Democrats eat into McCain's lead as Palin's halo starts to slip

[RamboLiberal]

I had to post just for the headline. :rofl: :applause:

There were growing signs yesterday that the "Sarah Palin effect" is starting to wear off and that the Republican candidate, John McCain, has peaked.

Democrats took heart from four national opinion polls which show that despite the bounce caused by interest in Mrs Palin, Mr McCain now leads by an average of just 1.6 points, his smallest margin since the Republican convention.

The latest polls come amid a flurry of critical news reports into Mrs Palin which cast doubt on some of her claims to be a squeaky clean reformist. Senator McCain's claims that his running mate had not sought special interest funding from Congress have been shown to be wrong.

It emerged yesterday that she had asked the US to fund $453m worth of projects in oil-rich Alaska for the past two years. Among the requests was $4.5m for an airport serving fewer than 100 people on a Bering Sea island and $9m to help Alaska's already hugely profitable oil companies.

Democrats mocked the Alaska governor as "an earmark queen". The disclosures come on top of evidence that her administration also held on to more than $500m in federal funds for a much-derided "bridge to nowhere" which she maintains she vetoed. For two weeks the McCain campaign has wallowed in the media's obsession with Governor Palin. A huge bounce in the opinion polls followed, with women especially declaring that they were changing their allegiance because they admired her so much.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/race-for-whitehouse/democrats-eat-into-mccains-lead-as-palins-halo-starts-to-slip-932001.html

[Nikki Stone1]

1. GOOD!

Glad to hear it.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

2. And now he's stuck with her.

[Canuckistanian]

14. Like ugly on an ape

Or a millstone around his neck.

[grannylib]

3. Keith just said "her fifteen minutes are up." Love it!

She's a tool.

[Kajsa]

4. It's about time!

Sanity has returned!

:toast:

Thanks for this great news!

:hi:

[Cha]

5. We have to read this from abroad..

our media is still trying to make it a horserace.

mccain better watch out .. palin may take off her own halo and stamp it out of existence.

[TheCowsCameHome]

6. The bloom couldn't last long, given the poisonous atmosphere on the right

Too bad.

:rofl:

[jeff30997]

7. Good news indeed!

[central scrutinizer]

8. the new "welfare queen"

you gotta love it

[Mabus]

9. Hmmm, so I guess all of those who told us to lay off of her

and concentrate only on McCain were a little bit off. If the left didn't go after her as hard as we did they wouldn't have found out the stuff that's taken that shine off the halo. Remember back when the media claimed the us leftist bloggers were digging up dirt on Palin? It forced the media to do their jobs.

[barack the house]

10. Exactly Palin was always the topic that is why media was saying it's a no go area.

[DarthDem]

11. "Wallowed"

Perfect wordsmithing there. That's it exactly.

[intheflow]

12. Thank God for the international press.

This is far clearer than anything I've read in the American CM, who dance around her infamous Alaskan earmarks.

[LiberalFighter]

13. Gee I wonder if the USA Today/Gallup poll will keep it close?