Early this week, RWB said this about John McCain’s then pending VP choice:

McCain is now perched in the catbird seat. Where Obama faces a divided and nervous Democratic convention, McCain has the opportunity to capitalize on recent progress with the Republican base, and create a huge bubble of G.O.P. enthusiasm by picking a solid conservative running mate.

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Picking a solid conservative running mate will do two big things for McCain: (1) Give the conservative base and the evangelicals a reason to get out and vote big in November and (2) fire up the kinds of grassroots people needed to organize and get the vote out.

Via Hot Air, I see that McCain has raised $7 million dollars since yesterday’s announcement that Governor Sarah Palin would be his running mate. And Politico is reporting a big surge of volunteerism for the G.O.P. So, as also said in that post some days ago (with McCain now having gone with a solid conservative VP) I think that this election is now McCain’s to lose. Barring an enormous perception-shifting event for the electorate, I believe that he is positioned for a substantial win in November. This is not about today’s poll numbers; it’s about how things will shake out as the Republican convention comes and goes and as the debates take place and as we get down to the wire and all the gloves come off. Nevertheless, a day’s a long time in politics, as they say, so I for one will still be holding on tight.

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