As I have traveled, I have noted a distinct drop from the Sarah Palin buzz times. I’ve noted that the saturation advertising is taking effect, as people are parroting Sen. 0bama talking points and Saturday Night Live skits. I’m not so sure the polls are far off, and it’s important for us to remember 2006....the time is now to get active and help out the battleground states.
The base was disappointed in 2006. No motivation or enthusiasm and the independents who bothered to vote went for the Rats after Foley, and host of other “corruption” issues parroted by the MSM.
That is not the case this time. Just check out any events that McCain/Palin does compared to Obama and we wont even mention Biden who barely gets anyone to his crowds.
We have quite a few factors helping us out that is keeping this election in our favor even though Nobama should be running away with this by now.
But we still have to fight it as its 10 points behind and get the GOTV out.
Also, IMHO the pollsters are all looking at this as a pre-convention election where the base was unenthusiastic, unmotivated and independents didnt really have a reason to vote for the old guy.
The Palin selection along with McCain’s ad campaigns have changed that dynamic and think we will be pleasantly surprised on Nov 5th.