Dems are the New "Status Quo"
Willie Brown of the San Francisco Gate (yep, the lefty rag in California) has this to say about how Sarah Palin has totally changed the dynamics of this campaign:
Suddenly, Palin and John McCain are the mavericks and Barack Obama and Joe Biden are the status quo, in a year when you don’t want to be seen as defending the status quo.
From taxes to oil drilling, Democrats are now going to have to start explaining their positions.
Whenever you start having to explain things, you’re on defense.
HT to AllahPundit at Hot Air, who also points out a Gallup poll that puts McCain/Palin ahead, outside of the margin of error, even though one third of the polling was conducted before McCain’s acceptance speech. In other words, there’s more post-convention bounce coming, although we all know those don’t last. Still, a McCain bounce on top of this Palin bounce may be significant after all.
