I'd like to say at the outset that I really enjoy both your website, and your insight. You have gone out of your way to be evenhanded and objective for most of this election season. I appreciate clear-eyed political analysis no matter the particular general position (Lib, Rep, Dem, whateva) of the person providing it. I follow your site because you've been a concise, coherent voice rebutting the Repub smear-and-fear campaign. This 'site has been of inestimable value this election season, and that's part of my current problem. I think you may be getting  little too deep into the Village, bro. Your front-page post is a prime example. I quote:
"Small shifts in polling numbers are very difficult to make sense of in August."
  True, and yet you seem to build a whole post (not to say 3 days of tertiary postings) on the back of this wholly insignifigant polling fluctuation, leavened with some airing of your personal vague bad feelings about Obama not being aggressive enough. I'm not questioning your political radar, I'm sure it's sharper than mine; I'm trying to point out the fact that you, and alot of other Prog 'sites, are falling for the Traditional Media meme-factory, even if only second hand. Obama and his team are quite well aware of what is at stake here. That they may not be attacking/defending on the timeline you'd like to see may be annoying, may even be a reason for you to panic, but it's sure as hell not a reason to go around to whatever Establishment outlets you've forged links with, and act like you have any useful adviuce for how Obama should run his campaign. You want to see McCain get called on his ocean of slimy bullshit? Fine, do it; you have the platform. Let the people who are actually doing what you comment on (ie-winning the White House) do their job without having to deal with a nationally-known blogger acting like chicken little. I'm just sayin'...