http://docryder.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] docryder.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] hsifeng 2008-08-25 11:52 pm (UTC)

Not sudden, not universal. Each day he shows results from a couple of news outlets and a couple of states. The news outlets are showing Obama leading by a small margin, and the numbers haven't changed significantly in all the days he has listed.

A lot of people are still of the opinion that Americans are so disgusted with Bush that they'll vote for anyone else. Thing is, many voters have been convinced that McCain will be significantly different from Bush, and thus will vote for him.

McCain is using the GOP Think Tank machine to manipulate how he is perceived by the public How example, the use of the word "elite." This is a lot of the "Ignore the man behind the curtain!" kind of obfuscation, but Dubya used it successfully four years ago, as did his father and Reagan. Can't speak to 2000, as the voters did not decide that election, but it seems that ths kind of manipulation succeeded that time, too.

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