Blogs For Victory

Obamaniacs like one recent poll, but they won’t like this one:

The race between Barack Obama and John McCain remains a dead heat, despite financial turmoil that has turned the nation’s attention to economic issues that tend to favor the Democratic presidential candidate, according to a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll…

…Mr. Hart said that Sen. McCain’s ability to tap into voter anger explains why.

A near-record 73% of voters said the nation is off on the wrong track, up six points from just last month. More people think the nation is in a “state of decline.” Nearly eight in 10 voters think the nation is in a recession and most of them think the worst of it is yet to come. And public opinion ticked down for every public figure and institution the poll asked about, including President George W. Bush, Sens. McCain and Obama and both political parties.

It makes the electorate ripe for Sen. McCain’s populist message, Mr. Hart said, recalling the classic movie, “Network,” where TV news anchor Howard Beale urges viewers to proclaim, “I’m as mad as hell and I’m not going to take this anymore.”

“John McCain has become the Howard Beale of this election,” Mr. Hart said.

The survey finds that Sen. Obama has lost ground with the independent voters who will be crucial to the outcome of the election. They now favor Sen. McCain by 13 percentage points, up from eight points two weeks ago. In early September, just after both parties’ conventions, half of independent voters had a positive image of Sen. Obama; now it’s just 39%. Independents were also less likely to say they could identify with his background and values than they were in early September.

For all of Obama’s talk of change, he is just another one in a long line of people who have been part of the problem…shovelling money at problems, working out sweetheart deals for supporters and cronies, acting as if the party will never end and no accounting would ever be rendered. Well, its being rendered now – and McCain is well placed to showcase his long-standing and indisputable record as a reformer who is unafraid to step out of the party line. Palin has this, too – and while its still a long way to November 4th, its not that long and people will start to make their choices soon…and I can’t see people really deciding that Obama – of all people – is best to reform our nation’s government.

If Obama loses, liberals will blame everyone but themselves – they’ll say its because we’re a bunch of closet racists; that we’re afraid of “the Other”; that we’re fools…it will not occur to them, if they are dealing with a President-elect McCain, that it just might have been the fact that Democrats have been so deeply tied to Big Government and Big Corporation that when one fell, the other was bound to fall with it. It may prove in 2008 that only the outsider can get in – and “outsider” doesn’t mean “not in politics long” but “not a tool for the special interests”. McCain and Palin are no tools – Obama and Biden are, and on that fact may turn the electioni.