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Originally Posted by Mike33
But McCain hasn't fallen far behind. I do think Palin is a liability that could bring down the ticket, yet I don't know if Thursday's debate is going to be disastrous like so many think. I didn't think Obama was going to wipe the floor with McCain either while everybody was making that prediction. Neither are fantastic debators.
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I don't know anyone who was making the prediction that Obama would wipe the floor with McCain, and I read and watch ALOT of news.
Sounds like one of those straw man arguments that George Bush used to like......"
Some politicians think we should let the UN decide whether or not we can defend ourselves, but not me!"
Anyways....the McCain campaign has managed to set the bar so low for Palin in the debate that I think the only way she could "lose" is to accidentally set her podium on fire.
If Biden answers a question by saying "I disagree with Governor Palin and I think we should do this instead".....the McCain camp will try to make him out to be a sexist pig monster.
As for your first assertion, that McCain hasn't fallen too far behind....he was ahead by 2 or 3 points after the convention, he's behind by 5 or 6 points now. That's a 7-9 point swing....that's HUGE.
Not to mention polls lag a little bit and the latest ones don't include the hit he's going to take for the "suspend his campaign, but not really suspend it, and take credit for passing the bailout bill, but then the bill didn't pass"
Also, the state-by-state polls are really bad news for McCain. Obama has turned alot of red states into toss ups and put alot of toss ups into the blue column.
So I stand by my initial statement. Obama would have to fuck up something awful to lose at this point......because anything McCain does to try to bring him down will be played in the media as a desperation move by McCain.