On Sat, 30 Aug 2008 11:43:54 +0000, Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:


Do you men successful as in he finally locked up the nomintion or
successful in terms of tactics, capturing the news cycles, etc. If it's
the later, he wasn't exactly brilliant.

I don't expect brilliant, but if you recall, Hillary was considered a
shoe-in. It was a hard fought race, and Obama didn't make many missteps,
and those that were made were of minor import. He's also raised great
sums of money. Something that decides most elections. He hasn't done
badly at all.


I don't think your leaning - I think you've fallen over and are lying on
your left side. :)

That may be, but I still don't think McCain has run a very good campaign
so far. I don't get his moving to the right. His maverick status was
what would have pulled in the Independents and some Democrats. The center
is generally where elections are won. I think associating himself as
closely as he has with Bush, is a major mistake. I'll wait and see on
Palin, but it does lessen the impact of Obama's perceived inexperience.
That could have had considerable play in the coming weeks.


I totally agree though - it will be a very interesting 10 weeks.