President of the Hair Club for Senators.
Obama is wishing there was a Do Over button somewhere.
September 8th, 2008 at 1:17 am
Your comment on the closet “non-racists” is one of the more perceptive political observations I have seen in this election. The light went on, and I suddenly have a much better understanding of the position and probable behavior of the congenital leftists who fill “the halls of ivy that surround me here today”.