“Hurting - But Far From Broken”: Clacker strongly cautions any observers who think “McCain is finished”
The Monday Morning Clacker is the exceptionally wired-in, upper-New-England-based new-media publisher, who covers the New Hampshire primary in particular, and Campaign 2008 in general. He remains confident that the campaign is far from over. Some highlights from his July 17 post on Team McCain - “Hurting - But Far From Broken”:
a chance encounter in Old Town, Virginia last night and turn it into a “visit” to McCain’s national headquarters in Crystal City this afternoon.And work it did.Which is how GreenMountainPolitics1 got to spend 2 hours this afternoon wandering around McCain’s national HQ “kicking the tires”.(Mostly) unsupervised. Talking to just about everyone. About everything.
Which we consider to be a nice “get” on our part. And, at the very least, we are now more well informed…
It’s hurt them. And a lot of folks are still hurting. Bad.
Ink smarter and better informed than ours has been spilled on those stories already.
But John McCain is still standing. Tall. And so is his (dramatically scaled down) team. Because they believe that they have the best candidate. Which, eventually, the voters will reward.
You see it in their body language when they talk about him. You hear it in the background buzz in the office.
They still believe that John McCain can win. And so do we.
Now, as always, folks are welcome to dismiss our musing on office buzz as “Clacker drinking the Kool-Aid” or “GreenMountainPolitics1 doesn’t understand politics worth a damn”…
That’s fine. We’ve been wrong before.
But so everyone is clear, we’re taking quiet notes that we plan to utilize around the middle of this November.
Because John McCain is still standing… It’s only July of 2007.
Anyone that thinks this is over is out of their minds.
We’re just saying.
Click here to read the full text of the Clacker’s post.
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