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John McCain spent some time being interviewed by the editorial board of the The Des Moines Register.  Clearly, he’s not a happy camper.

(Cross-posted at Clintonistas for Obama)

Early voting starts today in the great state of Ohio.  No Republican ever in the history of the United States has won the presidency if he did not win Ohio, so we Democrats would be very grateful and glad to see 20 blue Ohio electoral votes.  

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Rasmussen has numbers out today that suggest Obama must have had a good day of polling yesterday.  For the first time in this poll, he moves past 50 percent:

Obama 51

McCain 45

Rasmussen observes that this is:

the first update with results based entirely upon interviews conducted following the first Presidential Debate.

Rasmussen is out with his Monday tracking poll.  He finds the race essentially static:

Obama 50

McCain 45

Rasmussen observes:

That’s the fourth straight day Obama has been at 50% and the fourth straight day McCain has been at either 44% or 45%

John McCain likes to run around crying, “Country first,” but this week showed us what he instinctively puts first.  There are several accounts now circulating across the web that tell us quite frankly what we had suspected from the first, that John McCain’s quixotic antics last week displayed a willingness to try and save his campaign in the face of crashing poll numbers even if it meant wrecking the country.

(Cross-posted at Clintonistas for Obama)

McCain senior adviser Steve Schmidt says that the McCain campaign is going to attempt to change the conversation from the economy to other topics.  The two themes that they are going to attempt to inject into the national conversation are these:

One is that Obama is not ready to be commander in chief and that, in a time of two wars, “his policies will make the world more dangerous and America less secure.” Second . . . McCain will argue that, in a time of economic crisis, Obama will raise taxes and spending and “will make our economy worse.”

Ed Schultz reports that insiders within the McCain camp consider Palin to be “clueless”:

The campaign has held a mock debate and a mock press conference; both are being described as “disastrous.” One senior McCain aide was quoted as saying, “What are we going to do?” The McCain people want to move this first debate to some later, undetermined date, possibly never. People on the inside are saying the Alaska Governor is “clueless.”

They’re embarrassed by her, and if I wasn’t afraid for my country, I might succumb to a temptation to feel sorry for her. She is well on her way to becoming nothing more than a national joke, and some of the jokes are more than a little funny:

John McCain showed up without running mate Sarah Palin, which is a shame because she actually has a lot of experience with financial matters. You know, she lives right next to a bank.