For the first time, there is a clear front-runner (Obama)

The Globe and Mail ^ | September 28, 2008 | John Ibbitson

[2ndDivisionVet]

John McCain's campaign is in crisis. The Republican presidential candidate must quickly reverse recent sharp declines and recapture the momentum in this election race if he is to avoid falling fatally far behind Barack Obama, his Democratic opponent.

Provided the 12-figure rescue package agreed to over the weekend makes it through the House of Representatives and the Senate, and quickly, the financial emergency may recede a bit as the overriding issue of this election campaign, although it will never be far from voters' minds.

Wall Street's distress poses an existential (this election's favourite buzzword) threat to Mr. McCain's campaign. Six of seven opinion polls, all conducted last week, put Mr. Obama at least five percentage points ahead of Mr. McCain (though one poll, GW/Battleground Tracking, had Mr. McCain ahead by two points).

The most recent survey, by Gallup Tracking, has Mr. Obama eight points up. And while many pundits, including this one, thought Mr. McCain outperformed Mr. Obama during the foreign-policy part of Friday night's televised debate, viewers disagreed.

Three separate snap polls – by CBS, CNN/Opinion Research and USA Today/Gallup – confirmed that it was actually Mr. Obama's night.

In the USA Today/Gallup survey, for example, 46 per cent of those polled thought Mr. Obama had outperformed Mr. McCain, while 34 per cent thought the opposite.

Fifty-two per cent picked Mr. Obama, when they were asked which candidate offered the best proposals for change to solve the country's problems. Thirty-five per cent picked Mr. McCain.

Two things seem to be at work. First, the economy – which was always the No. 1 issue in this campaign – has become elephantine in proportion.

[STE=Q]

TO ALL:

THE MSM’S IN FULL SPIN MODE FOR THIER BOY — OBAMA.

THIS IS NO TIME TO DRINK THE ENEMIES KOOL-AID!

STE=Q

[kcvl]

John Ibbitson is a Canadian political columnist. He writes primarily on Canadian federal politics for The Globe and Mail; (born 1955 in Gravenhurst, Ontario).

February 29, 2008 by Douglas Bell

John Ibbitson flaunts knowledge of NAFTA, human condition

John Ibbitson. He is the quintessential “Globe man”: fiscally conservative and progressive on social issues. Another quality he shares with the Globe is rampaging self-importance. Wednesday, Ibbitson chastised The New York Times’ lead political columnist, David Brooks, for failing to grasp the central importance of Barack Obama’s campaign.

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[TheWasteLand]

Wishful thinking from a clueless Canadian maroon.

[Wilder Effect]

Good thing is that 99% of Americans have the attention span of a turnip, unless its a Hollywood Sex Scandal of Course.

They will forget by October 5 if the bailout goes smooth.

Let’s hope Lindsay Lohan is back in the news.

[pabianice]

McCain should run one ad over and over: “Why is Obama hiding his college and law school transcripts? Did he even graduate? Where was he his junior year in college? Arabia? Why is his law license ‘inactive’?”

[pabianice]

What’s to stop a President Obama from confiscating all handguns by executive order? Then rifles?

[GOPsterinMA]

Great! McCain needs to throw everything at the Messiah.

[Ouderkirk]

You're assuming there will BE a U.S.A. and Constitution as we know it today in 2012 IF there is an Obama win in 2008. Given the actions of his Truth squads and illegalities all around, I'm having doubts.

Now you're sounding like the knuckleheads at DU and KOS. They blather on about the destruction of the USA, etc. etc. Take a deep breath, and another.

In the end I think that if Obama wins it will be by a sliver. Same for McCain. As long as there isn't a 60 vote majority in the senate, then Obama will be a laim duck on day one.

On a personal level, I detest Obama the man and everything he stands for. Bear in mind thay we made it through 8 years of Bubba. It was a long eight years.

What concerns me most is the congress. If they are allowed to continue to thumb their noses at us like they have the last two years, the USA will look like Zimbabwe.

[Thumper1960]

What’s to stop a President Obama from confiscating all handguns by executive order? Then rifles?

The weapons pointed right back at him and his henchmen.

[toddausauras]

The VP debate has got to be a (here comes that tired cliche) game changer or we lose. Talk about a disconnect: what I saw during the debate was someone (Obama) who is just not ready to be the president of anything! Yet all the polls have him winning it, crazy!

[madison10]

I am not as extreme as you portray. Time will tell.

[narses]

Sarah Palin Better Than Barack Obama

Obama Says A Baby Is A Punishment

Obama: “If they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.”

[Reaganesque]

How's this for nuclear? Click here for new McCain ad.

However, don't believe that McCain is down for the count. After weeks of Palin-mania, the MSM is trying to talk their way past it by repeatedly pronouncing it to be over until it becomes reality. You know, "the big lie, repeated often becomes the truth."

[CSI007]

“Comments?”

Get ready for 8 years+ of communist rule.

[kcvl]

McCain slightly ahead in W.Va. polls after debate

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Debate does little to sway electorate Houston Chronicle

Young voters, homeless targeted in Ohio’s election

CJ poll: McCain leads Obama 53-41 in Ky.

Obama-McCain: Poll shows dead heat

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McCain ties Obama in new poll, Palin pushes for funds after big speech

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With a 5-10 point advantage with OLD MEDIA on Obama’s side I say that’s McCain is doing well! OLD MEDIA has been pounding McCain & Palin day in and day out nonstop.

Wait until the election for middle America to give them all the middle finger.

[RockinRight]

Several Friday polls showed McCain pulling back ahead.

[kcvl]

Palin may give GOP a boost in California legislative and congressional contests

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[Drill Thrawl]

John McCain is right. Even Obama says so.

[Gordon Greene]

I’ve got a gun... they have a tank.

I’ve got a tank... they have a bunker-buster.

The only chance we would have should they decide to take the guns is a military willing to rebel. We’re long past an armed citizenry being able to take the country back. We just have to pray it doesn’t happen and try to change the course of Washington.

Indeed... time will tell.

[RockinRight]

I was actually thinking today...does an Obama win mean a second Republican Revolution in 2010?