- Top Features:
- War Room
- Glenn Greenwald
- Broadsheet
- Joan Walsh
- Camille Paglia
- Since You Asked
- Follow Salon:
Read other letters about this article
THE STUPID POLLS, NOT KEEPING YOUR EYE ON THE PRIZE, AND WHITE FOLKS IN SMALL TOWNS
Folks, Barack is behind McCain in the average of the NATIONAL polls due to the OUTLIER GALLUP POLL taken right after the Republican convention. It's McCain's bounce so calm down. The state polls are what counts the most and if everything holds today, Barack will be the next President of the United States. Sure, the excitement has been transferred to McCain's running mate, but she's being found out. Every day people are discovering that her knowledge of the would is about as shallow as a cup of tea. The debates will matter.
But ads matter too. Most low-information white voters aren't stupid. But someone must effectively communicate what Bush/McCain has negatively affected their lives during the last eight years, and what Barack plans to do about it. Barack has one of the greatest pitches EVER. TAX CUTS FOR EVERYONE, but the rich. McCain has convinced some poor whites that Baracks gonna send their hard earned dollars to the negras. Barack should be on the television everyday talking TAX CUTS and WAR and how those cuts will be paid for by ending the war in IRAQ, or he will lose. He will not get their vote by simply saying McCain=Bush.
