Jon Chait wonders if John McCain is deliberately echoing Hillary Clinton's campaign themes in an effort to face her in the primary: "Every poll now shows Obama performing better than Clinton against McCain. On average, he does five and a half points better than her, which is a very significant margin." Chait has in mind McCain's rather implausible efforts to cast himself as the candidate of policy details, but I clicked over to McCain's website today and was surprised to see that the slogan reproduced above.
This raises the possibility that McCain's campaign team is just lazy. After all, they can't be bothered to out-organized Mike Huckabee even though he's got no money and no machine support. Maybe all they do all day is hang back, look at which Democrat is leading in the polls, and rip off the other one's campaign themes. Mac is Back, in ur base rippin off ur narrativz.
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Heads in the Sand
I think you underestimate the probability of a McCain win. All he has to do is to select some loathsome wingnut, who is a hero to the warmongers and kill all the brownies wing of the GOP, as his running mate and he gets all the Republican votes and over half of the votes of the so-called moderates, especially with a strategically timed terror alert by McCain's new BFF, and the dems are toast in November.
Posted by gregor | February 14, 2008 2:24 PM