Dick Morris, in today’s Washington Post: Obama Has the Upper Hand. But McCain Can Still Take Him.
To sum it up: A candidate who cannot get elected is being nominated by a party that cannot be defeated, while a candidate who is eminently electable is running as the nominee of a party doomed to defeat.In this environment, McCain can win by running to the center.
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A lot of people are saying Hillary already has it sewn up. Look at the comments here.
Of course, this is all based on polls, and we’ve seen how surprisingly wrong polls can be, any which way, come election day.
Meanwhile, this from my brother in Denver:
M. [his daughter] and I stood in line in the cold for almost three hours this morning for a chance to hear Barack Obama speak at the University of Denver. The crowd was huge — probably well over 12,000 people. (more…)
When I wrote about what Dick Morris said about Hillary Clinton’s bullying, us-versus-them political tactics back in September, there was a bit of a negative reaction. Morris is biased, unreliable, even a kook, some said. True, but was he right?
A refresher:
Hillary emphatically comes from the “us versus them” school of American politics.
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