Looking for an Obamabounce
By Dave
June 27th, 2008 | Leave a comment
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Well, now that Barack and Hillary were spotted kissing on the tarmac, can we expect to see Barack Obama’s numbers jump with the “Unity” theme still fresh in voters’ minds? I think that’s a near-certainty; the question becomes will John McCain be able to recover some of those numbers in the ensuing months.
He’s got plenty of time. It’ll probably take a Bush-style campaign of planting whispers about Obama to give him a chance. I don’t know if McCain will do that. He seems to have a much greater sense of decency than the Bushies.
Of course there are unofficial operations to do that, and McCain has plausible deniability.
It’s going to be an interesting summer and fall.
I saw Wesley Clark (retired general) endorsed Obama. There’s some speculation that Clark is angling for a vice presidential nomination. Well, he would bring credibility from a military standpoint. And he’s a little more moderate than Obama. Which might help the Democratic ticket.
The thing I wonder about is if McCain wins, which John McCain shows up at the White House: The McCain who thinks for himself, the Maverick — or the guy who turned around (flip-flopped!) and kissed Jerry Falwell’s ring years after describing him as an “agent of division”?
Dave Wilson is the Grand Pooh-Bah of Editorial Content at DelMio.com, a site developed by SunLit Communications LLC. He also is at times janitor, chauffeur, chief cook and bottle washer. Once upon a time he was a metro editor and copy editor at the Akron Beacon Journal. Send love letters and trash talk to dave.wilson@delmio.com. Or post a comment. Whatever.