The Buzz

For the second time in a year McCain has ordered a major shake-up of his campaign structure with the intent of shifting the overall direction and strategy of the campaign during a time of quasi-crisis for the GOP nominee. The current situation is obviously nowhere near as dire as it was exactly one year ago when McCain cleaned house and rotated in a completely new staff as his Republican primary run seemed on the verge of collapse. But yesterday’s decision to promote former Bush/Cheney ‘04 strategist and Rove disciple Steve Schmidt to day-to-day control while moving Rick Davis to handle “broad” operations (i.e; he got canned) does signal that JMac is aware of the dissatisfaction that many GOPers have expressed with the way the campaign has been run lately and that he sees certain aspects where he has rapidly fallen behind in the fight with Obama. It also is an indication that the McCain campaign has decided to fully embrace vestiges of the Bush adm...