IGNORE OBAMA ATTACK BUSH

This election boils down to whether it’s an Obama vs. McCain election (McCain wins) or an Obama vs. Bush election (Obama wins).

Voters are hungry for change; they are fed up with how Washington does business and are fed up with a president who they - fairly or not – blame for everything that went wrong in the last couple of years.

The democrats have yet to forgive Bush for the 2000 election and nothing he did or didn’t do would help them forgive him. At the same time many Americans including Democrats have questions about Obama and are not sure what to make out of him. Those same people could invision a McCain presidency as long as they are convinced that McCain is not Bush. Voters are not looking at Obama as their first choice but as an acceptable alternative.

After the Republican convention - thanks to Hurricane Gustov – Bush was pretty much out of sight and McCain succeeded in distancing himself from the president, McCain came out surging ahead in all the polls. Once the economic crises became centre focus and Bush appeared back at the forefront those numbers seemed to turn around. The argument goes like this: The economy is in crises, Bush is the president so its his fault (I’ll get to that in a further post). Bush is a Republican, McCain is a Republican, hence its McCain’s fault.

In A Rasmussen reports poll published on Thursday October 9th 45% to 28% Voters say that Barack Obama beat John McCain in Tuesday night’s presidential debate, but they also think McCain is better prepared to be president than Obama by an 11-point margin. What this says is voters would really like to vote for McCain but it seems that the president Bush is standing in their way.

I would like to see a poll put out that asks the following question: “If John McCain would be the Democratic candidate and Barak Obama the Republican candidate whom would you vote for?” my gut instincts tells me that it would be a McCain landslide in 50 states.

For McCain to win he needs to ignore Obama and attack Bush!