Wednesday, April 11th, 2007...8:01 pm
McCain Has Them Right Where He Wants Them, Really, It Was the Plan
Yes…yet another soccer reference. Sometimes a player will do something particularly offensive to “the good of the game” and get himself thrown out by the referee. Inevitably, a commentator will say, “You know, this team plays better with ten players…” In that case, why didn’t the coach just start the game with ten players? I mean, it is good to be behind without few prospects of pulling out front, right?
I thought about this today when an official with John McCain’s campaign was interviewed this morning on NPR. He claimed that he liked the fact that McCain was behind in the polls. This is good for the campaign.
Eh?
(By the way, I just heard Bloomberg has a poll showing McCain behind non-candidate and former Murder She Wrote guest star Fred Thompson.)
That may have been true in 2000, but one of McCain’s strengths in this race is that he’s “next”; he is “inevitable.” You’d better get in line, he’s going to be the nominee. Being in second or third doesn’t do much to bolster that image. Someone like Mike Huckabee coming in with low numbers is okay, since no one expects him to be ahead, this is so much worse for McCain, precisely because he should be out in front.
Not that I care. I’m still hoping they nominate Ron Paul.
3 Comments
April 11th, 2007 at 11:04 pm
I’m still hoping they nominate RuPaul
April 11th, 2007 at 11:07 pm
Well, the link doesn’t work…but you get the idea.
April 12th, 2007 at 4:13 pm
Fred Thompson? Hey, at the rate McCain is going down, well pretty soon he will even be polling lower than Tommy Thompson. Maybe even lower than Bobby Thompson (there are still a few former New York Giants baseball fans out there, and they all still love Bobby).
Heck, the way McCain is going it won’t be that long before his poll numbers are about the same as Cain’s.
See where supporting losing more troops fighting a stupid war, that everyone knows is a stupid war, will get you?