James Forsyth 6:48pm
John McCain faces an almost impossible task over the next three weeks. He has to claw back at least a six point deficit, the new Washington Post poll has the gap at 10 points, as the candidate of the incumbent party in an environment where 90 percent of registered voters think that the country has “gotten pretty seriously off on the wrong track”.
Today, he unveiled a new stump speech. It uses the word fight, or some variation of it, 17 times and is beautifully written but it...
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7:16pm
The McCain campaign’s decision to start emphasising that a vote for McCain is a vote for divided government is a smart move. There are a considerable number of independent voters who are tempted by Obama but would have second thoughts about the Democrats running the show in Washington without any checks on them.
But once again McCain’s lack of a message is a hindrance to him. He needs to be able to say convincingly that he’ll work with Congress to get X, Y and Z done.
There is talk that...
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7:04pm
The report into Troopergate doesn’t disqualify Sarah Palin but it does tarnish her reformist credentials, one of the assets that she was meant to bring to the ticket. The McCain can point to the fact that the report says that “Governor Palin's firing of Commissioner Monegan was a proper and lawful exercise of her constitutional and statutory authority to hire and fire executive branch department heads.” But its criticism of Palin for “abusing her power” and the portrait it paints of her governorship are damaging.
McCain made several gambles in picking...
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James Forsyth 2:19pm
Here's a link to the report. At first glance it looks embarrassing but not devastating. More once I've read it properly.
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7:06pm
The New York Post’s Cindy Adams is reporting that Sarah Palin will do Saturday Night Live on the 25th, spoofing the spoof. This isn’t going to change the election but should be pretty funny. The question, to the extent there is one, is whether the crowd laughs at or with Palin.
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