Part Two: Abandoning Everything He'd Always Stood For

[l33tminion]

Even the corporate media is getting annoyed at McCain's dirty tactics. Even former supporters think that John McCain has sold out. Even Karl Rove says McCain has gone too far with the lying ad campaigns. McCain's campaign is pulling out all the other usual dirty tricks, too: Push polling, poisoned ballot applications, challenging the voter registration of people who've lost their homes.

And yet McCain pushed ahead after the conventions, and McCain is still ahead. Fortunately, he has yet to secure a majority, and it's worth noting that Obama is doing better than Kerry was at this time four years ago. Still...

(Also interesting is the fact that Colin Powell still won't say who he's voting for, and he's got some very positive things to say about Obama. Powell has integrity, I'm glad he doesn't sacrifice that by standing behind John McCain, and I'm still hoping he'll bite the bullet and actually endorse Obama.)

Comments

[chiaki777.livejournal.com]

yeah, a few months back, I was willing to see him as president if Obama dropped the ball. He was frank about what was going to happen with him (i.e. we're going to war, suck it up) and now... I can barely see any point in letting him have even that position of senator >.>

[peristaltor.livejournal.com]

I actually doubt McCain is ahead. Most media pollsters are doing a crappy job asking people who they like simply because they don't give people the option of answering "I don't know yet". This skews the results significantly.

Rather than reporting and time-intensive activities such as that, they are just reporting the horse race and skewing the results to increase the drama. On The Media did a story about it last week.

Still, it is infuriating.