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i know it must have been difficult to write it with one....

Wall Street Ends McCain’s Lucky Streak

Peter A. Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute, specializes in polling of electoral battleground states, including Ohio and Florida. Click here for Mr. Brown’s full bio.

The Republican presidential nominee had lived a charmed life during this election year.

At every stage in the campaign, when the fickle finger of fate had to point one way or another, it turned inJohn McCain’s direction.

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Let's seem McCain (R, Media) has been the darling of the media and only the media, while Ron Paul was literally kept out of debates, when he won poles the pole was not published, when he ranked 3rd, his name would be kept off television screens and the 5th and 6th candidates - usually media favorites - shown. examples:



The following is a cumulative count of all votes since the Iowa Straw Poll:

Ron Paul 30% 772
Mitt Romney 23% 581
Fred Thompson 18% 470
Rudy Giuliani 10% 266
Sam Brownback 7% 168
Mike Huckabey 5% 127
John McCain 4% 110
Duncan Hunter 1% 34
Tommy Tancredo 1% 15
Other 1% 24

Total 100.00% 2567

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In New Hampshire, people voted for McCain because...they thought he was tough on immigration. Stupidity of voters aside, where would they get this impression, if McCain's campaign spread the lie, why didn't mass media mention that, oh he had a little to do with amnesty.

The point - McCain is as much a media creation as Obama - and he has discovered, to his chagrin that he's no longer as useful to the people cutting checks for our 'journalists' and has been left to flounder. Good riddance. Obama will be worse, for whites, and, oh anyone who appreciates the constitution but McCain is at least getting what he deserves. Both are simply driving us off the abyss, just choosing different routes.



side note the quip about McCain's home state being the 'media' is shamelessly lifted from Nicholas Stix

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Seems I am not the only one who's noticed:
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Media Turns On McCain

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In New York Magazine, John Heilemann has a piece on the MSM turning on McCain:

I have sat across from Chris Matthews enough times now, participating in that psychotropic ritual known as Hardball, that I thought I’d heard it all—but then the other night he uncorked a doozy that actually rendered me speechless. (No, that is not a misprint.) “Let’s start with John McCain,” he said to me on the air shortly after the first presidential debate between McCain and Barack Obama. “Do you think he was too troll-like tonight? You know, too much of a troll?” I laughed. “Seriously,” Chris went on. “Do people really want to put up with four years of that? Of [him] sitting there, angrily, grumpily, like a codger?”

As both a media figure and a human being, Matthews is sui generis—and yet what made his comments so remarkable was how unremarkable they were. In the past several weeks, the shift of press-corps sentiment against McCain has been stark and undeniable, even among heavies such as Matthews long accused by the left of being residents of the Arizonan’s amen corner. Jonathan Alter, Joe Klein, Richard Cohen, David Ignatius, Jacob Weisberg: all former McCain admirers now turned brutal critics. Equally if not more damaging, the shift has been just as pronounced, if less operatic, among straight-news reporters. Suddenly, McCain is no longer being portrayed as a straight-talking, truth-telling maverick but as a liar, a fraud, and an opportunist with acute anger-management issues.[How John McCain Went From Maverick to Crank, October 5, 2008]

Of course, he was always like that, but they didn’t feel like pointing it out as long as he was a “maverick”–a loose cannon aimed at the Republican Party.

But as Mickey Kaus points out, none of those people were ever actually McCain supporters–they’re Democrats. Once McCain became the Republican nominee, opposed to Obama, the “promised prince” then McCain’s days as a media idol were over.