From Thinkprogress.org
"Today, the nation’s leading organization’s responded to Palin’s attack:

– Center for Community Change: When Sarah Palin demeaned community organizing, she didn’t attack another candidate. She attacked an American tradition — one that has helped everyday Americans engage with the political process and make a difference in their lives and the lives of their neighbors.

– Assn. of Community Organizations for Reform Now: ACORN members, leaders and staff are extremely disappointed that Republican leaders would make such condescending remarks on the great work community organizers accomplish in cities throughout this country. The fact that they marginalize our success in empowering low- and moderate-income people to improve their communities further illustrates their lack of touch with ordinary people.

– USAction: These groups, and the millions of individuals they represent, are dismayed by the recent dismissal of their efforts in the form of political attacks. Community organizations have been at the heart of every major reform in modern history – from the Boston Tea Party to the civil rights movement for example, the quest for civil rights began when community organizers mobilized the disenfranchised.

– Community Organizers of America: The last thing we need is for Republican officials to mock us on television when we’re trying to rebuild the neighborhoods they have destroyed. Maybe if everyone had more houses than they can count, we wouldn’t need community organizers. But I work with people who are getting evicted from their only home. If John McCain and the Republicans understood that, maybe they wouldn’t be so quick to make fun of community organizers like me.

Faith In Public Life has more responses from leading community organizers."

I haven't seen these here yet, hopefully I'm not reposting them.

In the head-to-head race between the candidates, Obama now leads McCain by 50% to 43%. Last week, the Gallup poll had them tied at 44% to 43%.

On personal characteristics, Obama eliminated McCain’s advantage as “strong and decisive leader”, with a slight majority who now say this characteristic applies more to Obama: 46% to 44%. Before the convention, McCain held an 8-point advantage.

Obama now has a 13-point advantage with voters who see him as “someone who shares your values” over McCain. Before the convention, only a 6-point advantage.

Obama is also viewed as the more trustworthy of the two, with an 8-point advantage over McCain. Before the convention, the two were tied.

He has also eliminated McCain’s advantage on “handling Iraq”, with 47% now preferring Obama, and 46% McCain. Before the convention, McCain had a 9-point advantage.