If Obama Were Sporting, He'd Spot McCain Ten Points

McCain-friendly media is so desperate to keep this race competitive that every poll with an Obama lead is pre-spun to show that he has problems. Not problems winning the poll, mind you, but ... problems.

Can I just note that I seem to live in some kind of mirror universe where the fact that Barack Obama has, for months, maintained a modest lead over John McCain in every public poll constitutes bad news for Obama and that the specific reason it constitutes bad news for Obama is that the larger political climate is favorable to Obama. The trouble of course is that given the favorable climate the expectation is that Obama will lead, so in order to "really" win, he needs to win by some gigantic margin -- merely being the first Democrat in over thirty years to secure a majority doesn't cut it. Or something.

There's an expectations game in the primaries. In the general election the first past the post wins. This is totally stupid.

What I just wrote is good news for John McCain.

Those 20 new field offices in Virginia are great news for McCain, too.