It's Official.

Today, in the Washington Post's Editorial section, the main article read that the Post would officially be endorsing Barack Obama for President. What a surprise! Not. After many articles on their main pages as well as many more on the back pages and online of lashing out at McCain's ideals, strategies, and campaign in general, is anyone really surprised at this liberal leaning newspaper going for Obama? I'm sure not. I am surprised that it took this long for them to claim that it is who they would support when they were obviously not going to endorse McCain. Either way, it has come out. The main stories on the Post's front page today were about the Debate on Wednesday and how it effected both of the candidates' followings. Obama was steadily cool throughout the debate, and McCain has been highlighted as being disrespectful, anxious, and tense. Virginia is now looking like it's a battleground state, which is something that hasn't happened for a very long time and the Posts' blame is put on McCain's performances in the three debates as well as his Vice Presidential pick, which is questioned more and more each day by independents and undecided voters. With Ohio and Virginia, two major states in this election now, being in the forefront of the election coverage now, in the next three weeks are vital to both candidates' success and faliures.

GOP Enthusiastic About Palin

This morning, I looked at the top story on the Washionton Post website only to find an extensive article on how the Republicans are more than excited about McCain's choice for his Vice President, Sarah Palin. The news that she has a daughter who is 17 and pregnant has been quickly passed by for the most part with the claim that there is no such thing as a traditional family anymore (see my previous post). The article, though, started out rather neutral in my eyes, with the author speaking about how the GOP was getting excited about Palin's values, specifically her views on abortion. (She's pro-life all the way.) But toward the end, the article began to talk about how she might have picked up voters in Virginia, but there are still tons of people who decided to register to vote because of Obama and presumably will vote for him in November. One of the things that bothered me and was definitely spun was one quote that was pulled from an interview with a man in Surry, VA. After a few words with him about his enthusiasm about McCain's VP choice, he said "She's right good-looking -- that's all I need to know." Now, coming from a woman, I find that very offensive because that just means that it doesn't even matter what kind of politics that Palin agrees with or what she even stands for. Just as long as she looks good...that's what matters. I know that this quote was intentionally pulled out just to make people like me angry that just because there is a woman cantidate that she will pull more people if she was pretty. But on to less shallow things. More and more people have started to wonder with all of the enthusiasm for Palin, isn't it more of a Palin/McCain ticket instead of McCain/Palin? No one seems quite as excited whenever McCain steps out on stage, but when Palin comes out, there is a ceremonious roar from whatever crowd has shown up. The media has a lot to do with that though. There was so much of a to-do made over the VP nominations with McCain trailing Obama, the party needed a boost, and it looks like they may have gotten it. The Post, however has been constantly ridiculing the Republicans ever since the Convention started. But that would be expected seeing as they're left leaning. It should be interesting to see what the top story is tomorrow.