IBD explains how the economy pulled the rug out from under the McCain Campaign.
According to Gallup’s national tracking poll, McCain overtook Obama on Sept. 6 and on Sept. 8 led 49%-44%. He continued to hold the lead, and “blue states” such as Michigan appeared in play. Democratic angst was palpable that they might once more “snatch defeat from the jaws of presidential victory.”
Then on Sept. 14, America’s financial system appeared ready to collapse. The New York Times called it “one of the most extraordinary days in Wall Street’s history,” and at 9:30 that evening the Federal Reserve announced efforts to prevent a crash.
The day before, Gallup’s Sept. 13 tracking poll showed McCain still clinging to a 47%-45% lead.
By Sept. 17, McCain had relinquished the lead, and no major national poll showed him leading again after Sept. 21 — just a week after the financial sector debacle began.
Guess it’s time for another shrill editorial from Clay Evans.
The modern GOP is masterful, particularly compared to the usually bickering and self-defeating Democrats, at “message control” — spooling out what it wants the general public to hear, even to think about.
Who prints all this GOP propaganda? It’s certainly not the MSM. Me thinks that Clay is much too easily offended. A great characteristic for an editorial writer I suppose.
