McCain Campaign Prepares To Attack Resurgent Obama

[ClarkUSA]

It's the same tired old tactics as before but you know what they say about lipstick on a pig... try not
to grind your collective teeth in the weeks ahead and do some GOTVing instead.

For McCain, the danger is that previously undecided voters will become comfortable that Obama
is ready to be president. The longer Obama can hold even a small lead, the more difficult it will be for
McCain to reverse it, absent something unexpected happening. McCain's best hope, strategists said, is
for the crisis atmosphere around Wall Street and the credit markets to lessen, allowing the campaign
debate to focus on other questions as much as the economy. The agreement reached early this morning
on Capitol Hill about a Wall Street relief package may help with that.

Schmidt said the campaign will press two arguments as forcefully as possible in the coming days. One
is that Obama is not ready to be commander in chief and that, in a time of two wars, "his policies will
make the world more dangerous and America less secure." Second, he said, McCain will argue that, in
a time of economic crisis, Obama will raise taxes and spending and "will make our economy worse."

"What begins to happen is that the margin that's been in place begins to solidify more and more," said
Matthew Dowd, who was Bush's chief strategist in 2004 and is now an independent analyst. "There's
only two ways this can go," he added. "It will either solidify with an Obama four- to five- point lead,
or it will loosen and go back to close and go back and forth."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/27/AR2008092702906.html

[thoughtcrime1984]

1. There's a third way

Obama by MORE than 5 points.

[ClarkUSA]

16. True...

That's why we have to GOTV like crazy to make it so.

[ShortnFiery]

2. Nice thread title there ... resurgent?!?

:eyes:

[ClarkUSA]

14. What's wrong with that word?

Take a look at the Pollster and RCP and tell me what you see in terms of aggregate trending recently.

[msongs]

3. get ready for the Obama camp's Obama is ready to lead ads

which would be nice to hear him talk about HIS visions of the US re the military and less of trashing McCain.

Msongs
www.msongs.com/political-shirts.htm

[Motown_Johnny]

4. For McCain, the danger is that previously undecided voters will become

Uncomfortable with him and his running mate Sarah (the fish... excuse me... the barracuda) Palin



this seems just as likely to me as the problem with undecideds being comfortable with Obama.

Most polls show that many voters like both of them.

[regnaD kciN]

5. Closing the barn door as the horse disappears over the horizon...

The problem with McCain's approach is that, after the debate, more people are comfortable with Obama's ability to lead. Repeating the same old "he's dangerous" mantra all over again won't do much for voters who had the chance to make up their own minds, and decided that he isn't.

[firedupdem]

6. The Obama campaign has moved right past any little gutter like

scheme they think of. They need to clean up the dirty lobbyists running his campaign before he comes out swinging this week.

[BlueIdaho]

7. Once again republicans decide on fear over hope.

Instead of touting their own candidate's strengths, they try to scare America out of voting for the other guy. Somehow I just don't think voters are gonna buy this load of crap this year. Especially given the lack of any meaningful alternative from their side of the isle.

[evlbstrd]

8. aisle

Sorry, had to do it.

[BlueIdaho]

10. Thanks! nm.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

9. Didn't McFlip-Flopper vote against tax cuts?

[truthisfreedom]

11. There's only two ways this can turn out, alright...

Obama wins with less than 4 points difference, or Obama wins with more than 4 points difference.

Dowd, you're an idiot trying to talk McLost up, and it ain't happening.

[dansolo]

12. Notice how they can't talk about McCain's plans

People are looking for vision, and negative attacks just aren't going to fly this time around.

[HughMoran]

13. I just saw one of McCains new lies

It's off to the races again. It's a vile ad full of lies about taxes - again!

[jberryhill]

15. Oh yes, PLEASE McCain folks, keep doing the same thing only "harder"

Yeah... that'll do it. Go ten times more negative. Give it all you got.

Chuckleheads.

[Jennicut]

17. Obama has the posistions most Americans agree with, McTroll does not

No amount of spinning will change that. He needs a major Obama scandal right now and that is not gonna happen. Most Americans want more oversight, not deregulation. They want the middle class to get a break and think trickle down economics is crap and don't want the rich to get more tax breaks, they want healthcare fixed but not with Wall St.'s help, they want more diplomacy in the world, they want to get out of Iraq, they want Afganistan addressed. Social issues mean nothing this year, security means nothing this year as Iraq was a disaster and the so called surge merely contained the violence and if it is so good then why the hell are we still there? These are not liberal issues, they are middle American issues. These are issues that make independents say screw the abortion issue I want the economy fixed. McTroll will have a tough time catching up.

[Tutonic]

18. better use of his time would be spending a few hours schooling

the hockeymom how to answer a question. He can throw all the dirt in China at Obama but if he has that empty skirt strapped to his back, he's gonna continue to lose ground.