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RCP average on Tuesday night
Obama is up by 5.5. That’s a drop from a 6.2 point lead yesterday. Given that the RCP average is the average of about ten different polls, and that it usually only changes by .1 or .2 point on any given day, a .7 point drop in one day is remarkable. Has Barack peaked? Is McCain coming back? Or did the collective consciousness decide it doesn’t want a landslide? As for the debate, I had it on for about 45 minutes, but with the annoyance of the officious, strangely frozen-featured moderator Tom Brokaw (hadn’t he retired? isn’t that where he belongs?) repeatedly lecturing the candidates in his disconcertingly loud, deep voice that they were going over the time limit (something the viewer would not have been aware of without Brokaw’s constantly drawing attention to it, since the candidates did not seem to be hogging time), it got ridiculous and I turned it off. A presidential debate is supposed to be informative, or entertaining, or both; a return to elementary school is neither.
Also, as far as the entertainment aspect of it goes, Obama’s smooth, McCain is game, but I want a return of the Joe and Sarah show. Email entry |