Campaign on Empty

Eugene Robinson in the Washington Post with similar observations:

Probably, John McCain and Sarah Palin will lose this election. Certainly, they deserve to.

With a campaign designed more to play on insecurities than to promote ideas, McCain and Palin have practically framed Barack Obama's "closing argument" for him. "The question in this election is not 'Are you better off than you were four years ago?' " Obama told an audience yesterday in Canton, Ohio. "We know the answer to that. The real question is, 'Will this country be better off four years from now?' " The Republicans don't even try to formulate an answer, and with Obama's lead growing by the day, it's hard to imagine what might turn things around.

An "October surprise" international incident might end up working against McCain rather than for him, given his all-over-the-map reaction to the financial crisis. The vaunted Republican get-out-the-vote machine looks almost puny beside Obama's next-generation juggernaut.

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Campaign on Empty

By Eugene Robinson
Tuesday, October 28, 2008; A17

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/27/AR2008102702408_pf.html

Probably, John McCain and Sarah Palin will lose this election. Certainly, they deserve to.