Is this the week the McCain campaign became a joke?
Although it's certainly an exaggeration, I'm not fully kidding either. The McCain campaign has looked wildly out of control this week.
Alot has been made that McCain should try to turn this election into a referendum on Obama, but over the last two weeks, all of the judgments appear to be cast on McCain.
After this week of McCain disasters, we have next week where Obama's expected to name a VP. Then there's the Olympics, followed immediately by the Dem Convention.
Is this a decisive week in the campaign?
Later: CW reporting David Broder, "But now the ground has shifted -- and his opponent was right where he needed to be to capture the advantage. July has been a cruel month for McCain."
Alot has been made that McCain should try to turn this election into a referendum on Obama, but over the last two weeks, all of the judgments appear to be cast on McCain.
After this week of McCain disasters, we have next week where Obama's expected to name a VP. Then there's the Olympics, followed immediately by the Dem Convention.
Is this a decisive week in the campaign?
Later: CW reporting David Broder, "But now the ground has shifted -- and his opponent was right where he needed to be to capture the advantage. July has been a cruel month for McCain."
posted by mikevotes at
7:12 AM
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It's only July, and McCain has risen from the ashes before. Who knows.
Really, I think the pressure is on Obama rather than McCain. The expectations of him are becoming impossibly high, and we all know what sort the media take in trying to make a good man look bad... even if they have to twist and contort reality out of context to do it.
McCain could refer to Russia as the Soviet Union and talk about drilling for oil in the Everglades and no one would batt an eye. If Obama makes the slightest misstep vis a vis military policy and the vultures will swarm. We've seen it in the past with the "bitter" comment....
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-epm, at 8:18 AM
Yes, BUT....
Everytime McCain has succeeded, he has done so by jettisoning almost all his staff and worked face to face "townhalls" in small states and markets.
He can't do that. He can't strip down his campaign on a national election. He can't do hand to hand in a national election.
And the time is gone for any big structural changes. We're at about 3 1/2 months.
His best hope is for Obama to hand it to him.
.........
To a broader point, my point in this post was supposed to be that this week has changed the media's view of the race. I didn't write it that way for some reason, but the media seems to be awakening to McCain's flaws. Their presentation of him has changed.
And, yes, Obama getting pretty high on the pedestal, but McCain's image is taking a more significant hit.
They're looking at the McCain attacks as distasteful and the campaign as in disarray.
The only thing that could turn the media's opinion is some polling evidence that McCain's attacks are working (the media worship a winner,) and I don't see that coming out of this week. Do you?
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mikevotes, at 10:54 AM
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