DISQUS

grandma · 1 year ago

How low can he go....

I sure will be glad when next Tuesday is here.

JohnInTexas · 1 year ago

Well what else would you compare McPlainCrash's campaign to? He's crashed more planes in his lifetime than Alaska Airlines probably.

bluestockton · 1 year ago

You beat me to it, John, I was going to say the same thing. That's why I don't understand why he's upset that Sarah is going off the rez: I thought he liked mavericks. Every plane crash/shootdown of his career as an aviator occurred because he wasn't following orders.

vkobaya · 1 year ago

Yep! Have to be considerate of McCain. He's familiar with crashing planes and doesn't offend as it might if we compared his campaign to a deflated balloon, having one foot in the grave or tree falling in the forest, timbbbbeeerrrrrr!. McCain knows all about plane crashes having crashed 5 of them.

dad · 1 year ago

John McCain is making no progress in his pursuit of the White House. Our model now projects Barack Obama to win 351 electoral votes to John McCain's 187, and to win the Electoral College 96.7 percent of the time to McCain's 3.3 percent. Both numbers are unchanged from yesterday.

grandma · 1 year ago

Boo

Political HalloweenMcCain's message: Be afraid of Obama. Be very afraid.

http://www.slate.com/id/2203139/

Really,is this all he has left.

Watching him speak this morning I thought he might have a heart attack or stroke or something...."I'm a fighter, we never give up....we've got to fight !....blah,blah, blah"

AdrianBrowne · 1 year ago

Tomorrow's Headline Today:

McCain suspends campaign to save McCain Campaign

sukabi1 · 1 year ago

I think The Daily Show or the Colbert Report did a segment on that a couple of weeks ago... lol

grandma · 1 year ago

Wolcott:

"This Halloween be on the lookout for all the righty bloggers dressed as drama queens. They'll be the ones looking as if they just escaped from Sam Fuller's Shock Corridor, swatting away invisible mites as they battle a bad case of Obama on the brain pan. It's been quite an inglorious spectacle, watching these wracked souls lose their shit as they swing from the belfry."

Soundboy_jeff_meanie · 1 year ago

given the way they've run their campaign and all the infighting... maybe mcsame meant something completely different when he said "we've got them right where we want them".

he wants Obama to win?

sukabi1 · 1 year ago

I'm waiting for the headline : CRASH McCain Loses to That One.

Soundboy_jeff_meanie · 1 year ago

that'd be priceless :-)

TXfemmom · 1 year ago

His support cannot go low enough for me.

houstonray · 1 year ago

I prefer the Titanic analogy...

Plane crashes are sudden and over quickly. The Titanic took hours to go down...much like it's taken weeks for McCain to begin his slow sinking in the polls...

The Titanic was unsinkable, you know, like John McCain was going to be the torch bearer of the "new" Republican party...

The Titanic hit an iceberg, while McCain picked Sarah Palin...

In the beginning, everyone was casually roaming around on deck, playing music, talking about how great the ship was and how it was unsinkable, just like the pundits were breathless and gaga over the Palin pick and how Mavericky it was...

Then slowly, the Titanic began taking on water, and as we know, it was one series of events after the next that doomed the ship and gradually filled it with water, just like Ayers and campaign suspensions and poor debate performances and Tina Fey and wardrobe expenses and hateful rallies are filling the McCain campaign with water and it's now going down bow first...

Then as passengers realized the inevitable, they began to panic, jumping overboard, fighting to get into life boats, flailing about in the water, desperate to get off the sinking ship, um, I don't really have to tell you the analogy on that one do I? (pssst: "Diva" "whack job")

I figure by the weekend, the McCain campaign will be standing on end and suddenly split in half, crashing back down to the water, and then slowly get pulled under, just in time for Tuesday...

Then late on Tues evening, John will be telling Sarah to never give up Sarah, never give up, and he will fade into obscurity and she'll say she'll never give up John, she'll never give up...

Then on Wed and for weeks afterward, just as on the morning after and weeks after the Titanic disaster, there will be blame and investigations and hand wringing of what went wrong, how did the unsinkable John McCain go down and what can the Republican party do to make sure it never happens again...

Then we'll see Sarah again just in time for 2012...hmmmm, 2012? 2012? Oh yeah, you know, the 100th anniversary of the Titanic disaster...

ivyfree · 1 year ago

He was saying a couple days ago that he'll win in Pennsylvania, it'd be close, but he'll win.

