McCain's speech: Consensus is he blew it

My thought as John McCain finished speech last night was that it was "a mixture of nothing, with air beaten in" (apologies to Malvina Reynolds for stealing lyrics from one of her songs). He reminded us again and again ...and again that he was a P.O.W. There was only one specific step he said he'd take; he said he'd double the tax exemption for each child one has, raising it from $3,500 to $7,000. That was it. Nothing else. Oh, and he even read his speech poorly. At least Palin, although lying repeatedly, did do a great job reading the words that had been written for her.

But I am biased. So when I saw this poll on CNN this morning I felt I had to share it. Note that at the time I saw this, 13,000 people had chimed in:

McCain had a chance to say something concrete about what he planned to do. He had a chance to give us specifics. And he squandered that opportunity.