Your assessment is wrong, Ilya. Palin has already won over the voters she'll get at this late date. The mouth-breathers who don't get the media manipulation won't snap out of their daze long enough to make it to the polls.
cogburn, your "independents" are affected by the "cool kids are Democrats" syndrome. They are revealed for the mouth-breathers that they are.
They'd better stay away from tlelevision sets, lest they end of with a houseful of useless crap they bought from ads on late-night teevee. "But the nice man on the teevee said the knives would be sharp forever!"
Spec, I wish I could be more positive, but these “independents” are not kids. They are middle aged people who genuinely think that Palin is a dolt. They fear that she is not ready to be president should McCain leave office. I have spoken till I am blue in the face with them but they just have these doubts. And I live in usually solid GOP territory (Manatee/Sarasota county Fl). The MSM has made a caricature out of her.
I am seeing less fire in the local campaign HQ. I really fear that this trooper situation and the MSM’s focus on it for the next week is the nail in the coffin.
McCain has to go nuclear by Monday or it could be an ugly election.