Washington, DC
It says something about the mood in Washington that the chatter today have revolved around who might get what job in an Obama administration rather than which states the McCain campaign is closing in. With polling day only four days away, McCain doesn’t appear to be gaining in the swing states at the speed he needs to. The Obama campaign is sufficiently confident not to have scheduled a stop in Pennsylvania, a state McCain needs to flip, before polling day and is instead sending Obama into traditionally Republican states.
Given the state of the polls, the Obama campaign will be quite happy to run down the clock on the last weekend of the campaign. A weekend with no major news will be good news for Obama. While the McCain campaign will try and turn up the volume on national security, an issue that remains a McCain strong point.
PS It was a beautiful autumn day in DC today, it felt more like late September than late October.
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