It truly seems as if his campaign is doomed.
There are some pieces in the media now about McCain on the rebound, etc. and some polls that show some movement for him. But the media stories are typical of how a story flows: it’s boring and old hat to write the same thing, so if it looks like he’s started to pull himself out of the tar pit the story comes out that he’s getting out.
He’s not anywhere near out.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.