I just noticed that Kansas hasn't been polled in 16 days, and the Survey USA poll on 9/22 had McCain up by only 53-41, a loss of almost half of the 58-35 lead he'd had in the same poll back in August.

I'm not putting KS in play just yet (on the same day, Rasmussen still had McCain up 20, albeit with a smaller sample size and Rasmussen generally running slightly to the right this year), but I'd be interested in seeing the next poll from there:  if it's now between +5 and + 10 for McCain, then we may have a ballgame.  I only have a superficial impression of Kansas, but somehow I think that it's a state where McCain's support for the bailout would be verrry unpopular with his base.  And Nancy Boyda, the Democrat who pulled the upset in KS-2 last time around, was supposed to be a major Republican target this year, but I haven't seen anything to indicate she's been in trouble yet this year.

Thoughts, Sunflower Staters?  Any chance we could see Blue skies come November?

Speaking in Bethlehem PA, Governor Palin interrupted her praise of John McCain to reply to a shout of "He's the man!" by someone in the crowd with "Yes, he is the man!"

Later, someone else yelled "Sarah, you're so hot!" and Ms. Palin laughed and asked, "What does that have to do with anything?"

Now, this doesn't "prove" that SP also heard the cries of "Treason!" and "Kill him!" that came out of the crowds she was whipping up with her inflammatory "Obama launched his campaign in [Ayers's] living room" speeches these past couple of days, but her hearing the crowd so well today does, IMO, cast doubt on the "well, maybe she just didn't hear them" leeway she's been getting, and if she did hear the "Kill him!" yell, then her failure to put a stop to that is reprehensible.  JMO.

(McCain, in contrast, did not seem to hear things that individuals in the Bethlehem crowd shouted; he only stopped to acknowledge audience reaction when chants, such as "Drill, baby, drill!" were taken up by larger groups.)

Barbara Comstock (who was with the Romney campaign in the spring) was on MSNBC this morning, saying that it was Hillary Clinton who had first attacked Obama on his "links" to Ayers and Rezko (true) and that Obama had gotten past that by relying on the "radical-leftist, Chicago political machine, supporters" (or base, or whatever…I was too thrown by the juxtaposition of the adjectives to catch the noun).

Excuse me? Last I heard, the "Chicago political machine" was the very opposite of "radical-leftist".  Does Ms. Comstock not remember reading about the '68 convention?  Dick Daley (the elder) is probably spinning in his grave.