Is McCain electable?

Coming off the Republican Convention plenty of people tend to think so. McCain’s topped Obama in the polls over the weekend. Maybe it’s the boost from Palin and the global coverage that achieved. (Front page articles in Sydney count as global coverage. In America’s 24/7 saturation media environment I can only imagine the plastering Moose Hunter got there.)

Yet the Republican Party is suffering after eight years under George W Bush. The majority of Americans feel the country is heading in the wrong direction. Fewer people identify themselves as Republican.

Could the poll swing be a dead cat bounce?

Those who haven’t spent time on Wall Street may not be familiar with this technical term. Basically it means what it says. When a stock has hit rock bottom some times it sputters to life and jumps up a notch or two. However anything dropped will bounce - a little. Hence the term - dead cat bounce.

But it’s hard to say if kitty has life. Some columnists say the Democratic Party may have chosen the one candidate who cannot get elected in America. This was their election to lose - and they may have given it away.

For those yearning for change the wait is awful. We’ll have weeks more before we find out if McCat was alive or dead - and whether the old cougar has life still in him.