Sarah Palin is the new Obama. 2 months will not change that and it will only show the democrats trying to make Sarah Palin look like trailer trash to defeat her. The numbers just keep slumping for Obama and firming up in waves for McCain/Palin.

The fat lady I am afraid is tuning up.

If Senator Obama would come out and agree with the Supreme Court that the best way to end discriminaton is to stop discriminating he would be throwing the black power structure under the bus while gaining many middle class white voters. If Senator Obama said that no one should have to worry about not gaining a job, a college admission, or a seat in school because of their race, he would win by double digits and still get 95% of the black vote.

Yet, Senator Obama wants to have is white voters while holding on to minority set asides, Affirmative Action, quotas, and bussing. Then SEnator Obama staffers (all private school educated) wonder why the middle class will not vote for him.

“In the wake of Sarah Palin, John McCain has opened up a 15-point lead among independents, according to a new Gallup Poll — and Barack Obama has a real problem.

Since the GOP convention and his selection of the Alaska governor as his running mate, McCain has changed a months-long tie among independents into a 52 to 37 percent advantage. Support for McCain among self-described “conservative Democrats” has jumped 10 points, to 25 percent, signaling the shift among swing voters to McCain. “

I REALLY think the Dukakis comparisons aren't accurate. Obama hasn't rode in a tank with his head sticking out. And he's not about to DO THAT! He's too smooth for that. LOL!

We need to cut away the dead tissue and get a decent graft from another part of the body.

Can you guess who I'm talking about?

Rasmussen showed it until a big 9/11 poll night pushed McCain ahead. We'll see tomorrow if they have it even again after the 9/11 number rolls out.

Yes, Palin energized the GOP. But the polling does not show any erosion among the Democratic base at all. And Independents are fickle as always. I bet the flattening out of McCain's post-RNC lead is coming from Independents who liked the RNC speech for McCain and are now disappointed by the return to dishonesty.

Also, Obama has proven time and again that he is nimble. If he were Dukakis, he would be done by now. But Obama fights differently than Bill Clinton. Obama does not turn every news cycle around to attack the way Clinton did. Instead, Obama lets his opponent build up a small case, and then turns it around and smashes his opponent. It's called rope-a-dope.

Right now he's doing it with the integrity issue. Elections are won on character as much as anything else. McCain has shown enough of his character the last few days for Obama to hang him with. Unless something else comes out that undermines Obama, I expect this race to settle back to a slight Obama lead again before the debate.

THEN, things will really heat up.

If Senator Obama would have thrown the black power estalbishment under the bus he would be leading by double digits, would really seem like a change candidate, and would still get 95% of the black vote.

Maybe the ideas of Axelrod work in big urban cities and small east coast states without many middle class white voters but when Senator Obama makes it clear that government workers are more important than private sector workers, he is working to keep the election close.