Ethics

Serving Up the McCain Koolaid

By Ed Brayton

This is one of the funniest bits of spin I've ever heard, from McCain campaign manager Rick Davis:

Obama is running out of states if you follow out a traditional model. Today, he expanded his buy into North Dakota, Georgia and Arizona in an attempt to widen the playing field and find his 270 Electoral Votes. This is a very tall order and trying to expand into new states in the final hours shows he doesn't have the votes to win.

Josh Marshall translates that: "We've got them right where we want them." Obama isn't taking out ad buys in Arizona, Georgia and North Dakota because he's searching for 270 votes; he's taking out those buys to try and get 350 votes or more. And because the recent poll trends show he has a shot at doing so. And because he can. Yes, he's rubbing McCain's nose in it a little.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on November 03, 2008 (boomark / email).