A few things Scherer and I have heard re PersonalShopperGate: You’ll be shocked to learn that no one at the campaign is happy about this. You’ll be equally shocked to learn that lots of Republicans outside the campaign are ripped about it. “What a stunning display of incompetence!” one railed to me. “It’s the kind [...]
The Big Ten polling consortium has some shock-and-awe numbers this morning favoring Obama in the midwest, particularly in states like Ohio (+12), Michigan (+22), Minnesota (+19), Wisconsin (+13) and Indiana (+10). (And no, the Indiana number is not a typo!) If these numbers are real and not outliers, they foreshadow a landslide for Obama. As [...]
Such was the subject of a McCain campaign conference call today featuring senior foreign policy adviser Randy Scheunemann and former CIA director Jim Woolsey. The stated purpose of the call was to discuss a Washington Post story this morning which, in a “rather irresponsible and quite outrageous fashion,” said campaign aide Michael Goldfarb, “tried to [...]
I admit I was among those who were initially a bit skeptical about Colin Powell’s endorsement of Barack Obama. How much, I wondered, did it have to do with the damage done to Powell’s own reputation caused by his service as George W. Bush’s secretary of state? And why, I wondered, did Powell wait until [...]
In an effort to measure the impact of Obama’s candidacy on the electorate, especially among young and minority voters, Gallup has begun publishing presidential tracking poll results based on two different “likely voter” models. The first is the traditional model, which designates likely voters based on how they answer questions related to both their current [...]
According to a new 30-second spot from the McCain campaign and the RNC, there is a connection between Barack Obama’s association with domestic-terrorist-turned-professor-turned-Chicago-citizen-of-the-year Bill Ayers and the collapse of the housing, financial and credit markets. The connection is so obvious, the ad doesn’t bother to explain it — it just jumps from talking ominously about [...]
David Brooks’ devastating assessment of Sarah Palin, delivered at an event for The Atlantic in New York on Monday, echoes an email I received from a prominent Republican party professional in response to Gov. Palin’s debate performance last week. His words Here’s the email*: Fascinating. She really is what Bush pretends to be — she [...]
The various daily tracking polls put Obama’s lead at anywhere from slim to massive. Gallup, the gold standard, tops the list. These polls do not yet account for reaction to last night’s debate. But unless vast numbers of swing voters saw something I missed, the debate won’t change much.
You know it’s bad for Republicans when…two new polls out of the Old Dominion give the Democratic candidate for president a double digit lead there…when three recent polls show John McCain trailing by double digits in the state that made him a national political figure…and when a new survey of Minnesotans suggests Al Franken could [...]
In this new ad from the McCain campaign, the Republican nominee seeks the non-partisan high ground. There are so many contradictory messages emanating from this campaign now that it’s hard to keep track of them all. “What a week,” McCain says, and he’s right. It was a week (make that two) that Republicans would love [...]
