mr mccain

A new ad from the Obama campaign simultaneously hits John McCain on the economy and his choice of Sarah Palin as his running mate:

She’s doing one hell of a job, but come on…this is crazy.

NY Times details the madness…

Who was the highest paid individual in Senator John McCain’s presidential campaign during the first half of October as it headed down the homestretch?

And you know if they’re cutting ad spending, they’re most likely conceding those states to the Obama camp.

Here’s more from The Caucus…

While station managers in the affected states said they were not ruling out the possibility that Mr.

McCain would pump money back in before election day, on Nov. 4, the move represents a stark reordering of priorities.

That’s right. Just a 5.9% chance that McCain will be able to pull this one off.

And what would Obama’s chances be?

Why the shift?

Well, according to FiveThirtyEight’s new numbers, Obama has opened up an even wider electoral lead on McCain…

The New York Times talked to three people in the audience at the town hall on Tuesday, and they all thought the actual debate was a wash.

However, after the debate left, McCain stuck around for a few minutes and then left.

Obama stayed for a long time and tired to shake everybody’s hand.

The Wall Street Journal nails why John McCain lost last night’s debate. He failed to challenge Barack Obama on substantive matters.

A pair of articles out this weekend outline the extent to which the economic situation has altered the political landscape, and created an opportunity for Barack Obama to not only win, but win big.

Yesterday, the New York Times’ Adam Nagourney noted that the economy has given Barack Obama openings in several states that George W.

Bush won four years ago:

Yesterday I shared a story about Davis’ lobbying ties to the troubled mortgage giants.

And yesterday McCain claimed that his campaign manager hadn’t been involved with his lobbying firm for a few years.