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I am feeling cheered by recent polls (including Gallup, Rasmussen and others) that are now showing Barack Obama once again in the lead. It isn’t clear as to exactly what has caused this. Obviously, McCain’s own admission of shortcomings in the field of economics has come back to haunt him, and the public may be unimpressed by his recent ads which lack economic solutions but instead, incongruously, play on his perceived superiority in national security matters.
He implies that the wimps on Wall Street and in the US Congress will cower before his muscular assault: “I’ll reform Wall Street and fix Washington … I’ve taken on tougher guys than this before.” And, Giuliani-like, he even invoked 9/11 when recommending a 9/11-like commission to address the current economic crisis. Maybe the public was less impressed than hoped for by the attempt to sell national security credentials as economic ones. Then again, the increasing coverage of his inclination toward “factually challenged arguments” may have played a role here too, not to mention the end of the Palin honeymoon.
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