It's hard to not see how McCain is tanking in every poll and in so many states he would need to win. But I'm sick to death of the media reporting on the polls. If Obama is running away with the race in the polls, will voters tune out and assume the race is over? That's not good news for the media. So count on them to play up the tired old character assassination the McCain campaign has pulled out in desperation. Better to tighten the race so we'll keep tuning in 'til the end.

I have the sneakiest feeling that Rove senses which way the wind is blowing, and is angling for a job on the other side.

Why is the skin on my back twitching?

Back then, McCain went pro-Iraq War; he had low fund-raising numbers; he reorganized his campaign. Romney seemed to be surging. We all thought that was his end, back then. We wrote about it here, but we were wrong.

It ain't over til it's over.

This is custom made for Salon's Conspiracy O Rama. Clearly that's proof there will be no elections next month.

the word you're looking for is "landslide." if the election were held today, some polls have obama raking in as many as 330 electoral votes.

agreed there's a long ways to go, but the increasingly obvious problem for mccain is that he -- and his attack dog palin -- have absolutely NOTHING to offer the american people but reasons why they should not vote obama, instead of reasons they should vote for mccain.

it's clear that's their only strategy, and i'm sure we'll see the attacks ramped up in the next two debates. but that large sucking sound you're hearing is the utter lack of any positive / coherent policy mccain can point to, especially in the midst of this crisis.

i can't wait for this thing to be over with.

I trust nothing, absolutely nothing, that Rove says. If he told me the sky was blue - I would want to go outside and look up. I, too, thought this is a ploy to get Dems and Obama to relax. We cannot relax. I also remember McCain has been counted out once before in this election cycle and came back from what many thought was certain defeat in the primaries. Do not count him out - especially now that he is cornered and has the Killa from Wasilla willing to say and do anything to smear their opponents.

But, on the upside, the Obama campaign has seen this movie before. I think this re-make is going to be nastier than the original but I trust his strategy. Keep your eyes on the prize and work harder. The facts are on Obama's side. Slow and steady wins the race but a strong offense combined with lightening-fast and crushing defense must also be part of the strategy.

If McCain and Palin were truly to look into a mirror, they would see a man who has betrayed himself and a woman whose appeal to the Republican base is exactly that of a 1950's Airline Stewardess. You betcha, they would also.

He's discounting all of the thousands upon thousands of RNC field operatives that will be working from sun up to well past sun down to intimidate, impinge, lie, bully, threaten and block through ANY means both minority and heavily democratic voters.

The very idea that America has 'free and fair' elections is a screaming joke!

Since 2000 the attacks on voting and voters has been brazen, overt and brutal. Hell, even a black man in Ohio actively disenfranchised people of his own race in several elections!

We need UN and EU voting observers and probably worse than any other country. Hell, forget about sending voting observers to Zimbabwe. Last I knew they couldn't use nuclear weapons to bomb the planet! America has gone the way of too many totalitarian dictatorships and my god it's not funny.

I mean for shit's sake, the politically whipped Justice Department that was being run like a private club by honor graduates of the Regent University Law School tried to bring cases of voter intimidation against DEMOCRATS of all people. If that isn't a case of Freudian transference than I can't think of any...

Rove is trying to get the talking points out to the masses so that they will gladly help put themselves in the noose yet again... I'm sure that Limpbaugh and Hannity/O'Reilly/Savage/Gibson/... will be repeating that over and over until the selection...

Yet, the people doze in restless slumber, and mind numbing idiocy... I want to move but there isn't anywhere that Bush/McCain/Palin can't reach...

"Remember that we all wrote McCain off early this year"

You did. I didn't.

"Back then, McCain went pro-Iraq War; he had low fund-raising numbers; he reorganized his campaign. Romney seemed to be surging. We all thought that was his end, back then. We wrote about it here, but we were wrong."

I was not part of your "we".

"It ain't over til it's over."

Right: McSame might win Michigan . . .

Has he not figured out yet that no one left of Hell listens to him?

Who who listen to words of Rove

Wizard of games and tricks

Listen to the deceitful word

Of a fat, shifty, prick.

Rove also claimed that Hillary Clinton would win the nomination. The thing it, he KNEW he was wrong and was trying to use his influence to swing it to Hillary, who would have been the ideal candidate for the Republicans to face.

I believe the reason he's making this claim now is to signal to the Republican base that Obama is toast. He may be wrong, of course, but still we shouldn't fall for his so-called prognosticating.

Greetings

Actually Rove calling it early is great for Obama.

It means every thinking person will work twice as hard to make it true because we are all looking for the scam, the swift boat,the rovian trick to steal the election yet again

So keep at it and don't let up even a second and even Rove can tell the truth

Once!

by accident