Sunday, October 12, 2008

I Went To A Campaign Event And A Hockey Game Broke Out

It's hockey season. Big fellas on ice zooming with enough momentum to splatter a moose against the wall, what's not to love?

This year Sarah Palin dropped the ceremonial first puck amidst loud boos and a backdrop of Obama / Biden signs.  What on earth was the McCain camp thinking? 

"Hey, let's go to a clasically roudy sporting event in a state where McCain trails by double digits. It's a fantastic opportunity, we have little to gain and a lot to lose! I can't imagine why we WOULDN'T do it."

Sometimes it seems like McCain is TRYING to lose.

Not that there's anything wrong with that.

And McCain is campaigning in Iowa trying to flip the state from the Obama camp, but he's behind by double-digits in many polls Apparently he thinks that since it's a rural state that Bush won last year, and next to Nebraska it's his best last hope of getting to the magic 270. That he's even bothering to go there shows how little he understands Iowa folk. I'm married to an Iowa folk, and spend ten years of my life there. And I can tell you, people in Iowa aren't just smart people, but the're also stubborn as the day is long. Once they've decided where their vote's going, there's no way they'll change their mind. And they're also a very politically minded people, so I doubt there's a significant number of undecideds there...polls are showing around a 5% undecided rate. In a state where the last poll was 13% points against McCain and the average poll has him lagging 11.8% points behind, he could carry all the undecideds and still get his ass handed to him. 

Note to McCain: Forget Iowa. And stay away from hockey games.

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