"Teeth of terror sinking in, The bite of the she-wolf"

Palin: Wolf In Sheep's Clothing

At a time of extreme economic crisis at home and two wars abroad, John McCain is gambling that an attack mounted by Sarah Palin on Barack Obama's tangential ties to 1970s radical bomber Bill Ayers will reverse the Arizona Senator's steadily diminishing prospect of victory on November 4.
This strategy carries high risks.
First and foremost, a number of experts in the field doubt that when the economy has been on the brink of collapse, when the situation in Afghanistan is worsening, and the debate over the US war in Iraq has intensified, negative campaigning is an effective political tool. Vanderbilt political scientist John Geer, who has studied attack ads and found that they can be politically useful under certain circumstances, says that in the case of Palin's offensive, "unless [the McCain campaign] hits on some new, credible theme, voters are likely to view these attacks as desperate."
Geer said he expects "the campaign will get very nasty. McCain is a fighter and if anyone thinks Obama will not continue to respond, they forget he cut his political teeth in Chicago." Geer warned that "the public wants to know what these candidates will do once in office. So too much negativity will not be useful to either candidate."

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