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What's McCain's Next Play?

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I've heard it said early on this is Obama's race to lose. Considering the circumstances (economy, war) American's will vote for a change.

The early poll numbers supported that premise. McCain tried to rock the boat by picking Palin and it worked for a couple weeks. As things started to swing back to Obama, he pulled out another gambit and suspended his campaign to assist with the bail out issue. That didn't work.

What's next? What new gambit will McCain try to shake up the voters?

I've always thought he would hammer hard on terrorism. Portray Obama as weak and try to make voters afraid of Obama as president. I'm very surprised with only a month left, he's not taken that path.

My guess is we will begin to see very strong ad's by McCain (or those supporting him) pushing the terrorism issue and trying to portray Obama as weak.

Will McCain "sit back" and try to overcome the momentum through ad's alone or will he make some other move?

You've just been named McCain's top adviser, what would you do?
 
McCain's only hope is to suspend his campaign, travel to Pakistan, bring back bin Laden in handcuffs, AND convert him to Christianity.
 
Go for a treatment at the hair salon that Carrie Fisher operated in the original Blues Brothers movie.

Curl Up and Dye.
 
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I'm not sure, but the next stunt will probably involve a preacher or minister. . .
 
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Of course there's various combinations with the smaller swing states, but if McCain doesn't carry Florida and Ohio his chances of winning are not good. Pennsylvania is another possibility but his numbers are continuing to deteriorate there.
 
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His next act has to be something revolutionary to make the race not about Obama or Palin but about him. If she wants to call him a maverick 47 times, he needs to do something to live up to that image.
 
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His next act has to be something revolutionary to make the race not about Obama or Palin but about him. If she wants to call him a maverick 47 times, he needs to do something to live up to that image.
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Drop Palin and pick up Lieberman?
 
The economy is killing him. Maybe he could die. He might get the sympathy vote that way.
 
Fake his own death (shouldn't be too hard) and let Palin take the flak while he sits, incognito, on a pile of looted gold, abroad, sunbathing in his swimming trunks.
 
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Drop Palin and pick up Lieberman?
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We could do much worse than Joe Lieberman in the white house. Unfortunately I don't think it will happen. Despite his stance on entertainment censorship, his Iraq policy is basically the same as other democrats except he supported the surge. And for some reason this makes him a heretic.

What I am talking is policy. Right now he and Obama are having a contest to out-milquetoast each other. In their debates, mere nuance differentiates their positions.

We have our pick of two military interventionist, low tax, health care assistance candidates (neither of whom I trust to get deficit spending under control). If you vote for Obama, you get John McCain plus an end to your white guilt and a way of sticking it to Bush.

McCain has to make this a real choice. I don't think he will. I'm pretty sure its an Obama win like I was at the beginning of the summer. It would however be nice if the old vet went down with a fight ideas and not a fight of attack ads.
 
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Spend more money on attack ads.
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That seems like the best strategy at this point. You probably wouldn't want to go full blast with that for another few weeks and you would want your surrogates to lead the charge.

There is some really deep seated hatred of Obama in this country. It is either racist or religiously based. But the Muslim thing plays very well in older religiously oriented blocks. If McCain could find some way to tap into that and expand it he could pick up some votes.

He could also try making the legitimate point that the Democrats are tied deeply to this financial crisis because of their support for disastrous Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae policies. He could expand on that by going after the Democrats as scary, over regulating, over taxing elitist liberals who will drive the country to disaster. No matter how fiscally irresponsible the Republicans are the hypocritical Republican mantra about this always seems to have some traction. The problem with the Freddie Mae and Fannie Mac stuff for McCain is that McCain has his own problems with disastrous financial policies going back to his Keating 5 days. But he's behind now and it might be time to experiment with some new strategies.
 
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We could do much worse than Joe Lieberman in the white house. Unfortunately I don't think it will happen. Despite his stance on entertainment censorship, his Iraq policy is basically the same as other democrats except he supported the surge. And for some reason this makes him a heretic.

What I am talking is policy. Right now he and Obama are having a contest to out-milquetoast each other. In their debates, mere nuance differentiates their positions.

We have our pick of two military interventionist, low tax, health care assistance candidates (neither of whom I trust to get deficit spending under control). If you vote for Obama, you get John McCain plus an end to your white guilt and a way of sticking it to Bush.

McCain has to make this a real choice. I don't think he will. I'm pretty sure its an Obama win like I was at the beginning of the summer. It would however be nice if the old vet went down with a fight ideas and not a fight of attack ads.
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Geez, you sound like Ralph Nader... Maybe he's your man.
 
30 days is a long time in politics (sorry Harold)

If the economic news continues to dominate and Iraq and Afghanistan stay quiet he could be sunk but some unexpected turn of events might give him an opportunity to shine (have Fox still got their terrorland alarm thingy?)
 
The McCain Camp announced they're about to go in for a repeat Reverend Wright attack.

They could plaster Jewish Community Centers and college campuses with "Obama-Osama is a Muslim" flyers, and slip them under the front door of American homes.

Could lie even harder - create fresh rumors based on rumors, ya know? Get Hannity to announce that Obama is plotting a fresh terrorist attack and the youtube evidence will be available to anyone who wants to see it, on November 5.
 
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