Do You Think It's Over?

If you're like me at this point, you've had about all of politics you can stand. However, there is an entire month to go.

I don't think the race is even close to being over. For all of the hype, the positive media spin - Obama simply hasn't been able to close the deal. A couple of polls I've seen lately actually have undecideds going up.

Anyway, it's show-time. And if you are thinking of giving up, or resigning yourself to an Obama win - I'd take a breath and watch what plays out in the next couple weeks. I can't remember seeing such swings as we have seen in the past month. And something tells me, no matter what happens, this thing is going to be close.

Look for the media to start the usual discourage the Right type of stories soon. They do it every election year as a matter of fact.

McCain will close. It's just a matter of how much and how fast. I also think a lot may be riding on Thursday night. If the people who tune in become comfortable with Palin again, it might be a whole new race.

Comments

[WileECoyote]

Dan how can Palin get a fair shake from Gwen Ifill thursday night? This woman has a personal financial interest in Obama getting elected with her new book about him presently being promoted for release the day the new president is sworn in. How in the hell could the commission allow her to sit as moderator now? Next thing the liberals will claim G Gordon Liddy pushed Gwen down the stairs the other day to get her out of the mod chair (she broke her ankle in a fall). Gwen needs the heat put on her by you national bloggers......lets get this party started now and perhaps at least force feed some objectivity thursday night...

[seekeronos]

Gov. palin is about 95% of the reason I am voting for McCain.

Well, that, and Chuck Baldwin not being eligible for ballot access in NY state.

[mary]

It sure is starting to look as though Journalistic integrity has become a thing of the past. It is also starting to look like everyone in the media, in the government and on wall street thinks the American people are not only asleep but just plain stupid. Essentially, whatever slop the media wants to dish out has to be graciously accepted and swallowed. Thank God the internet and bloggers and message boards are around for people to get the real story. Let's just hope they pass it around.

[jacksonian]

I think that we'll see McCain starting to make his move into the lead anyday now and that the election won't be close. Not along the lines of the Reagan win but impressive none the less. The asbestos blankets that the msm have been throwing over the fnm, fre, acorn fires are proving to be inadequate. The networks and papers along with Obama are going to be burnt. When I saw dem. Artur Davis take responsibility for his part in shielding fnm from being exposed I knew the jig was up.

[jamie]

It's over. At this point, McCain has dug his own political grave: the Palin pick has backfired. Yes, it firmed up the "base," but he can't win with the base and she isn't bringing in anyone else. The past few weeks have proven her to be incompetent and the non-evangelical conservatives want her off the ticket.

McCain's abysmal performance in the debate -- his "Last Angry Man" show -- really alienated a lot of people who are independents and undecideds. I watched the debate with several friends, including one who recently retired after 20 years in the military. He has never voted for a Democrat for president, but literally changed his mind during that debate. He thought McCain was angry and unstable, while Obama was calm and presidential. (Those are his words, not mine.) This country cannot afford a knee-jerk reactionary with a hair-trigger temper at this critical point in time.

People are looking for a LEADER. McCain is not able to project himself in that role. Indeed, his whole phony "campaign suspension" last week and the way he gummed up the process in Washington instead of helping it, only reinforced the perception that he is not the man for the job.

The trend you are seeing in the polls now is not going to be reversed. Obama and Biden will win.

[Fred Beloit]

jame gumm's overly long wet dream above. Pitiful. (1. Inspiring or deserving pity.
2. Arousing contemptuous pity, as through ineptitude or inadequacy. See synonyms at pathetic. 3. Archaic. Filled with pity or compassion.)

[Anon]

I do think its over.

But, I want to know WHERE ARE THE MCCAIN ADS? Where are the ads that refute the media calling him a liar, where are the ads that make the case for Sarah Palin, where are the ads that show Obama for the socialist tax raiser that he is???

Granted, I live in a Blue State that would elect a ladybug if it was on the Democratic Party ticket, but, it seems strange to me.

Yes, I have resigned myself to an Obama win and a very, very bad 4 years.

No, I don't think Sarah Palin can pull off enough of a victory to shut her critics up.

[chris]

"I have resigned myself to an Obama win and a very, very bad 4 years."

Cheer up! You've had 8 GREAT years under your idiot leader!

[Fred Beloit]

"People are looking for a LEADER. McCain is not able to project himself in that role."

We had a saying in the Army that I will adapt for jame gumm. Obama couldn't lead a squad of starving troops to the mess hall. But Obama is a magician. When he led the Chicago Annenberg Challenge with Ayers, he made about 100 million bucks disappear.

[Dan Riehl]

ANything can happen but I do think peoplelose sight of the world we live in today. News cycles churn continuosly - what's hot this week, is out the next. If he's going to do it - the time to really hammer Obama is in about two-weeks. If you do it now, it's gone by election day. We wont know until it's over, but I do hope they are simply keeping some of the powder dry.

[seekeronos]

People are looking for a LEADER.

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The trend you are seeing in the polls now is not going to be reversed. Obama and Biden will win.

I recall that the Germans in 1933 were also looking for a LEADER, or translated to German, "ein Fuhrer"...

Perhas we shall start seeing posters for the Obamajugend cropping up shortly.

[Jan]

It's not over. I think the biased media would like us to think it is over but it's not.

[tally]

Over? Hell, it's just getting started.

[befair]

I am at the point I really don't care who wins. Both candidates are flawed - both for President and Vice President. I will probably vote Obama because John McCain is just too old - senility and other health problems are pretty common at 72 and each year will just exacerbate this issue. The thought of Palin becoming President is just too grim to contemplate. OK, so I do care, but I wish I had a different choice.

[seekeronos]

You do have a third choice, in fact, quite a few:

Constitutionalists (paleo-conservatives) - Chuck Baldwin

Greens (environmental socialists) - Cynthia McKinney

Libertarians - Bob Barr

Independent - Ralph Nader

You needn't vote for the difference of Tweedledumb and Tweedledumber.

[tally]

more news:

1. Obama has his own tv channel - it's 073-00 on Dish Network.
2. Soros and Google have teamed up in a hedge fund.