If the ballot was McCain and Clinton, 46 percent said they would choose McCain and 46 percent for Clinton.If the race was between McCain and Obama, the polls said McCain would have 44 percent and Obama 43 percent.
At the end of the day, there are two things that are important to me: My family and the fight for freedom. I had consulted with my family and reached the decision that I would fight for freedom from somewhere else. And there has been a reaction to that decision. The overwhelming reaction has been that people would like me to keep up the fight for freedom inside the U.S. House.I am overwhelmed and humbled by the reaction of my colleagues. When the conservative movement asks you to stick around, that’s a pretty tough request to turn down.”
Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet
Truth or smear, we don’t really know. Personally, I think the alleged affair McCain is accused of in the New York Times is garbage. Nonetheless, it might actually help him. Apparently he has been able to use this to his advantage as a fund raising mechanism and it’s working.
Continuing in their effort to pit themselves as victims of a liberal media assault, John McCain’s campaign sent out a fundraising solicitation this afternoon based on the New York Times story.
“With John McCain leading a number of general-election polls against Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, The New York Times knew the time to attack was now, and they did,” writes campaign manager Rick Davis in the email.
Stoking conservative mistrust of the Times, Davis alleges that the paper “gave MoveOn.org a sweetheart deal to run advertisements attacking General Petraeus.” He also quotes some of the conservative pundits who are rallying around McCain.
And apparently several left wing bloggers have come out chastising the Times for their actions.
Greg Sargent, at TPM’s Horse’s Mouth, writes that the Times doesn’t “have the goods” and “shouldn’t have gone there.” Matthew Yglesias accuses the Times of “shameful” dealings in “innuendo,” though he’s interested in the sex-free, lobbying aspects of the story. Big Tent Democrat at TalkLeft calls it “troubling” and bad for Democrats. Kevin Drum writes of the Times that “there’s no way that they ‘nailed’ anything.”
Other blogs — like MyDD, despite some passing glee; DailyKos; and, mostly, OpenLeft — are essentially ignoring the story. Carpetbagger Report seems almost alone in obsessing about it.