Is the tide turning?

Via Drudge, it's looking like that might just be the case:

AP: MCCAIN/PALIN UP 4...
GALLUP DAILY: UP 3...
RASMUSSEN: UP 3...

It's a beautiful thing.

Comments

[vanderleun]

We do not know where the stream will flow from here until November but for just today I am enjoying the ride.

[Morgan K Freeberg]

Blogger friend Buck picked out something from Peggy Noonan that I think goes a long way in explaining what's happening.
Here was the central liberal mistake [with Palin]: They used the atom bomb just a few days in. They used it so brutally, and yet so ineptly, in a way so oblivious to the true contours of the field, that the radiation blew back over their own lines. They used it without preliminary diplomatic talks, multilateral meetings or Security Council debate. They just went boom. And it boomeranged.

The atom bomb was personal and sexual perfidy, backwoods knuckle-draggin' ma and pa saying, Tell the neighbors the baby's ours. Then the ritual abuse of the 17-year-old girl. Then the rest of it—bad mother, religious weirdo.

All of this was unacceptable to normal Americans. They experienced it as the town gossip spreading rumor and slander before the new neighbor even got to put down her bags. It offended the American sense of fairness. And -- it still lives! -- gallantry.
Gerard himself has a graphic that ties in with this extremely well. (Language warning.)

Obama came as far as he did by presenting a picture of someone with novelty, flair, maturity, class and most of all, being the Next New Great Thing. Some of those were genuine. Some of those, you can be twice in a row. Most of them were either misrepresentations, or things you can't be twice in a row.

He's got a lot of recovering to do and not too many ways he can do it. Look for some major sliming. Hopefully, that'll magnify the effect.