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Remainders: Conventions, experience and angry Hiltons
Jonathan Martin's Blog —
Time’s Michael Scherer reads the new Quinnipiac numbers and suggests McCain’s focus on energy is the best way for him to talk economics.
Gallup finds the number of Americans who approve of the surge is increasing.
McCain’s 2000 communications director, Dan Schnur, gives Romney a major thumbs-down in The New York Times.
Jindal may be out of the veepstakes, but Ruffini’s pushing him for convention speaker.
Speaking of which, is the convention bounce a myth?
McClatchy interviews historians Robert Dallek and Richard Norton Smith, who question the value of ...
Obama's Mistake
Weekly Standard Blog —
CNN's Roland Martin argues that Obama's big mistake was that mentioned "Bush, then McCain" then lobbed the charge that "they" would make racist attacks. Had Obama simply referred to "bloggers, columnists, conservative talk show hosts ... he would have been absolutely right," says Martin. "I can understand why [McCain's] camp is responding the way they are. I would do the exact same thing."
Actually conservative columnists, bloggers, and talk-show hosts aren't engaging in race-baiting, but Obama would have gotten away with a more general smear against Republicans--as he did last month.
