An e-mail from New Jersey:

I carpool with a colleague — a lawyer, which presumably means he’s pretty smart, but a liberal who’s decidedly for Obama. To my surprise he tuned to Fox News and saw the Sean Hannity piece. He had a couple of interesting reactions. First, he asked me who this Ayers guy is anyway? Of course, he gets his news from the MSM, so it’s understandable that he wasn’t aware of Obama’s many questionable alliances. But, more interesting was his comment that even if only 20% of that piece is true, it’s a cause for concern. Translated — he’s rethinking his support for a man he admits he really doesn’t know that much about. That’s not to say he’s ready to embrace McCain, but he acknowledged that we at least know who he is (the backstory is well documented).