The winning campaign usually succeeds best in defining their opponent. McCain has been impulsive, petty, erratic, and angry in employing tactics rather than a strategy in lobbing spitballs at Obama, and Obama has executed a disciplined strategy of not blinking. There was never any alarm on the part of Obama and the Axelrod team that Palin or the polls or the condescension was undermining the consistent themes of the last 18 months, and events and McPalin have brought the campaign right back to where the strategy anticipated. Obama has had a good run as the voting started this week, and he can really do himself some good tonight, before Sarah Palin takes the stage to reinforce a consistent theme. Nevertheless, Barack Hussein Obama still has to make the final connections to close the deal, and there are still plenty of ways for the election to break against the junior senator from Illinois.
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