Sunday, November 2, 2008

PREFACE:

This morning on FOX News Sunday, McCain campaign manager Rick Davis said that the McCain campaign had taken no money away from the effort for the final 72-hours and put it into TV advertising, something confirmed later in the show by Karl Rove. Obama manager David Plouffe promised that Tony Romo would not vote on Tuesday and added that Pennsylvania was not as close as McCain’s peeps claim. Rove was next, and he added that John McCain has a “very steep, uphill climb” to victory on Tuesday.

Over on ABC’s This Week, Davis and Steph argued about whether or not things were going horribly awry for the McCain campaign. Obama strategist David Axelrod was confident, and he kindly added that he would do what he could to see that John McCain hypothetically would be a “successful” President should the thinkable happen: “I love him,” said Axelrod of McCain.

On NBC’s Meet the Press, Fred Thompson told Tom Brokaw that Obama would “take this country down a road toward a liberal welfare state, European-style policy like we’ve never seen before.” Next segment, John Kerry trashed John McCain and Republicans and said that Obama would be bipartisan and appoint Republicans to his cabinet. He sneered that John McCain no longer opposes torture: “It sends a terrible message to the rest of the world.”

On CBS’ Face the Nation, Axelrod said that Obama was going to “shatter the red State-blue State paradigm.” Lindsey Graham boasted: “I will beat Michael Phelps’s swimming before Barack Obama wins North Carolina, and I can’t swim.” On the next segment, Chuckie Schumer said that Dems will be a long shot to gain 60 Senate seats but it is possible. He called this year’s crop of Dem Senate candidates “non-ideological” and “thoughtful.” John Ensign countered with the Al Franken example, and indicated that he did not say yesterday that Sarah Palin was unqualified. He meant that Obama wasn’t qualified.

On CNN’s Late Edition, Senator Arlen Specter said that there would be no Bradley Effect in Western Pennsylvania but there might be a disparity between what people tell pollsters and how they actually vote. He also predicted that whoever won the election, there could be no tax cuts for anyone. Senator Junior Casey, by phone, made incoherent noises and seemed to indicate that his favorite sitcom was Charles in Charge.

Read the complete show-by-show review at RedState.com.