$28,500 To Hear The Fat Lady Sing

No thanks. I'll pass.

Yesterday, Obama declared how we are in "the most serious financial crisis since the Great Depression."

But today he will host a dinner in Beverly Hills --- costing attendees $28,500 dollars each!

Pretty amazing to watch the liberal and media elite hand wringing over McCain / Obama. Richard Cohen at the WaPo:

McCain has soiled all that. His opportunistic and irresponsible choice of Sarah Palin as his political heir -- the person in whose hands he would leave the country -- is a form of personal treason, a betrayal of all he once stood for. Palin, no matter what her other attributes, is shockingly unprepared to become president. McCain knows that. He means to win, which is all right; he means to win at all costs, which is not.

Yes, it's impossible that one of the great unwashed might actually have the judgment to lead. That's reserved for the samol samol crowd that's been making its living off the public inside the Beltway for years. Bleh!

They create memes, in this case, against McCain - they predict they will come true - then they go on and on pointing out how they have become the conventional wisdom. Meanwhile from Newsweak:

Battleground Update: The Red States Get Redder, The Blue States Get Purpler

Does that mean that Obama has emerged unscathed? Hardly. The Democratic nominee may have managed to maintain his razor-thin eight-vote margin--but he's done it by the skin of his teeth. Even if McCain has yet to flip a state, a closer look at the latest battleground polling reveals that the Arizonan's gains have, in fact, trickled down. They've had two effects. First, a handful of red states that Obama once hoped to win now seem either out of reach or more favorable to McCain, whether temporarily or permanently. And second, McCain is suddenly within striking distance in a group of Blue States where Obama until recently enjoyed a comfortable lead.

I've spent some time looking over many of the polls feeding the Electoral map. While I'll interject the standard caveat that things can always change, if you wash out the old polls from a month or more ago, McCain has easily climbed into the lead in the EV. The old data from when Obama was riding high in July and August is watering down recent results. And that's especially true in places like New York where there isn't a lot of polling going on. No one ever thought it might be in play.

Frankly I doubt it will be in the end and Obama should win it easily enough. But not so easily as to hide the real problems he has throughout much of the country. I can't recall what it was I was reading on this topic last night - but the point was this - with PA so close, it's almost irrelevant. If Obama wins it as close as it seems, he'll lose throughout the Rust Belt and elsewhere, meaning McCain should come away with about 300 electoral votes.

Comments

[Philip McDaniel]

It must be all over...the fat lady has sung.

[joeb]

Obama refuses to say specifically what he would do about the economic crisis. That is not leadership.