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Sarah Palin passes her first test

August 29, 2008 /

I know Democrats are trying to paint Sarah Palin as Dan Quayle with a pony tail, but so far she passed her first test.

McCain intoduced her at a rally in Dayton, Ohio, and Sarah Palin was very comfortable and well-spoken on stage. She didn’t have that “deer in the headlights” look that Dan Quayle made famous back in 1988.

I still think she is a very risky choice, and it remains to be seen how she handles the scrutiny and tough questions on the issues, but she has charisma and she’s very good in front of a crowd.

President 2008, Republicans

Obama gets his bounce

August 29, 2008 /

So far, we’re seeing a nice bounce out of the Democratic convention. The Gallup tracking poll jumped from even to 6 points yesterday, and then moved to 8 points today. This covers three days of the convention but still doesn’t factor in Barack Obama’s speech from last night.

The spectacle from last night was huge, so we’ll see if that further increases the bounce.

We’ll see how the McCain pick of Sarah Palin works out, but the timing was brilliant, as the McCain campaign will blunt the impact of Obama’s speech.

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Reactions

August 28, 2008 /

Andrew’s take:

It was a deeply substantive speech, full of policy detail, full of people other than the candidate, centered overwhelmingly on domestic economic anxiety. It was a liberal speech, more unabashedly, unashamedly liberal than any Democratic acceptance speech since the great era of American liberalism. But it made the case for that liberalism – in the context of the decline of the American dream, and the rise of cynicism and the collapse of cultural unity. His ability to portray that liberalism as a patriotic, unifying, ennobling tradition makes him the most lethal and remarkable Democratic figure since John F Kennedy.

What he didn’t do was give an airy, abstract, dreamy confection of rhetoric. The McCain campaign set Obama up as a celebrity airhead, a Paris Hilton of wealth and elitism. And he let them portray him that way, and let them over-reach, and let them punch him again and again … and then he turned around and destroyed them. If the Rove Republicans thought they were playing with a patsy, they just got a reality check.

Democrats, President 2008

John McCain’s temperment

August 28, 2008 /

The talking heads on MSNBC are bringing up a good point – by referencing McCain’s temperment, Barack Obama has indicated he will not hold back if McCain continues his patriotism attacks.

It’s well known that many Senators who have served with John McCain, including Republicans, are terrified at the thought of John McCain as president. The concerns rest with whether he is too unstable or volatile to be commander-in-chief.

For anyone paying attention, it should not be a surprise that Obama went right after McCain tonight. Expect this to continue.

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