I've been reading that John McCain needed something beyond the same old tired talking points last night, as a game changer, to help him in his losing battle against Obama. I wondered if he would bring the smears on the stage that he and Palin have been employing in their cocoons, but he apparently didn't want the public to see that nasty side of him so up close and personal.
Here's polling numbers from yesterday. Will post again in the next day to see how they change.
Time/CNN Poll-Obama Gains in Red States
WCU/NPR Poll-Obaba Ahead by 10 in PA
SurveyUSA- Obama Soara Ahead in PA
Research 2000-Dead Heat in Indiana
RGJ- Obama Takes Lead in Nevada
MPR Poll: OBama Surges Ahead in Minnesota
PPP Poll: Obama Regains Lead in Ohio
SurveyUSA- McCain Holds Lead in North Carolina
SurveyUSA-Obama Up by Double Digits in Wisconsin
Instant Polls Find Obama Won Debate
P.S. on my comment about how McCain did NOT get nasty the same way he is doing when he's in his own element, with supporters. From Informed Comment.
In the real world of political ads, McCain and his surrogates are shouting ugly insults at Barack Obama. He is accused is saying that US airstrikes have killed innocents. This is 1 and McCain said it, too. They say he was on a committee with a professor who used to be a Weatherman 40 years ago. And...?
How nonsensical these attacks are is demonstrated by the inability of McCain to repeat them to Obama's face.
What sort of allegation won't hold up in a debate? A flimsy one. One with the form of propaganda.
McCain's nasty personal attacks on Obama were apparently felt by his campaign to be inappropriate to a live appearance. They feared such smears would look mean in the mouth of a presidential aspirant.
But then why does it not look mean for McCain to "approve" the scurrilous smears?
Does he think we cannot see him? |
