They aren't nearly as important is the polls in the 18 battleground states where Obama is centering his efforts and effective ground game. Until we dump the electoral college, that's where the election will be decided. Obama is using first time registered voters and the power of new people entering campaigns and refusing to leave it up to only a few states to decide his destiny.

The Real Sarah Palin: http://tinyurl.com/5gcncq

The "narrative" even your own Peggy Noonan says is doomed to failure. Noonan: "It's over."

She's the Capraesque Mrs. Smith goes to Washington?

Bwahahaha!

That was Hollywood fantasy.

See how well that played:

When it was first released (the film premiered in Washington, D.C., on October 17, 1939), Mr. Smith Goes to Washington was attacked by the Washington press, and politicians in the U.S. Congress, as anti-American and pro-Communist for its portrayal of corruption in the American government.[3] However, neither the Republican nor Democratic party is mentioned in the film.

The film was banned in Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, Soviet Russia and Falangist Spain. According to Capra, the film was also dubbed in certain European countries to alter the message of the film so it conformed with official ideology.

When a ban on American films was imposed in German-occupied France in 1942, some theaters chose to show Mr. Smith Goes to Washington as the last movie before the ban went into effect. One theater owner in Paris reportedly screened the film nonstop for 30 days after the ban was announced.[4]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Smith_Goes_To_Washington

It might work if you guys were serious. No one takes you seriously anymore.

No one.

...one wins an argument by calling the opponent the most vile names and generally screaming louder.

The talking heads at FOX have made handsome careers for themseves doing exactly this.

That must be why you are hiding behind a screen on anonymity, I guess. What are you afraid of? Surely you're not worried that if you reveal your real name, you will be retaliated against? The FBI is on Bush's side, after all, so you should have nothing to worry about.

What are you afraid of, really? That goes for all the other anonymous posters here.

Truth be told, many of them are likely employees of the major PR firms, all of whom have fleets of bloggers working the internet non-stop. Edelman, last time they publicly discussed it, said they had at least 30 people on computers around the clock, ready to flood comment sections at the drop of a hat.

Others are simply afraid of being publicly identified and losing their jobs in the corporate arcology. Or, it might hurt their future earnings potential within the corporate system - that's why those "radical anarchists" wear the face masks, isn't it?

Your anonymity is just a myth anyway, what with modern packet sniffers and NSA eavesdropping techniques.

By the way, recall when Glenn Greenwald accidentally wiped his interview with Noam Chomsky? Here is is Avi Lewis interviewing Noam Chomsky on the Iraq war - good stuff, with some interesting quotes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biyK7NgdCDA

That interview does show the lunacy of some on the left. Chomsky discussed a left-wing historian who hoped that Bush would win because that would lead to a collapse of the imperial project. This is the leftist version of right-wing Rapture: Waiting for The Revolution. That's the theme that Democracy Now also appears to champion - work to defeat Democrats so the Republicans win, in the hopes the Republicans will destroy the system with their greed and incompetence, leading to utopia...

So sad, really. The fact is that people who identify and define themselves with simple labels like "left" or "right" or "liberal" or "conservative" are nothing but brainwashed victims of the U.S. propaganda system.

Yours, Ike Solem

Freedom of speech - use it or lose it.

Most of this kabuki is for the benefit of the networks and print media. The illusion must be maintained that the election is going to be close and the result is not a foregone conclusion. Advertising dollars and the economy depend on it. It will be close, and anything could happen, but this was the classic Hail Mary pass. Long ball sent deep on third down from your own 30 yard line and a bench full of injured old cripples. Sweat.

I have nothing to prove to you. Why should I post my real name? Think I'm an id10t? Been doing this whole internet/computer thing too long to be so stupid. And who's to tell me you're posting your real name? Pleez. Whine until November, when the chips come in and Obama loses in a landslide. Clinton 2012, baby.

. . . so advised Old Mister Darnell to the young, impressionable, unworldly, Arnie Cunningham - - in the Stephen King tale. - - -

Likewise ... [and I understood it from the moment the Illinoisey Candidate proclaimed his Quest to Do-In the Windmills of his Mind] .......

.... Obama is a 'LEGISLATOR' wholly Devoid of ANY SUBSTANCE ... NOT a SINGLE PIECE of LEGISLATION that he could call his own. --- Quite a Trick for a Master Salesman who's strongest actual experiece is supposedly his Record as a LEGISLATOR ... (although, to be fair, he HAS been a Regular Guest on the OPRAH "Selling of a President 1968" TEE-VEE SHOW).

As viscerally pointed out by Whats-Her-Face last evening, the Democrats decided that The O'Blarney Candidate & his Minions actually expect the "Fence-sitters" of the SOFT Center (.. those who have infact ELECTED EVERY PRESIDENT in American History ..) to Yank his Leaver in the November Polling Booths; the Dependable 40+% of Hard Right & 40+% Hard Left, having Zip to do with the Final Victory.

Shure ... the present Idiot-in-Chief, Bush Junior, is Roundly Dispised with a hovering 20% approval rating .... but Lest not Forget ... Both Democratic Houses of Congress have even a LOWER approval among the Angry Electorate. And the "Fence-Sitters" are in No Mood to be counted on ... or dismissed ... by Either Camp.

Last Night .... these Angry Fence-Sitters were Roundly Entertained by some Hick-Chick who ... with a Lipsticked Cheshire Grin ... Tore up the Hall ... by POKING NEEDLES in the EYES of AMERICA'S OBAMABUTTS ....

I saw this coming last Fall ... the outcome is obvious to All with Eyes to See.

Had the Mover's & $hakers of the Party buried their Anti-Nader Emotions & bowed to the one & only true candidate who has been steadfastly correct on ALL the Issues ... there may have been REAL HOPE of a November Victory.

Instead, an Ambitious Empty-Suited ZERO with Absolutely NOTHING to Sell to the Fence-Sitters popped into place. And The Fence-Sitters aren't the Morons that Salonista Americans so easily dismiss them as. They understand that the ONLY Congressional Votes of Record by Senator O ... were his Votes to Oppose the Surge ... and ... to vote against Funding the Troops for the Equipment needed to protect them in the Field.

This Empty Styrofomic claim of being against the War while out in the Hinterlands perhaps Rings loudly in The Salon ... but ... hey ... Ralph was saying the same. Nader would have viscerally carved up the Republicans come November. But the Idiots-in-Rank-and-File chose to fall in behind a more glamorous Huckster-in-Chief Wannabe ....

The "Fence-sitters", come Election Day, will conclued that O'Blarney is a Substance of No True value - - Disposable Waste Matter ... and nothing more. - - -

And the Message to the "Fence-Sitters" from Mizz Needle-Poker ?? ... "Ya Just Can't Polish a Turd, Folks."