Friday, June 27, 2008

I do not understand

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.

The Man, The Myth, The Bio

East Bay, California, United States
Problem: I have lots of opinions on politics and culture that I need to vent. If I do not do this I will wind up muttering to myself, and that's only like one or two steps away from being a hobo. Solution: I write two blogs. A political blog that has some evident sympathies (pro-Obama, mostly liberal though I dissent on some issues, like guns and trade) and a culture blog that does, well, cultural essays in a more long-form manner. My particular thing is taking overrated things (movies, mostly, but other things too) down a peg and putting underrated things up a peg. I'm sort of the court of last resort, and I tend to focus on more obscure cultural phenomena.