Of course, this is a Democratic year. The public is tired of George Bush and eight years of an incumbent administration. War, Wall Street, and the absence of a conservative Reagan-like charismatic figure should make it easy for a Democrat to win the presidency. After a nearly miraculous McCain surge in September, following the Republican Convention and Palin nomination, the Republicans are once again floundering �� and a sense of utter despair has now set in among conservatives.

Wall Street melted down. The New York�CWashington media elite went ballistic over vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin. The Alaskan mom of five in near suicidal fashion was ordered by the campaign to put her head in the Charlie Gibson-Katie Couric guillotine. A trailing McCain �� while sober and workmanlike in the first two debates �� failed to close the ring and hammer the agile Obama as a charismatic charlatan.

	  	Whittle: Biden��s Hint Steyn: Point of No Return Barone: Obama��s Wish List Sowell: Obama, Con Kudlow: Reagan + Friedman + Keynes