Fired Up!

Posted on 09/24/2008 at 8:21 am by Bob Cesca

The ABC/Washington Post poll to cheer you up:

The poll found that, among likely voters, Obama now leads McCain by 52 percent to 43 percent. Two weeks ago, in the days immediately following the Republican National Convention, the race was essentially even, with McCain at 49 percent and Obama at 47 percent.

On top of the economic mess, Peggy Noonan was right. I never thought I’d write that, but when she was caught on an open mic during the RNC, she said, “I think they went for this — excuse me — political bullshit about narratives. Every time the Republicans do that, because that’s not where they live and it’s not what they’re good at, they blow it.”

Over the past two weeks, the percentage of independents with favorable views of Palin dropped from 60 percent to 48 percent. Among independent women, the decline was particularly sharp, going from 65 percent to 43 percent.

How can they present a narrative when their protagonist won’t talk to the press — and when she does, she comes off as a know-nothing doof?

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  • http://www.clusterdouche.com Elvis Dingeldein

    I was frankly stunned by the massive approval of Palin from Independents, I always gave that group of voters much more credit for being intelligent. Apparently fence-sitters are basically mindless panderbots capable of being easily Yowza’d by something sparkly, the words “maverick” or “reformer,” or just a nice pair of tits. That their numbers are swinging back is heartening; that they were ever so far wrong is inexplicable.My copious (and apparently premature, as always) joygasm at The Palin Gambit centered entirely around her weak play to Independents, which was exactly the crowd McCain needed to catch with his VP net. I was staggered — literally struck nauseous and numb — by Palin’s high approval ratings among white women and Independents in particular. Every single man and woman in this country with a daughter should have someone come to their door and ask how they’d feel if their daughter was raped in Wasilla and had to call home asking for a wire transfer of $1,000 in order to finance the investigation and capture of her assailant. Sarah Palin is a despicable fuckhole.

  • trustno1

    Independents sometimes = “low information voters.” Despite the handle, trust me on this – I know a few.

  • http://www.clusterdouche.com Elvis Dingeldein

    Yeah, my dad claims to be an independent but I’m sorry, you simply can’t lay claim to that title and watch nothing — literally nothing — but Fox News. We had an argument the last time I was “back home” — he and his wife live in what they call The People’s Democratic Republic of Arlington (VA) — about the “liberal media” and it quickly got overheated and pointless. No true Independent only watches Fox News, that’s ludicrous.

  • http://www.poligot.wordpress.com Kristin Teigen

    I’ve got a new (or not so new) fear now that Nader will screw this all up again — Obama is up by two in Colorado, but Nader is at three points, Obama is down by six (in some polls) in Ohio and Nader has four…this 72 year old guy who doesn’t know how to run a campaign much less a country could once again tip the balance.

  • JG

    I still do not understand how the Palin cocoon is not a bigger story with more press outrage–Add to that the lies and Troopergate stonewalling, and her numbers still look high to me considering…What concerns me about that lead is now the BBQ media will kick in, and try to “balance” it out–The debates are all about the BBQ narratives that emerge.Look at the Saddleback forum. Obama went into very hostile territory, and did very well–most accounts said so–but what emerged were McCain’s crisp boilerplate, and Obama’s nuance. That morphed into McCain won, Obama lost–which morphed into McCain mopped the floor with Obama, which is now the CW of that forum. Not to mention, McCain went second, and WAS NOT in the “cone of silence.”