It’s gonna be an ugly month…

So breaking away from the biographical posts, which will continue to come every once in a while, I’m baffled by the way the presidential campaign is going.  Why would McCain a) make a big deal about pulling out of Michigan, like it’s a good thing and b) announce to everybody that he’s about to go uber-negative on Obama for the last month.  It’s one thing to do these things, it’s something else entirely to announce to the entire country that you’re going to do it.  Neither of these strike me as announcements that will help his campaign.  Last time I checked people were upset by the way campaigns were being run.  Is McCain going to bash Obama and then have his “Change is Coming” banner to end the ads?  I just don’t get it.  It seems like from the debates and the campaign so far that going negative hasn’t been a winning strategy.  Maybe it isn’t the negativity that has been turning voters off, its that McCain hasn’t being going negative enough.