The “health” of the McCain campaign

The “health” of the McCain campaign has been stretched by the pro-wingnut movement in America to mean almost anything.

And then there’s this:

In politics it is generally not considered a good sign when voters are laughing at you, not with you. And by the end of the third and last presidential debate, the undecided voters who had gathered in Denver for Democratic pollster Stan Greenberg’s focus group were “audibly snickering” at John McCain’s grimaces, eye-bulging, and repeated references to “Joe the Plumber.”

The group of 50 uncommitted voters should have at least been receptive to McCain—Republicans and Independents outnumbered Democrats in the group by almost 4 to 1, and they started the evening with much warmer responses to McCain than to his Democratic opponent, Barack Obama. But by the time it was all over, so few of them had declared their support for McCain that there weren’t enough for Greenberg to separate them into a post-debate focus group. Meanwhile, the Obama supporters had to assemble in two different rooms to keep their discussion groups manageable.

Half of the voters thought that Obama “won” the debate, with 24% giving McCain the victory and 26% seeing no clear winner.

The same party that may have ushered in its own well-deserved demise by making complete asses out of themselves over Terry Schiavo may now be forced to wave balloons in front of their nominee’s campaign to see if there are any signs of life left in it. The McCain-Palin ticket is now officially on life support and on November 4th, in a great display of mercy and reason, America is going to pull the plug.

[both via TPM]

MORE: I didn’t watch all of the debate because one of my bestest buddies in the world is visiting from Prague, but from what I’ve seen so far the best one-word description of McCain’s performance would be “gnarled.”

Posted by Kevin K. on 10/16/08 at 08:16 AM • Permalink

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