What A Difference Four Years Might Make

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Last time around, back in the days of Swiftboating and All-The-Propaganda-That-Could-Possibly-Be-Catapaulted, Billmon pretty much went to ground:

"What I finally had to confront was the fact that truth alone is impotent in the face of modern propaganda techniques – as developed, field tested, refined and deployed by Madison Avenue, the Pentagon, the think tanks, the marketing departments of major corporations, the communications departments of major research universities, etc. To paraphrase Hannah Arendt, the peculiar vulnerability of historical truth (which means political truth) is that it isn’t inherently more plausible than outright lies, since the facts could always have been otherwise."

Then he pretty much disappeared, finally resurfacing sporadically recently, back where he began at the DailyKos.

And now?

Well......

Believe it or not, Billmon's on a 'Landslide Watch' of a generational, wooden stake in the heart of the unholy Atwater/Ailes/Rove Zombie, kind:

The final 2008 Gallup Poll is out, and it is showing a last minute surge towards Obama and the Democrats.

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The numbers:

Obama: 53%
McCain: 42%

However, when Gallup allocates undecided voters (based on what methodology I don't know) Obama's share climbs to 55%, giving him an 11-point spread over McCain's 44%.

These are blowout numbers. By comparison, in 1988 (the last time one of the two major parties posted a decisive win, without a significant third-party candidate in the race) George Bush Sr. won 53.4% to Michael Dukakis's 45.7%.

In other words, if Gallup's final poll is roughly right, John McCain may very well end up underperforming Mike Dukakis.

And even more to the point, what seems to be amazing Mr. Mon most is the fact that the slime of the McCain campaign will not stick.

Quite amazing, really if you think about it.

And, as I pointed out at the time, it also demonstrates that all the Netroots pushback didn't sink the Dems in 2004, but instead almost helped them win the thing.

And this time it is even more of a force.

However,in the coming months it will have to switch it's focus towards, as Roosevelt once said paraphrasically to his left flank....

'Get out there and force us (ie. Obama et al.) to do the right thing'

OK?

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Greg Palast, on the other hand, still worries about the attempts of the electoral anoerexics and their binge and purge mentality.


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