Walk Vs. Talk

J-Ger notices an intriguing nugget in the latest Fox News poll:

Do you think Barack Obama is a talker or a doer?

Overall: Talker 49%, Doer 34%. Among independents, 55% talker, 26% doer.

Do you think John McCain is talker or a doer?

Overall: Talker, 30%, doer, 54%. Among independents, 21% talker, 58% doer.

Interrrrrresting, as Artie Johnson used to say on Laugh-In. With McCain having his base locked up, and Obama, well, not, but not hemorrhaging either, the Indy vote is (much as I resent having to concede the cliched wisdom in this instance) where the election will be determined. This suggests two possible outcomes: if a majority of Indies like what McCain promises, they know he'll do what he says, and he should win; if a majority of Indies decided they don't like what McCain promises, Obama should win. Except that they don't think he'll actually do much of what he promises, which perhaps would make him seem like a safer choice, even though all he really is promising to do is....talk.

Perhaps the remainder to the cited results will shed some light on the conundrum:

If you had to make the toughest decision of your life, who would you rather get advice from?

Obama, 34%; McCain, 50%. Among independents it's Obama 22%, McCain 52%. Interestingly, Biden matches up fairly well against Palin, 39% to her 43%.

This is the "wisdom" question. McCain beats Barry because he's ninety - okay, twenty-five - years older than god, who's only a callow forty-seven, and lived orders of magnitude more than Messiah could ever imagine. Interesting that that same dynamic doesn't play out in the Rogaine-'cuda question. Guess making that "tough" decision not to have Trig scraped out of her innards is counting for more than the nutters want to admit.

Which ticket has more experience combined?

Republicans 52, Democrats 34. Among Independents, it's Republicans 57, Democrats 25.

Fascinating! The logic of this answer is that experience is more than just the linear elapsing of time, but has definite qualitative aspects as well. See "doer vs. talker" and "tough decision advice" above. Perhaps two years as a Senate dilletante plus a year and a half as a professional presidential candidate, and three and a half decades as the poster boy for term limits is not, after all, the gravitas juggarnaut the Dems and the Enemy Media would have us believe. Say it ain't so, Joe! You know you're gonna.

Here's the big uh-oh for Team Hussein:

Which ticket has better judgment combined?

Republicans 47, Democrats 43. Among independents, it's Republicans 51, Democrats 32.

BO is counting on his "judgment" as being the stand-in for his complete dearth of relevant experience. He put Joe Biden on his ticket, ostensibly, to compensate for that rookie-ism, presumeably because the "judgment" angle was, and is, a flop. Now he trails by nineteen on judgment and thirty-two on experience with the demographic he HAS to have even with Biden and Palin included, and after the latter has been hacked to bits with a rusty bat'leth? Not good, boys and girls, not good.

But chin up, fever swampers, it's not a complete washout:

Which ticket will bring the right change to Washington?

The Democrats still lead, 46-39. But among independents, it's Democrats 36, Republicans 38.

Translation: President McCain and Vice President Palin will have to deal with a Donk Congress.

Sounds like a maverick's dream come true.