Schumer: 'The McCain/Palin campaign has peaked'

[tekisui]

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Schumer_The_McCainPalin_campaign_has_peaked_0914.html

Sen. Chuck Schumer said on NBC that the McCain campaign had a reached a peak in popularity that could not sustain a lead over Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama.

NBC's Tom Brokaw asked the senator to comment on the surge in national polls for John McCain's campaign.

"It's still an even race," Schumer said. "And i hate to keep reiterating, as this campaign unfolds, I think in a certain sense, the McCain/Palin campaign has peaked. They had all the excitement. Everyone's excited that for the first time the Republican Party chose a woman candidate. But the fundamentals matter in a race like this and they don't have the fundamentals. You cannot -- you cannot win an election if it's premised on a fundamental mistruth, which is that they are change. They are not change from George Bush."

Schumer went on to criticize Palin for cronyism, support for Senator Ted Stevens, abuse of power, not releasing her tax returns.

video at link....

[gabeana]

1. that is what I sense

after all celebrity good will from the press, and what they achieved was a tie, I'd still rather be in Obama's position than theirs

[tekisui]

2. It's all downhill from here. Hopefully this will catch

on as the meme. McPOW/ Phalin have peaked.

[tblue37]

9. They are pissing off the press--or at least some people in the press--

and that could do them some damage in the long run. A lot of McCain's advantage is based on the fact that the corporate owners of the media want Republicans to win. But a lot of it was also because, as Tweety once said, the press are McCain's base. One blogger calls them the "barbecue media"--i.e., the reporters who cover up Mccain's gaffes and write glowing "Straight Talk War Hero POW Express" pieces about him. But his campaign's recent groundless attacks on the press, their refusal to let Palin answer questions from the press, and their sequestering of Mr. Straight Talk War Hero POW himself from the press have all undercut the goodwill of that base.

I think his surly interview with the Time Magazine reporter was a major mistake. Better to have no interview at all than to be snotty and snappish with the interviewer, especially over softball questions designed to give him free positive publicity.

Also, his "Read my book!" responses suggest that he may no longer be mentally capable of answering questions that involve more than merely repeating a string of memorized talking points.
I worry aout the way things are going now, ebcuase of course the RW owns the media and the voting machines and has placed oepratives at all levels of the government infrastructure involved in running elelctions and passign judgment on the validity of challenegs to elections, but the way teh McCain people are annoying the press gives me hope, becuse the mainstream (corporate) press consists of a lot of Heathers, and they do require that their egos be properly and endlessly stroked.

A great example is Joe Klein. He has really turned on McCain and has started to actively report on the McCain camp's lies and on the irresponsibility of naming Palin to the VP spot. He used to be willing to carry water for the Republicans, but now he is obviously very unhappy with them and willing to tell ugly truths about them.

[MannyGoldstein]

3. Chucky Schumer Has Fallen On Hard Times

His buddies running hedge funds - for whom Schumer battled hard to keep their 15% income tax - are having financial difficulties. Some are down to two yachts.

I'm sending Schumer a quarter to help out - I hope that we all can do the same.

[Cha]

12. So since he's fallen on

hard times..he's really workin' his a$$ for Obama? :)

[grantcart]

4. Schumer is right on - and today on Fox - Rove agrees

[tekisui]

5. In reality, they have no other voters who would be willing to

go their way. They will only lose more an more, and they continue to be exposed as the nasty lying extremists they are.

[samsingh]

6. what did rove agree to?

[grantcart]

18. Obama is still likely to win the election

[cliffordu]

7. Jeeez, grantcart...If rove agrees with ANYTHING I think - I have to be suspect.

This guy plays the long con like a natural born grifter.

[grantcart]

10. even a broken clock is right twice a day.

Actually I think Rove knows that this week the Palin bounce will recede and that he is trying to prepare the lemmings for some disappointment.

Just because he is a grifter doesn't mean he can't be taken.

Don't think "The Sting", think "The Matchstick Men"

[cliffordu]

14. Or, when you wanna think about Annette Benning.....The Grifters.....heh.

:hi:

[kansasblue]

8. It reminds me of Gary Hart.

The newness is great. They are defined. But then you get to know them and they are just kind of the same. That will happen to Palin.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Hart

[yellowcanine]

16. Where's the moose burger?

[karynnj]

20. Gary Hart was a credible, intelligent Senator

with nothing in common with Palin.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

11. How can 80% of Americans believe we're on the wrong track

while the race is now dead even? Maybe the fact that McBusch is more of the same hasn't been driven home enough?

[intheflow]

19. Polls are pretty unreliable for a number of reasons.

The way they word the questions/the questions they ask could lead to an appearance of people supporting McCain. More suspect, though, is just who are they polling? If 65% of the electorate are pro-Obama, but they interview equal numbers of Dems & Repukes, of course it's going to look like we're dead even. And if they're calling people on land lines, that's even more unreliable because the majority of people with land lines are older folks. I'd guess a majority of people under 50 in the US have a cell as their primary phone line, and don't pay for a land line. And then, they could always just be pulling numbers completely out of their asses, and we'd never know it because their records are proprietary information not available for public viewing. This is why I don't listen to the polls any more.

[geek tragedy]

13. "you cannot win an election if it's premised on a fundamental mistruth"

Oh dear lord, he can't really believe that, can he?

[Tutonic]

15. He's right. Watch what happens next week with the numbers.

Even the Pro-Mccain pollsters (Rasmussen, Gallup, USA, SUSA, Zogby, CNN, NBC, CBS, WAPO, etc) cannot keep their inflated numbers afloat. As much as they'd like to see the Palin myth propelled further, the simple truth is unless Joe Sixpack in the heartland gets to "feel her up" and then brag about it to all his toothless friends he ain't gonna vote for her. The Republican Brand is dying and that party put to an end the myth that a feminist could be right wing. She can't. They also put to an end the myth that John McCain puts "Country First". He's been exposed and now Move On, SEIU, AFL-CIO, and others can step in and do what Obama like Kerry refuses to do. Curtain.

[suston96]

17. "Country first"? Know what's better than that? "We, the People first..." Good post. nt