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John McCain is out of ideas and in the latest reboot of his campaign, he dusted off an old speech for the same ends: pushing Bush/McCain economics. Watch our latest web video: This is an open thread. Chat away...

Christopher Orr at The New Republic nailed it: Over the weekend, the McCain campaign signaled that it would unveil a series of new economic proposals to deal with the financial crisis, and trotted surrogate Lindsey Graham out to preview the "very comprehensive approach to jump-start the economy." But sometime late yesterday, they evidently changed their minds, telling the Times, "the Republican presidential nominee would not have any more proposals this week unless developments call for some," and basically pretending they had no idea what Graham was talking about. Now, less than 24 hours later, Marc Ambinder reports that the campaign plans to address the economy tomorrow and will, contrary to the latest reports (but in keeping with the ones immediately preceding them), be unveiling new proposals. Be sure to check back though. Plenty of time for them to change their minds again before dinner. Epic fail.

Senator Hillary Clinton, on the stump in Pennsylvania for Senator Barack Obama: Campaigning for Obama, Sen. Clinton tells Philly Jewish Community Center crowd that “the middle class is invisible to this president.” She adds: “we are in a financial crisis born and bred in the last eight years of failed policies of George Bush and John McCain.” Later on, at historic farm in Horsham, she offers Democrats’ response to Republicans’ “Drill, baby, drill”: “Jobs, baby, jobs.”

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According to the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll, 90 percent of Americans believe the country is on the wrong track -- the highest ever recorded since the question was first asked 35 years ago. Given the global economic crisis, a record 90 percent of registered voters say the country is seriously off on the wrong track, the most since this question first was asked in 1973. At 23 percent, Bush's job approval rating has fallen below Nixon's lowest; it's a point away from the lowest in 70 years of polling, set by Harry Truman in early 1952. Bush's disapproval, meanwhile, is at an all-time record -- 73 percent. To much of the dismay of the McCain team, this was not the year to be running the "more of the same" campaign.