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The show is about to begin are we ready?
Team McCain: Ready for Prime Time? - Yahoo! News (broken link)
John McCain knows how to win small. No other candidate in memory has done it better. Give him a microphone, a chartered bus and some Purell, and he can take down a state with raw hustle and personality - a few corny jokes, some "straight talk" and his own heroic tale. When he wrapped up the GOP nomination in March, his campaign employed just 90 people. It was a bit like the Bad News Bears winning the National League pennant.
Back in Washington, the anxiety level of Republicans is rising. "The McCain camp is now acting without much rhyme or reason," says a prominent consultant. "And it all goes to the top." Another Republican campaign strategist, in a thinly veiled reference to McCain, says, "Somebody is behaving impulsively is the point."
This will be interesting. Clearly Obama's monetary support as well as organizational prowess will present problems for Senator McCain. His one hope of negating this is the public finance pledge and I suspect they will both find ways to wiggle out of that. What's left?
A Dean inspired 50 State juggernaut that forces Senator McCain to compete in areas once safe, at enormous expense. Make no mistake, for every stop on their unity tour, Obama's Marketing machine will have already set the ground as well as the expectations.
Yup, Obama has organizations across the board. Some states not real strong but still there. McCain is in trouble he doesn't have the staff and as many articles are saying he is not putting the organization in place. Unless the misrepresentations and Bloggers can save him he may be in real trouble. Rupert Murdoch thinks so.
Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg had a long day of grilling executives at their All Things Digital Conference. But they saved Rupert Murdoch -- their Wall Street Journal overlord -- for last. The highlight? Murdoch’s not-quite-but-almost endorsement of Barack Obama for president.
The founder -- and defender -- of Fox News said he expected Obama to win in a landslide, citing widespread unhappiness with the current administration and his disenchantment with Republican contender John McCain. Murdoch added that after a long career in the Senate, McCain had been forced to compromise too much and doesn’t stand for much. Murdoch even nonchalantly owned up to influencing the New York Post to back Obama in the New York primary.
He may end up suffering from the same ego fate as Clinton. Not accepting , that being what he is made it impossible for Obama being what he is to beat him
From a pure marketing standpoint, and Senator Obama is a juggernaught, Senator McCain is in real trouble. The traditional way of campaigning is out the window and Senator Obama agreeing to the tour is going to be a really big problem. Consider this - No matter how strong Senator Clinton held an area, visits by Senator Obama have visibly rendered positive not negative results. This creates a problem considering the huge challenges that overshadow the Bush/McCain link vs. Obama negatives. The Country accepts the Bush/McCain link - the Obama negatives don't prevent folks from listening because whether they have a preconceived notion or not, he's still new. McCain's strategy cannot be in any way similar to anything Senator Clinton rolled out - her strategies have already proved ineffective, and everyone is either smarter the second go round or tired. Face it, we like "new" news.
Mccain is ceratinly ready just as prepublicans have been in the past. Obama and clinto are also ready. In fact McCain can play tapes of clintons talking about Obama not being ready in the campaign.It seems that clinton started late but really hurt Obama in the latter satges of the primaies to the point that he lose momentum and could seal the deal like gore and kerry before him.But then Clinton had to fight with one habd behind her becasue of being in the same party but McCain does not.
John better focus less on blogging his way to the White House and pay some more attention to the economy.
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