Biden: "McCain campaign is on the ropes"

With just under four weeks to go before election day, an email sent early this morning from Joe Biden sounds very confident, perhaps too confident.

"The McCain campaign is on the ropes, and sadly it's no surprise they're responding with attacks and outright lies," Biden's email begins.

"John McCain and Governor Palin are setting a new low in presidential politics with their dishonorable campaign," the email reads.

On the ropes

The second part of the email is voiced in every campaign. So you can throw that away. The first sentence in the email is what's interesting. Yes, the Obama campaign has a significant lead with election day closing in. But to say their opponent's campaign is "on the ropes" signifies, in boxing terms anyway, that you're done. You're over.

Dictionary.com defines it as, "in a defenseless position, as leaning against the ropes to keep from falling." It also defines the phrase as meaning, "in a desperate or hopeless position."

Do you want to be saying your opponent is hopeless at this point?

No need to vote

Our friends over at Gawker are doing exactly what the Obama campaign doesn't want supporters to do.

A blog post published yesterday afternoon is titled, "Don't even bother voting."

It begins, "... Remember when this seemed like another tossup? All the 'insiders' say this one's Obama's. Smart Republicans are looking for good 2012 candidates."

The author of the post is immediately chastised, with one reader writing, "That headline is irresponsible." To be fair, The Vote blog gets this a lot too.

Somethin' awful

Another reader, perhaps a bit more seasoned to the political game than the author writes, "I'm very optimistic that Obama will win, but a lot can change in the next 4 weeks. Maybe I just tend to be negative, but I have this sense of doom, like the Republicans are planning something awful still to come..."

It isn't just the Republican party that would come up with something "awful." It's any campaign that is down and needs to make up ground fast. It's part of the thing we call campaigning.

The A-bomb

McCain didn't drop the A-bomb on Tuesday night as some expected he would. A-bomb as in the Ayers card -- Bill Ayers the guy who hasn't received this much attention since he actually was a part of the violent radical group he co-founded known as The Weather Underground.

Sarah Palin plays this card like a blackjack dealer, mentioning his name more than she says the word "maverick." They're going heavy on this guy. Guilt by association.

A new ad this morning simply titled "Ayers" shows -- without question -- the emphasis the campaign is focusing on Obama's past associates hoping to strike unease in voters about Obama's judgment.

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