The latest McCain-Palin campaign ads & speeches have started to focus and promote how they are both willing to "take on," and challenge their own party, how they are agents of proven change working for reform and the elimination of waste (especially, factually, opposing 'earmarks.' of 'pork-barrel legislation.')

They are also boasted as true patriots who supported an increase of troops to Iraq (especially, specifically, the "Surge,") while if Obama's vote against the Surge would have prevailed then America would have already suffered defeat in the Iraq War.

The McCain-Palin ticket, according to one poll today, has jumped to it's biggest lead by it's biggest margin of 7%.

50% for McCain/Pa...

The latest McCain-Palin campaign ads & speeches have started to focus and promote how they are both willing to "take on," and challenge their own party, how they are agents of proven change working for reform and the elimination of waste (especially, factually, opposing 'earmarks.' of 'pork-barrel legislation.')

They are also boasted as true patriots who supported an increase of troops to Iraq (especially, specifically, the "Surge,") while if Obama's vote against the Surge would have prevailed then America would have already suffered defeat in the Iraq War.

The McCain-Palin ticket, according to one poll today, has jumped to it's biggest lead by it's biggest margin of 7%.

50% for McCain/Palin; 43% for Obama/Biden.

[Although this specific poll information is probably distorted it is now what's being told by the media; also, general polls are not so important as state-by-state polls and votes).

Your point about Christian conservatives is interesting. Palin is the mother of a pregnant teenager. McCain is noted for having several sexual affairs and cheating on his wife. Dick Cheeny has a lesbian daughter, there are more exposed sex scandales with prostitutes and more homosexual sex scandales in the Republican party that in the Democratic party and more exposed bribery and cash corruption.

I'm not sure how to account for this support by Christian conservatives except to conclude that they like the Republican lies and charades more than the Democrats lies and charades and perhaps they like to beat other people over the head with the belief system more than those more tolerate and liberal.