Two news items of note:
1) Obama raised over $66 million in August and drew in over 500,000 new donors. Let’s hope they have a clue how to use this money. The huge influx comes from reaction to his acceptance speech, but also to the nomination of Sarah Palin by the McCain people.
2) An anti-Palin rally in Anchorage drew 1,400 people, the largest political rally in the history of the state, says Mudflats, an Alaska blog. Of course, national news focused on the Palin rally held earier that day, which drew about a thousand people. National media people don’t exactly do the burrowing thing. They miss more than they cover.
Sarah Palin is having an impact on the campaign. She’s the focus on the Republican side, as the moribund McCain pushes his walker from one scintillating event to another. But she is also energizing the opposition. She’s a powerful polarizing force. She’s Bush in drag. I wonder if the people around McCain punched that in to their calculator when they chose her.
Piece of Mindful 
You make a wonderful point that Palin is also “energizing the opposition,” something that is often overlooked in all the touting of how she has energized the GOP. The only problem is that the media does not seem to focus much, if at all, on any of the anti-Palin events. The result is that this grassroots movement does not come across as a popular movement when, in fact, it may be far more popular than we suspect. What can be done about it … a women’s march on Washington?
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