Race tightening
Wednesday, September 17, 2008 at 07:06AM The latest Rasmussen and AP polls show the race tightening once again.
Both show McCain with a one point advantage -- down from three points from a week ago.
No doubt the financial turbelence of the past few days has worked to Obama's advantage. He's smartly pivoted the conversation back to the "Bush/McCain" economy, and has tried to make McCain look out of touch. He hasn't offered anything by way of specifics, but that misses the point: when the economy struggles, the incumbent party suffers. And if the market chaos conitnues to own the front page, McCain's numbers will continue to suffer.
For his part, McCain has looked slightly overmatched when talking about financial matters. It's admittedly not his strong piont, and certainly isn't Sarah Palin's strength, either. He needs to change the conversation back to values and Iraq, and hope that the news cooperates. My guess is that the race will remain in a dead heat by the time of the first debate on September 26th.
Reader Comments (13)
No, Seriously, Mrs. Palin has got her arms wrapped around this thing. America will be just fine
Okay, so clearly McCain's "the economy's strong" message makes about as much sense as Mitch's posts. At the same time I'm not sold on Obama's grasp on financial matters. On the issue of the economy, I need to better understand the teams and not just the primary players. So this begs the question, Nick, who are the key financial “players” for both parties? Meaning, who are the key advisors and potential staffers that’ll be influencing behind the scenes decisions?
Let's see, Phil Graham on the McCain side (even though he was kicked off his team, he is still part of the team) plays a major role for McCain. This is the same person that helped unwind the Glass-Stegall act, which was put in place to reform banking, put controls into the banking system to better regulate banking activity, etc. And now McCain himself is calling for banking reform.
Thanks. But I asked Nick, since he's the political expert. If I wanted your opinion, I'd go to the Huffington Post and save you from cutting and pasting her drivel.
I learfned about it on CNBC, then went online and read about Graham's role in this. Hopefully, this will become something Obama can exploit.
Obama's answer to the economy is to hold a $10 million fundraiser with Babs Steisand. I don't think either really has a clue about the economy, nor do any politicians for that matter. Need proof -- just look at their bold recriminations against a potential AIG bailout yesterday. It was absolutely the right move, and every economist supports it.
The economy is bigger than politics, the way jason giambi's pornstache is bigger than the Yankees. THough I still want Obama to explain how raising taxes $150 billion while the economy teeters on recession -- essentially pulling liquidity from an economy that desperately needs it -- makes any sense at all. It defies logic. Just plain stupid, actually.
mccain's plan - sell one of his 28 houses to provide liquidity to the markets
It is excruciatingly frustrating to watch two potentially deadly blows to the Obama campaign being completely ignored. One being his connection to Fannie Mae and the other being his violation of the Logan Act.
A great write up on Obama's economist, Austan Goolsbee, in MIT's TechReview:
http://www.technologyreview.com/Infotech/21220/?a=f
...the Democrats wanted to ensure that Obama could demolish the opposition's economic platform. So his campaign contacted Goolsbee, whom Obama knew by reputation, from his own years teaching constitutional law at the University of Chicago, as an expert on much that was cutting-edge in economics.
New polls show Obama back in the lead. I knew the Palin bubble would burst. Couple that with McCain's "I don't know much about the economy" comments, as well as the republican economic agenda, particularly these past eight years, and you have a recipr for sure failure -- my friends.
By the way, can someone, anyone, a close McCain advisor or anyone tell McCain to wipe that sh-t eating grin off his face every time he thinks he delivers a zinger of a statement. It makes him looks 73 years old and in need of the purchase of his 29th home.
Babs and LIndsey....what a laugh...Steve Schmidt is in a gunfight with a knife these days.
Clearly no one cares (but the GOP and the people at American Pravda--I mean Fox News). That a politician holds a fundraiser is a scandal? It may have worked on Gore, not going to work this time.
Obama has a bigger clue about the economy than McCain. Even if they were at the same point, the man is smarter McCain, and has the ability to learn faster. One thing that I appreciate about Obama is his time as a law professor at that liberal backwater called the University of Chicago. Those classes aren't like undergrad, you've got to know your stuff as a student. The professor needs to be even more sharp, as he's got to lead the class as well as argue his points. No advisors, spin meisters, etc to help.
Compare this to 'debate" on the Senate floor. We're not talking the back and forth the Brits have in the House of Lords. One guy stands up, drones on, sits down.
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