For all those that dismiss any news that all is not going perfectly, they should study the latest Reuters/Zogby poll that has McCain up by 5 points among likely voters. McCain is even now seen by respondents to this poll to be superior on the economy by nine points. My concern here has been that Obama let McCain define him in the last month just as Obama was having a really spectacular European/Middle East trip. Obama and his team were lulled by the success they were seeing and didn't hit back like many other democratic presidential campaigns. Yes I know all the reasons why all polls that might show Obama losing ground as baseless: outlier, 50 state strategy, electoral college advantage and he is not Kerry - Gore - Dukakis. I also know our history in the fall.
The republicans in each of the aforementioned scripts have lulled the democratic candidate with some moronic meme and once it was established just kept up bringing some equally moronic but easy to remember example to grind it into the American psyche. The democratic party selection has either not responded or responded late in an ineffective way. It is happening once again with Obama on celebrity and his being a lightweight. Go figure!
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