How about this? From Yahoo news:

LIMA, Ohio - Republican presidential candidate John McCain is accusing his Democratic rival, Barack Obama, of wanting to forfeit the war in Iraq in spite of gains there.
McCain told people gathered Thursday for a town-hall meeting in Lima (LYE-mah), Ohio, that the U.S. is finally winning in Iraq but that the Illinois senator wants to forfeit.
McCain says Obama’s agenda can be boiled down to growing a government that’s already too big and raising taxes that are already too high.

That is it. That’s the whole article.
Either McCain did nothing but talk about Obama or McCain didn’t say anything worthwhile.

Does McCain EVER talk about what John McCain is going to do? Every time he opens his mouth it is about what Obama has done or said.

Same thing with these blogs. No posts about what McCain will do, it is all about how horrible Obama is and what he has done or said.

In terms of why Sen. McCain isn’t running away with the election, it is a very clearly Democratic year. The fact that Sen. Obama is running distinctly behind the generic Democrat right now incontrovertibly proves that he has not made the sale yet. People want to vote for a Democrat this year but Sen. Obama hasn’t exactly led them to feel comfortable with him yet.

Also, if you will look at previous elections over the past twenty years or so you will see that Democrats typically do very well in the summer only to have the race tighten considerably in the fall, when voters actually start to scrutinize their choices.

So let’s look at some states and the Electoral votes. 270 is needed for victory.

http://pollster.com/
Strong Dem and Leaning Dem = 284
Strong Rep and Leaning Rep = 157
Toss Up = 97

Last I checked 284 is larger than the 270 needed.

Now having said that, there is still a LONG time before November and lots can happen. This is by no means a done deal.
As a Dem, it is certainly encouraging that traditional Republican states are very much in play here.

The states included in that “Toss Up” category above:
Montana (McCain +3)
North Dakota (McCain +2)
Nevada (McCain +3)
Colorado (Obama +2)
Missouri (McCain +2)
Indiana (Even)
Virginia (Obama +3)
North Carolina (McCain +3)
Florida (Even)

Of those “toss ups”, ALL of them went Republican in 2004… some of them heavy Republican.

Of the “battleground states” of the 2004 election, Ohio (Obama +4), New Mexico (Obama +8) and Michigan (Obama +6) are all in the “Leaning Dem” category. Only Florida remains in the “Toss Up” category from the 2004 battleground states.

Now… as for people not being able to “put their finger on” Obama. I will give you that he doesn’t have that long of a history in the Senate. The McCain campaign and the talking heads are pounding into the public ears that Obama is inexperienced and blah blah blah.

It is DESPITE all the “inexperience” talk that Obama is STILL ahead in the polls. That alone should tell you that people are tired of the same old same old that McCain has to offer.

Another way you can look at the polls…….. if Obama is so inexperienced and nobody can pinpoint him, why isn’t McCain running away with this?
Is it all because of Bush? Or is it because people don’t like what McCain has to offer? Is it because the GOP has left a sour taste in everyone’s mouth after the disastrous years of 2002-2006 of which McCain was a part of?

If everything about Obama is so bad and so many people don’t trust him or know anything about him McCain should at least be ahead nationally and at a very minimum he should be safe in the standard Republican states, shouldn’t he?

Still waiting for a discussion of issues in this campaign. It just doesn’t look like it is going to happen any time soon.