bounce

But Ilissa Gold is worried it won’t matter:

1. Has Sarah Palin so effectively lowered expectations for her performance in the debate that anything short of a mental breakdown on stage will be seen as a victory? Yes, she proved in the Katie Couric interviews that my mother is probably more qualified to be Vice President than she is. But if she doesn't do any worse than that, will it just be shrugged off as par for the course?

According to the latest meme going around Right Blogistan, if Palin does poorly in the debate Thursday night, it won’t be because she doesn’t know what the [bleep] she’s talking about, but because moderator Gwen Ifill is unfarily biased against her.

I alluded to it in the last post, but there were some very interesting numbers (warning, PDF) in it that require a second look.

The polls don't look too great for Obama right now. McCain opened up a big post-convention bounce and Sarah Palin only looks to be helping him out as of right now.

A few things to remember:

Bridgett is not sweating John McCain’s recent bump in the polls:

From FiveThirtyEight:

Yesterday I wrote the following:

I've been wondering that since yesterday. You have to wonder what she makes of Sarah Palin.