Originally Posted by
SicEmBaylor
It's not hype. I'm basing it on the following factors.
1. Thus far, McCain's campaign is SLIGHTLY more competent than Bob Dole's '96 campaign but not by much. He's a terrible candidate, his visuals are horrible, he criticizes when he ought to hold his fire and he holds his fire when he ought to criticize, his staff seems every bit as inept as he is a bad campaigner, and he hasn't shown he knows how to win a national election.
2. His fundraising has been lethargic.
3. He's a Republican running at a time when Republicans, nationally, are VERY unpopular.
4. He's trying to follow one of the most unpopular Presidents in American history. To boot, Bush is a two-term President which makes it even more unlikely that the American public will choose a continuation of Republican administration.
To summarize, you can't expect to win as a Republican when you have one of the most inept Presidential campaigns in recent history to follow one of the most unpopular Presidents in American history.
Obama's campaign is everything McCain's isn't. He's strategically brilliant, he's captivating, interesting, he can raise money, and he represents a change from the current Republican administration.
Obama is going to win short of some spectacular implosion or he gets caught in bed with a dead hooker.