Bird’s-Eye View

When you’re losing to your opponent among voters who think the economy is the top issue - and that’s the overwhelming majority of people - you need to outflank your opponent on another front.
For Republican John McCain, who is slipping farther and farther behind Democrat Barack Obama with those voters focused on the economy, he […]

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First, a hilarious observation.
For a little election nostagia, drive west on Buchanan Avenue in Lancaster city and look for a white sign to the right. It’s no illusion. It says “Vote Nixon/Agnew.”
And the top song of 1968, when Maryland Gov. Spiro Agnew joined Richard Nixon at the top of the Republican ticket? Press play below.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXG83p2nkHw

Na naaa […]

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Politico.com says John McCain is pulling out of Michigan, ceding the industrial state that’s struggled in an post-industrial world to Barack Obama.
In politics, I like to say it’s as much about what they don’t say as it is about what they do say. I’ll show you what I mean. From Politico.com:
McCain will go off TV […]

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First, a “what’s up” to the Elizabethtown College non-fiction class I spoke to this afternoon. Welcome fellow Blue Jays to The Nest.
Can’t resist a plug for the alma mater.
Second, let’s go over a few things to watch for in tonight’s debate between Joe Biden and Sarah Palin, our veep nominees.
How much Biden talks about Palin
Not […]

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Wes McDonald, a noted conservative author and professor at Elizabethtown College (my alma mater; Go Blue Jays!) has some not so sunny news for the McCain-Palin ticket. He said during an interview this afternoon that Barack Obama appears headed for a “landslide.”
“McCain has done nothing to exert anything of leadership,” McDonald said during an interivew. […]

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Caught this at Politico.com. Apparently, after stumbling through the Katie Couric interview and now facing rising concern among conservatives about her ability to be vice president, Sarah Palin is going back on the airwaves. While in “debate camp” in Arizona, Palin will do a round of interviews on conservative talk radio:
After the debate and talk […]

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Slate has a must-read assessment of John McCain’s gambit:
McCain needed to do something. He is slipping in the polls both nationally and in the battleground states. He’s playing on Obama’s turf in his effort to sell himself both as a change agent and as a steward of the economy. When voters are asked which candidate […]

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It’s no wonder why Republican John McCain would want to avoid a vote right now on bailout legislation.
Let’s say some sort of legislation comes out and is approved by the House. It would go to the Senate, and let’s assume the votes breakdown by party. Remember, Democrat Barack Obama by not taking any specific positions […]

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For those who love politics and baseball, you’re gonna enjoy this post. I’ve said all my life baseball can be a metaphor for all things, so here we go:
In an earlier post today, I said Republican John McCain found himself between a rock and a hard place about whether to vote for or against bailout […]

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U.S. Sen. Bob Casey Jr. in a phone interview that ended a couple of minutes ago had this to say about Republican John McCain’s move to suspend his campaign until Congress comes up with a solution to the Wall Street mess:
This latest thing on the debate was really bizarre in the sense that he’s saying […]

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