Stealing It
This weekend we learned that Colin Powell is now angling for a cabinet position in the future Obama administration. It looks like the inside word is that McCain-Palin are going down harder than Kimbo Slice. I expect a lot of political mover-and-shakers are going to jump onto the Obama bandwagon in the next week.
Events on the campaign trail haven't been very helpful for the Republicans. During the debate, McCain morphed Joe Six-Pack into "Joe the Plumber" and while he's at least a real person, it turns out he's not a plumber and his name isn't Joe. So too bad there. Palin finally took a strong stand against the Anti-America parts of... er... America. Also, it turns out that McCain's "fiery" performance in the debate played as cranky and senile against Obama's Buddhist-like calm.
It's probably pretty hard right now for McCain stalwarts. There's really nowhere left to hang your hat. Witness, William Crystal, going all neo-populist today.
But maybe, those Republicans who still believe, can take most heart in the miraculous victories of the Bush years. Bush ran and reigned as a nitwit and got elected twice against far more qualified opponents. If he can do it, maybe there's still hope for McCain.
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Everyone up here in Canada apparently thinks OBAMA has it locked up. This is according to people I talked to and newspaper headlines on happy anticipation of an OBAMA admin.
But I do not share this sentiment. A few weeks ago, just post Palin convention, McCain was up by what OBAMAs' up by now. Sure, just a post-convention bounce...but there's no guarentee that OBAMA will stay up. The 'publicans are notorious vote stealers and illegal strikers of voters from election rolls, see the '00 Florida debacle and the suspicious '04 Ohio vote, where Kerry was declared the winner in exit polling but lost. In addition, the current polls could be off (polls usually are--they poll a tiny fraction of the electorate). Finally, McCain could come back, especially if something WACK happens, which it does on a regular basis, so watch out and don't forget to vote, suckers!
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