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September 19, 2008

It's John McCain, Stupid
Posted by Moira Whelan

A troubling meme is starting to pick up steam in some wrap-up press for the weekend: the idea that the floundering economy is giving Barack Obama a bump in the polls. Perhaps Democrats do better in bad economic climates, but we’ve hardly had enough time for most Americans to see this crisis hit their wallets. No…John McCain failed this week. That’s why his numbers are dropping.

I don’t want to rehash the excellent list put together by Marc Ambinder, but rather to point out that it didn’t stop at the SEVEN mistakes made by McCain by Wednesday.

We were subsequently treated to attacks on Chris Cox (which led to a scathing retort from the Wall Street Journal and a dismissal of McCain’s understanding of the abilities of a President) and more attacks on Fannie and Freddie.  We were even treated to attacks on SPAIN.

By the time Todd Palin’s refusal to comply with a subpoena  and John McCain’s confusion of the FEC and SEC hit the news, it’s sort of difficult to see how they’re still standing, especially after not one, but two, flip-flops on economic policy. But we did see a drop off in coverage, indicating that the press is growing weary of covering McMistakes.

Add to that the endorsement of Obama from the former publisher of the National Review and Republican Representative Wayne Gilchrest and newly-minted McCain advocate Lady de Rothschild calling Barack Obama an elitist and American voters "rednecks" and you have some pretty telling developments this week.

I find it hard to conclude from this recounting that John McCain’s collapse can be blamed on Lehman Brothers or AIG. Certainly, there are a lot of things that will be blamed on financial giants in the next few weeks, but the fact is, John McCain tanked this week all by himself and did so independently of Wall Street. 

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However the collaspse of the banks did shift the campaign back to the issues which exposed McCain's stupidity that probably would not have happened if the presidential race was still focused on the cultural wars.

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