Union ad attacks McCain’s health-care plan
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Poll shows that 80 percent of Republican insiders say it’s highly likely Obama will win
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The National Journals’ survey of the smartest political practitioners in both parties SHOWS that barely a handful of these insiders still think John McCain can defeat Barack Obama.
None of them in either party thinks a McCain victory is likely.
Republican consultant Ed Rollins says Ayers strategy is a dud, sees Obama landslide
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Obama accurately predicted months ago the kind of garbage the McCain campaign would be slinging
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Panicked by polls, McCainiacs wax menacing
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Rallies for John McCain and Sarah Palin in recent days have featured fevered rhetoric linking Barack Obama to terrorism, which in turn has prompted wild cries of “Kill Him!” and “Treason!” and “Off with his head!” from audiences.
Reports on the unsettling phenomenon are HERE and HERE and HERE.
Political consultant David Gergen, a former adviser to Presidents Nixon, Ford, Reagan and Clinton, said last night on CNN that he’s worried about outbreaks of violence:
“There is this — I think one of the most striking things we’ve seen now in the last few days. We’ve seen it in the Palin rallies. We saw it at the McCain rally today…There is this free floating sort of whipping around anger that could really lead to some violence. I think we’re not far from that.”
UPDATE: Under the headline “Anger Is Crowd’s Overarching Emotion at McCain Rally,” The Washington Post REPORTS this morning:
“In recent days, a campaign that embraced the mantra of ‘Country First’ but is flagging in the polls and scrambling for a way to close the gap as the nation’s economy slides into shambles has found itself at the center of an outpouring of raw emotion rare in a presidential race.”
UPDATE II: In a SPEECH this morning in Ohio, Obama faulted McCain for rabble-rousing at his rallies:
It’s easy to rile up a crowd by stoking anger and division. But that’s not what we need right now in the United States. The times are too serious. The challenges are too great. The American people aren’t looking for someone who can divide this country — they’re looking for someone who will lead it. We’re in a serious crisis — now, more than ever, it is time to put country ahead of politics. Now, more than ever, it is time to bring change to Washington so that it works for the people of this country that we love.I know my opponent is worried about his campaign. But that’s not what I’m concerned about. I’m thinking about the Americans losing their jobs, and their homes, and their life savings. We can’t afford four more years of the economic theory that says we should give more and more to those with the most and hope that prosperity trickles down to everyone else.
UPDATE III: Former Michigan Gov. William Milliken, a Republican, SAYS he’s “disappointed in the tenor and the personal attacks on the part of the McCain campaign, when he ought to be talking about the issues.”
UPDATE IV: William F. Buckley’s son ENDORSES Obama.
New USA Today/Gallup Poll shows that Obama won the second debate by a wide margin
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By a margin of 56 percent to 23 percent, viewers of Tuesday night’s second presidential debate said Barack Obama got the better of John McCain, according to the LATEST GALLUP POLL.
The poll internals also were bad news for McCain. One of every three respondents said they felt less favorable toward the Republican nominee after the debate. Only 12 percent felt less favorable about Obama; 34 percent felt more favorable.
The survey was conducted last night, 24 hours after the debate, and thus was perhaps a better reading of settled public attitudes than the quickie polls conducted right after the debate.
“Is this the best you can do?”
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In only 14 sentences, THIS GUY accurately expresses my own feelings about one of the great political tragedies of our time.