Polls are indicating a massive surge for Obama redefining the electoral map. This is one surge that McCain doesn't support. So, what's he going to do? The answer the McCain camp seems to begracitating to is to "take off the gloves," i. e. get negative and start making wild accusations. So, expect a resurrection of Reverend Wright and William Ayers. In fact, as this article suggests, Sarah Palin has started it already, by personally giving credence to something like the Bill Ayers controversy (interesting for someone being investigated for significant transgressions in office). Will it work? As this insightful article by Nicholas Kristof suggests, this approach just might work, not because of overt racism, but because the biases against race are so ingrained that in ambiguity we tend to run the other way.
Meanwhile, this is an uncannily accurate summary of the strategies that the two VP candidates used at the VP debates.
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