I wasn’t really impressed with the McCain robocalls centering on the Ayers connection revealed Friday night. I don’t think the focus on Ayers is a desperation move, but when you only start talking about it in the final month, when you’re trailing, it looks like a desperation move. And while I’ll never say don’t talk about Ayers, I do think that if you’re going to call the home land line of a swing voter on a Friday night, you had better have something really bold and interesting to say about the economy.

But leave it to the Obama campaign to find a new and innovative way to obliterate those shreds of sympathy.

From a reader in Lynchburg, Virginia:

FYI—just a few moments ago I received an automated call at home from “Joe the Plumber” asking me to vote for O’Bama. He referred to the talk about Joe the Plumber in the debate—obviously trying to have me link “Joe Sellers (I think that’s the name), a plumber from Falls Church, Virginia” with the Joe the Plumber everyone is talking about. Easy to think ‘Hey, Joe the Plumber wants us to vote for O’Bama.’
Dishonest? Yes. But about what you’d expect out of Washington.