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Holly Bailey
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Jun 13, 2007 12:07 PM
John McCain’s campaign has had a rough go lately--at least that’s what
his 2008 rivals would have you think. First, there have been the
whispers about money, that McCain won’t even match the somewhat
lackluster $12 million he raised during the first three months of the
year by the time candidates file their second-quarter numbers. (His
campaign says it’s not so, that they are on target to raise more. The
truth is, absent some leak of finance records, we really won’t know
until after June 30--the second quarter deadline.) There’s the talk
about supporters jumping ship en masse for Fred Thompson--something
that hasn’t really happened yet. Perhaps the only real disappointment
that is confirmed is McCain’s clear slide in the polls lately. He’s
down in Iowa and New Hampshire and took a big hit in this week’s Los
Angeles Times/Bloomberg poll, which found him ranked third behind
Thompson among likely GOP voters and just two points above Mitt Romney,
a guy whose poll numbers haven’t kept up with his pace as the GOP’s
fund-raising frontrunner.
But, as the New York Times reports today, Romney seems to be picking
up steam because he’s spending millions of dollars on advertising. And
in this story is perhaps another McCain problem: The head-scratching
analogy.
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