Personality emerges as tight race's pivot point -- baltimoresun.com: "...At a Scranton, Pa., stop on Friday, Obama said, 'When they say this isn't about issues, it's about personalities, what they're really saying is, 'We're going to try to scare people about Barack. So we're going to say that, you know, maybe he's got Muslim connections, or we're going to say that, you know, he hangs out with radicals, or he's not patriotic.''
Davis, in a statement yesterday, called Obama's remark 'a cynical attempt to play the victim' and an example of the old-style politics the Democrat claims to eschew.
'The McCain campaign understands that its candidate has a better chance of winning a contest over character than over issues,' William Galston of the liberal Brookings Institution wrote in a post-convention analysis. McCain is presenting himself as 'a safe choice for uncertain times.'
'Obama's challenge,' he added, 'is to make Americans comfortable with the idea of him as president so that the forces underlying this year's contest come to the fore. ... It is a testament to McCain's personal appeal - and to the uncertainty Obama has not yet dispelled - that the race remains as close as it is...'"
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