the citizen-viewer

Looks like team Obama did read my Sunday post. They’ve come out swinging early this week at McCain’s screwups and his weakness on the economy. The collapse of the financial system has helped (although otherwise it’s been horrible). McCain couldn’t help himself and repeated Phil Gramm’s “It’s all good” line about how the economy is strong.

Obama was on the air later that day with an attack ad using the quote. Today’s there been more of this line of argument, and McCain has had to retract and admit that “the economy is bad.” That’s a flip flop and a surrender for those keeping score. Nicely done for this two-day news cycle. Keep it going.

A look at the tracking polls shows that in the national matchup Obama is either ahead even, or down by one point. That’s an improvement over late last week. The state polls should catch up soon.

Amidst the onslaught, much of it feeding from the self-inflicted Palin gaffes that just keep coming, the McCainiacs are on their heels, unable to effectively counterpunch. For those with strong stomachs, a cyber walk over to the right side of the blogosphere today is instructive. Two indicators of conservative online wisdom, RedState and the NRO Corner, got nothin’ today. A lot of disparate confusion and whining about how unfair it is that people are picking on McCain, along with some genuine anguish at the dissolution of their family and friends’ banks. But there’s none of the gleeful strategic groupthink on how next to catapult their propaganda forward. It’s a muddle.

They are reeling from Obama’s punches, which they left themselves open to with Palin. Now keep it coming.