Senior Republicans believe that John McCain is doomed to a landslide defeat

[Sinister]

Senior Republicans believe that John McCain is doomed to a landslide defeat which will hand Barack Obama more political power than any president in a generation.

By Tim Shipman in Durango, Colorado
Last Updated: 3:25PM GMT 26 Oct 2008

Aides to George W.Bush, former Reagan White House staff and friends of John McCain have all told The Sunday Telegraph that they not only expect to lose on November 4, but also believe that Mr Obama is poised to win a crushing mandate.

They believe he will be powerful enough to remake the American political landscape with even more ease than Ronald Reagan did in 1980.

The prospect of an electoral rout has unleashed a bitter bout of recriminations both within the McCain campaign and the wider conservative movement, over who is to blame and what should be done to salvage the party's future.

Mr McCain is now facing calls for him to sacrifice his own dwindling White House hopes and focus on saving vulnerable Republican Senate seats which are up for grabs on the same day.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/uselection2008/barackobama/3260074/Republican-fears-of-historic-Obama-landslide-unleash-civil-war-for-the-future-of-the-party.html

[Murrican]

Ya gotta love these unattributed, planted quotes...

There's so much spin, and there's no one more spinnable than journalists for publications outside the states.

I say this as an ex-pat American exiled in Canada, where the left-wing media absolutely predominates, and expresses surprise every time time people like Ralph Nader don't register on the election radar...

Americans, ex-pat or not, need to use all the filters they've learned to know that planted stories are planted for a reason. If Republicans are planting anti-McCain stories it is because they are Bush loyalists who didn't like his disloyalty, someone who wants Obama and both halves of Congress to hold Democrat blame for the coming years of mess, someone who has a Republican horse in mind for 2012 who isn't McCain or Palin, etc.

The polls make it clear that, as in the last two elections, the electorate's intentions remain fluid. Everything except a McCain landslide seems possible by the numbers as of today (Sunday, October 26).

M

[Sinister]

Ya gotta love these unattributed, planted quotes...

There's so much spin, and there's no one more spinnable than journalists for publications outside the states.

I say this as an ex-pat American exiled in Canada, where the left-wing media absolutely predominates, and expresses surprise every time time people like Ralph Nader don't register on the election radar...

Americans, ex-pat or not, need to use all the filters they've learned to know that planted stories are planted for a reason. If Republicans are planting anti-McCain stories it is because they are Bush loyalists who didn't like his disloyalty, someone who wants Obama and both halves of Congress to hold Democrat blame for the coming years of mess, someone who has a Republican horse in mind for 2012 who isn't McCain or Palin, etc.

The polls make it clear that, as in the last two elections, the electorate's intentions remain fluid. Everything except a McCain landslide seems possible by the numbers as of today (Sunday, October 26).

M

Unattributed planted quotes eh?

David Frum, a former Bush speechwriter, told The Sunday Telegraph that Republicans should now concentrate all their fire on "the need for balanced government".

"It's hard to see a turnaround in the White House race," he said. "This could look like an ideological as well as a party victory if we're not careful. It could be 1980 in reverse.

The numbers of today..
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/polls/

[DoubleEdgeSword]

While it does seem that the Republican Party is imploding, I don't trust them as far as I can throw them. As Michael Moore pointed out recently during an appearance on Larry King Live, the Republicans have been in power 20 of the past 28 years. They know how to win elections. It ain't over 'till it's over.