McCain's not going to drop Palin from the ticket. Early voting starts tomorrow in Ohio and has already begun in a couple of other states. What happens to those ballots? I don't know but it can't be good for McCain…especially since this may be another election that gets decided in Ohio.
The joint appearance of McCain and Palin with Katie Couric today was embarrassing…for her and for McCain. I know a lot of people think the Governor of Alaska is being hammered by the opposition but, first of all, that kinda comes with the job. More to the point, nothing anyone could say about Sarah Palin could make her look as bad as being treated like an idiot by her own campaign. They hide her away, keep her from most of the press…and then when she does say something, McCain goes out and retracts it and makes excuses for her. That tape of them with Couric looks like a father and his daughter sitting in the principal's office and on the way in, dad told her, "You've caused enough trouble. Just shut up and let me handle this."
Some time after the election, someone in the McCain campaign will either write or be interviewed for one of those "what went on behind the scenes" books and we may find out if a running mate switch was ever seriously considered. I'll bet it was and they rejected it as a cure worse than the disease.
She'll probably do a lot better in the debate than most people are expecting. But that's because most people are expecting her to stumble out, sound like an airhead valley girl and explain that "Roe vs. Wade" are two different ways to cross a river. The woman has got to be smarter than the current caricature…even if her own campaign doesn't seem to believe it.