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September 26th, 2008 at 04:19pm Pat Cunningham

 

On each of the last five days, the Diageo/Hotline Daily Tracking Poll has asked Americans which of the two presidential candidates would do the best job handling the economy.

On Monday and Tuesday, the poll showed John McCain and Barack Obama virtually tied on that issue.

Then McCain pulled the stunt of suspending his campaign and seeking to postpone the debate scheduled for tonight. Suddenly, Obama opened a wide lead on the issue of the economy.

Today, the gap is 14 percentage points.

As Shakespeare would put it, McCain was hoist with his own petard.

UPDATE: THIS GUY says McCain’s mistake was to confuse a national crisis with a national tragedy and to expect his gesture to be hailed as honorable rather than just appropriate.

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