Luntz's focus group is agitated and bickering amongst themselves, a whole lot of them say they'll vote for McCain if their candidate doesn't win the primary, and they look pretty evenly split between Obama and Clinton after tonight's debate. If this isn't the worst case for the Democratic party, I don't know what is. It still may not be enough to get McCain into the White House come November, but he couldn't ask for any more help from the opposition.
The best part comes just before the video cuts out when Luntz asks why the group responded so negatively to the discussion of Rev. Wright. One of the guys says,
"I resent the fact that he explained Reverend Wright's patriotism by saying he was a Marine. Timothy McVeigh was in the Army. You know, that doesn't mean anything. He has yet to explain whether he not he truly was there, and what he actually thought of it for 20 years."
Exactly. Obama gave a great speech on race, or so I'm told, but he never answered the fundamental question: why did he sit there silently for 20 years? No one believes he didn't know what was going on at his own church, and until he answers that question, people are going to keep asking.
Fred Barnes gives his take on the debate here.
HT: Ace
