It would be interesting to have a poll showing whether the majority of Obama supporters saw the economic and financial debacle coming. It wouldn't surprise me if that were true. Paul Krugman puts his finger on why so many have (apparently) switched away from John McCain.
"I suspect that the main reason for the dramatic swing in the polls is
something less concrete and more meta than the fact that events have
discredited free-market fundamentalism. As the economic scene has
darkened, I’d argue, Americans have rediscovered the virtue of
seriousness. And this has worked to Mr. Obama’s advantage, because his
opponent has run a deeply unserious campaign."
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Obama's lead has dropped? As the above was in the pipeline here, the New York Times posted the latest from Reuters:
"Democrat Barack Obama's lead over Republican rival John McCain has dropped to 5 points, according to a Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby poll released on Sunday.
"Obama leads McCain by 49 percent to 44 percent among likely U.S. voters in the daily tracking poll, which has a margin of error of 2.9 points. Obama's lead has dropped over the last three days after hitting a high of 12 points on Thursday.
"'Things are trending back for McCain.
His numbers are rising and Obama's are dropping on a daily basis. There
seems to be a direct correlation between this and McCain talking about
the economy,' pollster John Zogby said."
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This could make things pretty interesting for the McCain campaign -- and for all of us:
"Even as John McCain and Sarah Palin scramble to close the gap in the
final days of the 2008 election, stirrings of a Palin insurgency are
complicating the campaign's already-tense internal dynamics.
"Four Republicans close to Palin said she has decided increasingly to disregard the advice of the former Bush aides tasked to handle her, creating occasionally tense situations as she travels the country with them. Those Palin supporters, inside the campaign and out, said Palin blames her handlers for a botched rollout and a tarnished public image — even as others in McCain's camp blame the pick of the relatively inexperienced Alaska governor, and her public performance, for McCain's decline.
"'She's lost confidence in most of the people on the plane,' said a senior Republican who speaks to Palin, referring to her campaign jet. He said Palin had begun to 'go rogue' in some of her public pronouncements and decisions.
"'I think she'd like to go more rogue,' he said."
"Four Republicans close to Palin said she has decided increasingly to disregard the advice of the former Bush aides tasked to handle her, creating occasionally tense situations as she travels the country with them. Those Palin supporters, inside the campaign and out, said Palin blames her handlers for a botched rollout and a tarnished public image — even as others in McCain's camp blame the pick of the relatively inexperienced Alaska governor, and her public performance, for McCain's decline.
"'She's lost confidence in most of the people on the plane,' said a senior Republican who speaks to Palin, referring to her campaign jet. He said Palin had begun to 'go rogue' in some of her public pronouncements and decisions.
"'I think she'd like to go more rogue,' he said."
