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Phoenix Woman at Firedoglake said something similar.
"We've just had the Biden-Palin debate, and we've just had similar results(success): Biden's relaxed yet professional demeanor trumped Palin's evasions, lies, and Liberace-like winks at the camera and the television audience behind it.
Here's why: People might have been in a mood to put up with cutesy-wootsy stuff back in 2000, when the nation was prosperous thanks to Bill Clinton. They might have willingly taken a flyer on somebody like Jesse Ventura or Arnold Schwarzenegger back then. They aren't going to put up with it now, not with Bush's financial and military quagmires to fix."
Seems that everyone but the Republicans have figured out that this mess will take very serious people to fix it.
McCain loses in so many ways, he can't get nasty without losing votes, his fixes favor the rich, voting for him continues a war that Americans are fed up with. All the winks, blinks, and nods, in the world will not compel people to vote for them.
