...hey, let's face it, the polls seem to indicate a high likelihood that Obama is going to win.
This NBC poll for example has him up by 8 points nationally.
I'm not surprised. Way back when, when John McCain secured the GOP nomination, you might recall that I thought he was not the best choice for Republicans, and that his age and his inability to excite the GOP base would lead him to defeat. Now, Sen. McCain did surprise me a bit; I continue to believe that his choice of Sarah Palin was an inspired one, and for a time there, after the Republican convention, when McCain either equaled or even surpassed Obama in the polls, I thought he had a shot.
But I think that the poor economy, and the additional financial meltdown of late September, just made it too easy for the Democrats to bash the economy and blame it all on Republicans. And I also think this, and this is very important: the McCain campaign at time sounded too much like...Obama. After late September, you had McCain too blaming Wall Street, blaming "greed", calling for more regulation. That's Democratic territory. That's me-tooism. Republicans can never out-Democrat and/or out-regulate Democrats. Voters will simply say: why not vote for the real thing, the real regulators, the real believers in bigger government--Democrats.
All this having been said, the election isn't over yet, the people haven't yet voted, and thus anything can happen. And we must continue to point out the vast flaws in the policy prescriptions and thinking of Senator Obama. But we shouldn't pretend that the reality we see, isn't there.
