Nonsense. CBS story tied this dubious swing to McCain’s negative campaigning. It’s a ploy to silence McCain on Ayers and Wright. I don’t believe it.

marklmail on October 15, 2008 at 7:31 AM

And McCain is gullible enough to fall for it.

McCain has been declared underdog. Now he has to declare himself an underdog who will not be dismissed. He has to make mainstream America the underdog with him.

That is the secret of Palin’s growth. Kick Palin and you kick an average American who has been kicked every single day in the MSM as a racist and an ignoramus.

With McCain the danger is his language. He has to be a fighting underdog and not mess up and declare himself a loser. He has to let the underdog citizen know that he will represent them and not ignore them like the other side. Together they will fix things. It can be done. He knows it can be done. And it can be done with decency for all, He has gone against both parties because he serves first of all the American people.

McCain has to psych himself up to talk to the American people and not Obama. He has to let them know he is debating for them to defend their futures

It is obvious the public is waiting for a cue.

Obama has already spilled his guts and is now working to smooth his radical image. McCain has to talk to America first and not waste time on the smoothie

McCain needs to defend Bush on some grounds or else whatever half-truth Obama wants to throw out sticks to Bush AND him.

There is something very strange going on in this election. My city is very liberal blue collar. The Democratic Club is always busy. There is no Republican meeting place. This is the bedroom community of union factory workers, with a huge collection of housing projects. In fact, my city once had the most public housing in America until the feds allowed some of it to be converted on condition percentages were retained for subsidized tenants

Every election the lawns are plastered with signs. Gore signs were everywhere.

This election there are way way less signs. I have seen one (uno) Obama sign. That was on a door of a converted rental
unit not out on the lawn.

This does not compute. There wouldn’t be any fear about announcing a pro-Dem position here. There are Judge re-elect signs all around. The McCain Palin signs stand out for the lack of Obama signs

There is almost zero election chatter. I have overheard no one criticizing or even talking McCain. The occasional blurt is anti Obama (Rev. Wright, national anthem, the flag pin, muslim etc)

The public takes its cues from media. He who opposes Obama is a racist. He who is called a racist faces consequences. There may be a backlash coming

Beating up on Palin is only helping this

The constant drumbeat that McCain is losing will likely increase any backlash.

I’m guessing the Ayers attacks aren’t helping much

Well, duh. Are you people so unhinged that you think “take off the gloves!” is a good substitute for campaigning on the issues?

When these guys are done stealing this election from the American people, if the man is even a U.S. Citizen that is, we are in for a life of stealing, cheating, rewarding laziness, and total removal of desire to achieve in this country. We’re a country that let the Clintons rein for 2 terms so our standards haven’t been very high for a while. Sorry but I am sick of seeing the liberal mindset spread, that its right to do wrong and wrong to do whats right. Jesse Jackson doesn’t even like the guy.

Obama strikes me as the kind of guy who will hold the door open for a fleeing store robber based on the fact the store had the money to spare so what the heck. Do you want to live like that? I don’t.

I pray to god things turn around.

CBS and New York Times? Oh Pleheeeeeeeeeeeese!

Google It!

Move along…not much to see here.

Is it possible an outlier poll like this is designed to set the stage for the accusation that the election was stolen, in case Obama loses?

In this ‘08 election, the MSM may come out of it a very wounded animal–dangerous, but weakened.

One thing about it when this election is finally done we will stop hearing about polls for awhile.

Speaking if polls, didn’t the regular Gallup {not tracking} put it at 4% gap?

Every poll showing Obama “running away” with the race is thousands of Obama supporters who will not bother voting. On the other hand, the silver linging is that this may spur McCain supporters to tape Price is Right and go out and vote.

VOTE VOTE VOTE, this is the only reality-based chance right now. No debate tonight will change anything. There will be no October surprise, or Obama/Biden mega-gaffe.