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OK, Maybe I Am Wrong

By Robert Stacy McCain on 10.16.08 @ 8:27PM

While I am not prepared to rescind my Oct. 7 declaration that John McCain has already lost the election, this puts me in conflict with my own rule of thumb that liberals are always 100% wrong about everything.

Andrew Hacker at the New Republic pronounces Wednesday night's debate "the final nail in an already tightly sealed coffin. . . . It's certainly the end of John McCain's campaign."

Hacker is a liberal, and therefore this must mean that McCain actually won the debate and is staging a comeback, according to my rule of thumb. Meanwhile, according to one Gallup reading of likely voters, McCain trails Obama by only 2 points, and Obama is under 50% among registered voters for the first time since Oct. 3.

Republicans should hope that liberals don't notice this tightening in the polls, because if liberals actually become worried that Obama will lose, that will mean -- according to my rule of thumb -- that Obama is certain to win in a landslide.

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Frank L| 10.16.08 @ 10:33PM

It's easy to talk the talk but can Obama walk the walk? This election comes down to voting for the "Talker" Obama or the "Doer" McCain!

Julie| 10.17.08 @ 3:21AM

"...this puts me in conflict with my own rule of thumb that liberals are always 100% wrong about everything."

So this is what passes for intelligent discourse in the Republican world.

dad29| 10.17.08 @ 8:44AM

When NBC's Commentariat declined to name a "victor" in the Wednesday debate, it was the signal that McCain had won.

WendyG| 10.17.08 @ 9:39AM

The polls are very strange this year. They range from +2 to +14 for Obama. I try to be a realist but nothing would surprise me. We just don't know what will happen on election day this time. There still may be a silent majority out there, coiling, and ready to reject Obama's leftism and elitism. We'll see.