But not from who you think.
This week marked a new low for the McCain-Palin campaign. As of October 10th, Gallup tracking poll shows Obama up by 10 percentage points, FOX News shows Obama up by 7 points, and CNN's "Poll of Polls" shows Obama up 8. In order to combat these losses, the McCain campaign continues to put out extremely negative advertisements attempting to undermine Barack Obama's policies and speak about his lack of character by asking, "What do we really know about Barack Obama?" In the past, this worked brilliantly for McCain. But now, less than 30 days from election day, it appears that times are changing. Everyday, McCain falls farther and farther in the polls and nothing it seems can stop it. And now, supporters are letting him and Governor Palin know with fits of anger and complete rage at both McCain and Obama.
After Palin's claim last week that Obama "pals around" with terrorists, she recently said about the relationship between Obama and William Ayers that she sees "a pattern in how our opponent has talked about one of his most troubling associations." One member of that crowd in Jacksonville, Florida crowd shouted "treason!" And at another rally in the state Monday, Palin's mention of the Obama-Ayers tie caused one member to yell out "kill him", to which Palin said nothing in response.
At several recent rallies, Palin has stirred up crows by mentioning the "liberal left-wing media". Routinely, there are boos at every mention of the New York Times and the "mainstream media".
Some audience members are even openly hostile to members of the traveling press core covering Palin; one crowd member hurled a racial epithet at an African-American member of the press in Clearwater, Florida.
And at a McCain rally in New Mexico on Monday, one supporter yelled out "terrorist" when McCain asked, "Who is the real Barack Obama?" Like Palin, McCain did not respond to this horribly offensive, completely untrue and unfounded claim.
To a certain extent, McCain and Palin's "rallying" words are at blame for the sudden outbursts or rage and racism that we have seen over the last couple days. But today, contradictory to what McCain has done for the last few months, McCain was forced to defend Obama after a woman at a town hall meeting stated, "I don't trust Obama. I have read about him. He's an Arab."
"No ma'am," McCain courageously replied several times, shaking his head in disagreement. " He's a decent, family man, a citizen that I just happen to have disagreements with on fundamental issues and that's what this campaign is all about." At another point, McCain declared, "If you want a fight, we will fight. But we will be respectful."
I will be the first one to say that I fundamentally disagree with the majority of McCain's policies, but to stand up against your own supporters and call Obama "decent", that is certainly admirable. Senator McCain, +1 for you.
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