Sarah vs. Biden day
Oct 2nd, 2008 | By gopnation | Category: BreakingIndiana and Missouri remain the lone GOP ‘battleground’ states in our latest survey. The 353-185 Obama victory, if it holds, would be slightly below Bill Clinton’s numbers in 1992 and 1996.
Steven Stark’s “Steering a suddenly lost GOP ship” offers up reasons that McCain-Palin is losing, while also showcasing how the ticket can come back. This is the must-read of today.
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To be sure, McCain can come back. After all, his candidacy had been written off once before, about a year ago, and look where he is now. Given that events and his own behavior have hurt his candidacy, though, McCain probably needs some kind of event — a foreign-policy crisis, an Obama gaffe, a truly memorable debate performance, or better yet, some heroic leadership to forge a compromise that ends the Capitol logjam — to help move things back his way. He also has to hope that Sarah Palin doesn’t embarrass the ticket in her prime-time debate.
Byron York has a little blurb in National Review that is worth our time. Interviewing people in Alaska about Sarah Palin, York ran into one person that has known Palin for a while and had the following comments:
“The McCain people have got her freaked out,” this person told me. “She has not found her voice. She has looked like hell in these interviews. It’s not her. I don’t know what’s going on. I know she doesn’t have any Alaska people around her since Todd left New York last week. No one from the governor’s office is with her.”
“They’ve circled the wagons around her and got her in a bubble,” the source continued. “They’ve got her flipped out. She’s afraid to talk, afraid to make a mistake.”
“You have to get her away from that damn cellphone and BlackBerry when you’re getting her ready for interviews and debates. You have to create peace around her, get her to calm down and just breathe, for God’s sake….If she does that, she’s one of the best I’ve ever seen.”
Very enlightening, but perhaps scary at the same time.
Fat Lady Warms Up…Obama leads McCain in our latest survey, 49.3 to 42.3, which is McCain’s lowest showing since polling began September 1. Today, we project that Obama has a 59.5 percent chance of becoming our 44th president.
Palin needs to address the fact that tonight’s moderator is in the tank for Obama. She can do it in such a way that doesn’t look like sour grapes and do it while pointing out the larger issue of media bias. This will surely spark Biden to give a ‘there are bigger issues facing this country’ retort, but it is necessary.
I’m not sure what’s more upsetting: McCain/Palin losing ground or the candidate’s (both of them) apparent inability to go on the offensive. Of course, the financial problems are like quicksand for the GOP, so maybe I’m wrong. - ttally
It’s 33 days to go and I have to ask myself this honest question; Has McCain/Palin done a good job of painting Barack Obama and Joe Biden as the liberals that they are? Absolutely not. I will give each of our candidates - Palin tonight, and McCain next week, to do a better job of addressing this very issue in the debates. If they aren’t fighting now, they never will be and on that, its best to forget it until ‘12. - ttally
Obama gains another point in Rasmussen, now leading 51-44.
Good morning, comrades. We begin this morning with news that The Messiah, our Dear Leader, is now +11 in the Daily Kos poll. In addition, Dear Leader’s truth squad is alive and well in the Show Me state.
Reads
No Silver Bullets Here - Steven Pearlstein, Washington Post
US Democratic-Capitalist Model on Trial - Timothy Garton Ash, Guardian
Bonanza. Bailout. Bonanza. - Debra Saunders, San Francisco Chronicle
Democrats, Taxes and Phony ‘Facts’ - Brent Bozell, New York Post
Other Pathways Out of Financial Crisis - David Ignatius, Washington Post
Credit Crisis: 36 Hours of Alarm & Action - Joe Nocera, New York Times
The Big Veep Showdown - Walter Shapiro, Salon
Here’s Who Gets Credit and Blame - Mort Kondracke, Roll Call
GOP, RIP? - Timothy Noah, Slate
Can Warren Buffett Rescue the Market? - Ben Steverman, BusinessWeek
America’s Crisis Could Be Very Ugly for World - Victor Davis Hanson, RCP
A Vote Against Rashness - George Will, Washington Post
