He Ain’t Dead Yet
The latest tracking polls of likely voters shows McCain trailing by 5-6 points—dude’s got a pulse. The past three weeks couldn’t have gone any worse for him, and he’s still within range. Especially when you consider how skewed the polling sometimes is:
Last night I noted that many polls are showing a huge advantage for Democrats in their samples, sometimes as large nine, fourteen, or sixteen percent. I noted that since 1988, the largest advantage either party has ever had was four percent, in 1996 (39-35).
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McCain is winning independents, 32 percent to 23 percent. Yet Obama is ahead by 8 percent in the tracking poll for this time period. This means that the sample has enough Democrats to not only overcome the margin among independents, but to provide Obama with a large margin.
Lastly, we’ve said it again and again: the guy rises from the dead like no one else:
I guess Kevin Madden would know. He tells Megyn Kelly that John McCain has this very annoying habit of winning elections in which opponents and pundits had considered him hopelessly lost. Kelly then observes that recent polling shows hints of a McCain rebound.
Maybe McCain is not the candidate to lead the Republicans to victory this year, and maybe the country needs to get the disaster waiting to happen that is Barack Obama out of its system. But then I think of the consequences at home and abroad of such an eventuality, and I couldn’t whip the McCain/Palin horse harder across the finish line if I were riding in the Kentucky Derby.
Anon said,
October 14, 2008 @ 2:40 pm
Hahahahaha!! This is really funny. Ah.
Thanks, man! I needed a good laugh today.
Cheers!