This weeks Washington Post OutLook section had an article from a black professor (didn't get name or affiliation) in which he mentioned the idea that blacks would riot if Obama was not elected. The picture topping the article said it all, with Obama going up a plane gang plank with his coat over his stooped shoulders. (I'm sure someone could link it; WP 9/14, first page of Outlook above the fold). While this race will probably turn on the debates, I think that McCain could win this thing, and that the fact (as one pundit put it) "he threw a Hail Mary pass and Palin caught it perfectly, and spiked it in the end zone", will be eventually seen as the cause.

I suspect that Obama will be seen as losing an "unlosable race", perhaps by not selecting Hillary (assumming he didn't ask her and she refused). He has been seen lately not as the author of politics of change, but as a standard attack politician, whether goaded or not by the Republicans. Yesterdays WashPost Ad Check calls Obama a liar on his ad that McCain cannot email, which convienently left out the reason that he can't type was that his arms were re-broken by the gooks during John Kerry's congessional testimony in '71.

But some where in America there is a sinking feeling in the minds of
Democrats, that McCain should be nowhere this close in the polls; that the Bradley effect is still there; and that those 18 million votes for Hillary were not just women (only 57 percent were) and McCain has more that picked up the extra 7 percent of women...

She skates, she shoots, she SCORES...