The wheels are falling off the McCain campaign, as they pull out of Michigan and are down by 7 points (average of the three national daily-tracking polls) and the trend is looking great for Obama. Take a look at this chart from Pollster.com. The state-by-state numbers, which actually matter!, look even better.
Also of note: Rolling Stone's current issue features an utterly scathing cover story about John McCain that is sure to generate lots of buzz.
Via Kathy G:
This searing, scrupulously researched profile, written by Tim Dickinson, is the best single thing I've ever read about John McCain. In unsparing detail, it documents McCain's strangely Bush-like journey as a son of privilege who is obsessed with outdoing his powerful but distant father, but who pretty much is a spectacular fuck-up at every thing tries, and who brazenly pulls rank and exploits his family connections to gain admission to the best schools and land plum assignments in the military and government. The article is especially damning in its portrayal of McCain's character. It's all there: his recklessness, his nasty temper, his chronic dishonesty, his rank opportunism, his misogyny, his general assholery.~BT
