Snappy Comeback
Politico on McCain’s planned speech today:
Three weeks before Election Day, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) on Monday is unveiling what his aides call a more forceful new stump speech in which he portrays himself as a scrappy fighter on the comeback trail against an opponent who’s already “measuring the drapes” in the Oval Office.
“The national media has written us off.,” McCain says in excerpts released by the campaign. “Senator Obama is measuring the drapes, and planning with Speaker Pelosi and Senator Reid to raise taxes, increase spending, take away your right to vote by secret ballot in labor elections, and concede defeat in Iraq. But they forgot to let you decide. My friends, we’ve got them just where we want them.”
Allies are calling this “hitting the ‘reset’ button” on the campaign, with McCain reemerging after a long Sunday strategy session with a feisty tack that uses candor and humor, at a time when his rallies have become known for raucous rage and clumsy attacks.
But it’s more like hitting the panic button.
I dunno. At last check Obama’s landslide was … slipping. The cheap seats of history are crowded with candidates who made the mistake of thinking they had already heard the opera when they hadn’t even arrived at the fat lady’s performance yet.
Nationally, the Real Clear Politics average has Obama up 7.3 points. A Washington Post-ABC News Poll out Monday morning gives Obama a yawning 10-point lead, while a Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby poll shows Obama up just four points.
Uh oh. RCP’s national average puts Obama’s lead down half a point to 6.8 this morning. Gallup, the polling organization more Obamists like to cite, has dropped its Obama lead from 11 to 5 in the last couple of days. May be just an internal adjustment to reflect reality, however. They may have decided polling with the Obama camp’s call list wasn’t working. Zogby’s holding steady at 4 points. Newsweek, which had picked up from Gallup yesterday as the Obama double-digit lead poll of record, is hanging in there at 11, joined by ABC/WPost at 10. Don’t give up the ship, lads!
Hate to be a broken record, but maybe now the non-partisan press will begin reporting that the Obama camp’s in disarray, he’s lost, panic, etc.
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 10:55 am on Monday, October 13, 2008
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October 13th, 2008 at 1:10 pm
What is it with Politico? Constantly bashing McCain campaign to the point of being petty.
October 13th, 2008 at 1:51 pm
Apparently they removed the last two paragraphs above from the article. Good for them. Those comments were suitable only for an opinion piece or an AP article. But I repeat myself.