| I see 2 major recent factors why McCain is moving ahead...
The Russians have done him a big favor by reminding the voters that the world is not a safe place and that it is going to require a strong president that has had enough experience to deal with leaders such as Putin and Medvedev and not learn on the fly.
IMO Bush was duped by Putin who is a professionally trained KGB spy trained at deception so he let Bush see what he wanted "in his soul" when Bush romantically looked into his eyes as it were.. The playing field was most definitely not level and now the game has moved into their half at the moment without proper anticipation.. Medvedev is cut from the same cloth, hell he even has the same arrogant swagger as Putin..
The second major factor is that there is a plan on the table that suggests a possible US withdrawal of troops from Iraq now and it has followed the strategy that was recommended by McCain even before Bush and laid down and agreed upon by Bush and McCain and people see it has been working (I'm referring to the push). That has effectively muted the democrats on that front now and completely deflated their prime strategy for attacking McCain..
Additional smaller muting factors are the price of oil dropping.
The dollar gaining some traction and even a rise in new housing sales in the States. with these type of gains (small or not) it makes it very difficult for the Dems to claim "the sky is falling" and then factor in their own party discord over Hillary and there you have it...
Like the lyrics of another song... "Slip sliding away" |