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New Obama ad: Bush is McCain’s real running mate
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... yesterday morning without so much as a congrats. The more I think about it, the more I find her chief demographic virtue to be not her sex but what her persona communicates about her class: Nate Silver calls her “the most manifestly ordinary person ever to be nominated for a major party ticket,” so much so that any sharp attacks right off the bat will look like Obama and Biden bullying someone in the crowd at a town hall event. Not something Barry can afford when he’s counting on those ...

Sarah the Commoner
Ross Douthat — A very good point, from Nate Silver: ... we are in completely uncharted territory here. Palin is the most manifestly ordinary person ever to be nominated for a major party ticket. In this year of bittergate and Britney-gate and McCain-has-seven-houses-gate, that could conceivably be a virtue; it's certainly less tone-deaf than a selection like Mitt Romney would have been. But Palin isn't merely playing at being ordinary, the way that Bill Clinton (Rhodes Scholar) or George W. ...

The Nominee Next Door
The Opinionator — One day after John McCain selected Sarah Palin, the governor of Alaska, as his running mate, political observers aren’t sure what to make of the choice. “[W]e are in completely uncharted territory here,” Nate Silver writes at The Plank, the staff blog of The New Republic. “ Palin is the most manifestly ordinary person ever to be nominated for a major party ticket .” Silver continues: In this year of bittergate and Britney-gate and McCain-has-seven-houses-gate, that could conceivably be a virtue; it’s certainly less tone-deaf than a selection like Mitt Romney would have been. ...