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In an election where I thought there was simply no way the Democrats could avoid winning the presidency, I have been surprised. It's no longer a sure thing. Articles such as "The dominatrix", and the full court press to find a chink in Palin's armor by throwing everything that can be found from every direction, without bothering to check whether it's worth throwing have built up a mediocre veep candidate into some Uber woman colossus. Other examples are the at least partially debunked Kilkenny email, and the supposed list of books Palin banned from the Wasilla library (in fact no books were banned, and a number of the books on the list were not even in print at the time Palin supposedly banned them). I like Obama, and thought he was running a marvelous campaign up to the convention. But the campaign certainly seems stalled now, and this obsession on Palin (just look at the subject of opinion pieces at Salon the past week) is doing him no good, and apparently some harm.
