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Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Weak Economy Helps McCain?
Posted by: Matt Lewis at 12:00 PM
James Pethokoukis has "4 Reasons the Weak Economy is Now Helping McCain."

... I would add a 5th.  Nervous people are less adventurous.  McCain's experience makes him a safer pick.  "Hope" and "change" are great when everything is going well.  But when things start to go south, I think, people are less willing to take risks ... including political ones.  And Obama is nothing if not an unknown "risky" commodity.

But what about FDR, you ask?  First, he was much more of a known commodity.  And I think that after a complete collapse, people are willing to roll the dice.  "What do we have to lose?," they may ask.  But assuming there is not a complete collapse, I would venture that, ironically, this weak economy may help -- not hurt -- McCain ...

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Virginia Patriot writes: Tuesday, July, 15, 2008 12:47 PM
Weak Dem Candidate Helps McCain
Fear is McCain's only hope.

He has to win Democrat votes because he has alienated conservatives. Will enough Democrats be sufficiently scared of Obama to elect McCain?
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Setrimacoky writes: Tuesday, July, 15, 2008 2:40 PM
Assumptions
You are correct in my estimation, but with a caveat:

That logic is the key determining factor in selecting a candidate.

As inflation is starting to takes its toll, a logical person would realize that the candidate who would increase the size of gov't and increase our taxes would not be a good idea. But, as Chris Matthews has so poignantly revealed, when Barack talks, "I get a chill up my leg." That is not logic, that is ecstacy.
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