John McCain faces an almost impossible task over the next three weeks. He has to claw back at least a six point deficit, the new Washington Post poll has the gap at 10 points, as the candidate of the incumbent party in an environment where 90 percent of registered voters think that the country has “gotten pretty seriously off on the wrong track”.
Today, he unveiled a new stump speech. It uses the word fight, or some variation of it, 17 times and is beautifully written but it is hard to see it being a game changer. McCain almost certainly needs some outside event to intervene if he is going to get back into this race which seems to be breaking decisively in Obama’s favour.
But at this juncture it is worth remembering two things. First, in these circumstances it is quite impressive that McCain isn’t further behind.
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