Yah, but it’s still not over. NV, OH, FL, and OH are very close, and wobble between McCain and the Messiah. I hope this will help, but I’ve yet to see McCain get a lead in a state and hold it through two or three consecutive polls.
This election, to me, proves not to get too locked into your own “conventional wisdom”.
I thought McCain was toast in the primaries and Hillary would eventually overwhelm Obama.
I thought Obama getting a lot of media coverage after he sealed up the nomination, all the way through the Dem convention, could hurt McCain by letting Obama define himself, while McCain fiddled around. Instead, the spotlight shrunk and revealed Obama, and McCain got his act together and pulled yet another one out of the fire.
Now the conventional wisdom is that Palin only helps by being a woman, and helping the base. Instead I have decided to think beyond that, and upon listening to her, she may prove to be the best debater and spokesman of the 4. She has a way of explanation, thus far, that could really help in Ohio, PA and MI beyond being a woman. Plus the Ted Nugent type Michigan/Ohio/PA white guy are going to be smitten with her on about 15 levels.
Now to the hurricane, instead of illuminating Katrina and Bush, it may just thrust Bobby Jindal into the national spotlight, and he can effectively make a case for the FUTURE of conservatism and solutions to such problems. Palin and Jindal can do something Bush couldn’t, explain themselves.
In other words, sometimes things work out in ways we don’t expect.