Palin drops puck at Flyer's game.  She is booed vociferously and Flyers go on to lose 6 straight games.  To break the jinx, the Flyers apparently arranged to have her drop the puck in St. Louis last night.

What happens?  Blues goalie Manny Legace trips on carpet injures himself and Blues lose game.  Coincidentally, the Flyers win last night breaking their losing streak.

How long before Blues fan beg the Hockey (Mom) Jinx to drop the puck at some other arena to brake their losing streak?

This part just kills me.  Any thought of a miracle McCain comeback at this point just seems delusional:

"However, while the overall levels of support have remained stable, voters have become more certain of their intent. Today, the percentage who say they could still change their mind is down to single digits. Forty-eight percent (48%) are now certain they will vote for Obama while 40% say the same about McCain. Nine percent (9%) lean one way or the other but could change their mind. The remaining three percent (3%) are either committed to a third party candidate or remain undecided.

Thirty days ago, while Obama enjoyed a five-point lead overall, just 41% of voters were certain they would vote for him. At that time, 39% said the same about McCain."

From Mike Allen at the Poltico

The Republican establishment is beginning to express long-suppressed exasperation with the McCain pirate ship. In an early-morning phone call to Playbook, one of the most senior Republican strategists in the land warns the McCain campaign after reading the WashTimes interview: "Lashing out at past Republican Congresses instead of Pelosi and Reid, and echoing your opponent's attacks on you instead of attacking your opponent, and spending 150,000 hard dollars on designer clothes when congressional Republicans are struggling for money, and when your senior campaign staff are blaming each other for the loss in The New York Times [Magazine] 10 days before the election, you're not doing much to energize your supporters. The fact is, when you're the party standard-bearer, you have an obligation to fight to the finish. I think they can still win. But if they don't think that, they need to look at how Bob Dole finished out his campaign in 1996 and not try to take down as many Republicans with them as they can. Instead of campaigning in Electoral College states, Dole was campaigning in places he knew he didn't have a chance to beat Clinton, but where he could energize key House and Senate races. I think you'll find these sentiments shared by MANY of my fellow Republican strategists."

That AP Poll has Obama Leading 48-38 among RVs dropping to 44-43 among Likely.  How Likely is that?

Can anyone smell Ron Fournier et al.?

Virginia Trends: McCain vs. Obama
Date	McCain	Obama
10/16/2008	44%	54%
10/12/2008	47%	50%
10/05/2008	48%	50%
09/28/2008	47%	50%
09/25/2008	45%	50%

No single human being is more responsible for the phenomenon now know as Obama (or Obama-nos for our hispanic friends).  Without McCain- Feingold, followed by Howard Dean's machine, there probably IS no Barack Obama. 

Add in all the slime attacks for the last 2-1/2 months, (and an assist from the last 30 days of George Bush "Reign of Error"), and on November 4th Barack should be planting one huge wet one on McCain's botoxed visage for making Barack "Steve" Obama the next President of the United States.