Remind Voters That McCain Is A Republican
by Steve Soto
There’s a raft of campaign-related items yesterday and today for you to comment on.
The latest USA Today/Gallup poll shows that a majority of Democrats across the country don’t want Hillary to drop out. Furthermore, a majority want Obama to unify the party by having Hillary as his running mate. Although this will never happen, what may very well happen is for Obama to select a Hillary supporter from a key state as his running mate, like Ohio’s popular governor Ted Strickland.
Obama has a seven-point lead over McCain in the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll out today, 51-44%. The poll notes that Republicans are unpopular among the country, suffering a 21-point disadvantage against Democrats in generic comparisons, yet McCain escapes that damage because seemingly he isn’t being viewed as a Republican. Part of that is successful marketing by his team, part of that is adoring fluffing by his media friends, and part of that is the fact that it’s only May and Obama hasn’t yet hammered him for several months as just another GOP enabler of the worst president in modern times (now down to 31% approval in this poll, and less than that elsewhere).
McCain’s team is now advocating an idea that may doom them: having unmoderated debates with Obama around the country during the summer. I’m sure Team McOld thinks it will be swell for Straight Talk to have multiple opportunities to tell Obama to his face that he is an inexperienced, tax-raising terrorist sympathizer, but I suspect that after he tries this once Obama will mop the floor with him. At least he better mop the floor with him. I don’t want to hear any more crap from him about “respecting” McCain’s service after McCain hits him in the face with a rhetorical fusillade, and Obama better take the gloves off and bury this guy multiple times. Obama may have an easier time now dealing with the expected smears from McCain’s team, with news that Americans now trust Democrats to handle better than Republicans all top ten issues identified by Rasmussen, including terrorism and national security.