McCain was at the University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls, Iowa yesterday. Note it is not called Northern Iowa University. It's University of Northern Iowa. Get it right, press folk. Anyway, the crowd was a whopping 2,000. Which is...um...1/50th (or, if you prefer, 2%) of what Obama drew in Denver.
You know things aren't going well in your campaign when you have to send an adviser to the back of the plane to anonymously tell reporters that reports of tension between the McCain and Palin factions are overblown. But not, apparently, inaccurate.
[Quick aside: My Canadian friend sent me an amusing article that explains socialism to Americans. My main disagreement with it is that it says Palin is, and I quote, "hot". Ew.]
So the question has been raised: Is Obama poised to become the next president because of how well he has run his campaign, or is it due to the poorly run campaign of McCain? I'm going to hedge on this one and say both.
Obama seems to have set some principles at the beginning of the campaign, and has stuck to those themes. There hasn't been the lurching from position to position because the positions have already been staked out. The campaign staff have a lot of discipline, and the ground crew that manages volunteers is massive and well organized. You could even make the argument that Obama's executive experience in running his campaign means he is more than qualified to be president.
McCain, well, not so much. Whoever is running his campaign has been very reactive to the issue of the day instead of taking a more steady approach. This led to "lurching" used quite often to describe McCain. Steve Schmidt - the mastermind behind the "suspend the campaign!" disaster - should be sacrificed when all is said and done. And Sarah Palin? What more is there to say? If McCain can't even manage his campaign staff, how on earth can we expect him to be successful as president?
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While we are on the subject - I must compliment you on your campaign. While your blog is full of mud slinging towards the republicans, you didnt sling anything towards the Democrates.
Tonya didn't wack a single knee cap. And no one was assissinated - so your sisters whereabouts was never in question.
So that being said, Shipperville supports Kande and Tonya for leadership of the USofA!
As for Canada, most of my friends want to see Obama using the bat phone for the next 4 years!
Just of note - I am sure the writer of the article was thinking Tina Fey and NOT Sarah Palin when he refered to her as 'hot'.
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