Look at this election as a football game where McCain needs 3 scoring drives to win. He throws a "Hail Mary" pass with the Palin nomination. And ... scores!

Obama gets the ball, and can't get a drive going.

McCain is back he thows another deep pass with the "suspend my campaign" tactic and .... no good.

I can tell it did not work from the Dallas Morning News political blogs. <link>. We are down here in the reddest of the red country. Belive me when I tell you conservatives who still think George W. is doing a "heck of a job" generally out number everyone else by about 2 to 1. The responses on the debate cancelation are actually running in favor of Obama. You see that on Slate, but to see it in the DMN is really amazing. I've never seen such a negative response to anything else McCain has done!