It appears that McCain's dirty tactics are working. According to recent polls McCain has gained at least two points. When will the Democrats ever learn to fight back, We have partisanship, but it seems to be only from one side. Democrats treat the Republicans as though they are the sympathetic characters from the West Wing. While the Republicans believe that the Democrats are some crazy mixture of Lenin,Stalin, Hitler, and Osama Bin Laden. It is time that the Democrats fight back and mention the Keating Five or Palin's links to the Alasakan seccessionist movement. It appears to me that the Democrats like the policy area of politics but don't want to get their hands muddied in the election process. The Democrats need to face the fact that politics is a dirty process and you have to be somewhat mean.