McCain's numbers
When I started writing about the parallel universe --first the Green Party, then the Socialist Party (France) primary, were locked in campaigns in which the candidates with policy history were likely to be beaten by a fetching new faces -- Yves Cochet lost to Dominique Voynet -- "work" lost to "hope" by one vote, and Dominique Strauss-Kahn and Laurent Fabius were clobbeed by Ségolène Royal when 60% of the PS voted for a break with the left and for triangulating toward the program of the right -- I was thinking of Senator Clinton, paying as much attention to Senator Obama as I did to Senators Bayh or Biden.
Gallup shows a tired old man, who was driving the Crash-and-Burn Express into oblivion as recently as the day before New Hampshire, who is most closely associated with an administration that has only a 19% favorable, who invented "the surge", tied with both Senators Clinton and Obama.
McCain's been written off by most (never us, we just can't let go of a presidential candidate who's been so interesting on the Senate Indian Affairs Committee, but don't tell anyone, not even other 'skins) of the Democratic Party's political strategists as dead for the last two-thirds of 2007, and with eight months left before the general election, and without having picked a running mate who can deliver Florida, is neck and neck with the winners of the Democratic Party's early contests. Eight months, not to get even from 10 points down, but to to get ahead, even if it is just a MoE in two of three battleground states -- Florida, Ohio, and Pennsylvania, and win.
