Welcome Starduster.
I am amazed the thread has this many responses without being yet being assailed or hijacked.
I find the focus on Palin to be significantly distorted.
Where are all the pundits who after Biden was named VP, touting, the election is about who will be President, not VP.
And as anyone who can read or hear one would think that premise has changed with the ongoing, pick the fly specks out of the pepper, dirt digging, daily slander report.
Now just why has the emphasis shifted and all the concern about who is the VP candidate.
The good cop bad cop routine is also waning...the slander mill goes for the juggler with incidentals (fly specks) while the candidate touts...leave family out of it! Leave religion out of it!

The pendulum has swung and we all know it can again. Whether it does or does not will be very contingent upon all Americans wanting the issues revealed and their belief in which candidate truly has the tools to make it happen.

I believe in hope and I think that is what has shifted.

BTK