David Plouffe and Steve Schmidt recently spoke at the University of Delaware.  Schmidt, who was McCain’s campaign manager, said this about his team’s chances:  [we’re quite sure his donors will love hearing this… ]

[It was] “the strategic equivalent of throwing a football through a tire at 50 yards.”

Plouffe agreed with – though he said he hadn’t seen it that way at the time.

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Maybe McCain should have drafted this guy:

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