I must confess I don't entirely understand Beltway thinking. Pundits seem to be so eager to proclaim that McCain "won" the week (for the second week in a row), and yet he's still down in the polls by a good clip, both nationally and state-by-state, with pretty much no uptick in the past two weeks. In fact, this week we saw two polls showing McCain losing by double digits to Obama. Other polls say differently, but no poll has McCain winning. And the fundamentals are unchanged: terrible economy, terrible war, and McCain still cannot give a speech to save his life.
Now, if John McCain had said or done something that changed the fundamentals of the race, or if the polling had radically changed, I'd say this is a discussion worth having. But I'd like to thank the MSM for reminding me that Washington reality does not necessarily bear any resemblance to, you know, reality.
