Story Comments

This comment is below the standard viewing threshold View It »

Yes.. The NY Post was always a very right-wing - and sensationalist - tabloid when I lived there.
I was quite surprised to find this there.
The summing up seemed about right:
FTA
"By no means would this strategy make a victory likely for John McCain. He needs to find some way to win several news cycles during the last week of the campaign, and then he needs hope, faith, and a lot of luck. But faced with a dire situation, McCain needs to re-find the focus and discipline that he has been lacking for much of the campaign; this is his best chance to do so."
***
Honestly speaking the odds are very long against McCain - the English bookies are now calling Obama at 1-10 and McC at 11-2 [greedy odds actually!]]
As for his chances of pulling off a legitimate-vote upset, it seems to me that he completely lost his one great opportunity already when he tried to get involved in solving the economic crisis and wasted his time and energy being seen and not heard..
A lot to ask of someone to cobble together something coherent and brilliant and effective overnight but he set himself up to do it and flopped totally.
That other small detail that he also declared a truce in campaigning and then broke it hardly did him any favours either.

1 Reply