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Patterico:

Put aside your rosy scenarios. We are headed for a bloodbath. At this point, every single undecided voter is going to break for Obama. His coattails will bring in more Democrats to a Congress that has a worse approval rating than Bush. It’s absurd — but it’s going to happen.

Oddly-Spelled Jeff:

I know the debate hasn’t started yet but no matter, Obama won. Of course McCain won among FoxNews viewers, Drudge and Instapundit readers, uh-counters, Freepers and anyone who actually paid attention to what was said. None of that matters because Obama won big among the coveted can’t-see past their noses middle without whom no one, least of all a Republican candidate in a rabidly anti-Republican election cycle, can ever win. Time to welcome the new overlords, and say hello to the 21st Century’s answer to the Great Depression and the new Warren Court.

A commenter at SayUncle:

McCain has my vote, but it will be a rocky 4 years till we can get a real executive. Palin Jindal in 2012.

Ace of Spades:

McCain is now the one dealing in the airy-fairy realm of vague slogans, whereas Barack Obama is the one communicating to the country on specific issues that are paramount to them.

Socialism is making its case while capitalism remains silent, as if ashamed to even speak.

Of course Barack Oama is winning. 90% of success is just showing up, and capitalism isn’t showing up. Because McCain is too timid to fix the blame on the socialistic risk-transfer the Fannie and Freddie subprime mortgages represented.

A great harm has been done to the nation. The country is angry. They are looking for people to blame — and if John McCain is too meek or “honorable” to lay blame where it deserves to be laid, well then, they’ll blame him. And the party he represents.

Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid and yes, even Barney Frank and Chris Dodd, have no qualms whatsoever about blaming this crisis on McCain and his running mates George Bush and the GOP.

As to the “boy who cried socialism” shtick, I think hilzoy has the best response:

Seriously: given all the fretting on the right about Obama’s possible socialist leanings, of which I have seen precisely no evidence, you’d think they would have noticed that someone has recently been taking steps that are genuinely socialist. And that someone isn’t our guy; he’s theirs.

The moral of this story is: there are several roads to socialism. One is to try to bring it about. There is, as I said, no evidence that Obama wants to do that. But another is to govern so disastrously that drastic steps like nationalizing banks look like the least bad option. That was the Bush administration’s route.

If the people at the Corner are really worried about socialism, they should spend less time trying to conjure evidence of it out of thin air, and more time trying to make sure that their party nominates and elects people who will actually govern competently. Their years of cheerleading for Bush’s incompetent leadership have done more to bring about socialism in this country than William Ayers ever did.