Suck It, Old Man

October 15th, 2008 by TRex @ 9:23 am| Posted in 2008 Race |

You too, Governor Puck-Up.

Fresh polls:

With the economy dominating the news, several new polls show Barack Obama widening his lead over John McCain, with voters trusting the Democratic candidate to fix the “serious economic crisis” and firmly rejecting the recent spate of negative personal attacks targeted at Obama.

Most dramatically, Obama has widened his lead to double digits, at 14 points, in a NYT/CBS News poll that shows - for the first time - white voters evenly divided between the candidates.

Two major factors hurting McCain that emerged in the poll: Sarah Palin and the recent spate of negative ads targeting Obama.

“Six in 10 of those surveyed said that Mr. McCain had spent more time attacking Mr. Obama than explaining what he would do as president.”

It appears that the public are taking the issues a lot more seriously in this election than the Republican party is.

Though Palin won some praise for her performance in the vice-presidential debate, most viewers felt that Biden won and “not one tracking poll has showed movement toward the McCain-Palin ticket in the days following the debate,” reports the Hill.

Another finding that bodes poorly for McCain, considering the campaign’s consistent attempts to portray Obama as a tax-and-spend liberal, is that more voters think McCain would raise their taxes. Fifty-one percent of voters think McCain would raise their taxes compared to 46 percent who think Obama would do the same.

Other dramatic findings from that poll: Obama is now favored by a majority of men and independents, “two groups that he has been fighting to win over,” according to the Times.

The poll presents serious problems for McCain, with only 20 days left in the campaign, since four out of five of each candidate’s supporters now say their minds are made up.

Obviously, the fat lady is still backstage singing scales to get her throat warmed up, but I have to say that some small measure of my faith in the American public is being restored by the fact that the GOP’s usual tactics are exploding in their faces.  It’s like quicksand.  The more they struggle and thrash, the faster they sink.

I can’t think of any people in the world more overdue for a stinging smack across the jaws by the hand of fate.  Me, I’m hoping for a bloodbath at the polls.  This is the long-awaited Death of the Reagan Illusion, the pathetic dying throes of Republican magical thinking.  Their whole stinking ideology is about to get mugged by reality.  Let’s just hope it isn’t too late to save our country.