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This whole phenomenon of going to Palin rallies and making viral videos for the Halloween season(perhaps unintentionally)is really fascinating, I'm really wishing I'd gone to NH and gotten in the game. I look at the people in the crowd, besides the crazy person talking and wonder what are they thinking. I wonder, how this being recorded is going to contribute to the fractures in the right. Where is all of this hatred and fear going to go if Obama wins? Are these people who have been convinced by Limbaugh/Ingrahm/Malkin etc, going to be affected by information and change their minds ever?

There has been some distancing from the nonsense at McCain and especially Palin rallies, but compare that to how much Democrats have always been required and willing to denounce their left, (for example the MoveOn ad being voted on in Congress) it's typical Democrat/Liberal roll-over for them to spend so much time trying to convince the Buchanan-type kooks about Bill Ayers, et all, thus contributing to the generally rightward and McCarthyite political drift. Defending themselves from claims of anti-americanism while being civil and rational in their political discourse (ever heard of Obama rallies where people scream that McCain is a terrorist and wants to destroy America?) earns them points from the 19 rational, informed voters who haven't already chosen Democrats based on policy preferences.