crackerjack
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This seems like a pretty solid analysis of McC's election strategy from Finkelstein, who's not always the most candid commentator.
http://timesonline.typepad.com/comment/2008/09/take-a-look-at.html
http://timesonline.typepad.com/comment/2008/09/take-a-look-at.html
McCain will find it hard to reverse this overall position. So what can he do?
Provide shocks.
He is just about capable of turning the race for brief periods. His one chance of winning is that one of his small short-lived spikes coincides with election day.
His strategy therefore will not be the long grind of building a message and winning trust. It will be to pull rabbits out of hats. He has to keep turning the race to keep himself in it.
And then hope he has kept one bit of reckless surprise back big enough to win, to be timed right for the end of the race.