Wed Oct 15, 2008 at 04:38:37 AM PDT
Pundits are working on their pre-excuses, pre-explanantions and pre-eulogies.
Matthew Dowd : A classic reminder from September:
Rule One: When a campaign starts attacking the media, things aren't going well.
Rule Two: When a campaign says the polls are wrong, things aren't very good.
Rule Three: When a campaign says "the only poll that counts is the one on election day" usually means a campaign is about to lose.
Now we could probably add a new one: when partisans start saying let the candidate be the candidate, it means things are off course.
McCain’s Brother to Campaign:"Let John McCain be John McCain."
The New CBS News / New York Times poll "falls outside the range" of where the race is now, a senior McCain official said tonight.
Asked to respond to the poll, which gives Barack Obama a a 14 point lead among likely voter, the official said via e-mail that the sub-group shifts it showed were improbably large.
Joe Scarborough (On air, MSNBC): I am so upset that issues are predominating. The rules have been changed and character attacks don't work any more. My God. People want to talk about issues. And Republicans can't win in this environment. It's not fair.
My 401(k) is down $21,000 since the end of September. And John McCain thinks I should be worried about William Ayers.
Maureen Dowd:MoDo's a must read today.
I started my campaign to win a Nobel prize by trying to make peace between the two conservatives at odds on our Op-Ed page.
Ross Douthat: A few of my fellow conservatives, the hard-liners, are having a hard time accepting the concept that they're losing badly... and that those who say so might be reasonable people. The rest tend to blog at NRO.
Harold Myerson: Conservative economists are going to have to deal with the market failure.
No wonder we've seen a disoriented John McCain wandering the moors howling about Bill Ayers. What's he supposed to do? Admit that the Reagan-Thatcher faith in unregulated capitalism, to which every GOP presidential candidate was pledging allegiance just last winter, has collapsed?
These numbers are horrible for McCain. All of them speak to core qualities we expect a President to possess - not to mention the central premises of the McCain candidacy. Strong leader, able to handle a major crisis, somebody you'd go to for the toughest decision in your life because you know he has good judgment. Right now, that man is Barack Obama - not John McCain. This is a clear indication to me that, as of today, the country is comfortable with the idea of Obama as President. If it remains comfortable with that idea come Election Day, he will win.
Capital Journal (WSJ):
None of this bodes particularly well for bipartisanship after the election. In fact, it's starting to appear that the only way for Washington to overcome partisan divides may be if one party -- the Democrats, in this case -- wins by such commanding margins that it can overpower the other party.
And that might not be such a good thing. But given the alternative...
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