Why are McCain supporters so angry ?

There are increasing news reports about McCain’s campaigns getting more heated and angry. Why are McCain voters so angry ? They aren’t even losing yet. Obama’s supporters should be the ones crying foul of all the attacks coming from McCain’s camp but they are surprisingly quiet. Why the difference ? The McCain camp is saying the press is unfairly giving preferential treatment, yeah maybe. Remember the times when the press didn’t even blow a nose when Bush went to war in Iraq. Well, what comes around, goes around. The press this time is taking the Obama side because :

• The national mood has changed after 7 years and Obama has simply tapped into this changing mood. People are asking what went wrong and they are figuring out the answers.
• Obama’s momentum has increased to the point of overwhelming force when Colin Powell started to endorse him and the press is not one to lose an opportunity to align with the winner.
• There really is not much dirt to pick on Obama anyway, yawn…

It all boils down again to the genetic makeup of the Republicans. They chose the strategy of divide and conquer. They chose to make use of the festering anger and swelling pro-conservative emotions caused by 9/11 to get a mandate. Their power base now consists of the extreme segments of the population and their angry ideology is seeping into the mainstream. They have chosen to make a deal with the devil. Now, the devil is starting to consume them. It’s payback time. It can also be a dangerous time if the Republicans were to lose. When the devil knows it’s losing, it’s not going to quietly go away. It’s really up to McCain and those in charge of the Republican party to purge the devils, to unambiguously and publicly, without any preconditions, denounce and reject the worst and the extreme of the conservative ideology. They have a critical responsibility and a choice, purge the devil and embark on a new spiritual path, one that unites rather than divides or continue embracing the devil till all hell breaks lose.

The Chronicle endorses Obama

The Chronicle with along history of backing Republicans, has now endorsed Obama. The avalanche has now begun. The feedback loop generated by the press will start to give Obama an unstoppable momentum that McCain will find increasingly difficult to reverse. The final sprint to the finishing line has begun…

Has Obama won yet

Well, I think a lot of people in the Obama camp would like to believe that the Obama campaign’s on a roll now. Here’s one BBC News take. Another one that gives Obama a 9-point lead. Reuters claims Obama making inroads into America’s wealthiest. Here’s CNN’s poll of polls. If you do a google search using “Obama point lead” as keywords, you’ll get one heck of a list in favor of Obama. And if you use “McCain point lead”, you’ll also get one heck of a list but, no they’re not in favor of McCain unfortunately for him. All this must sound like music to Obama’s supporters. The mainstream media have generally been more generous towards Obama than McCain during this campaign. Maybe because the journalists like Obama more, maybe it’s a historic election with the first African-American, maybe it just makes good viewership numbers. But the battle is far from over. I have a feeling that the onus and burden is heavier on Obama to win than McCain. He needs a convincing statistically safe advantage in the polls which he hasn’t quite achieve yet. In my view, Obama is __still__ the underdog and it’s only the current economic crisis that appears to turn the tide in his favor. But generally, his chief weakness of being inexperienced and being African-American still weighs in on the back of people’s minds and if McCain can bring that uneasiness to the forefront again, then the situation can still turn 180 degress. So it’s still up for grabs and if McCain stops playing lousy politics and be true to his core principles by focusing on solutions to problems rather than causing more problems, he can still up the ante.