SEVEN percent, huh? Must… resist… writing… McCain.. obit… must… resist…
Why am I resisting? Let’s let our friends at Real Clear Politics do the honors of providing context:
That, my friends, is called an outlier. I’m willing to believe that the McCain camp is in trouble. Perhaps very serious trouble. But I also don’t think that Thompson is really at six percent or, for that matter, that McCain is at 32.
At what point does it make sense to write McCain off? Hard to say. He’s worth paying attention to no matter what his standing in the polls; he’s no Gravel and never will be. And for what it’s worth, I don’t think he’ll quit until it’s him and his senior staff, riding around Iowa in an Econoline…
