"I think the McCain folks realize if they can get this thing down in the mud, drag Obama into the mud, that's where they have the best advantage to win," said Matthew Dowd, who worked with many top McCain campaign advisers when he was President Bush's chief strategist in the 2004 campaign, but who has since had a falling out with the White House. "If they stay up at 10,000 feet, they don't." Full Story »
Posted by Terry Gamble
Further media documentation that the "straight talk express" is very willing "to go negative" and then spin it as if it isn't really negative, it's the Obama campaign that is negative--in fact it is all their fault ( The tone of this ... whole campaign would have been very different if Senator Obama had accepted my request for us to appear in town hall meetings all over America, the same way Jack Kennedy and Barry Goldwater had agreed to do so, McCain said." see quote here:http://www.columbiaspectator.com/node/55573)
