McCain and His Pain

This from Ana Marie Cox over at Swampland highlights McCain's diffculties.

To which I added this comment.

Interesting numbers Ana.

It will be fascinating to see how much of a premium primary voters on both sides of the aisle put on electability. On the face of it the GOP folks appear to rate it more highly given that Guiliani (electablish but at odds with the base) is leading on that side and Hillary (not so much with the electable) is leading on the other side.

Conventional wisdom would have it that this will change once the bases get to know more about these candidates. But then, as someone in the dead tree Time has already pointed out, conventional wisdom would have told us that none of the top 3 candidates on either side have any business running for President in the first place.

And just to drive home the Senator's situation here's the grab from the RCP Averages trend

Now that's not a trend line to write home about. Also, notice Thompson starting to head Romney, and that's unannouced with no money spent. Great, another old actor. Just what we need.