I should have been on top of that one.

I don't know if the Bradley effect really pertains at this level of politics, though I imagine there are some people who say they're for Obama who will just stay home. We're so polarized as a nation that I doubt there are people telling pollsters they support Obama when they plan to vote for McCain–and enthusiasm is so low for McCain that enough of his polled supporters likely will stay home to offset any Bradley effect.

Finally, what everyone fails to consider is, #1, the huge enthusiasm gap between Obama supporters and McCain supporters, and #2, the massive registration and get-out-the-vote drive being organized on Obama's behalf that McCain will have neither the funds nor the enthusiasm to match.

I honestly believe that if 12 percent of the electorate is undecided, 11 percent are going to vote either for Obama or nobody/third party. Either way, I just don't see McCain picking the lock on the enormous, nationwide anti-Republican sentiment.

HOWEVER, there are so many more qualified running mates to choose from, some of whom are female, and he overlooked them all to appeal to youth and gender. Obama's core base is NOT black America although the African-American degree in it is high. His core base is NOT the young because he's a young candidate, relatively speaking. His core base is a contingent of people who see American pain as whining and just want to shove a big sweet lollypop in that mouth to shut it up.

Sarah Palin, had she real experience, could have been the groundbreaker McCain would hope for, but he's only using her as a lollypop, and that's why we're shunning the GOP.

Then again, everything I just said was so damn obvious, I don't know why I had to repeat it!