With my son in Florida for a couple of weeks, I got to stay at work particularly late this week, and thus got to enjoy real talk radio on my drive home. I figured 15 minutes of Michael Savage would induce the necessary angiogenesis to see significant growth the Hannity-generated tumor currently reside in my brain.
Savage nicely explained to me that the result of the November presidential election was caused by a protest within the republican party, a protest against the nomination of McCain which was viewed, by the republicans, as four more years of Bush. While we can argue that point, this post asks you to complete the following sentences...
Savage says “If a new election was held today... Obama ______% McCain ____%
I say “If a new election was held today... Obama ______% McCain ____%
Please fill in the blanks. I will provide you with Savage’s numbers as well as mine in a few days.
Echoing this talking point...
Yesterday, Boehner said he wishes the 2010 and 2012 elections were much sooner as the American people are not in synch with the direction Obama has taken the country.
Don't worry the first hundred days are the slowest!
2 comments:
By "I say", I mean, "you say". Ya no wa I mean?
Savage sez: 60/40 McCain/Obama (movement towards JSM)
RET sez: 55/42 Obama/McCain (movement towards BHO)
JCT sez: 51/49 Obama/McCain (narrowing, but still same result.)
All of this depends on what time frame public thinks that Obama will begin to "own" the economy. 1/21/09 is unfair, but 9/09 to 11/09 (stimulus/budget + 6 mos.) isn't. If things haven't picked up by then, yeah, I could see a mild shift back towards the GOP.
Jon Chait at TNR wrote an interesting article that (among all his partisan crap) made an interesting point: congressional Democrats see themselves as independent from Obama. I think this is a mistake; Obama's personal popularity does not have coattails to the Pelosi/Reid crowd.
If the GOP can make the upcoming election more about the corrupt (Dodd) and the seemingly incompetent* (Geithner), then they have a shot. If it's "Do you like Barack Obama?", they don't.
*I think he's doing a pretty good job, all things considered.
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