A new flurry of public opinion polls have been released, and it looks like John McCain and Sarah Palin's new agressive campaign style has had an effect. Unfortunately, it looks like that effect is the opposite from what they had hoped.
As the GOP pair caved in to hard-core party followers that they take on Obama personally with harsher, more personal attacks, polls results have showed that Obama's margin is widening. It appears that middle-of-the-road American voters are turned off by the increasing nastiness.
McCain may have activated the Republican base, but in turn that may have cost him the election.