I'm sure I'm not alone in watching with consternation the Palin/convention bounce in McCain's polling numbers. I'm trying to maintain my cool about it, but it sure feels like there has been a shift in the momentum and that all the commotion has thrown off the Obama messaging machine. Maybe we're just seeing a bubble in the media's attention and there will be more opportunity in the coming weeks for the Obama campaign to set the conversation, but I'm worried that the Republicans are getting way too much room to define this newcomer in the public consciousness, and once that narrative has been set it will be very hard to knock it loose. We're already seeing some of the more blatant mistruths in the myth of Palin cement (selling the jet on ebay, being against the bridge, and being persecuted by the media). The Obama campaign has a limited window in which to push back.
So how?
