yes, get used to it........the 44th President will be Barack Obama!!
And I haven't even listened to the debate yet but I've been reading comments
about it at DU.....
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Subject: {Dawgs/Dittos} Re: McCain, headed for defeat
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Date: Tuesday, October 7, 2008, 10:18 PM
Carville says call the dogs in. CNN calls it 5O to 30. Bill bennett says it may
be over also John KINg.
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Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 19:53:09 -0700 (PDT)
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Subject: {Dawgs/Dittos} McCain, headed for defeat
McCain is heading for defeat, says Republican analyst
Voters lose faith in party amid economic meltdown
Suzanne Goldenberg in Washington
The Guardian,
Wednesday October 8 2008
Article history
Barack Obama answers a question during his debate with John McCain at Belmont
University in Nashville, Tennessee. Photograph: Jim Young/Reuters
John McCain is heading to near-certain defeat in the presidential election
because American voters no longer trust Republicans on the economy, a
strategist for the party warned yesterday.
Steve Lombardo, who has worked on Republican campaigns since 1992 and advised
McCain's opponent, Mitt Romney, in the primaries, said it would take a major
external event, such as a terrorist attack or a crippling error by Barack
Obama, for McCain to make a comeback.
"Basically unless there is some external event the dynamics of this race are
being driven almost entirely by the financial situation here in the United
States and globally, and that works for Barack Obama," Lombardo told the
Guardian.
"If there isn't some sort of event or, God forbid, a terrorist attack that
moves the election on to foreign affairs or national security, it is unlikely
that McCain can regain the lead, just because voters have decided that the base
of the problems they face are the Republican party, George Bush, and, by
extension, John McCain."
McCain last night tried to get past Obama's advantage on the economy by making
a personal connection with voters, in the second of three presidential debates
in Nashville, Tennessee.
Taking advantage of a town hall format, McCain walked up to the studio audience
to make his pitch. "I know how to get American working again," he said.
But the outlook for Republicans did not look good. Yesterday saw Bush brought
to a new low. The 25% approval rating was recorded just after Congress approved
a $700bn (£400bn) economic bailout, suggesting the public gave no credit to the
White House for its rescue plan.
The rating, a new nadir for a historically unpopular president, puts Bush one
point ahead of Richard Nixon on the eve of his departure in 1974. It is three
points higher than the poll's all-time low for any president, Harry Truman's
22% in 1952.
Lombardo laid out his misgivings in a memo obtained by the Guardian, in which
he wrote that McCain's attempts to make the election about Obama's character
were unlikely to work. The memo argues such attacks at this point seem
"desperate"; the time to define the Democrats' character had been in August -
before the presidential debates. "The economic situation has virtually ended
John McCain's presidential aspirations and no amount of tactical manoeuvring in
the final 29 days is likely to change that equation," the memo said. "There are
more turns to come in this election and it is not over yet but it sure seems
like it is."
The memo said McCain lost the election on September 15 - two days after Lehman
Brothers filed for bankruptcy - when he told a rally in Florida: "The
fundamentals of the economy are strong."
McCain saw fresh signs yesterday of the damage to his prospects in polls
showing him trailing in four battleground states and fighting to keep Indiana
and North Carolina. He suffered another blow when the wife of a retiring
Republican senator seen as one of the Republicans' experts on national security
officially endorsed Obama. "We're in two wars, two of the longest we've ever
been in. We've run up a third of our nation's debt in just the past eight
years. We're in the biggest financial crisis since the Great Depression," said
Lilibet Hagel, whose husband, Chuck, is a senator from Nebraska.
With less than four weeks until election day, the slide in the polls brought an
even more personal edge to McCain's attacks on Obama. The Democrats hit back
with an ad released on cable networks yesterday, accusing McCain of being "out
of ideas" and seeking to distract voters from America's economic problems.
"With no plan to lift our economy up, John McCain wants to tear Barack Obama
down," it said.
In the latest bad news for McCain, a Time magazine-CNN poll showed the
Republican struggling to hold states Bush carried easily in 2004. In Indiana,
Republican since 1964, McCain and Obama were tied among registered voters on
48%.
Palin, meanwhile, emerged as the attack dog. The vice-presidential candidate
redirected her attack from Obama's association with 1960s radical Bill Ayers to
Obama himself. "You mean he didn't know that he launched his political career
in the living room of a domestic terrorist?" she asked a rally in Jacksonville.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/oct/08/uselections2008.johnmccain
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