McCain Keeps Lead Gaining Almost Everywhere

Obama & Co. are completely flummoxed as to what to do about or to Palin

Sen. McCain is riding Gov. Palin’s skirt tails, he should too since he was the one who made the brilliant decision to put her on the ticket. The louder the left screams, the better Sarah seems to do. Charlie Gibson tried but failed to trip her up and next morning pundits whined and picked at trivialities to little avail.

Palin has entirely changed the dynamic. An example is that for the first time the Intrade pay-to-play prediction market — which long has had Barack Obama winning by 20 to 25 points in November — now shows a McCain-Palin lead.

One in four Hillary Clinton voters now say the Palin pick makes them more likely to vote for McCain - not that they will. Plus, traditional Republican states like Georgia, Montana, North Carolina and Alaska — which Obama thought he’d fight for — are now safely back in the McCain camp.

Obama & Co. are completely flummoxed as to what to do about or to Palin, for instance: In “The Hunt for Sarah October,” the Wall Street Journal’s John Fund writes about a 30-lawyer S.W.A.T. team of Obama Democrats descending on Alaska in to find dirt and exhume anything “Palin’s troopergate.” They found nothing that hasn’t already aired about Palin’s alcoholic ex-brother-in-law who Tasered his 10 year-old stepson.

Rasmussen, that polls likely voters every day, finds John McCain up by three points, his largest lead since Obama wrapped up the Democratic Presidential Nomination. McCain leads by fourteen points among men while Obama holds an eight point advantage among women - half of what it had been. Obama has the edge among voters under 40 while McCain leads among those over 40

Obama is clinging to a slim 193-189 lead in the Electoral College a scant four vote lead it was 10 votes last week, and much more before. Only one state - Iowa  with 4 electoral votes, that voted Republican in 2004 is not now in the GOP column.