McCain - Great Polls, Great Press, Great Week

I have never been a big believer in polls. I am certainly not a believer in national polls when it comes to the Presidential Campaign which is in fact 50 separate elections. I am also not a big believer in conventional wisdom especially when it comes to campaigns. In campaigns I believe in the four M’s; Money, Muscle, Momentum and Message. In the case of John McCain I would say “Three outta four ain’t bad.”

Polls create buzz. Buzz generates Press. Press generates Momentum. Momentum attracts Muscle and Money.

A lesser man, a lesser candidate would have been finished after the July “implosion” of his campaign. John McCain isn’t back because he was never really gone. McCain and his message were always there if people were willing to listen to his “straight talk.”

This is a long post and I am only including excerpts of a few of the positive articles about McCain published this week.

This was posted on the ABC News Blog Political Radar.

McCain Gets Standing Ovation in S.C.

October 18, 2007 4:16 PM

ABC News' Bret Hovell Reports: It started just like any other McCain campaign event -- a stump speech, some talk about the war and government spending, and then a chance for the audience to ask questions.

But what followed was a uniquely emotional moment that brought a roomful of people to their feet in applause.

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National Review: A Second Look At McCain

Could He Be The Strongest GOPer?

By Kate O’Beirne

While Hillary Clinton is looking like a sure bet for her party’s nomination, only the reckless would wager their own money on the likely Republican nominee. With the presence of Fred Thompson and the absence of Newt Gingrich, the GOP field is now complete — and completely without a conventional frontrunner. Its fluidity has prompted a second look by the rank and file: Republicans seeking to keep their party’s base intact, while appealing to independents in order to have a shot at defeating Hillary, are taking another look at John McCain.
A veteran GOP congressional aide who has been a critic of McCain, most recently on the issue of immigration, recently surprised himself by concluding that the Arizona senator would be the best general-election candidate…

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Time: McCain Is Back

By Joe Klein

There is only one American politician who sounds like this: "With my usual suicidal, masochistic tendencies, I spoke at the Detroit Economic Club last week and supported increased fuel-efficiency standards." Yes, yes, it's John McCain, rising from the crypt, but not as a zombie. The foolishly conventional Republican McCain of last year was the zombie. No, this is the funny, free-range McCain reincarnated, the independent who dares speak to an environmental forum in New Hampshire, touting his green credentials, actually supporting a return to the Kyoto global-warming negotiations, which is anathema to most Republicans. That guy—the interesting one—is back.

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Christian Science Monitor: John McCain: Keeping Faith, On His Own Terms
How The Arizona Senator, Once A POW 'Pastor,' Finds Purpose In His Beliefs And Survival.

By Linda Feldmann

John McCain does not believe in destiny. God, he says, gives us life, shows us how to use it, and leaves it to us to carry out as we choose.
In other words, the senior senator from Arizona does not believe that in surviving the ordeal of 5-1/2 years as a prisoner of war in North Vietnam, including torture and extended periods of isolation, he has somehow been tapped by God to become the next president of the United States.

But Senator McCain, now in the thick of his second run for the Republican presidential nomination, does believe that he is still alive for a purpose.
"There is no logical reason for me to be on earth, if you look at my life, so I should spend this time trying to serve a cause greater than myself," says McCain in a Monitor interview.

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Money, Muscle, Momentum and Message...and McCain.

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