All hail the new media drumbeat for 3Q 2008!

All hail!

Another meaningless poll that will be beaten to death by network talking heads: “Republican support, enthusiasm down“.

Other issues the media also relentlessly hyped the following but was unable to kill:

The economy — so far, still expanding.

The war — the media was unable to kill it.  And we may even see a little twinkle at the end of the tunnel.

Global warming — Apparently not pressing enough for the Senate to debate it any more this year.

Global AIDS - golly, that might have been overblown a little.

My thoughts:  Republicans will likely lose some seats in Congress.  However, and I may be alone on this, I thing McCain will handily defeat Obama in November.

Why? McCain was the media’s darling for years.  That will not change.  And Obama is not an individual–he is a product offered by savvy politcal marketers.  Mature Americans don’t buy that shit. Americans were supposedly turning grayer every year, and we have been told that senior Americans were going to be turning the Social Security crank harder and harder every year until the Baby Boomers phase out.  These people like politicians like McCain and Clinton. And they vote like crazy.

What’s changed?