Keeping the Faith
Even as John McCain enjoys his bounce, it’s hard not to realize that Obama people planned for this. Looking back at the primaries, I recall similar moments of stress and adversity when Obama supporters were convinced that certain death was imminent. And yet, Obama won the nomination, despite some pretty serious attacks.
Polls don’t win elections, and as George W. Bush showed us in 2000, the popular vote doesn’t win the election, either. It’s the electoral college that matters. And with Obama, we’re seeing a similar strategy that we saw back in the primaries when he was racing for delegates, not the popular vote.
Though McCain is still up in the overall polls, the battleground states are another matter. It’s like the Obama people are ignoring the polls, and continuing to execute their plan for electoral votes, just as they did with delegates in the primary.
So to all my friends out there currently freaking out about McCain’s post-convention bounce, take a deep breath. The Obama people know what they’re doing. This is the operation that beat the Clinton machine and the Democratic party establishment. What’s the McCain team compared to that?
