The Corner

John McCain may want to keep a closer eye on the economy while Barack Obama deserves the blame for his unpopular former pastor, the bloggers write. The New York Times/CBS poll has both Obama and Hillary Clinton leading McCain by double digits, days after the Arizona Republican was tied with Obama five points behind Clinton in a previous poll. One of Kathryn Jean Lopez‘s readers looks at McCain’s dwindling approval ratings, alongside voters dropping confidence in the economy, and sees a connection. Victor Davis Hanson determines that the Rev. Jeremiah Wright controversy is not the fault of “the right-wing freak show”, but lays the blame with Obama, who didn’t know when to quit talking about race and his Wright connection, and his supporters who defend some of Wright’s comments.