Yes, Sarah Palin has the base whipped up like a homemade meringue (Uh oh, cooking-related metaphors. Don’t come after me, Carly Fiorina!), but what does she have to offer the eccentric, irate third-party voter who is despearate to vote his conscience, but made it to the polls only to find that Ron Paul isn’t running and just decided to check the Bob Barr box instead? That may very well be the question in Pennsylvania, where a judge has ruled that Barr will be on the ballot, and Barr has vowed that he will be taken seriously:
The Rasmussen battleground poll for Pennsylvania, released last night, shows McCain and Obama tied at 47 percent, with 83 percent of supporters for both candidates saying they won’t change their minds. McCain maintains decent leads on trust (51-42), favorables (60-52), and readiness to be president (63-44). On the question of who would be ready to step into the Oval Office if necessary, Biden leads Palin by four percent. Not bad since she’s up against the venerable “third senator from Pennsylvania.” Maybe to know Joe Biden is not necessarily to trust his experience. Obama was up in this poll two points last week.
