It took me sometime to muster up the energy to post. I found the post republican convention Mccain/Palin upswing too difficult to comprehend. The recent events have put me in a better frame of mind, I sincerely hope the democrats can stick to the "its the economy stupid" message till at least November 4th.
During the VP debate, in the last question from Ms. Ifill there was a question around what each candidate would change if given a chance- Mr Biden of course jumped in with a profound answer around the judicial system and the choice of judges. Luckily (I think) the right wing did not pick it up because Sarah was folksy in her reply.
Meanwhile, I had read the following post on the net and was thinking that it seemed to capture some of my thinking around the Ms. Palin issue ....
http://www.alternet.org/story/98915/
Here is hoping that as the gloves come off and the speedboaters return for one final assault the democrats can stick to their message.
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We should all brace ourselves for the Atwater/Rove playbook of false, nasty, personal, racially coded attacks over the next 4 weeks.
But unless there are some new revelations about Obama, I can't imagine that merely recycling the old dirt about him will change the direction of the race.
I'm expecting that the next two debates will draw fewer viewers that the last two, so there are going to be fewer opportunities for McCain to make up any significant ground. Let's strap ourselves in for the ride!
I don't think we are at a stage when we can safely say that Obama has it completely sown up because Palin is going to be the X factor in the time to come. She is driving the news cycle right now and even Obama is having a hard time breaking through and the lesser said about Biden's rallies, the better. The McCain campaign has unleashed the pitbull on Obama and that's the only strategy they have. As long as they are capturing the news cycle - an open secret - they think they are winning and perhaps so because Tom Brokaw and David Gregory were acting as the liasons between the capmpaign and NBC.
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