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For no apparent reason here's a couple unrelated things I've been thinking:

WTF is Obama doing re FISA? Hello? Is it really just because he's taking a pile of money from AT&T?

One good thing for Obama that comes from having McCain as an opponent (where I otherwise see McCain as probably the toughest Republican he could be facing) is that it makes Obama's strategy of targeting all 50 states (or at least way more than most Dems have traditionally targeted) doubly powerful. McCain is an old man. He's going to be physically exhausted by being forced to travel to so many traditionally republican states. It doesn't seem implausible that he just won't be able to do it. Health may really play a roll. If he looks old and tired in the debates he is toast.

And I thought this comment from Yglesias' page was pretty astute:

One of the reasons I can see for the Obama Campaign's curious decision to target Georgia is that Georgia's Republicans are disproportionately the types, who look at McCain and say, meh. And, the kinds of things McCain would have to say to the Georgia Republicans to motivate them to vote for him are exactly the kinds of things, which if he says them too loudly, too close to November, will discourage independents in, say, Michigan or Missouri, from voting for McCain.

The Obama campaign has to find some places in the country, where McCain can be pressured to make the kinds of statements he made regularly in the primary. Georgia is one of those places.

- jim 6-27-2008 4:25 pm [link] [add a comment]






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