She's a hockey player. She’s a fourth-line hockey agitator, beloved by the home crowd, loathed by the opponents, injecting passion into both fan bases, the kind of home-team hero that no Stanley Cup winner goes without.
The above lines were taken from a story on this site...
http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/Now this is how we should be discussing the Palin situation. She has riled up the home team, the evangelicals, who were, by all accounts, just so-so in their support of McCain.
From that aspect alone, she has done her job.
The good news for us is she has also energized our base by bringing on home any disaffected primary voters who believed that McCain just might have been a safe bet. That clearly is no longer the case.
In the shrinking middle, those 6-8% who are still vacillating between the good the bad and the ugly, the game is clearly still on.
What the dem's have to do is not push back at Palin, but push back at the McCain/Bush economy. Especially in the light of the Freddie and Fannie Mac meltdowns over the weekend. We have to continue to hammer home that McCain has lobbyists embedded in his campaign, that he has always resisted economic stimulus that doesn't start and end with the rich.
But more importantly, Obama has to come forth with some simple to explain economic plan that will show clearly that he is going to help ordinary people get back on their feet.
A New Deal for the 21st Century....
Something like that.
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