Arguments for McCain

Over at The Atlantic, Marc Ambinder provides some arguments that Team McCain tells his supporters to keep them energized, confident, and more importantly will get them to vote. Among them, Senator Kerry led in the early vote, and many white voters that are waffling on McCain will come back to the fold. McCain better hope so, because this latest poll is bad news for McCain. It shows Obama and McCain tied for rural voters. That it is even close is somewhat shocking.

Equally important for McCain is that he isn't swallowed up by the "anti-American" backlash that threatens the GOP (see Michelle Bachmann for a primer - and GA Senator's Saxby Chambliss's reelection is no longer a sure bet.). CQ Politics has unearthed several incidents of GOP officials accusing Democrats of being anti-American. Again, just because people disagree with you on policy doesn't make them anti-American, doesn't make them a traitor, doesn't mean they ally with Al-Qaeda, it just simply means they disagree.