So after a painful period of watching Barack Obama's lead in the polls slowly slip away, we now find ourselves right back where we were pre-RNC: ahead.
This is no small thing, either--McCain held a hefty lead after his Convention. By some accounts, it was 6 or 7 points. So the fact that Obama's gone from a 7 point deficit to a 6 point lead, leaving him with a 50% holding in the polls, indicates a real change in the way voters are thinking about this choice.
And with good reason.
The economy took a nasty turn this past week, leaving Wall Street in panic mode and the government in bailout mode. Dubya has now proposed a 700 billion dollar bailout plan that will leave a hefty emptiness in your wallet. That money isn't even going entirely to American businesses--the plan extends to foreign banks and enterprises that just have roots in the country. That isn't an economic plan, or at the very least a smart one. It's just noise. It's the conservative government trying to make you feel better; they're saying, "It's okay, we're doing something", even though that something isn't enough.
This whole mess was brought about by that very conservative government, or more precisely, the conservative economic philosophy it follows. The excessive deregulation that makes up their entire questionable appeal has led us to shady business practices and almost sinful greed on the part of Wall Street's big corporations.
We need a change from that deregulation philosophy, and that's a change that won't be brought about by John McCain, who would not only continue that deregulatory philosophy, but worsen it; his nearly three-decade career in the Senate has been founded on that very ideology. And now, suddenly, he's criticizing the White House for its lack of regulatory practices.
Please. The American people aren't stupid.
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