McCain's Last Stand

[kennetha]

McCain is hoping to change his coverage. Now that he's laid out an economic plan, he's hoping that he gets a lot of side-by-side coverage in the press of his plans vs. Obama's plan. And he's hoping to at least cut into Obama's lead on the economy in that way. He wants to make this less about Obama vs. McCain as the representative of the last eight years of Repugnant mismanagement. He wants to try to make it about the Future A vs. Future B. And he's hoping that he can get away from the charge the his policies are just more of the Bush disaster again.

He will couple that with a perhaps less overtly ferocious, but still mean-spirited attack on Obama. (Already the Republican 527's are ratcheting their attack ads up for the final push. )

Can it possibly work? I'd give him no more than 1/20 chance. So shifting the narrative at this late date is a huge uphill struggle for him, basically because he's already lost so much credibility on the economy that he has little real chance of making up ground on that score. His only hope is that the mainstream media help him out and goes into compare and contrast mode, with no reference to the Republican past as part of that conversation. Of course, it would be up to Obama in that case to insist that the Republican past be front and center in the conversation.

Anyway, we're the Indians at little Big Horn, armed and ready, watching McCuster and his undermanned army confidently march into a slaughter.

[MarkInCA]

1. I think any tactics he uses at this point

will only give him a bump. Lacking a true game changing "October Surprise", I can't see that anything he could do would overcome the hole he is in now. If he had the surprise, he wouldn't have waited until now to use it. He's cooked.