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19 Jul 2008 09:57 pm
Dissent Of The Day
By Patrick Appel
A reader writes:
Twice now the Dish has written that "the McCain and Obama positions on
Iraq will be as minimal as McCain can make them by November." I simply
don't understand how that could be politically tenable for McCain.
Obama is favored by something like 30 points on the economy and 20 on
domestic issues more generally. Iraq and foreign affairs more generally
are the only issues McCain can feasibly run on. If he moves towards
Obama he will cut his own legs out from under him. Maliki has more or
less done that already, putting McCain in a very awkward position. But
moving towards Obama on Iraq would take away one of the few contrasts
that could possibly be favorable to McCain. How does he avoid an
overwhelming landslide if he can't keep both sharp contrasts and focus
on the Iraq issue?
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