I'm still afraid they'll cheat their way into it. Again.

Chimpeach · 1 year ago

I'm worried about that too. There are already reports of registrations thrown away, democrats purged from voter rolls, machines switching votes.. Thousands of them. What happens with the early voters. Their votes are counted already? Not saved for the actual election day?

Soundboy_jeff_meanie · 1 year ago

and his campaign keeps re-arranging the deck chairs.

houstonray · 1 year ago

You know, I had that thought in my head when I started writing that and then promptly forgot!! :-)

Soundboy_jeff_meanie · 1 year ago

warped minds think alike... or something like that :-)

Indigo · 1 year ago

Will the blame fall squarely on Tina Fey's shoulders?

sukabi1 · 1 year ago

I think the word you're looking for is credit.... will the credit be placed on Tina Fey's shoulders?

Soundboy_jeff_meanie · 1 year ago

someone needs to ask palin again whether or not she supports stevens.

she said the first time that the case was in court... not really answering the question.

well, the court case is over. sarah? do you support stevens?

JohnInTexas · 1 year ago

McSenile and Palin put out a statement calling for Stevens to step down this morning.

Soundboy_jeff_meanie · 1 year ago

okay... kinda OT.

...but the animated gif is hilarious :-)

http://wonkette.com/tag/pt-wheeeeee

thmunson · 1 year ago

I have been saying this to anyone who will listen for a long time: if (when) Obama wins we owe it to Tina Fey. When looking at the PEW graphic my immediate thought was: what happened on Sept 14? Well, Fey's first Palin impression aired September 13th. I have a strong feeling that there is a direct causal relationship. Fey was able to show to the masses Palin's ineptitude without having the argument placed within a partisan context.

JohnInTexas · 1 year ago

Well it helped that every news channel local and cable played her clips a thousand times a day, but she deserves a lot of credit for sure. I at least hope she gets another Emmy out of it :)

houstonray · 1 year ago

Plus don't forget how many websites had embedded clips or links to the clips and then of course YouTube...her impersonations got out to a WHOLE lot more people than just the live appearance.

I really do think she helped reinforce the image of Sarah as completely unqualified to be 'one heartbeat away' and like you said, deserves alot of credit for that...

vkobaya · 1 year ago

I at least hope she gets another Emmy out of it

Or maybe a position in Obama's cabinet?

An_American_Karol · 1 year ago

The greater problem for Sarah Palin was her Katie Couric interview. More than SNL, that interview scared the crap out of the middle and high information Republicans.

Indigo · 1 year ago

Exactly! Newscaster Barbie interviewed Caribou Barbie and Caribou Barbie came off sounding like Bimbo Barbie while Newscaster Barbie registered as Brainy Barbie. Yagottaluvit!

EmGD · 1 year ago

Um, I clearly heard that this race was tightening. Even though no polling suggests that, I keep hearing it over and over, so it must be true.

http://thesebastards.blogspot.com/

An_American_Karol · 1 year ago

With headlines like this, AP is trying to help McCain's failing numbers:
"Obama gets a different kind of chilly reception"

The article talks about how Obama showed up and talked to nine thousand people outside in the freezing rain while McCain cancelled his event fifty miles away because of the weather.
Instead of showing the dedication of Obama and his supporters, the headline uses negative words "chilly reception". Chilly reception, indeed.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/O/OBAMA?SI...

PeteWa · 1 year ago

The AP is sickening with the obvious partisanshit(p).

Mark in Florida · 1 year ago

I have noticed that too... You see it in every story, and you see it in there so called scientific polling. It's glaring....the AP is in the tank for the republican party.

Dave of the Jungle · 1 year ago

The race is tightening...

...the nooses around the necks of Republicans.

blackwolf · 1 year ago

Good news, but we gotta keep pushing until election day. And then, we keep all of this going for the next 8 years:)

megcho · 1 year ago

I've been concerned about that too, but as we get closer my concerns seem to be fading away. For one thing...not that i'm counting our chickens.....but I dont think it will be close enough to steal. Second...I don't think Obama would go down w/o a serious fight....

I can't wait until next Tuesday!!!

megcho · 1 year ago

oops...meant to post this way down below as a response

Indigo · 1 year ago

I'm looking forward to the purge of newscasters and pundits.

Steve_in_CNJ · 1 year ago

can anyone explain why fivethirtyeight.com doesn't use Pew polls? do they have an alias?