I have a couple of questions for the people of Ohio this time around:

1) Are you actually going to make up your minds anytime soon? Because no offense, but it seems like we go through this same dance, on both sides, every 4 years. No matter how good of a candidate is fielded, the good people of Ohio seem to take FOREVER to make up their minds.

2) Are you at all aware that it's Republican policies that are fucking you over? If not, why not? If so why can't you, like much of the rest of the country, have the common sense to vote based on this? There's a lot of small-town people in Iowa. They don't all like everything that's said about them. But they have the sense not to take every little semi-comment that's made or rumored to have been made as a personal insult. (P.S. if you're going to do so and insist on voting AGAINST your own interests, just please have the decency, like other red states, to stop pretending you're a swing state.)

3) Are you going to actually COUNT the votes of minorities in Cleveland or not? Because if not, we need not even bother trying. There's nothing we can do.

4) If something isn't an issue, why do native Ohioans insist on coming forward and saying it's an issue. Take this article for example: we have a bunch of native Ohioans coming forward, basically saying race is an issue, and then saying no one will ever admit it. Oh boy. Are there other states where this is the case? I suppose. But it does always seem to be Ohio that has this problem just STANDING somehwere.

5) If you're essentially TWO states, with an Appalachia in the middle, what do you honestly want anyone to do? One of the two states is going to win. Either the Appalachia version of Ohio prevails and a Republican wins, or the more moderate version of Ohio prevails and a Democrat wins. So you basically it all comes down to whether this time 500,000 people in urban Clevelan are or are not disenfranchised by the state. Kind of out our control now isn't it?

That's a serious question.

And before you answer no, let me just point out that's pretty much what we did in this country, during pretty much every successful movement.

Some people want to hide in the closet, pretend that racism doesn't exist, cower and give in to the same old, stupid structure.

Why? Both Kerry and Gore were white. They were the safe choice. And they LOST.

So here's an idea: instead of catering to backward-thinking, racist, morons, why not STAND UP for your own ideas, the Democratic ideas, for once and FIGHT BACK.

I refuse to give in to racist morons. I refuse to give in to the same disgusting Republican political policies that have led this country down the drain. And I refuse to run away from John McCain (Bush III) just become some moose-hunter from Alaska and the mainstream media wants me to.

If the Republican Party can START understanding why racism is stupid and wrong and, more importantly, just how much John McCain's current platform would SCREW the country over if he were elected, then I'll listen.

Until then I say run, Barack, run. All of this freaking out over what's essentially a tie in early September before a single debate against a man (McCain) who couldn't even hold his own on the View?

No I'm sorry I'm not that big of a coward. And I don't believe the American people are either. Buckle in for a long ride, gird yourself, find some guts, and let's go win this thing.

McCain will tell you. You're all being sexist to her! No fair.

Race?! Come on, race? It's not like we've ever had a problem with race in this country. You're not allowed to talk about it.

Look we dealt with it for what, a whole 3 months in the primary. I mean that's more than enough. How dare you try to bring it up again?

All kidding aside, good article Shapiro. And way to not fall into the media-inspired trap of only reporting Palin news. Congrats.

Your mind is shaping reality.

Look after the convention when McCain jumped 8-10 points I'd give it to you. But if you're up by 8 on Wednesday and then you're only up by 2 on Tuesday the momentum is NOT with you.

That's a loss of 6 points. Anyway you cut it. How, exactly, does that mean the momentum is with McCain/Palin?

As for her mobilizing the evangelicals: great go for it. They were never going to vote for Obama anyway. And they were never going to stay home. These people live for Republican crap, they were factored in as McCain voters from the beginning and no one cares.

Also not a lot of them live in swing states. A few in Pennsylvania, but that's about it.

As for the electoral college it's not as BAD as you guys are making it out to be either.

Politico, which ain't exactly a pro-Obama site, has it 273 electoral votes for Obama, 265 for McCain. That's a solid win. Most sites have it extremely close, and most have Obama winning slightly.

This so-called uproar is caused mainly by Republicans posing as neutral independents (or even Democrats) or people who are still angry, sour-grape posters from the primary who just want to be proven right in their, "I told you so" stance.

They won't be.