What if — special presidential version
Charlie Cook of the Cook Report said in the New York Times last week of John McCain's campaign:
“It’s effectively over,” said Charlie Cook, the editor of The Cook Political Report, a nonpartisan newsletter. “The physicians have left the hospital room and it’s the executors of the estate that are taking over.”
The media's portrayal of this, of course, is a campaign in decline. A frontrunner -- sort of -- who fell from grace.
But what if he never was? What if the only reason he seemed like a viable candidate is because he became the favorite Republican of John Stewart of the Daily Show, would appear on any Sunday morning network news talk show for the asking? What if he seemed like a bigger deal in Minnesota because our guy was clearly vying to be his running mate?
What if the story here isn't the failure of John McCain to sustain a candidacy, but the inability of political experts to adequately assess a candidate's electability?
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