Quick diary to alert everyone that McCain might well take another impetuous maverick move before the debate on Wednesday.
The balloon has been hoisted up by Bill Kristol in today’s New York Times:
It’s time for John McCain to fire his campaign.
He has nothing to lose. His campaign is totally overmatched by Obama’s. The Obama team is well organized, flush with resources, and the candidate and the campaign are in sync. The McCain campaign, once merely problematic, is now close to being out-and-out dysfunctional. Its combination of strategic incoherence and operational incompetence has become toxic. If the race continues over the next three weeks to be a conventional one, McCain is doomed.
Over at Fivethirtyeight Nate Silver has been reading the runes…