Can John McCain Pull This One Off?

Can John McCain possibly win this thing? Can he actually win in November?

The outlook is bleak: The polls are ugly, the Electoral College map is grim, the economy is getting worse, and McCain’s choice of Sarah Palin may have energized the Republican base, but it has appalled and frightened many outside it.

Still, McCain’s campaign has come back from the dead more than once. He survived his early support for immigration reform, he not only survived but has prospered from his support for the Iraq war surge, and he rebuilt a primary campaign that was in a state of near collapse to win the Republican nomination.

But can McCain do it again? Can he come back? And if so, how? What does he have to do between now and Election Day, and what does he have to do in Tuesday’s second presidential debate in Nashville?

In a column in mid-September, I assembled a panel of Democratic experts and asked them if Barack Obama could manage to lose. (General conclusion: Yes,... (Read Full Article)

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