McCain Gains in Battleground States
While Presidenator Obama (D-Utopia) practices the poses he’ll strike on January 20th, 2009, Senator John McCain continues to act like there’s actually an election to get through before the coronation of His Anti-Imperialist Majesty, Barack I:
McCain Makes Significant Gains in Key Battleground States
Majority of Voters in Colorado, Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin Favor Keeping Troops in Iraq, According to Quinnipiac-washingtonpost.com-Wall Street Journal Survey
Republican John McCain has quickly closed the gap between himself and Democratic rival Sen. Barack Obama in several key battleground states even as the Arizona senator struggles to break through the wall-to-wall coverage of Obama’s trip to Europe and the Middle East this week.
McCain and Obama are in a statistical dead heat in Colorado, Michigan and Minnesota while the Illinois senator has a more comfortable double-digit edge in Wisconsin, according to polling conducted by Quinnipiac University for washingtonpost.com and the Wall Street Journal during the past week. Only in Colorado, however, does McCain hold a greater percentage of the vote share than Obama.
About that wall-to-wall coverage of Obama overseas - I wonder if its really helping matters for Obama? Certainly his goal was to give himself foreign policy credentials (as if waltzing ’round Europe makes one a regular Bismarck in foreign policy)…but the way he’s acting like he’s already President is, well, nauseating…and I think it starts to grate on people.
In keeping with Obama’s delusions of Presidential grandeur, what he’s doing is running like he’s the incumbant President - a “Rose Garden” strategy of loftily ignoring his opponent and allowing his stellar record in the White House carry the day for him. Its a great idea, but Obama would be better advised to use it in 2012, supposing he wins in 2008. Believe it or not, Senator, you actually have to win in November - and there isn’t a single poll out there since the absurd Newsweek poll showing anything other than a tight electoral battle (and I do wonder if, perhaps, Obama believes the Newsweek poll?).
The advantage still, barely, lies with Obama - call it a 52% chance of an Obama win. Last week, if the election were held then, I figured Obama for a winner…this week? Not quite so sure anymore.
26 comments July 25th, 2008
