When you run out of facts, argue emotion

Bill McInturff, the McCain campaign pollster who has been trying to argue McCain's still viable, writes a letter to Stan Greenberg, a Dem pollster, who challenged McInturff's claims on undecideds. There's a technical argument here, but that's not the point.

What made me laugh is that in his response, McInturff doesn't even try to respond with data. He responds with,

1) John McCain is a hard man to kill and I am the least surprised guy in the country that with even the smallest window of opportunity--as the focus on the financial crisis faded a bit--that he could make up ground and 2) the difference between these two candidates in terms of their preparation and capacity to serve as Commander-in-Chief is profound, to McCain's considerable advantage, and that matters to the remaining voters here in the last few days of this election.

Seriously? That's your last argument from your data guy? He feels?